EPIGENS COURSE 2022

I Genetic Epilepsies and Precision Medicine
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CURSO EPIGENS 2022
I Curso de Actualización en Epilepsias Genéticas y Medicina de Precisión en Español

PROGRAM

Presentations in Spanish time: UTC/GMT +1

Friday 3 June

15:30 – 15:40

Course Presentation. Antonio Gil-Nagel.

15:40 – 16:00

Precision medicine in epilepsy. Ángel Aledo Serrano.

16:00 – 17:30

From phenotype to genotype. Moderator: Ángel Aledo Serrano.
  • Update on classic encephalopathies (West syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut).
      Antonio Gil-Nagel, Hospital Ruber Internacional, Madrid.
  • Genetic studies in clinical practice.
      Rocío Sánchez-Alcudia, Blueprint Genetics, Helsinki.
  • Genetic counseling and approach to patients with negative genetics.
      Encarna Guillén-Navarro, Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia.
  • Polygenic epilepsies, can we diagnose them?
      Eduardo Pérez Palma, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago de Chile.

17:30 – 17:50

Discussion. Question and Answer Session. Moderators: Antonio Gil-Nagel and Ángel Aledo Serrano.

17:50 – 18:00

Break.

18:00 – 19:50

From genotype to phenotype 1. Moderator: Antonio Gil-Nagel.
  • Advances in Dravet syndrome.
      Sameer Zuberi, Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow.
  • Other sodium channelopathies (SCN2A-SCN8A).
      Rikke Moller, Danish Epilepsy Center Filadelfia, Dianalund.
  • CDKL5 deficiency syndrome.
      Tim Benke, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Denver.
  • Potassium channelopathies.
      Sarah Weckhuysen, VIB Center of molecular neurology, Antwerp.
  • Update on neurometabolic syndromes with Epilepsy.
      Angels García Cazorla; Hospital San Juan de Dios, Barcelona.

19:50 – 20:10

Discussion. Question and Answer Session. Moderators: Antonio Gil-Nagel and Ángel Aledo Serrano.

Saturday 4 June

14:30 – 14:45

Highlights of the 1st day / presentation of 2nd day. Ángel Aledo Serrano.

14:45 – 16:15

From genotype to phenotype 2. Moderator: Irene García Morales.
  • Epilepsy PCDH19.
      Pasquale Striano, Giannina Gaslini Institute, Génova.
  • Tuberous sclerosis and other mTORpathies.
      Ángel Aledo Serrano, Hospital Ruber Internacional.
  • Dup15 and other CNV in epilepsy.
      Juan José García Peñas, Hospital Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid.
  • Synaptopathies (STXBP1/SYNGAP1).
      Andrés Jiménez, Joe diMaggio Children’s Hospital, South Florida.

16:15 – 16:35

Discussion. Question and Answer Session. Moderators: Antonio Gil-Nagel and Ángel Aledo Serrano.

16:35 – 16:45

Break.

16:45 – 18:25

New perspectives in genetic epilepsies. Moderator: Rafael Toledano.

  • Drug repositioning.
      Beatriz González Giraldez, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid.
  • Cause-directed therapies.
      Stephan Auvin, Robert Debré Universitary Hospital, Paris.
  • The importance of the associative movement.
      Ana Mingorance, Loulou Foundation, Londres.
  • Illustrative cases of precision medicine:
  • – The importance of diagnosis in adults.
      Irene García Morales, Hospital Ruber Internacional, Madrid.
  • – The importance of reverse phenotyping.
      Alvaro Beltrán Corbellini, Hospital Ruber Internacional, Madrid.

18:25 – 18:45

Discussion. Question and Answer Session. Moderators: Antonio Gil-Nagel and Ángel Aledo Serrano.

18:45 – 18:50

Closing remarks.

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Curso EPIGENS 2022. I Curso de Actualización en Epilepsias Genéticas y Medicina de Precisión en Español.

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Dirección

Programa de Epilepsia
Servicio de Neurología
Hospital Ruber Internacional
Calle La Masó, 38
28034 Madrid
España