Saturday, 5 May 2001
Pre-congress seminars and workshops

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1. Update on evidence-based guidelines (2)
   Room Copenhagen
   9:30 AM - 12:00 PM, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
   
   Chair:
   • Hans Von Holst, MD, PhD (Sweden)

   Penetrating TBI: Neurosurgical Perspectives

   • Howard Eisenberg, MD (USA)

   Prognostic Indicators in Severe Brain-injured Patients

   • Franco Servadei, MD (Italy)

   Brief Computerized Cognitive Test Battery Yields Objective Evidence to Inform Concussion Guideline Development

   • Deborah Worden, MD (USA)

   The Management of Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Results of a National Consensus Conference

   • Mariangela Taricco, MD (Italy)

   Evidence-based Cognitive Rehabilitation: Recommendations for Clinical Practice Approved by Amerian Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine

   • Keith D. Cicerone, PhD (USA)

2. Recent advances in memory rehabilitation (5)
   Room Lisbona
   10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
   
   Academy certification course (3 credits)
   • José León-Carrión, PhD (Spain)

3. Advanced Life Support in Brain Injury (1)
   Room Parigi
   9:00 AM - 12:30 PM, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
   
   Chair: Valerio Gai, MD (Italy)
   

   Epidemiology of Brain Injury

   • Guiseppe Citerio, MD (Italy)

   Pathophysiology of Brain Injury

   • Francesco Della Corte, MD (Italy)

   Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

   • Ivo Casagranda, MD (Italy)

   Management of Moderate and Severe Head Injury

   • Ignacio Previgliano, MD (Argentina)
   
   Workshops (2:00 PM - 4:00 PM):
   

   Airway Management in Brain Injury

   • Francesco Della Corte, MD (Italy)

   Traumatic Brain Injury

   • Maurizio Berardino, MD (Italy)

   Neuroimaging

   • Gianni Boris Bradac, MD (Italy)

   Stroke

   • Andrew Jagoda, MD (USA)

4. New Advances in Spasticity Treatment (11)
   Presidio Sanitario Ausiliatrice (Via Peyron 42. Torino)
   (Transportation provided)
   9:30 AM - 12:30 PM, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
   
   (For physicians, therapists, and nurses)
   Includes injection workshop.
   Supported by unrestricted educational grants from Allergan, Inc. and Medtronic Neurological.
   
   Coordinator: Gerard E. Francisco, MD (USA)
   Speakers:
   • Gerard E. Francisco, MD (USA)
   • John Hong, MD (USA)
   • Rebecca Schock, RPT (USA)
   • Mary Bridle, MA, OTR/L (USA)
   • Stuart A. Yablon, MD (USA)
   • Franco Molteni, MD (Italy)
   • Cindy J. Ivanhoe, MD (USA)
   • Mario Avalle, MD (Italy)

5. Safety Issues and Injury Prevention in Olympic Winter Sports (3)
   Room Madrid
   9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
   (NOTE: This is a half day workshop and is free to the public and Congress participants.)
   
   • Valentino Castellani (Italy), Mayor of Turin and Chair of XX Winter Olympic Games Organizing Committee
   • Jess F. Kraus, MPH, PhD (USA)
   • Jay Rosenberg, MD (USA)
   • Giuliano Faccani, MD (Italy)
   • Maurizio Berardino, MD (Italy)
   • Michael Pietrzak, MD (USA)
   • Ashley P. Zapata, MA-CCC (USA)
   • Olympic Athletes

6. Updates on Post-traumatic Epilepsy (13)
   Room Dublin
   9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
   

   The Pathogenesis of Post-traumatic Epilepsy

   • Andrés M. Salazar, MD (USA)

   The Pharmacological Prophylaxis of Post-traumatic Epilepsy

   • Francesco Monaco, MD (Italy)

   Post-traumatic Epilepsy: Clinical, Neurobehavioral and Radiologic Assessment

   • Letizia Mazzini, MD (Italy)

   Post-traumatic Epilepsy in Severe Brain-injured Patients: Preventive Therapy, EEG Abnormalities and New Anti-epileptic Drugs

   • Rita Formisano, MD (Italy)

IBIA Board of Governors
5:00 PM - 8:30 PM

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