Thursday - September 23 Preliminary Conference Program Opening - Plenary 09.00 - 09.45 Keynote Intro Lisa Hobson-Webb - Duke University School of Medicine, USA 09.45 - 10.15 Introduction to ultrasound of nerve and muscle Nens van Alfen - Radboud UMC, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 10.15 - 10.45 Neuromuscular imaging in practice Michael Cartwright - Wake Forest School of Medicine, USA 10.45 - 11.00 Short Break 11.00 - 11.45 Abstract Pitches 6 pitches of selected abstracts by their authors 11.45 - 12.30 Lunch Break Parallel Sessions Make a choice for session 1 or 2 Parallel Session 1 12.30 - 13.00 US guided NM diagnosis and treatment Serdar Koçer - Hospital Du Jura, Switzerland 13.00 - 13.30 MRI guided NM diagnosis and treatment Speaker to be announced 13.30 - 14.00 Basic nerve US: how to get a good image on the screen Leo Visser - ETZ Tilburg, The Netherlands 14.00 - 14.15 Short Break 14.15 - 14.45 US pathology of the median an ulnar nerve Einar Wilder-Smith - Luzerner Kantonsspital, Switserland 14.45 - 15.15 US pathology of the radial and UE sensory nerves Antonis Kerasnoudis - St Luke Hospital, Greece 15.15 - 15.45 US pathology of the fibular, tibial and sural nerve Camiel Verhamme - Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands 15.45 - 16.00 Short Break 16.00 - 16.30 Brachial plexus US Zsuzsanna Aranyi - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary 16.30 - 17.00 Ultrasound of nerve sheath tumors Doris Lieba-Samal - University Vienna, Austria Parallel Session 2 12.30 - 13.00 The US aspect of nerves after surgery and trauma Daniele Coraci - Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Italy 13.00 - 13.30 US around the nerves - a MSK primer for neurologists Omar Khan - Dieu Shaver Health & Rehabilitation Centre, Ontario, Canada 13.30 - 14.00 US guided PNS injections Jeff Strakowski - Ohio Health, USA 14.00 - 14.15 Short Break 14.15 - 14.45 US guided chemodenervation Serdar Koçer - Hospital Du Jura, Switzerland 14.45 - 15.15 US of respiratory muscles Andrea Boon - Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA 15.15 - 15.30 Short Break 15.30 - 16.00 Muscle US - qualitative versus quantitative scoring Juerd Wijntjes - Radboud UMC, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 16.00 - 16.30 Neuromuscular imaging in ALS/MND Stefanie Schreiber - University Magdeburg, Germany Wednesday - Course Program Friday - Conference Program
