AFAN & PAUNS JOINT CONFERENCE Thursday Morning, MARCH 16th, 2017
08:00-08:50 Teaching course: Epilepsy Abdullah AL ASMI (OMAN) / Mohamed FREDJ (TUNISIA)
09:00-10:30 Epilepsy – ILAE – CAA/CEMA 09:00-09:20 Epilepsy in Africa: realities and challenges
Amadou GALLO DIOP (SENEGAL)
09:20-09:40 Epidemiology of epilepsy in Africa
Charles NEWTON (TANZANIA)
09:40-10:00 Remission in Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsies
Hassan HOSNY (EGYPT)
10:00-10:20 Depression and Epilepsy: Is there a link?
Taoufik AL SAADI (UAE)
10:20-10:30 Discussion
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Thursday Morning, MARCH 16th, 2017
11:00-12:30 Movement Disorders with EAN 11:00-11:20 Heavy metals and parkinsonism
Pille TABA (ESTONIA)
11:20-11:40 Tremors and their differential diagnosis
Günther DEUSCHL (GERMANY)
11:40-12:00 Update on dystonias
Saeed BOHLEGA (KSA)
12:00-12:20 Movement Disorders in Emergencies
Neziha GOUIDER KHOUJA (TUNISIA)
12:20-12:30 Discussion
12:30-13:15 Satellite Symposia - Genpharm
13:15-15:00 Lunch
Thursday Afternoon, MARCH 16th, 2017 Parallel Session
15:00-16:30 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and related disorders 15:00-15:15 Management of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis- an update
Senda AJROUD-DRISS (TUNISIA/USA)
15:15-15:30 Clinical features of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Algerian patients
M. SADIBELOUIZ (ALGERIA)
15:30-15:45 Epidemiology, clinical and electroneuromyographic features of
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Senegal
D. Gams Massi, J. Nyassinde, M. Ndiaye, A. Gallo Diop, M.M. Ndiaye,
K. Touré (SENEGAL)
15:45-16:00 Study of the nerve conduction of the phrenic nerve in 6 patients with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and review of the literature
B. MAIGA, N. BIROUK, L. ERRGUIG, L. Tamaoui, F.H. DJIBO, L.
SEMLIL, B. KABLY, H. BELAIDI, R. OUAZZANI (MOROCCO)
16:00-16:15 Clinical and genetic study of Algerian patients with spinal muscular
atrophy
Y. SIFI, A. BOULEFHKAD, S. LEMAI, N. ABADI, J.P. WONNEFONT,
K. SIFI (ALGERIA)
16:15-16:30 Discussion
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
Thursday Afternoon, MARCH 16th, 2017 Parallel Session
15:00-16:30 Neurogenetics 15:00-15:20 Genomic Medicine & Neurology
Adnan AWADA (LEBANON)
15:20-15:40 Classification of hereditary myopathies: an increasingly complex
problem
Meriem TAZIR (ALGERIA)
15:40-16:00 Review on genomic studies in stroke
Albert AKPALU (GHANA)
16:00-16:20 Genetics of Parkinson’s disease in Tunisia
Mouna BEN DJEBARA (TUNISIA)
16:20-16:30 Discussion
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
Thursday Afternoon, MARCH 16th, 2017
17:00-18:00 Updates in Neurology 17:00-17:20 Multifocal Neuropathies
Jean-Marc LEGER (FRANCE)
17:20-17:40 Peripheral paraneoplastic syndromes
Wolfgang GRISOLD (AUSTRIA)
17:40-18:00 Parkinson’s disease: new insights into pathogenesis and treatment
Günther DEUSCHL (GERMANY)
18:00-19:00 TOURNAMENT of MIND
19:00 AFAN Closure - PAUNS Opening Ceremony
Friday MARCH 17th, 2017 Main Theme: Inflammatory diseases
08:00-08:50 Teaching Course: Botulinum Toxin in dystonia
Mohamed Soliman El-TAMAWY (EGYPT) / Mohamed ABDO-RAFAI (MOROCCO)
09:00-10:00 Neuromyelitis optica 09:00 -09:20 Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders
Ilham SLASSI (MOROCCO) 09:20 -09:40 Women issues in Neuromyelitis optica Eslam SHOSHA (USA) 09:40 -10:00 Late Onset biotinidase deficiency simulating NMO
Mohammed SAADAH (UAE)
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break / e-posters
10:30-11:30 Multiple Sclerosis (I) MENACTRIMS 10:30-10:50 Multiple sclerosis differential diagnosis and mimickers
Bassem YAMOUT (LEBANON) 10:50-11:10 Overview in MS treatment William CARROLL (AUSTRALIA) 11:10-11:30 Monitoring of MS patients receiving DMT
Mohammad Ali SAHRAIAN (IRAN)
11:30-12:15 Satellite Symposia – Biologix
12:30-15:00 Friday prayer / Lunch
15:00-16:30 Multiple Sclerosis (II) 15:00-15:20 Pregnancy and DMT
Raed Al Roughani (KUWAIT) 15:20-15:40 Multiple Sclerosis: Insights from Epidemiology
Riadh GOUIDER (TUNISIA) 15:40-16:00 Imaging of Multiple Sclerosis
Aymen TOURBAH (FRANCE) 16:00-16:20 Role of B-cells in multiple sclerosis
Hany AREF (EGYPT) 16:20-16:30 Discussion
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break / e-Posters
17:00-17:45 Satellite Symposia: Bayer
Friday Morning, MARCH 17th, 2017 Parallel Sessions
09:00 -10:00 Muscle Disorders 09:00 -09:20 HyperCKemia
Antonio TOSCANO (ITALY)
09:20 -09:40 Myasthenia Gravis
Mohammed AL JUMAH (KSA)
09:40 -10:00 Genetics of LGMD2 in Tunisia
Chokri MHIRI (TUNISIA)
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break / e-posters
09:00-10:30 PAUNS Business meeting
Friday Afternoon, MARCH 17th, 2017 Parallel Sessions
17:45-19:05 Free communications 17:45-17:55 Cognitive impairment in temporal lobe epilepsy
N Amara, N Bouzidi, O Hdiji, M Meziou, M Damak, C Mhiri (TUNISIA)
17:55-18:05 Intravenous thrombolysis: experience of the Neurology Department of
CHU Hassan II.
I. Najmi, M. Toudou, H. Benjebara, I. Mrich, F. Benbrahim, M. Jilla, S.
Obenda, S. Bouchal, Z. Souirti, A. Midaoui, M.F. Belahsen
(MOROCCO)
18:05-18:15 Parkinson’s disease patients with comorbid major depressive disorder
are selectively impaired at processing positive feedback in a
probabilistic category-learning task
Taha Ahmad B., Y. Khdour Hussain Y., Elmashala Amjad, Ghanim
Zaid, Misk Adel J., Sehwail Mahmoud M., Herzallah Mohammad M.
(PALESTINE)
18:15-18:25 Predictor factors of disability in patients with multiple sclerosis in Oran
N. Oudrer, M. Raiah (ALGERIA)
18:25-18:35 Traumatisme crânien et thrombophlébite cérébrale.
I. Omri, L. Rzigui, M. Zouari (TUNISIA)
18:35-18:45 Sleep generalized tonic clonic seizures in generalized genetic
epilepsies
A. Ashmawi, H. Hosny (EGYPT)
18:45-18:55 Mitochondrial Neuro-Gastro-Intestinal Encephalopathy (MNGIE)
disease: about two cases in the same family
W. Amer El Khedoud, F. Ferrat, A. Benhadadi, A.Saadi, A.Slama, A.
Munnich, A. Chaouch, L. Moussa, M. Abada-Bendib (ALGERIA)
18:55-19:05 Epilepsy and developmental brain malformation: Clinical and
neuroimaging findings.
M. Hadri, M. Aissi, Z. Brahem, N. Mokni, M. Frih (TUNISIA)
Friday Afternoon, MARCH 17th, 2017 Parallel Sessions
17:45-19:00 Dementia 17:45-18:05 The transient amnesias
Steven LEWIS (USA)
18:05-18:25 Fronto-temporal Lobar Degeneration
Maria BENABDELJELIL (MOROCCO)
18:25-18:45 An overview on research in the field of normal aging and dementia in
Kasr al-Ainy medical school Cairo University.
Azza Helmy ABBAS (EGYPT)
18:45-19:00 Discussion
Saturday Morning, MARCH 18th, 2017 Main Theme: Cerebrovascular Diseases
08:00-08:50 Teaching Course: Stroke Sana BEN AMOR (TUNISIA) / Faouzi BELAHSEN (MOROCCO)
09:00 -10:30 Stroke (session I) 09:00-09:20 From thrombolysis to thrombectomy
Selma KESRAOUI (ALGERIA)
09:20-09:40 TB and stroke
Mohammad WASAY (PARKISTAN)
09:40-10:00 Stroke in the young
Meriem DAMAK (TUNISIA)
10:00-10:20 Stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation
Ammar AL KAWI (KSA)
10:20-10:30 Discussion
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break / e-posters
11:00-12:30 Stroke (session II) 11:00-11:20 Acute ischemic stroke treatment-2 years PSMMC experience
Waleed KHOJA (KSA)
11:20-11:40 Stroke management in Ain Shams
Mohamed Ossama ABDULGHANI (EGYPT)
11:40-12:00 Cryptogenic stroke
Meriem MSELMANI (TUNISIA)
12:00-12:20 Update in Management of stroke in Dubai
Suhail Abdulla AL RUKN (UAE)
12:20-12:30 Discussion
12:30-13:15 Satellite Symposia –Genzyme
13:15-15:00 Lunch
Saturday Morning, MARCH 18th, 2017 Parallel Sessions
09:00 -10:30 Neuropediatrics 09:00-09:20 Genetics of Idiopathic Generelized Epilepsies
Eric LEGUERN (FRANCE)
09:20-09:40 Ataxia with vitamine E deficiency: a curable neurogenetic disorder
Lamia ALI PACHA (ALGERIA)
09:40-10:00 Diagnostic approach of leucodystrophies
Ichraf KRAOUA (TUNISIA)
10:00-10:20 Epileptic encephalopathies
Raidah AL BARADIE (KSA)
10:20-10:30 Discussion
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break / e-posters
Saturday Afternoon, MARCH 18th, 2017 Parallel Sessions
15:00-16:30 Young Neurologists session 15:00-15:15 Preliminary experience in mechanical thrombectomy in acute
cerebrovascular stroke A. El Bassiouny (EGYPT)
15:15-15:30 Unemployment among patients with multiple sclerosis: a Tunisian cohort A. Hassine, S. Ben Amor, A. Khefifi, S. Naija, S. Benammou, S. Harbi, F. Dabbabi (TUNISIA)
15:30-15:45 Optimising the control of the triggered epileptic attacks R. M. Zaidan (KSA)
15:45-16:00 Acute stroke management Kefi M, Mrabet H, Ktari M, Megdiche H, Dakhlaoui MJ, Dridi N, Manai
R (TUNISIA) 16:00-16:15 Evaluation of fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis
S. Khellaf, A. Benhamada, A. Boulefkhad, M. Bourezg, R. Nemer, Y. Sifi, A. Mzahem, A. Hamri (ALGERIA)
16:15-16:30 Anti VGKC antibody mediated limbic encephalitis in a sudanese patient: rarity in subsaharan africa M. Seidi, L. Mohamed, O. Seidi (SUDAN)
15:00-16:30 Neurophysiology & Peripheral nerve 15:00-15:20 Pitfalls in pediatric EEG
Fatma Kamoun (TUNISIA) 15:20-15:40 Microelectrodes recording in deep brain stimulation
A. MOKEEM (KSA) 15:40-16:00 Neuropathy complicating Kalazar, Malaria Ahmed AMMAR AL TAHIR (SUDAN) 16:00-16:20 Needle EMG Nazha BIROUK (MOROCCO) 16:20-16:30 Discussion
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break / e-posters
Saturday Afternoon, MARCH 18th, 2017 17:00-18:00 Headache with NOVARTIS 17:00-17:20 Headache & Pregnancy
Jasem AL HASHEL (KUWAIT) 17:20-17:40 Drug overuse headache
Abubakr AL MADANI (UAE)
17:40-18:00 Cluster headache management
Ahlam MUSTAFA (SYRIA)
18:00-18:20 Update on migraine Jasem AL HASHEL (KUWAIT)
18:20-18:30 Discussion 18:00 Closing Ceremony / Departure