2017 FACES Epilepsy Conference

Start Date:
Sunday, April 9, 2017
End Date:
Sunday, April 9, 2017
Location:
NYU Langone Medical Center Main Floor, Farkas Auditorium
550 First Avenue
New York, NY 10016
United States

Sunday, April 9, 2017

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

Registration and Refreshments

 

9:15 AM - 10:00 AM

Morning Keynote Address

• Seizures: Predictions, Provocations, and Stress Sheryl Haut, MD

 

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Session A

• Lifestyle Concerns in Teens and Young Adults with Epilepsy Siddhartha S. Nadkarni, MD

• Treating Women in Childbearing Years:What’s Best for Mother and Baby Jacqueline French, MD

• Surgical Evaluation, Devices and Epilepsy Manisha Holmes, MD

 

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Session B

• Parent Panel The Parent Network Moderator: Peggy Guinnessey, CTRS

• Social Media and Epilepsy Blanca Vazquez, MD

• Enhancing Memory for Epilepsy William Barr, PhD

 

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

 

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Session C

• Navigating the Schools; IEP William S. MacAllister, PhD David Salsberg, MD

• Mindfulness and Epilepsy Bette Jean Rosenhagen, MSW, LCSW, DAHB

• Cannabis Update Daniel Friedman, MD

 

2:45 PM - 3:30 PM

Afternoon Keynote Address

• Epilepsy Care: Out of the Box Orrin Devinsky, MD