7th Asian Oceanian Congress on Clinical Neurophysiology
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Dr Archer is a Senior Lecturer of Medicine at the University of Melbourne, Epileptologist and head of the EEG laboratory at Austin Health, and research fellow at the Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health. His current clinical and research interests are stereo EEG, advanced epilepsy imaging including EEG/fMRI as a tool to understand epilepsy networks, Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, and Deep Brain Stimulation for epilepsy.
Neurology Division, Department of Medicine, Phramongkutklao Hospital and Medical College, Bangkok, THAILAND
He was an epilepsy fellow at the Austin hospital (1995-1999), achieved his Ph.D. from Melbourne University, worked in EEG, ICU monitoring, neuroimaging (SPECT, PET), EEG source localization (ESL), EEG-fMRI, epilepsy surgery in pediatric and adult, VNS, DBS in epilepsy and sleep medicine at the Phramongkutklao hospital.
Position
- Director of Epilepsy surgery and Sleep disorder program at the Phramongkutklao Hospital
- The ILAE Imaging Task Force of the Commission on Diagnostic Methods, 2017‐2021
- President of
o Thai Academy of Sleep Medicine (TASM) society
o Thai Board of Sleep Medicine, Royal College of Physicians, The Medical Council of Thailand
o Sleep Neurological Society
o Brain Foundation
- Board Committee of the Epilepsy Society of Thailand
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Akio Ikeda, MD,PhD,FACNS, is the President of the Japan Epilepsy Society (JES), the Chair of Commission on Asian and Oceanian Affairs (2017-2021) of the ILAE, and Exco-member of the Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (JSCN).
Besides his teaching and clinical roles, he is involved with numerous professional bodies; he is the incumbent Council Member and Chair of the Advanced EEG Seminar of the Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology and holds various Council and Committee Member positions in the Japanese Neurological Society.
Professor Ikeda has been working on clinical epilepsy, wide-band EEG (ictal DC shifts) and the role of glia in epileptogenicity, and earned his PhD from Kyoto University in 1993, where his thesis was on movement-related potentials recorded from the supplementary and primary motor areas of the brain (Brain,1992). He has published literature, having authored 300 original articles in English, 290 review articles, 160 book chapters and 7 books in both English and Japanese.
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- Professor and Chairman, Shanghai Deji Hospital Epilepsy Center, Qingdao University Affiliated, Shanghai, P. R. China
- Board Member of the Standing Committee, China Association Against Epilepsy (CAAE)
- Chairman, the Commission on SEEG and Brain Mapping of China Association Against Epilepsy (CAAE)
- Board Member, the Commission on Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology,
- Neurology Branch of Chinese Medical Association
- Member of Neurophysiology Taskforce, Diagnostic Methods Commission of International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE)
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Shozo Tobimatsu received a M.D. from the Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1979 and a doctorate in medicine from Kyushu University in 1985. He was a research associate in the Dept. of Neurology, Loyola University of Chicago (Prof. GG. Celesia), USA from October 1985 to October 1987. After returning to Fukuoka, he was a lecturer in the Dept. of Clinical Neurophysiology, Kyushu University. Since December I 999, he has been a Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Clinical Neurophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University. His current research interests are higher brain functions and cognitive neuroscience in humans using non-invasive methods such as EEG, ERP, and MEG. He is a former president of the Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology.
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DM Neurology, NIMHANS, 1996
- Awarded the NIH Fellowship in EPILEPSY at the prestigious UCLA, USA, from 2005-2006. Awarded Penry MiniFellowship in Epilepsy from the Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Alumni of the San Servolo School of Epilepsy.
- Awarded the Asian Oceanian Achievement Award in Epilepsy 2016 and AIIMS Research Award (Clinical) 2018.
- International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Faculty 1000, ILAE Task Force member for Stigma in Epilepsy, Paediatric Epilepsy Surgery Sub-commission under ILAE.
- Neuroscience Task Force member of the DBT for Epilepsy. She heads the Disability Task Force for Epilepsy in India.
- Coordinator of National Epilepsy Control Program- Ministry of Health India.
- Co-PI, Centre of Excellence for Refractory Epilepsy and MEG Center- DBT.
- Secretary General of the IES, a member of IEA, Member of International Professional societies like AAN, AES, AASM.
- Core Committee of Guidelines for Epilepsy Management in India (GEMIND).
- 230 research publications including in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). She has research projects in Epilepsy funded by DBT, DST and ICMR.
- Her main areas of interest are Epilepsy, especially Drug Refractory epilepsies, epilepsy surgery, Women with epilepsy and functional neuroimaging in Epilepsy. Also has interest in sleep disorders, cognition and autoimmune disorders of CNS.
- Has delivered guest lectures at various National and International epilepsy conferences & Numerous Orations.
- National Course Director of Epilepsy and EEG workshops of IES started by her.
- Organizes epilepsy awareness. Has written patient handouts. Director of an NGO for epilepsy (EKATWAM). She also runs rural outreach programs in Epilepsy in tribal Orissa and North Eastern India.
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Chong Wong completed his undergraduate medical training at the University of Sydney. He completed his neurology training in Australia and epilepsy fellowship in Cleveland Clinic, Ohio. He has a PhD in the neuroimaging of patients with intractable epilepsy. He is a staff specialist neurologist at Westmead Hospital and The Children's Hospital at Westmead and participates in ANZAN and ASEPA Epilepsy and EEG teaching courses.
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Sandip Chatterjee is a Graduate of Medical College Kolkata where he won innumerable prizes and medals in Anatomy, Pathology, Eye, ENT and Surgery. He went on to train in neurosurgery in UK and Canada. He passed his FRCS in General Surgery in 1987, and FRCS in Surgical Neurology in 1994. He returned to Kolkata in 1994 to start a department of neurosurgery at Park Clinic Kolkata, and this is now a postdoctoral training centre in neurosurgery, an AO Spine training centre in spine surgery, and a paediatric neurosurgery training centre recognized by the International Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery. He has 110 publications and 20 book chapters in national and international publications. Currently he is a Professor and Head of Neurosurgery at VIMS and Park Clinic, Kolkata. He is the Associate Editor of the British Journal of Neurosurgery, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences, and he Chairs the Education Committee of the International society of Pediatric Neurosurgery, the Asia Australasia Society of Paediatric Neurosurgery, and Education Committee of AO Spine in India. He is also the Chairman of the IONM Group in India and the Indian representative to the Asia Oceanian Society of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring. He is also in the WFNS Committee of Intraoperative Monitoring.
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Education:
- Candidate to Doctorate in Informatics Engineering, Pontificia Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, 2012-2017.
- Master's degree in Computer Sciences, ITESM, Mexico, 2002-2005.
- Residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Universidad del Valle, Colombia, 1986 - 1989.
- Medical Doctor, Universidad del Valle, Colombia, 1976 - 1983.
Work Experience:
- Assistant Professor, Department of PM&R, Universidad del Valle, Colombia since 1994.
- Director, EMG Lab, Universidad del Valle, Colombia, 1994 -2014.
- Director, Program of Medicine, Universidad del Valle, Colombia, 1995-1997.
- Chief of the PM&R Department, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia, 1989-1991.
Most relevant designations:
- Member of the IFCN ExCo
- Past President of the Latin American Chapter of the IFCN.
- Secretary of the Latin American Association of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (AMLAR) 2010-2012.
- Past President of the Colombian Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine (ACME).
- Former President of the Colombian Association of PM&R (ACMFR), 2010-2012.
Areas of Interest:
- EMG, Eps, IOM.
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Aatif M. Husain, M.D. is Professor, Department of Neurology, and Chief, Division of Epilepsy, Sleep and Clinical Neurophysiology at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. He is also the National Director of the Veterans Affairs Epilepsy Centers of Excellence. After completing medical school in Pakistan, he did an internship at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. He then completed a Neurology residency at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. After residency, Dr. Husain did fellowships in Clinical Neurophysiology, Epilepsy and Sleep Medicine and EMG/Neuromuscular Disorders at Duke University Medical Center. Since his fellowships, he has stayed at Duke University as faculty. His clinical interests include treatment of acute seizures and status epilepticus, neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring and general clinical neurophysiology. He has written many articles, chapters and books on these topics. Dr. Husain is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology and the Treasurer of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. He is a past President of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and the American Board of Registration of EEG and EP Technologists.
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Kunihiko Kodama, MD, Ph. D. is currently a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan. His fields of interest are skull base surgery, endoscopic neurosurgery, cerebrovascular surgery and intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring. He has been intensively working on research of intraoperative visual function monitoring. He has been internationally recognized for his work in intraoperative neuromonitoring, and he was an Executive Board member of the International Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology. Currently, he is Secretary of the Asian Oceanian Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology, Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Committee of World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.
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Professor Lo was previously Head and is currently Senior Consultant Neurologist at the National Neuroscience Institute (SGH Campus) and Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Adjunct Professor at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore.
Professor Lo is active in the field of Clinical Neurophysiology and lectures regularly on this subject in the USA, Europe, Australasia and Asian countries. He was the founding President of the Clinical Neurophysiology Society (Singapore) and representative to the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. He was an invited speaker at the World and Asian Oceanian Congresses of Neurology, as well as the European and International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology. In 2007, he was awarded the Galloway Lectureship for his work in cervical myelopathy.
His main research interests are on spinal cord disorders, and cortical plasticity changes in spinal cord dysfunction. Other ongoing international research collaborations include transcranial magnetic stimulation in motor control, neuromuscular transmission in demyelinating neuropathies and imaging correlates of cortical and cerebellar activity.
Professor Lo sits on the current editorial board of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery and is the current Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare. He has over 150 publications in international peer reviewed journals, including first author papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, Neurology, The Lancet Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Brain, Archives of Neurology, Journal of Neurology, Spine, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Nature Clinical Reviews Neurology and Movement Disorders.
His book titled "Clinical Neurophysiology: New Clinical and Research Applications" was published in 2013.
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Dr. Kyung-Seok Park received his Medical degree from Seoul National University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea. He was trained at the Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital, and completed a one-year clinical neurophysiology/neuromuscular diseases Fellowship at the same hospital.
Dr. Park has been serving at the Neuromuscular division of the Department of Neurology, and also working as the Director of Clinical & Intraoperative Neurophysiology at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. He is currently a Professor of Neurology at Seoul National University College of Medicine. Dr. Park's main research interests include neuromuscular/spinal diseases and clinical neurophysiology, particularly intraoperative neurophysiology. He is the current President of the Asian-Oceanian Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology (AOSIN).
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Current Positions:
- Attending Physician at Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
- Chief of Child Developmental Center, Taipei Veterans General Hospital.
- Associated professor of Department of Physical Therapy and Assistive Techonology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Education:
- Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University
Professional Experience:
- Director of Division of Neurological Rehabilitation, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
Areas of Specialization:
- Pediatric Rehabilitation
- Neurological Rehabilitation
- Swallowing disorder
- Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring
Professor of Neurology, Chairperson of the Neurological Department in Peking Union Medical College Hospital. She is the President of the Chinese Society of Neurology and Vice President of the Branch of Neurology under the Chinese Medical Doctors Association. She is the National ALS collaboration team leader. She also is the general editor of Chinese Journal of Neurology.
She had been trained in Duke University and the UNC Medical Center’s EMG Lab for one year and in UC Irvine Medical Center as a Clinical Neurophysiological fellow for two years.
She has long been involved in Clinical Electrophysiological Studies， especially in ALS and other neuromuscular disorders. More than 500 papers have published in her name.
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Dr. A. Nalini is a senior professor from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India and has specialized in Neuromuscular disorders for the past 25 years. Her areas of interest are in inherited muscle disorders, neuromuscular junction and neuropathies, Motor Neuron disease and Hirayama disease. To her credit she has more than 125 publications. She has large cohorts of pathologically and genetically confirmed cases of Neuromuscular disorders. She is executive member of the AOMC. She has vast experience in a large cohort of Hirayama disease of more than 400 cases evaluated over 25 years. Presently she is working on the surgical intervention in Hirayama disease / Monomelic Amyotrophy and has an experience of over 65 operated cases and their follow-up.
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Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (Japan)
Special expertise: Clinical Neurophysiology, Neuromuscular ultrasound
Department of Neurology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (Japan), MD (2003), PhD (2012)
2009-2011 Research fellow at Department of Neurology, Chiba University (Japan)
2015-2017 Postdoctoral research fellow at Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney (Australia)
From 2017 Assistant professor at Department of Neurology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (Japan)
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Professor Vucic is an internationally recognized specialist in the management of a variety of neurological diseases including:
- Motor neuron disease (MND)
- Diseases of nerve and muscle
- Multiple sclerosis
- Neurophysiology (nerve conduction studies, evoked potentials, transcranial magnetic stimulation)
- Botulinum toxin therapy for
o Migraine headaches
o Axillary hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating)
o Hemifacial spams
o Cervical dystonic
o Blepharospasms
o Spasticity
Professor Vucic also has expertise in general neurological diseases consulting at Westmead Hospital (one of the largest hospitals in Australia), as well as Westmead and Norwest private hospitals.
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Present Designation: Sr Consultant in Neurology, Brunei Stroke and Rehabilitation Centre, PJSC, Brunei
DM Neurology
Sree Chitra Tirunal Medical Center for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum
Clinical Neuromuscular Fellowship ,
Montreal Neurological Institute , McGill University, Montreal Canada
Membership to Professional Bodies:
1) Neurological Society of India, Indian Academy of Neurology, Associate Member of American Academy of Neurology Member SERB, India
2) Convenor, Clinical Neurophysiology Subsection of IAN and National Delegate to the IFCN
Publications:
Has more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in International and National journals and chapters in International and National textbooks in these areas of interest
Current positon: Head of Department of Neurology, Prince of Wales Hospital and Professor (Conjoint) POWH Clinical School, University of New South Wales.
During training as a neurologist, he completed a PhD in motor control and subsequently undertook postgraduate neurological training and research in London, the latter at the MRC Movement and Balance Unit and the MRC Cyclotron Unit (PET).
He has published on the properties of short latency vestibular reflexes – vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) and described both the cervical VEMP and ocular VEMP. These techniques have enabled non-invasive investigation of otolith reflex pathways both in normal subjects and in disease.
Ji-Soo Kim is a Professor of the Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, South Korea. He is the Director of the Dizziness Center in Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. He was the President of the Korean Balance Society (2015~2017) and is the President of the Korean Society of Neuro-Ophthalmology (2019~). He is currently on the editorial board of Journal of Neuro-ophthalmology, Journal of Clinical Neurology, Frontiers in Neuro-otology, Frontiers in Neuro-ophthalmology, Journal of Vestibular Research, Journal of Neurology, and Medicine.
He has published more than 300 SCI papers, especially on vertigo and eye movement disorders. He is the recipient of Hallpike-Nylen Prize from the Barany Society (2014) and Order of Science and Technology from the Republic of Korea (2015).
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Prof. Margaret Mak is currently a Professor of Physiotherapy at the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univeristy. Her research focuses on neurological rehabilitation, with special emphasis on Parkinson's disease. Her ongoing research projects include the efficacy of combined balance and brisk walking programmes and the application of non-invasive brain stimulation in people with Parkinson's disease. Prof. Mak has publications in leading international journals such as Nature Reviews Neurology, Movement Disorders, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, and Brain Stimulation. Prof. Mak has also been invited to present in the international conferences such as International World Confederation of Physical Therapy Congress, World Parkinson Congress and International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders.
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Dr. Pramod Kumar Pal was the Founding Secretary of the Movement Disorders Society of India, served as member of the Education Committees of International Association of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders (APRD) & MDS-AOS and in the Editorial Boards of Movement Disorders and PARDS journals. Currently he is the Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Movement Disorders, Secretary-Elect (2017-2019) and Secretary (2019-2021) of MDS-AOS, President-Elect (2018-2019) and President (2019-2020) of the Indian Academy of Neurology (IAN) and member of the Rare Movement Disorders Study Group of IPMDS, Education Committee of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society, Parkinson’s Research Alliance of India, Parkinson’s Disease Society of Karnataka and the Neuromodulation Society in India.
Dr. Pal joined the Department of Neurology, NIMHANS as a Faculty and is currently Professor of Neurology. In addition he is the Program Director of the post-doctoral Fellowship Program in Movement Disorders.
His areas of interest are Parkinson’s disease, dystonias, essential tremor, progressive supranuclear palsy, psychogenic movement disorders, Spinocerebellar ataxias, secondary movement disorders, Human Motor physiology and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, advanced neuroimaging (structural and functional) and cognition in movement disorders. He mentors several DM and PhD students in Neurology and has 250 publications in National and International journals and Books.
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Pattamon Panyakaew, MD. is a movement disorders specialist at the Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She earned her medical degree and trained as a neurology resident at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. She received the King Scholarship to pursue a research fellowship in clinical neurophysiology in movement disorders at the Human Motor Control Section, the National Institute of Health under Dr. Mark Hallett.
Her research interests are clinical neurophysiology in movement disorders, gait and balance disorders in Parkinson's Disease and atypical parkinsonism. She has been involved in a significant amount of research on Parkinson's disease and the physiology of tremor, myoclonus and dystonia.
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March 1990
M.D. Yokohama City University
April 1990 - March 1992
Junior Resident in Medicine of Toranomon Hospital
April 1992 - March 1999
Clinical Fellow of the University of Tokyo Hospital
March 1999
PhD The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine
Jan 2001-Dec 2003
Research Fellow of the University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital
Dec 2003-March 2014
Assistant Professor of the University of Tokyo, Department of Neurology
April 2014-March 2017
Associate Professor of Department of Neurology, Kitasato University School of Medicine
April 2017-present
Professor of Division of Neurology, Department of Brain and Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University
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Raymond L. Rosales is a University Medical Full Professor-3, Current Chair and Head of the NeuroScience Institute of the Dept. of Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Santo Tomas (UST) Hospital, Manila. He obtained his BS and MD from UST, and Neurology & Psychiatry Training from the University Hospital. His Dissertation PhD in Neuroscience was obtained as a Japanese Gov't Scholar, at Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medicine. Further Subspecialty training in Neuromuscular and Movement Disorders was completed from the Dept. of Neurology and Geriatrics of Kagoshima University Hospital. He also did Clinician's Programs in the EMG laboratory of Mayo Clinic (Rochester) and in the Dystonia Clinic, Columbia University (NY).
He was former President of the Philippine Neurological Association, MDSP and PSNR. At IPMDS, he was formerly an Executive Board member and Secretary of the AOS. Currently, he is the President of the Asian and Oceanian Myology Center. He is Chief Editor, Journal of Medicine UST (Open access), Associate Editor, Basal Ganglia Journal, and Editorial Board Member of Journal of Movement Disorders, Nature Parkinson's Disease Journal, among others. He edited 3-books, done Chapters and published >150 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He received various Rector's Gold Series Research and international Publication Awards from UST. Dr. Rosales founded the CNS Ambulatory Neurological Care of Metropolitan Medical Center (Manila) and also Active Staff in the Units of Clinical Neurophysiology and Movement Disorders of St. Luke's Medical Center (QC).
Dr Rosales was bestowed the Philippine-based Promising Star Awards for world-class Research (yrs 2006-2015, in Neuroscience and Behavior), and among 100-Top Asia Scientists (The Asian Scientist, 2016 and 2017 issues, through Thomson Reuters).
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul Metropolitan Government Boramae Medical Center
Yoon-Ho Hong is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Seoul National University, South Korea. Hong obtained his M.D. and Ph.D in Brain & Neuroscience from the Seoul National University in 1998 and 2006, respectively. He was trained at the Seoul National University Hospital for neurology residency and fellowship, and studied biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School as a visiting scholar. Hong has more than 70 publications on neuromuscular disorders and neurophysiology and is an academic director of the Korean Society of Clinical Neurophysiology.
Professor, Sapporo Medical University School of Health Sciences
Education:
1986 Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine
Appointments:
1986 - Internships, Sapporo Medical University Hospital
1988 - Staff fellow, National Sanatorium Yakumo Hospital
1990 - Lecturer, Department of Physiology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine
1992 - Lecturer, Department of Neurology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine
1998 - Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine
2013 - Professor, Sapporo Medical University School of Health Sciences
Major professional service and professional societies
- Director, Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
- Chairman of Examination Board, Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
- Councilor, Japanese Society of Neurology
- Councilor, Japanese Society of Neurological Therapeutics
- Expert commission member, Ad hoc committee for Practical Guideline for Myasthenia Gravis in Japan
Dr. Sanders is Professor of Neurology and Director of Neuromuscular Research at Duke University Medical Center, in Durham, NC, where he founded, and for 25 years, directed, the Duke EMG Laboratory and the Duke Myasthenia Gravis Clinic. He received his medical degree from Harvard University and developed an abiding interest in the diagnosis and treatment of myasthenia gravis and related diseases while training in Neurology with Professor T.R. Johns, at the University of Virginia. He trained in Electromyography and Neuromuscular Physiology with Professor Edward Lambert at the Mayo Clinic, and has been at Duke since 1980.
Dr. Sanders has served as President of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine and of the Medical/Scientific Advisory Board of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America. He has been a member of the Editorial Boards of Muscle & Nerve and the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology and is a reviewer for many American and international medical journals. He is currently Chair of the North American Chapter of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology and a member of the Executive Committee of that organization.
Dr. Sanders has authored more than 200 scientific publications on neuromuscular disorders, including early work on experimental autoimmune MG, diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular diseases, the development of computer-assisted analysis of neurophysiologic signals, single-fiber EMG, the development and management of clinical trials in MG and Lambert-Eaton myasthenia, and, most recently, immunologic biomarker discovery in autoimmune neuromuscular disease.
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Professor Winston Byblow is Director of the Movement Neuroscience Laboratory at The University of Auckland. His research specialisation includes broad aspects of movement neuroscience, human motor neurophysiology and neuroimaging, neurorehabilitation relevant for movement disorders, stroke and cerebral palsy. He is an Investigator within two Centres of Research Excellence in New Zealand, and a Principal or Associate Investigator on several research grants funded through New Zealand and Australia Public Good funding schemes. He routinely serves on scientific and grant awarding committees including those for the Marsden Fund, the Neurological Foundation and the Health Research Council of New Zealand. Since 2019, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of Experimental Brain Research, Springer's longest running neuroscience serial. He also serves on editorial boards of other reputable journals such as Journal of Neurophysiology. He has authored ~180 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters which have received more than 10,000 citations.
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Dr Nahian Chowdhury is a postdoctoral research fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia having completed his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Sydney. Dr Chowdhury's published work includes the use of non-invasive brain stimulation to understand the neural impairments associated with various clinical conditions and he has received several oral presentation prizes. He currently investigates the use of non-invasive brain stimulation and other neurophysiological techniques as biomarkers associated with chronic pain. Dr Chowdhury is passionate about translating research into clinical practise, with the aim that these biomarkers will be used diagnostically, or be used as targets for therapies such as repetitive brain stimulation, in future.
Ying-Zu Huang is currently Professor of Neurology at the Medical School of Chang Gung University and Director of Neuroscience Research Center at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan. He is best known for his invention of theta burst stimulation, which is a well-known protocol of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. His main interests are in mechanisms of non-invasive brain stimulation, human plasticity and pathophysiology of movement disorders and other neurological disorders. He is the Secretary-General and Treasurer of the Asian-Oceanic Chapter of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. He received the Cambridge Award of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation from the British Society of Clinical Neurophysiology.
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Dr. Jung E Park obtained her M.D. at Dongguk University located in South Korea. She trained at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and completed her Neurology training there prior to doing a movement disorders fellowship at the National Institute of Health. Dr. Park trained under Dr. Mark Hallett in the Human Motor Control Section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. After nearly three years in the Human Motor Control Section where she was active in both research and clinical duties, she returned to her alma mater at Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital where she is currently Assistant Professor in the Neurology department.
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Cathy Stinear is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Auckland. She leads a multidisciplinary team of clinicians and scientists who are developing tools to predict and promote recovery after stroke.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1978: Graduate from School of Medicine, University of Tokyo
1978-2007: Department of Neurology, the University of Tokyo (July, 1987 - December, 1989 under Professor Marsden at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London)
May, 2007- March, 2018 : Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University
April 2018: Professor and Chairman, Department of Neuro-regeneration, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University
MEMBERSHIPS
International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN):
- Secretary General of International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN) 2014-2017
Movement Disorders Society
- Asian Oceania Section of the Movement Disorders Society: Executive Committee, Treasurer 2013 - 2015
Japanese Society of Neurology
- Executive Board Member
Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
- Executive Board Member
- Auditor 2017
Movement Disorders Society, Japan
- Executive Board Member
- President 2015-2017
- Past President 2017-
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Professor Vucic is an internationally recognized specialist in the management of a variety of neurological diseases including:
- Motor neuron disease (MND)
- Diseases of nerve and muscle
- Multiple sclerosis
- Neurophysiology (nerve conduction studies, evoked potentials, transcranial magnetic stimulation)
- Botulinum toxin therapy for
o Migraine headaches
o Axillary hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating)
o Hemifacial spams
o Cervical dystonic
o Blepharospasms
o Spasticity
Professor Vucic also has expertise in general neurological diseases consulting at Westmead Hospital (one of the largest hospitals in Australia), as well as Westmead and Norwest private hospitals.
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Director of the Department Neurology & Stroke, and Co-Director of the Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tubingen, Germany.
Research expertise: Human motor cortex, excitability, plasticity, motor learning, TMS, brain state-dependent stimulation, neuropharmacology, TMS-EEG.
Current positions: Editor-in-Chief of "Clinical Neurophysiology", ExCo member of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN), Deputy Editor of "Brain Stimulation", Associate Editor of "Journal of Neuroscience".
Awards: Richard-Jung Prize of the DGKN, NIH Merit Award, NIH Fellowship Award for Research Excellence. Publications: 350 peer-reviewed publications, 38 book chapters, 6 Books, Cumulative IF: 1.754, ISI Citations: 23.293, ISI h-index: 78.
Committee
Dr Hiew Fu Liong completed his undergraduate education at International Medical University (IMU), Malaysia. He subsequently completed his post graduate study in Internal medicine in 2009 [MRCP (UK), MMed (S'pore)] and obtained his Fellowship in Neurology from Ministry of Health, Malaysia in 2016. He has a special interest in neuromuscular diseases and neurophysiology, with experience working as specialist registrar and research fellow in Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is now one of the neurologists in the Neurology Department, Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Malaysia.
Dr Sung-Tsang Hsieh is an expert in physiology and pathology of pain and neurodegeneration. Currently he is professor of National Taiwan University and attending neurologist of National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. His works mainly focus on 3 themes related to neurodegeneraiton and pain:
(1) establishing diagnostic tools of small fiber neuropathy, in particular, skin biopsy, (2) integrating a battery of multi-modality tests for exploring mechanisms underlying neuropathic pain including pathology, physiology, and neuroimaging, including contact heat evoked potential (CHEP) and nociception-evoked functional MRI, and
(3) investigating genotypes and pathology of familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP)
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Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
Professor Kuwabara is the Chair of Neurology at Chiba University Hospital (since 2008). He is a clinical neurologist, Deputy Editor of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (since 2010), and Chief Reviewer of Cochrane Database Systematic Review; “Treatment for POEMS syndrome” (since 2008). He graduated from Chiba University in 1984 (MD) and studied Clinical Neurophysiology under Prof. David Burke at the University of New South Wales (1999-2000). He has extensively studied Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuroimmunology through the pathophysiology and treatment of neuromuscular disease such as Guillain-Barre syndrome, CIDP, and POEMS syndrome. He has published 460 (English) and 350 (Japanese) peer reviewed articles.
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Position:
Associate Professor of Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan
Professional Experience:
April 2006 to November 2008, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University
From December 2008, Assistant Professor of Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University
From July 2014, Lecturer of Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University
From March 2017, Associate Professor of Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan
Research field:
Clinical neurophysiology, peripheral neuropathy
Awards:
Brazier Award, ICCN 2006; Young investigator award, ICCN 2010
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Dr. Fitri Octaviana was born in Jakarta on 7th of October 1975. She graduated as a Neurologist from the Medical Faculty of Universitas of Indonesia in 2006. She did a fellowship at Tokyo University in 2008 and got her PhD from Universitas Indonesia in 2018. She has been working at the Neurology Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia – Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta since 2008. Her interests are Epilepsy and Peripheral Nerves field and she has conducted several studies in those fields. Dr.Fitri has been doing a study on HIV Neuropathy in collaboration with Curtin University. She has been active in some international organizations such as the Indonesia Chapter of the International Federation Clinical Neurophysiology and the Indonesia Chapter of the International League Against Epilepsy.
Speaker
Yusuf Rajabally is a Consultant Neurologist and Honorary Professor of Neurology at University Hospitals of Birmingham, U.K. where he runs a tertiary Regional Inflammatory Neuropathy Service. He is involved in research on the clinical, epidemiological and electrophysiological aspects of Guillain-Barre syndrome and CIDP.
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