BPNA 2004 Conference 23-25 January 2004, Sheffield Programme Timetable
Friday, 23 January 2004
12.00 - 12.55	Conference Registration and Buffet Lunch at The Hallam University
12.55 - 13.00	Welcome
13.00 - 13.30	Guest Lecture by Professor Paul Griffiths: ‘In utero and post mortem neuro-imaging’
13.30 - 15.00	Session 1:
	Childhood stroke and cerebrovascular disease in the UK. A descriptive epidemiological study	Dr A N Williams
	Risk factors for recurrence of arterial ischaemic stroke in childhood	Dr V Ganesan
	Relationship between the King’s Outcome Scale for Childhood Head Injury at hospital discharge, injury severity and detailed measures of early outcome in children with traumatic brain injury	Dr S E Calvert
	Early cognitive and psychological outcome following admission to hospital for severe, moderate and mild traumatic brain injury in children	Ms H Miller
	Acquired transverse myelopathy in children in the UK, a pilot for the BPNA surveillance unit	Dr C de Goede
	Racial differences in the incidence of childhood seizure disorders in Bradford	Dr C D Ferrie
	Rasmussen’s encephalitis: clinical course and outcome	Dr S Varadkar
	First line prescribing practices and drug retention rates for focal epilepsy	Dr L Henderson
	Time to recovery of consciousness following epileptic seizures in children	Dr J Allen
15.00 - 15.30	Coffee and tea break
15.30 - 16.00	Guest Lecture by Professor Phil Ingham: ‘The Zebrafish: A new model organism for human disease’
16.00 - 17.00	Session 2: Poster Presentations
19.30 - 21.30	Drinks reception followed by dinner at the Millennium Galleries

Saturday, 24 January 2004
8.00 - 9.00	‘Benign intercranial hypertension diagnosis and management’ With presentations by Dr Cathy White, Dr J P Lin and Professor I Rennie followed by a 30 minute discussion
9.00 - 10.00	Ronnie MacKeith Guest Lecture by Professor W B Dobyns: ‘The genetic basis of neuronal migration: lissencephaly, cryptogenic infantile spasms and mental retardation with epilepsy’
10.00 - 11.00	Session 3: Poster Presentations
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee and tea break
11.30 - 13.00	Session 4:
	Cerebral cortex size is determed by the ASPM gene control of mitotic spindle activity	Dr C G Woods
	Cerebral folate deficiency: a new group of treatable neurometabolic disorders	Dr V Ramaekers
	Neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia - outcome in rural Kenya	Ms A Gordon
	Is variant CJD hidden among children with undiagnosed progressive intellectual and neurological deterioration (PIND)? Findings from a national surveillance study	Dr C M Verity
	A carer’s perspective of quality of life in children with neurodisability fed by gastrostomy	Dr Z Bassi
	Long term effects of Botulinum toxin-A in semimembranosus muscle of children with cerebral palsy	Dr K K Pang
	Serious neurological disorders are rare causes of chronic headache in children and adolescents	Dr S MacLeod
	Minicore myopathy with ophthalmoplegia cuased by mutations in the skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor (RYR1) gene	Dr H Jungbluth
	Hypotonia does not equal primary neuromuscular disorder: diagnostic outcomes on a large cohort of neonates referred for a suspected neuromuscular condition	Dr M Kinali
13.00 - 14.00	Buffet Lunch, The Hallam University
13.00 - 14.00	Special interest group meetings (Audit, Trainees, Neuromuscular)
14.00	Excursions to Sheffield’s Past: Bolsover Castle and Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
19.30 - midnight	Champagne Reception and Gala Dinner at The Royal Victoria Holiday Inn

Sunday, 25 January 2004
8.30 - 10.00	Annual General Meeting of the BPNA (open to members of the Association)
10.00 - 11.00	Session 5: Videos
	The role of video gait analysis in the management of hip flexor spasticity	Dr M J Tan
	Bathing induced seizure: reflex syncope or epilepsy?	Dr S Spinty
	Anoxic epileptic seizures	Dr I A Horrocks
	Autosomal dominant dystonia-myoclonus (DYT11), writer’s cramp and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in infancy due to a novel single base-pair mutation in exon 7 of the epsilon-sarcoglycan gene (SGCE)	Dr J P Lin
	Alternating hemiplegia of childhood - earlier features misdiagnosed as epilepsy	Dr S G Philip
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee and tea break
11.30 - 13.00	Special forum: ‘Can we diagnose that a baby has been shaken?’ With brief presentations by Professor Helen Whitwell (Neuropathology), Professor Paul Griffiths (neuroradiology) and Dr Robert Minns (Clinical Aspects) followed by a 45 minute open discussion
13.00	Buffet Lunch at The Hallam University and depart