XII Simposio Internacional de Epilepsia:
“Comprometidos por la Epilepsia”

Hotel Sheraton, Santiago, Chile
April 20th & 21st , 2023

Thursday, April 20th

08:30 -09:00  International Symposium Opening Welcome words: Dr. Keryma Acevedo.

9:00 – 10:30 Inaugural Symposium: IGAP

09:00-09:20   Epilepsy Strategic Plan for America: results after 10 years Dr. Carlos Acevedo 

09:20 -09:40  IGAP: the work continues. Dr. Matías Irarrázaval

09:40-10:00   IBE: Community empowerment in the comprehensive management of epilepsies. (Speaker)

10:00-10:30     Round Table: Dr. Keryma Acevedo – Dr. Tomás Mesa

10:30 -11:00 Coffee Break.

 

11:00 -12:30    Symposium New Classifications

11:00-11:30 Historical evolution of the concept of epileptic seizure, epilepsy and 

epileptic syndromes Dr. Solomon Moshe

11:30-12:00   Classification of epilepsies in children: What’s new?    Dr. Claudia Riffo

12:00-12:30   Update in the Classification of epilepsies at other ages.   Dr. Larisa  Fabres

12:30-13:00   Round Table: Dr. Ada Chicharro – Dr. Ximena Varela  

13:30 -14:30 Lunch symposium: Classification of clinical cases through the analysis and discussion of 

videos.  Dr. Solomon Moshe

Coordinators: Dr. Álvaro Velásquez – Dr. Alicia Bogacz

 

14:30 – 15:30 Epilepsy and Education Symposium: from Theory to Practice

14:30 – 14:50 Innovation and technology at the service of education in Epilepsy Dr. Sebastian Winter.

14:50 – 15:10 New educational strategies of the Chilean League against Epilepsy. Loreto González.

15:10 – 15:30 IBE’s Role in education and health promotion of Epilepsies. 

(Speaker)

15:30 – 15:45  Round Table.  RN. Katherine Moreno – Dr. Jorge Förster

 

16:15 – 18:15 Symposium Epilepsy and Woman

16:15 -16:45   Lessons from international registries: EURAP  Dr. A. de Marinis

16:45 – 17:15  Impact of prenatal exposure to anti-seizure medications on children’s cognitive and behavioral development. PsyD. Gus Baker

17:15 – 17:35 Care of the mother-child dyad during the puerperium. Dr. Keryma Acevedo

17:35 – 18:05 Round Table: Dr. Claudio Navarrete – Dr. Mónica González- Jovita Ortiz (Collaborating Centre 

for Development of Midwifery).

19:00 – 20:00 Commemoration Ceremony 70 years Chilean League.

20:00 – 21:00 Cocktail.

 

Friday, April 21st

08:30 – 10:30 Drug Resistant Epilepsy Symposium

08:30 – 09:00 Neurobiological mechanisms of focal epilepsies and their clinical expression. Dr. Marco de Curtis

09:00 – 09:30 Pre-surgical neuropsychological evaluation in drug-resistant epilepsies. PsyD. Gus Baker

09:30 – 10:00  Role of research in the management and treatment of epilepsies Dr. Marco de Curtis.

10:00 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 -12:30 Surgery and Drug resistant Symposium.

11:00 – 11:30 Rational management of drug-resistant epilepsies Dr. Anna Milan

11:30 – 12:00 Epilepsy Surgery: Fundamentals of a Comprehensive Program. Can safety be improved? Dr. Marco de Curtis

12:00-12:30 Building networks in epilepsy surgery: Chilean experience Dr. C. Cantillano – Dr R. Uribe

12:30-13:00 Round Table: Dr. Viviana Venegas –  Dr. Manuel Campos

13:30 -14:30 Lunch symposium: clinical cases
Dr. Rodrigo Riquelme – Dr. Carla Soto

 

14:30 – 15:30 Epileptology Training Centers and PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centres

  • Collaborating Centre for Health Services and Nursing Development for Noncommunicable 
  • Disease Care  (Clinical Cases – caregivers)
  • Collaborating Center on Bioethics (Clinical Cases – ethics)

14:30 – 15:30 Special Epileptic Syndromes Symposium

14:30 – 14:50  Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies Dr. Macarena Beltrán

14:50- 15:10   Infantile Spasms: Management Protocols. Dr. Lucila Andrade

15:10- 15:30  Therapeutics: News and Challenges  Dr. Solomon  Moshe

15:30- 15:45 Round Table:  Dr. Felipe Castro – Dr. Arantza Oñat

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break.

16:15 – 18:00  Epilepsy, Cognition and Behavior Symposium

16:15 – 16:45 What do our patients expect from antiepileptic treatment? PsyD. Gus Baker.

16:45 – 17:05 Relationship between epileptiform activity and seizures  in the evolution of epilepsies, behavior and cognition. Dr. Carolina Alvarez.

17:05 – 17:25 Cognitive impairment and epilepsy: choosing the best therapy Dr. Mónica Rosas.

17:25 – 17:55    Round Table  Dr. Teresa Zenteno – Dr. Pablo González

17:55 – 18:05  CLOSING CEREMONY

 

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