08:00 – 08:30 Accreditation
08:30 – 09:00 Opening
09:00 – 10:45 Symposium on Public Policies and IGAP
9:00 – 9:15 Role of PAHO and WHO in promoting public health and reducing health
gaps: IGAP. Dr. Giovanni Escalante
9:15 – 9:30 IGAP and equity in access to epilepsy care. Dr. Samuel Wiebe
9:30 – 9:45 Collaborating Center PAHO/WHO Chilean League against Epilepsy and the
regional work in the implementation of IGAP. Dra. Keryma Acevedo
09:45 – 10:00 Other Neurological Diseases: Overview in Chile and challenges. Dr. Renato Verdugo
10:00 – 10:15 Ministry of Health prioritizing agenda in the implementation of IGAP in
Chile. EM Carolina Neira10:15 – 10:45 Round table discussion. Dr. Reinaldo Uribe – Dr. Jorge Förster
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:00 Dealing with emergencies and status epilepticus
11:15 – 11:45 New developments in prehospital management of epileptic seizures. Dr. Raman Sankar
11:45 – 12:15 Status code. Dr. Pablo González
12:15 – 12:45 Refractory status epilepticus: when to consider transferring a patient to a more complex health center. Dra. Karin Noack
12:45 – 13:00 Round table discussion. Dra. Natalie Sánchez – Dr. Arturo Márquez
13:00 – 14:30 Symposium at lunch time: Clinical Cases (2). Dr. Tomás Mesa – Dra. Sandra Ardila Dra. Mónica Rosas.
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 – 17:00 Anti-crisis drugs
15:00 – 15:30 Epilepsy and cardiovascular comorbidity, role of MACs. Dr. Samuel Wiebe
15:30 – 16:00 New anti-crisis drugs and molecules in development. Dr. Raman Sankar
16:00 – 16:30 Epilepsy and osteopenia, role of MACs. Dr. Samuel Wiebe
16:30 – 17:00 Round table discussion. Dr. Felipe Castro
08:30 – 10:00 Use of corticosteroids in epilepsy
08:30 – 08:50 Epileptic spasms: contributions and challenges of the national guideline. Dra. Lucila Andrade
08:50 – 09:10 Steroids: indications in non-autoimmune epilepsies in adults. Dr. Rodrigo Riquelme
09:10 – 09:30 Steroids: which, doses, and for how long?. Dr. Álvaro Velásquez
10:00 – 10:15 Round table discussion. Dra. Macarena Bertrán – Dr. Fernando Bravo
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 – 13:00 Epilepsy and Women
11:00 – 11:30 Epilepsy and Pregnancy: Update and State of the art. Dr. Torbjörn Tomson
11:30 – 12:00 Postpartum depression: approach in women with epilepsy. Dr. Luis Alvarado
12:00 – 12:30 Breastfeeding and anti-crisis drugs. Dr. Torbjörn Tomson
12:30 -13:00 Round table discussion. Dr. Alejandro de Marinis – Dra. Larisa Fabres
13:00 -14:00 Symposium at lunch time: Epilepsy Surgery in the Context of Limited Resources. Dr. Samuel Wiebe.
Modera: Dra. Ada Chicharro
14:00 – 15:10 Mortality and epilepsy
14:00 – 14:30 SUDEP, incidence, risk factors and prevention. Dr. Torbjörn Tomson
14:30 – 14:50 Mortality in Epilepsy in adults. Dr. Rogelio Carrillo
14:50 – 15:10 Mortality in Epilepsy in children and adolescents. Dra. Carmen Paz Pérez
15:10 -15:40 Coffee Break
15:40 – 17:40 Genetics of epilepsies in clinical practice
15:40 – 16:10 Panel or Exome?: What to Order and Why?. Dr. José Ignacio Marín
16:10 – 16:40 Role of genetic studies in adult epilepsy. Dr. Reinaldo Uribe
16:40 – 17:10 Contributions of basic research in the clinical management of epilepsies. Dr. Raman Sankar
17:10 – 17:40 Round table discussion. Dra. Keryma Acevedo – Dr. Jorge Förster
17:45 Closure