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Plenary Lecture
"The depth and breadth of antibody-mediated neurological diseases"
Thursday, May 23, 11:00-11:45
Room 1: "Large Hall" Osaka International Convention Center 5F
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Angela Vincent
Oxford University / University of London
UK
Angela Vincent qualified MBBS but after one year obtained an MSc in Biochemistry at UCL and did not pursue further clinical training. Since 1972 she has worked on antibodies in neurological diseases, first in London and then in Oxford at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine. From 1998 to 2016 she led the Neuroimmunology Group. She is currently Emeritus Professor of Neuroimmunology and continues to research into the role of auto-antibodies to ion channels and receptors in peripheral and central disorders. Her research interests include looking for novel antibodies, models of neuromuscular junction and CNS diseases, and the influence of maternal antibodies on development. Among many honours she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 2011.
Semi-Plenary Lecture
"The evolving spectrum of acute"
Friday, May 24, 12:45-13:30
Room 1: "Large Hall" Osaka International Convention Center 5F
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Brian G. Weinshenker
Mayo Clinic Rochester
USA
Brian G. Weinshenker is Professor of Neurology and Consultant at Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN. Dr. Weinshenker's major research interests are directed at the understanding of inflammatory demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system including multiple sclerosis including: 1) natural history of multiple sclerosis; 2) defining clinical and radiologic differential diagnosis of inflammatory myelopathy; and 3) classification, diagnosis, and treatment of severe inflammatory demyelinating syndromes of the central nervous system including neuromyelitis optica. He was awarded the John J. Dystel award for multiple sclerosis research in 2011 by the American Academy of Neurology and National Multiple Sclerosis Society (USA).
Special Lecture 1
"Frontier of genome analysis in clinical neurology"
Thursday, May 23, 14:35-15:20
Room 3: "Conference Room 1003" Osaka International Convention Center 10F
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Shoji Tsuji
Department of Molecular Neurology, The University of Tokyo / Institute of Medical Genomics, International University of Health and Welfare
Japan
Special Lecture 2
"Investigation of Human Neurological Diseases Using iPSCs-Technologies and GM Non-Human Primate"
Friday, May 24, 12:45-13:30
Room 3: "Conference Room 1003" Osaka International Convention Center 10F
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Hideyuki Okano
Professor, Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Keio University
Japan
Special Lecture
"History and future prospective of Kindai-Tuna"
Friday, May 24, 13:45-14:30
Room 3: "Conference Room 1003" Osaka International Convention Center 10F
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Yoshifumi Sawada
Aquaculture Research Institute, Kindai University
Japan
Overseas Invited Speakers *Listed in alphabetical order
Josef Anrather Weill Cornell Medicine USA |
Craig Blackstone ANA Vice President / National Institutes of Health (NIH) USA |
Stephen C. Cannon University of California Los Angeles USA |
Camille Carroll University of Plymouth Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry UK |
Hou-Chang Chiu Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital Taiwan |
David B. Clifford Washington University School of Medicine USA |
David R. Cornblath Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine USA |
Liying Cui Peking Union Medical College Hospital China |
Philip L. De Jager Columbia University USA |
Riwanti Estiasari University of Indonesia Indonesia |
Steven M. Greenberg Masasachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School USA |
Glenda M. Halliday The University of Sydney Central Clinical School Australia |
Lawrence J Hirsch Yale University School of Medicine USA |
Yi-Ting Hsu China Medical University Hospital Taiwan |
Badrul Islam International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh(icddr,b) Bangladesh |
Bart Jacobs Erasmus Medical Center Netherlands |
Gustavo A. Jimenez-Maggiora Keck School of Medicine of USC USA |
Yuh-Jyh Jong National Chiao Tung University Taiwan |
Ki-Young Jung Seoul National University Hospital Korea |
Henry J Kaminski The George Washington University USA |
Jong Kuk Kim Dong-A University Korea |
Thomas Klockgether University Hospital of Bonn and German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Germany |
Sang-Bae Ko Seoul National University Hospital Korea |
Seung-Jae Lee Seoul National University Korea |
C. Justin Lee KIST, Seoul, Korea Korea |
Mi Ji Lee Samsung Medical Center Korea |
Maria I. Leite University of Oxford UK |
Helen Ling University College of London UK |
Martin Marsala University of California San Diego USA |
Justin C. McArthur ANA President Elect / Johns Hopkins University USA |
Wassilios Meissner University Hospital Bordeaux and Institute of Neurodegenerative Disorders France |
Jun Ni Peking Union Medical College Hospital China |
Ming-Kai Pan National Taiwan University Hospital Taiwan |
Leonard Petrucelli Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic USA |
Philip Scheltens Alzheimer Center Amsterdam Neatherlands |
Carlos Schenck University of Minnesota Medical School USA |
Raad Shakir Imperial College of London UK |
Jen Jen Su National Taiwan University Hospital Taiwan |
D. James Surmeier Northwestern University USA |
Marilu Gorno Tempini UCSF Dyslexia Center USA |
Arthur W. Toga USC Institute for Neuroimaging and informatics USA |
Bradley Turner Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health Australia |
Barbara G. Vickrey ANA Past President / Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai USA |
Yuping Wang Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing Capital University China |
Qiu Wei Sun Yat-sen University China |
Brian G. Weinshenker Mayo Clinic USA |
Hugh Willison University of Glasgow Scotland |
Zbgniew Wszolek Mayo Clinic Jacksonville USA |
Chiara Zurzolo Institut Pasteur France |