27 July 2018 (Friday) Day 1: Congress Workshops Venue AOMC Programme (Tentative) UMMC Auditorium (For trainees, medical officers) UMMC Seminar Room 13 Floor, Menara Selatan (For Trainees, Neurologists, Technicians) 0800 Main Lectures Series 1 0800-0830: Electrodiagnosis of Neuromuscular Diseases - Jun Kimura 0830-0900: Congenital Muscle Weakness - Ikuya Nonaka 0900 Teaching Course: - General Neurology for trainees Workshop: Basic NCS/EMG 900-945: Basic Principles of Nerve Conduction Studies and its Pitfalls - Jun Kimura 945-1030: Electromyography and Motor Unit Action Potential - Sanjeev Nandedkar 1030 1100: Tea Break 10.30-1100: Tea Break Teaching Course (cont d) Workshop (cont d) 1100-1200 Hands-on Demonstration and Patients 1200 1200-1300: Lunch Symposium 1200-1300: Lunch Symposium 1300 Lunch and break 1400 Teaching Course - Neuromuscular diseases - Update on Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy - Urtizberea A - Lipid and Glycogen Storage Myopathy in Asians - Wen-Chen Liang Workshop: Advanced EMG 1400-1430 Late Responses and Blink Reflex - Jun Kimura 1430-1500 Repetitive Nerve Stimulation and Single Fibre EMG - Sanjeev Nandedkar 1530 Tea Break 1600 Hands-on Demonstration and Patients
28 July 2018 (Saturday) Day 2: Main Congress 0700 Registration 0830 Plenary Lecture 1 Diagnosis and pathology of inflammatory myopathies - Werner Stenzel 0915 Plenary Lecture 2 Giampetro Shiavo (Title to be announced) 1000 Opening Ceremony/MSN Awards Ceremony 1030 Tea Break Tea Break Symposium 1 1100 1130 1200 1230 Serological & pathological correlations in immunemediated myopathies - Nishino I Pathology and pathogenesis of Sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis - Stenzel W Parasitic infections in muscle with a special focus on muscular sarcocystosis in Malaysia - Tan CT Childhood Inflammatory Myositis - Tang SP (Stroke) 1100-1120 Stroke classification and localisation Khairul Azmi 1120-1140 Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants for the secondary prevention of Ischemic Stroke: In the Perspective of Neurologist Ho Fan Kee 1140-1200 Acute stroke management Law Wan Chung 1200 1230: Q&A (Neuroimmunology and Neuroinfection) 1230-1300: Update on anti NMDAR encephalitis Suhailah Abdullah
28 July 2018 (Saturday) (Cont d) Day 2: Main Congress 1300 Lunch Symposium Lunch Symposium 2 Lunch Symposium 3 1430 1500 Symposium 2 Translational Medicine: Physiology and therapeutics of neuromuscular disorders: NMJ function, myasthenia gravis, botulinum transport - Schiavo G Recent advances in botulinum therapy - Rosales R (Neuroimmunology and Neuroinfection) 1430: Update on other autoimmune encephalitis - TBC 1500: Differential diagnosis of metabolic diseases of the CNS - Norlinah Mohamed Ibrahim 1530 Tea Break Tea Break Symposium 2 (Cont d) 1600 Review of basic science of gene therapy in muscle diseases - Takeda S (Epilepsy) 1600: Is it epilepsy? Raymond Azman Ali 1630 1700 Muscular dystrophies in India - Khadilkar S Clinical trials on muscular dystrophies - Urtizberea A 1630: The staring child Fong Choong Yi 1700: Treatment for epilepsy Lim Kheng Seang 1730 MSN AGM Poster Viewing/Pathology Slide Viewing 1900 Gala Dinner (Dinner symposium)
29 July 2018 (Sunday) Day 3: Main Congress 0830 Plenary 3 Important discoveries and progress in Myology What have I learnt from muscle research? - Nonaka I 0915 Plenary 4 The role of muscle biopsy in the era of Next Generation Sequencing - Phadke R 1000 Tea Break Tea Break Symposium 3 Symposium (MSN) 1030 Neuromuscular junction disorders-clinical aspects and management - Kornberg A 1100 1130 1200 SMA update and treatment - Jong YJ Pitfalls in muscle biopsy diagnosis of paediatric neuromuscular disorders - Phadke R Pompe s disease in China - Yan C (Neurology in Internal Medicine) 1. Refractory headache - Possible causes and treatment - Dr Loo Lay Khon (Hospital Seberang Jaya) 2. Case from Terengganu -Dr Khairul Azmi (Hospital Sultanah Nur Zahirah, Terengganu) 3. Case from Sabah - Dr Chia Yuen Kang (HQE) 4. Case from Sarawak - Dr Law Wan Chung (Sarawak General Hospital) Basic Neuroscience Symposium (Molecular Neuroscience) 10.30: Stripes and motion: modeling Parkinson s in zebrafish - Anwar Norazit (UM) 11.00 Neurodegenerative diseases: a central role of the bloodbrain barrier - Siti Rafidah Yusof (USM) (Behavioural Neuroscience) 11.30 Rodent model of chronic alcohol - Jaya Kumar Murthy (UKM) 12.00 Neurobiology of Kratom on abuse liability - Zurina Hassan (USM)
29 July 2018 (Sunday) (Cont d) Day 3: Main Congress 12.30 Lunch Symposium Lunch Symposium 1400 Clinico-Pathological Conference Oral presentations (for MSN ONLY) 1600 Tea Break Tea Break 1630 Closing ceremony/awards Ceremony* 1700 AOMC Board Meeting Oral presentations (for MSN ONLY)