The Olivecrona Award and Symposium

 

 

THE 40th HERBERT OLIVECRONA SYMPOSIUM 2022

 

"Epilepsy Surgery – Neurons, Networks and a New Dawn"

 

08.00 – 09.00

Registration

09.00-09.10

Welcome and Introduction

 

Per Almqvist, Karolinska Institutet/University Hospital, Stockholm

09.10 – 09.30

The History of Epilepsy Surgery: From Hippocrates and Horsley to Hemispheric Arcadia 

 

Ulrika Sandvik, Dept of Neurosurgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm

09.30 – 10.00

When the Air Hits Your Brain, things will never be the same  Selection and Evaluation of Patients for Epilepsy Surgery

 

Gerald Cooray, Dept of Neurophysiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London

10.00 – 10.30

Coffee

10.30 – 11.00

The MEG-alomaniac Quest for the Epileptogenic Zone

 

Karin Westin, Dept of Neurophysiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm

11.00 – 11.30

Imaging for Epilepsy Surgery – Seeing is Believing
 

Heather Martin, Dept of Neuroradiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm

11.30 – 12.00

Digging Even Deeper  SEEG as a Tool in Epilepsy Surgery 

 

Daniel Nilsson,  Dept of Neurosurgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg

12.00 – 13.00

Lunch

13.00 - 13.30

Pacing the Seizures – DBS for Epilepsy
 

Kai Lehtimäki, Dept of Neurosurgery, Tampere University Hospital

13.30 – 14.00

The Optimal Candidate for Epilepsy Surgery – A Neurologist’s View

 

Eva Kumlien, Dept of Neurology, Uppsala University Hospital

14.00-14.30

Epilepsy Surgery Outcomes

 

Bo Jespersen, Dept of Neurosurgery, Rigshospitalet/Copenhagen University Hospital

14.30 - 15.00

Coffee

 15.00 - 16.00

The Herbert Olivecrona Lecture

 

Stereotactic Laser Ablation and the Advance of Minimally Invasive Epilepsy Surgery in Children

 

Daniel J Curry

 

Functional Neurosurgery & Epilepsy Surgery, Texas Children’s Hospital/Dept of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

 

Target audience

Neurosurgeons, neurooncologists, neurologists, neuroradiologists, neurophysiologists, fellows, residents, physician assistants and other health care professionals

Location

Rolf Luft Auditorium, Anna Steckséns gata 53, Solna

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