Scientific Program
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
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Track - Keynote Speech |
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Moderator(s): TBA |
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| 08:30 - 09:00 | Cortical Stimulation for Motor Recovery | Robert Levy |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Work life Balance: Iron man to INS president | Timothy Deer |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Harnessing the effect of Placebo | Ted Kaptchuk |
Tea Break (10:00 - 10:30) |
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| Time | Topic | Speaker |
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Track - Pain |
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Moderator(s): TBA |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 | Basics of neuromodulation | Sam Eldabe |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Assessment and objective documentation of Neuropathic Pain with role of Neuromodulation in its management | Arun Bhaskar |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Indications and selection of Device | Sudhir Diwan |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Elucidating Mechanism of Actions of SCS with Introperative neuromonitoring | Steven Falowski |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | New Comprehensive Theory for the mechanism of action of SCS | Jeffrey Arle |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Determining the therapeutic window for SCS | Lawrence Poree |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Current evidence on spinal cord stimulation and it’s long term value | Yeshwant Navalkund |
| 12:50 - 13:10 | Can We Use Imaging and Bio-Markers to Understand and Predict Outcomes of Spinal Cord Stimulation? | Anuj Bhatia |
Lunch Symposia - (13:10 - 15:00) |
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Track - Pain |
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Moderator(s): TBA |
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| 15:00 - 15:20 | A Critical Analysis of Clinical Trials in Neuromodulation | Sam Eldabe |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | How to start a practice in neuromodulation and select the right device? | Richard Sullivan |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | How to prevent and manage infections in the practice of Neuromodulation | Neel Mehta |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | How to use Neuromodulation effectively for Visceral pain | Ganesan Baranidharan |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Mechanisms and clinical outcomes of electrical neuromodulation for cardiovascular diseases | Robert Foreman |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Selection of patients and Technique of Neuromodulation for Cardiac Diseases | Mike Dejongtse |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Safe and correct practice of Neuromodulation | Nick Christellis |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Spinal Cord Stimulation Failures: Underlying Mechanisms and Clinical Outcomes | Jason Pope |
Dinner |
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| Time | Topic | Speaker |
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Track- Neurology |
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Moderator(s): TBA |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 | Directional Leads | Andrea Kuhn |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Closed loop DBS | TBA |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Thearpy targets beyond STN, GPi, Thalamus | TBA |
| 11:30 - 12:10 | Earlyl Stim Debate - Should All Patients been selected early (4-7 years) | Moderator: Mohit Bhatt, Asha Kishore. For: Jens Volkmann, Against: Elena Moro |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | TBA | TBA |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Current concepts of direct targetting in DBS | TBA |
| 12:50 - 13:10 | Spinal Cord stimulation for freezing of gait | TBA |
Lunch Symposia - (13:10 - 15:00) |
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Track- Neurosurgery |
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Moderator : Xiongfei Wang, Faisal Al-Otaibi |
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| 15:00 - 15:20 | Deep Brain Stimulation for Psychiatric Disorders | Sameer Sheth |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Laser ablation of epileptogenic lesions | Ido Strauss |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Directional lead a boon or a curse | Stephen Chabardes |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Neuromodulation for epilepsy VNS-DBS | Aditya Gupta |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | MRGFUS guided pallidotomy for Parkinson's disease | Jin Woo Chang |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Brain computer interface | Parag Patil |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Spinal cord stimulation for paraplegia | Kendall Lee |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Role of DTI in DBS and MRGFUS targeting | Mojgan Hodaie |
Dinner |
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| Time | Topic | Speaker |
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Track- Psychiatry |
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Moderator(s): TBA |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 | Treatment resistance in psychiatry: Implications for Neuromodulation | Y. C. Janardhan Reddy |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Ethical aspects of invasive neuromodulation | Thomas Schlaepfer |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Electrode placement and cognitive side effects with ECT: Insights from computational modelling | Donel Martin |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Electrical Parameters in ECT: looking beyond seizure induction | Preeti Sinha |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Is there a role for patterned rTMS in psychiatric disorders? | Nishant Goyal |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Re-emergence of transcranial electrical stimulation in schizophrenia | Ganesan Venkatasubramanian |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Targeting negative symptoms of schizophrenia with rTMS | Nand Kumar |
| 12:50 - 13:10 | Exploring social cognition with TMS | Urvakhsh Mehta |
Lunch Symposia - (13:10 - 15:00) |
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Track- Neurology/Psychiatry |
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Moderator(s): TBA |
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| 15:00 - 15:20 | Quality of life predicts outcome after DBS for PD | Jan Vesper |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Deep Brain Stimulation for Tourette Syndrome | Kendall Lee |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Modulating the neural circuitry of OCD with tDCS | Janardhanan C. Narayanaswamy |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Neuromodulation in the context of MHCA 2017 | Nilesh Shah |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | NIBS for special populations in psychiatry | Umesh S |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Free paper | |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Free paper | |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Free paper | |
Dinner |
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| Time | Topic | Speaker |
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Track - Keynote Speech |
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Moderator(s): TBA |
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| 08:30 - 09:00 | Delivering neuromodulation in an Emerging Economy | Marc Russo |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Evolution of Neuromodulation in the next decade: As I see | Konstantin Slavin |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Chronic pain Sensing, Monitoring and Analytics to improve neuromodulation therapies | Ali Rezai |
Tea Break (10:00 - 10:30) |
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| Time | Topic | Speaker |
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Track- Neurosurgery/Neurology |
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Moderator : Michael Schulder |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 | Dystonia conundrum-Surgical perspectives | Kailash Bhatia |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Dystonia case selection | Andrea Kuhn |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | DBS for Dystonia -What to expect/technical pearls | Joachim Krauss |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | DBS for Dystonia -What to expect/technical pearls | Joachim Krauss |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | DBS for Tardive dystonia/Focal dystonia/Huntington's disease | Jan Vesper |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Lesional Surgeries in Functional Neurosurgery | Paresh Doshi |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Evolving role of MRGFUS in Functional Neurosurgery | Jin Woo Chang |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Midbrain Periaqueductal gray control of autonomic dyreflexia accompanying both movement and psychiatric disorders and their therapeutic opportunities for neuromodulaiton | Hari Subramanian |
| 12:50 - 13:10 | What went wrong with the SCCG trial for depression and the way forwards | Konstantin Slavin |
Lunch Symposia - (13:10 - 15:00) |
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Track - Pain |
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Moderator(s): TBA |
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| 15:00 - 15:20 | Chronic refractory pelvic pain-Which is the best NM modality | Dharam Mann |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | New Indications for Sacral Nerve Stimulation: Overactive Bladder and Bowel Incontinence(Urology) | |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Spinal Cord Stimulation in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury | Emil Isagulyan |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | DRG Spinal Cord Stimulation-Technique and Outcomes | Marc russo |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Trouble shooting and Motor Stalls with an Implantable Pain Pump | Lawrence Poree |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Application of Vagal Nerve stimulation for intractable chronic pain | Marom Bikson |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | NACC guidelines for drugs used in Intrathecal drug delivery systems | Timothy Deer |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | One more Urology talk | Shailesh Raina |
Dinner |
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| Time | Topic | Speaker |
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Track - Pain |
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Moderator(s): TBA |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 | Future of SCS and waveforms | Marc Russo |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | "ECAP controlled closed loop SCS"-Simplified | Robert Levy |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Gasserian Ganglion Stimulation in Neuropathic Facial Pain | Ali Rezai |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Neuromodulation for Chronic refractory Headaches | Ashish Gulve |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Neuromodulation for virgin back patients- evidence and future | Vivek Mehta |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Role of paraesthesia-free stimulation modalities in chronic pain(Adnan Al-kaisy)compare HFS and Burst | Adnan Al-kaisy |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | How to apply Neuromodulation in a cost-effective manner | Yong Chul Kim |
| 12:50 - 13:10 | Tailoring Intrathecal Therapy to Match Your Patient's Needs or Systematic Troubleshooting Intrathecal Delivery Systems: Emerging Tools | Michael Schulder |
Lunch Symposia - (13:10 - 15:00) |
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Track- Neurosurgery |
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Moderator(s): TBA |
15:00 - 15:20 | DBS: Awake or Asleep | Girish Nair |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Imaging the STN and Gpi | Hidehiro Hirabayashi |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | DBS programming for Neurosurgeon | Sandeep Vaishya |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Indian experience of movement disorders surgery | Milind Sankhe |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | TBA | TBA |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Free Paper | |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Free Paper | |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Free Paper | |
Dinner |
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