Meetings

BPNS Autumn Meeting
Start Date
End Date
Friday 20 Nov 2015 09:30 AM
Friday 20 Nov 2015 17:30 PM
Location
London
Details

Venue - Royal Free Medical School, Lecture Theatre 3.

Full programme and directions downloadable below.

0930 Registration and coffee.

1000 Meeting starts.

Programme consists of 13 case presentations each of 15 minutes throughout the day.

1120     Lecture: Dr Reginald Docherty, KCL. In vitro studies of human sural nerves and animal correlates (exact title TBC)

1155     Lecture: Dr Carol Whelan, UCL. Clinical trials in Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy (exact title TBC)

1600 Main meeting finishes

1600-1730 AGM

1830 Dinner Hazara restaurant.

Abstracts (can change before the event)
TitleLead AuthorStatus 
The Mahabharata of NeuropathiesL Zambreanu Finished Version View
‘sensitive legs’Bazo Raheem Finished Version View
An unique patient?Lionel Ginsberg Finished Version View
Crossing blood-nerve barriersSumoyee Basu Finished Version View
Difficulty walking on Ward JynglGareth Llewelyn Finished Version View
Magnetic Resonance InspirationJasper Morrow Finished Version View
He Who Does Not Mind His Belly, Will Hardly Mind Anything ElseAli Al-Memar Finished Version View
Can’t walk can’t sit – progressive leg weakness and buttock numbness in a 70 year old maleDirk Baumer Finished Version View
An Indigestible Neuphrological DiagnosisW J Zhang Finished Version View
Patchy sensory and motor neuropathy with rostrocaudal progressionRichard Orrell Finished Version View
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