Programme

8.15am - 10.00am

Welcome
Co-Chairs: Dr Elizabeth Walker (Auckland Hospital) and Dr John Mottershead
Theme: ‘The General Neurologist’

8.30am - 9.15am | Professor Phil Smith (Cardiff University)

9.15am - 10.00am | Professor Francesc Grauss (Universitat de Barcelona)

10.00am - 10.20am

Morning tea sponsored by Roche

10.20am - 12.40pm

Scientific Abstract Presentations
Co-Chairs: Dr Sarah Wright (Dunedin Hospital) and Dr Benson Chen (Auckland Hospital)

10.20am - 10.23am | Neurological Foundation - Update on Fellowships
Dr Sarah Schonberger (Neurological Foundation)

10.25am - 10.35am | Neurology Workforce Survey Results
Professor Anna Ranta (Wellington Hospital)

10.35am - 10.45am | Neurology in the South Pacific
Professor Anna Ranta (Wellington Hospital)

10.46am - 10.56am | Parkinson's disease in Samoa - Does it exist?
Dr Joseph Donnelly (Auckland Hospital)

10.57am - 11.07am | Blood based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease
Dr Campbell Le Heron (Christchurch Hospital)

11.08am - 11.18am | Understanding the mechanisms by which cholinesterase inhibitors improve apathy in dementia
Ezra Muir (University of Otago)

11.19am - 11.29am | Clinical research facilitated by the New Zealand neurogenetic registry & biobank
Miriam Rodrigues (Auckland Hospital)

11.30am - 11.40am | Mapping physiotherapy provision for Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Aotearoa New Zealand: Insights from the Pūnaha Io Neuro-Genetic Registry & Biobank
Catherine Watts (University of Auckland)

11.41am - 11.51pm | Balance and coordination in myotonic dystrophy type 1
Sarah Mollet (University of Auckland)

11.52pm - 12.02pm | Clinical usefulness of EEG
Esther (Yae Jhee) Lee (University of Auckland)

12.03pm - 12.13pm | Machine-learning prediction of seizure recurrence for first seizure patients
Yuting Chen (Echo) (University of Wellington)

12.14pm - 12.24pm | Incidence of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) in New Zealand: A prospective population-wide, 2-year study
Dr Peter Bergin (Auckland Hospital)

12.24pm - 12.34pm | International case control study of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy
Peter Bergin (Auckland Hospital)

12.40pm - 1.20pm

Lunch sponsored by Roche

1.20pm - 2.10pm

Theme: Neuromuscular and Neurogenetics
Chair: Dr Sarah Buchanan

1.20pm - 2.00pm | Neuronal Intranuclear Inclusion Disease
Dr James Cleland (Tauranga Hospital)
Associate Professor Emma Scotter (University of Auckland)

2.00pm - 2.10pm | Access to MND care and treatment in Aotearoa NZ: Results from the MND Insight Research
Dr Sarah Buchanan (Dunedin Hospital)

2.10pm - 2.40pm

NANZ Annual General Meeting (AGM)

2.40pm - 3.00pm

Afternoon tea sponsored by Roche

3.00pm - 5:00pm

Dr Neil Anderson’s Festschrift

7.00pm - late

NANZ Conference Dinner
Mantells Tamaki Drive

Please follow the link here to see information regarding transportation to dinner.

6:30am

Fun run and walk around Auckland Domain
Co-ordinators: Jo Donnelly and Christine Buchanan
Meet at the main Domain Gates on Park Rd next to the Auckland Hospital

8.30am - 9.15am

Theme: Stroke Intervention
Chair: Dr Dominic Tse (UBC Neurology)

8.30am - 8.50am | Ten Years of Endovascular Thrombectomy in Auckland
Professor Alan Barber (Auckland Hospital)

8.50am - 9.03am | Endovascular Thrombectomy in Medium Vessel Occlusion Stroke - A Real-World Retrospective Analysis
Dr Shilpan Patel (Auckland Hospital)

9.03am - 9.15am | Head Cooling in Ischaemic Stroke Patients Undergoing Endovascular Thrombectomy: A Phase 2 Randomised Controlled Trial (COOLHEAD-2b)
Professor Alan Barber (Auckland Hospital)

9.15am - 10.00am

Theme: Medical History
Chair: Dr Andrew Chancellor (Tauranga Hospital)

9.15am - 9.37am | Neurology in the National Gallery
Professor Phil Smith (Cardiff University)

9.38am - 10.00am | Mary Walker, Derek Denny-Brown and the Miracle at St. Alfege's
Dr Neil Anderson (Auckland Hospital)

10.00am - 10.30am

Neurology Grand Round: Clinical Reasoning Case Conference

• Presenter: Dr Sarah Anderson (Auckland Hospital)
• Discussant-Facilitator: Dr Richard Frith (Auckland Hospital)

10.30am - 11.00am

Morning tea sponsored by Roche

11.00am - 12.30pm

Theme: Pressure and CSF
Chair: Dr Joseph Donnelly (Auckland Hospital)

11.05am - 11.35am | Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension
Dr Tim Elliott (Auckland Hospital)
Mr Peter Heppner (Auckland Hospital)

11.35am - 11.55am | Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Dr Imogene Scott (Auckland Hospital)
Mr Peter Heppner (Auckland Hospital)

11.55am - 12.15pm | Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
Dr Benson Chen (Auckland Hospital)
Dr Tim Elliott (Auckland Hospital)

12.15pm - 12.30pm | Q&A and Discussion

12.30pm - 1.15pm

Lunch sponsored by Roche

1.15pm - 2.45pm

Cases of the year
Co-Chairs: Dr Benson Chen (Auckland Hospital) and Dr Duncan Smyth (Wellington Hospital)

1.15pm - 1.27pm | More than meets the MRI
Dr Chuen Siang (Eugene) Low (Dunedin Hospital)

1.28pm - 1.40pm | A dizzy prelude to cancer
Dr Benjamin Park (Auckland Hospital)

1.41pm - 1.53pm | From fatigability to hyperexcitability: the case of Mr L
Dr James Mitchell (Wellington Hospital)

1.54pm - 2.06pm | New movement disorder associated with Hereditary Spastic Paraparesis Type 7
Dr James Slann (Hawke's Bay Hospital)

2.07pm - 2.19pm | Thyroid to thalamotomy - A misunderstood tremor
Dr Michelle Liem (Auckland Hospital)

2.20pm - 2.32pm | Primary angiitis of the central nervous system presenting with nausea
Dr Dong Hyun Kim (Christchurch Hospital)

2.33pm - 2.45pm | A rash beginning to a vascular mystery
Dr Greer Braam (Wellington Hospital)

2.45pm - 3.35pm

Debate: Generalists vs Subspecialists in Neurology
Moderator: Dr Elizabeth Walker

"Jack of All Tracts or Master of One: Who Makes The Better Neurologist?"

• Jack of All Tracts (Generalists): Dr Richard Frith (Auckland Hospital)
• Master of One (Subspecialists): Professor Phil Smith (Cardiff University)

3.35pm - 3.45pm

Closing Remarks
Awarding of prizes for Best Clinical Presentation and Best Abstract Presentation"