Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Challenges from Semiology to Surgery

Date: 16 June 2023 | Time: 8 pm Cairo time

Learning Outcomes

• Identify how to lateralize and localize the seizure by semiology
• Recognize the minimal requirement to design focus hypothesis
• Recognize the Peri surgical evaluation /facilities in limited resources countries (ECoG, sEEG, SPECT, f.MRI)
• Know how to counsel the patient/family before & after surgical treatment
• Learn When and how to withdraw ASM post op

Expert 1: Christian Kaufman, a Neurosurgeon in Children’s Mercy University of Missouri at Kansas City

Expert 2: Ahmed Abdelmoity, MD, FAAP, FAES; Professor of Pediatrics UMKC; Associate Chair, Department of Pediatrics; Division Director, Neurology Children’s Mercy Kansas City

Moderator: Fatema Abdullah, Consultant Adult Neurologist, Chairperson Clinical Neurosciences Department, Salmaniya Medical Complex

Coordinators:
Nirmeen A. Kishk, Prof. of Neurology Cairo University
Amani Nawito Prof. of Clinical Neurophysiology Cairo University

Presenters:
Salsabeel Abo-Alazayeam, Lecturer of Neurology Cairo University
Mona Kamel, Lecturer of Neurology Cairo University
Wajd Otaibi, Assistant consultant pediatric neurologist King Fahd Specialist Hospital Dammam
Ahmed Taha, Assistant consultant pediatric Neurology, Ain shams University

Organizer: ILAE-Eastern Mediterranean