2020 INTERNATIONAL
TREMOR CONGRESS
June 12-13
SCHEDULE
Day 1
7:30 a.m. Registration; Continental Breakfast
8:25 a.m. Welcome: 2nd International Tremor Congress:
From Bench to Bedside Towards Tremor Therapy Development
Speaker: Sheng-Han Kuo, MD, Department of Neurology, Columbia University
Session 1: Tremor overview
Moderator: Sheng-Han Kuo, MD
8:30 a.m. History of tremor research: from past to present.
Stanley Fahn, MD
8:55 a.m. Current understanding of tremor physiology
Mark Hallett , MD
9:20 a.m. Challenges in tremor research field
Elan Louis, MD, MS
Session 2: Brain pathology of tremor
Moderator: Elan Louis, MD, MSc
9:45 a.m. Molecular signatures for postmortem tremor brains: PD, ET, dystonia and SCA Phyllis Faust, MD, PhD
10:10 a.m. Cerebellar climbing fiber synaptic pathology in tremor
Sheng-Han Kuo, MD
10:35 a.m. Refreshment Break
Session 3: Animal models of tremor
Moderator: Vincenzo Gennarino, PhD
11:00 a.m. Mouse models of essential tremor.
Ming-Kai Pan, MD, PhD
11:25 a.m. Mouse models of ataxic and dystonic tremor
Roy Sillitoe, PhD
11:50 p.m. Mouse models of dystonia, implication in tremor
William Dauer, MD
12:15 p.m. Large animal models of tremor
Su-youne Chang, PhD
12:50 p.m. Lunch
Session 4: Neuroimaging and Neurophysiology of tremor
Moderator: Sule Tinaz, MD PhD
2:00 p.m. Stress modulation of tremor circuitry in Parkinsonian tremor
Rick Helmich, MD, PhD
2:25 p.m. TBD
TBD
2:50 p.m. Distinct brain circuitry for essential tremor and dystonic tremor
Aparna Wagle Shukla, MD
3:15 p.m. Brain network changes in Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor
Daniel Claassen, MD, MS
3:40 p.m. Refreshment Break
Session 5: Debate: ET plus- How should we deal with clinical heterogeneity of ET?
Moderator: Sheng-Han Kuo, MD
4:00 p.m. Yes, we should use the term,ET plus
Rodger Elble, MD, PhD
4:20 p.m. No, we should drop the term, ET plus
Elan Louis, MD, MSc
4:40 p.m. Discussion
Sheng-Han Kuo, MD
Session 6: Oral presentation
Moderator: TBD
4:50 p.m. Oral presentation of selected posters (Non-CME)
Session 7: Poster session (Non-CME)
Moderator: TBD
5:30 p.m. Posters and Reception
7:30 p.m. Adjourn
Day 2
7:50 am Registration, Continental Breakfast
Session 8: Cerebellum and basal ganglia circuitry for tremor
Moderator: Ming-Kai Pan, MD, PhD
8:30 a.m. Purkinje cell synchrony for tremor generation
Eric Lang, PhD
8:55 a.m. Complex spike modulation for tremor
Wade Regehr, PhD
9:20 a.m. Basal ganglia circuitry for tremor
Un Kang, MD
9:55 am Refreshment Break
Session 9: Clinical characteristics and video demonstration of diverse tremor disorders
Moderator: Christine Kim, MD
10:20 a.m. Essential tremor
Joohi Jimenez-Shahed, MD
10:40 a.m. Tremor in Parkinson's disease
David Charles, MD
11:00 a.m. Ataxia and tremor
Deborah Hall, MD, PhD
11:20 a.m. Dystonia and tremor
Hyder Jinnah, MD, PhD
11:40 a.m. Cognitive aspect of essential tremor
Stephanie Cosentino, PhD
12:00 p.m. Childhood tremor
Bennett Lavenstein, MD
Session 10: Funding opportunities for tremor
Moderator: Serge Przedborski, MD, PhD
12:20 p.m. NIH perspective
Codrin Lungu MD and Daofen Chen, PhD
12:40 p.m. International Essential Tremor Foundation
Patrick McCartney
12:45 p.m. National Ataxia Foundation
Sue Hagen
12:50 p.m. Parkinson’s Foundation
James Beck, PhD
12:55 p.m. -1:35 p.m. Lunch (Parallel lunch for Young Investigators)
Session 11: Therapy development for tremor
Moderator: TBD
1:35 p.m. Pharmacological therapy development for tremor
William Ondo, MD
2:00 p.m. Botulinum toxin for tremor
David Simpson, MD
2:25 p.m. Advances of surgical and ablative therapies for tremor
TBD
2:45 p.m. Tolerance and circuitry re-organization of tremor
Alfonso Fasano, MD, PhD
3:15 p.m. Break
Session 12: Current therapy development for tremor- Industry perspective (non-CME)
Moderator: Peter LeWitt, MD
3:35 p.m. Pipeline development for selective industry partners
Industry representatives
4:45 p.m. Closing remark
Ming-Kai Pan, MD, PhD
5:05 p.m. Adjourn
