TREMOR CONGRESS
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3rd INTERNATIONAL
TREMOR
CONGRESS
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER
Date: April 30th-May 1st, 2026
Location: Tampa Marriott Water Street
505 Water St, Tampa FL 33602
SCHEDULE
April 30
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7:00am Registration, Continental Breakfast
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7:55am Welcome: From bench to bedside towards tremor therapy development
Sheng-Han Kuo and Aparna Wagle Shukla
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Session 1: Recent advances in Tremor Physiology and Clinical Science
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8:00am The Global Burden of Essential Tremor and the Economic Costs of Treatment
Kandice Kapinos
8:20am Prevalence and Clinical Significance of Common and Rare Tremor Disorders
Sanjay Pandey
8:40am Postmortem-based Diagnostic Criteria for Essential Tremor
Phyllis Faust
9:00am Neuropathological basis of ET-Dementia
Elan Louis
9:20am Proteomic signatures of essential tremor
Giovanni Oliveros
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9:40am Distinguishing Parkinson's Disease Tremor from Essential Tremor: Clinical and Experimental Tools
Matteo Bologna
10:00am Neurophysiologic Signatures of Essential Tremor and Implications for DBS
Lauren Hammer
10:20am Cerebellar EEG Signatures of Essential Tremor
Ami Kumar
10:30am TBD (Selected platform presentation)
10:40am Break
Session 2: Basic and translational research of tremor: what do we learn?
11:10am Frequency Encoding Mechanism of Essential Tremor
Ming-Kai Pan
11:30am Thalamic Gating of Movement Frequency: Implications in Tremor Disorders
Christopher Chen
11:50am Bi-directional Regulation of Cerebellar Physiology of Ataxia and Tremor
Sheng-Han Kuo
12:10am Purkinje Cell Axonal Pathology of Essential Tremor
Hirofumi Fujita
12:30am TBD (Selected platform presentation)
Lunch 1:00pm to 2pm (60 min)
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Session 3: From Mechanisms to Medicine: Identifying the Key Pathophysiological basis underlying Essential Tremor and Parkinson’s disease for Targeted Therapies
2:00pm Initial poll - What is the Main Mechanism for Essential Tremor?
Peter A. LeWitt
2:05pm Hyper-excitability of the T type Calcium Channels is the Key Mechanism
Theresa Zesiewicz
2:20pm Insufficient GABA Mechanism is the Key Mechanism
William Ondo
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2:35pm Dopaminergic Dysfunction: A Central Contributor to Parkinsonian Tremor
Michiel F. Dirkx​
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2:50pm Serotonin and not Dopamine: A Central Contributor to Parkinsonian Tremor
Jacopo Pasquini
3:05pm Discussion
Peter Lewitt
3:30pm Refreshment Break
Session 4: Industry perspective (4pm-5:30pm) NON-CME
Moderator: Daniel Roque
5:30pm Panel discussion- Academic and Industry Collaboration
Moderator: Sheng-Han Kuo, Aparna Wagle Shukla and Daniel Alberto Roque
6:30pm Reception and Dinner: Sunset cruise at Tampa Bay (Registration Required)
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May 1
7:00am Registration, Continental Breakfast
Session 5: Recent Advances in Imaging of Tremor Disorders
8:00am Updates on Parkinson’s Disease Tremor Imaging
Rick Helmich
8:20am New Insights of Dystonic Voice Tremor Imaging
Kristina Simonyan
8:40am Enigma tremor
Max Laansma
9:00am Mechanistic Insights Into Orthostatic Tremor
Cecile Gallea
9:20am TBD (Selected platform presentation)
9:30am Refreshment Break
Session 6: Advances in Therapeutic Development for Tremor
10:30am Peripheral Neuromodulation for Tremor Management
Rajesh Pahwa
10:50am New Horizons in Tremor Management: Pharmacological Innovations and Clinical Trials
Peter Lewitt
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11:10am Advances in DBS Therapy: Evolving Targets, Adaptive Systems, and Precision Neuromodulation
Aparna Wagle Shukla
11:30am Thermal Lesioning with Precision: Updates on Focused Ultrasound Therapy for Tremor
Antonella Macerollo
11:50am TBD (Selected platform presentation)
12:00pm TBD (Selected platform presentation)
12:10pm Lunch & Poster Sessions
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Session 7: Parallel session
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1:30pm Electrophysiological Tools for Tremor Evaluation: What Every Clinician Should Know
Katie Longardner
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1:40pm Decoding Head Tremor: Electrophysiological Tools for Diagnosis and Management. Aasef Shaikh
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1:50pm Smart Wearables for Tremor Detection: Algorithms, Accuracy, and Clinical Relevance
StevenCharles
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2:00pm Machine Learning Approaches to Understanding and Managing Tremor Disorders.
Muthuraman Muthuraman​​
2:10pm Artificial Intelligence in Tremor Diagnosis and Management: Current Applications and Future Directions.
Nienke A Timmermans​
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​​​2:20pm Work and Activity Impairment in Individuals with Essential Tremor.
Ludy Shih
Session 8: Clinical and Research Mentoring
2:30pm What Do We Need to Move Tremor Research Forward? Perspectives for the Next Generation
Robert A. Hauser, Holly Shill , Daniel Roque and Abhishek Lenka
3:30pm Refreshment Break
Session 9: Challenging cases & video rounds
4:00pm Tremor Video Rounds: Case-Based Learning and Diagnostic Pearls
Steven Frucht and Hyder Jinnah
4:50pm Closing remarks
Sheng-Han Kuo and Aparna Wagle Shukla
SPEAKERS
Matteo Bologna MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
University of Rome La Sapienza
Rome, Italy
Steven Charles, MD, PhD
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Neuroscience Center Director, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah
Christopher Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Penn State College of Medicine
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Michiel F. Dirkx, MD, PhD
Neurologist
Radboud University Medical Center
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Phyllis L. Faust, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, New York
Steven Frucht, MD
Professor, Department of Neurology Director, Division of Parkinson's and Movement Disorders
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, New York
Hirofumi Fujita, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cain Scholar in Mobility Disorders
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
Cécile Gallea, PhD
Principal investigator
Motor and Cognitive systems​
Research Group | ICM Paris Brain Institute
Pitié Salpêtrière University Hospital
Paris, France
Lauren H Hammer, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology Hammer Neuromodulation Laboratory
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Robert A. Hauser MD, MBA
Professor of Neurology
Director
USF Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center
Tampa, Florida
Rick Helmich, MD, PhD
Consultant Neurologist
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Hyder Jinnah, MD, PhD
Departments of Neurology and Human Genetics
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia
Kandice Kapinos, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
Ami Kumar PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
New York, New York
Sheng-Han Kuo, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
New York, New York
Max Laansma, PhD
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PhD Candidate
Amsterdam UMC
​Amsterdam, Netherlands
Abhishek Lenka, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
VCU Parkinson's & Movement Disorders Center
VCU Comprehensive Autonomic Center
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Richmond, Virginia
Katherine Longardner, MD
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Assistant Professor of Neurosciences
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, Califonia
Elan D. Louis, MD, MS
Professor of Neurology
Linda and Mitch Hart Distinguished Chair in Neurology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
Peter A. LeWitt, MD
Departments of Neurology
Henry Ford Hospital and Wayne State University School of Medicine
Antonella Macerollo, MD PhD, FRCP FEBN FEAN
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Consultant Neurologist (Movement Disorders, DBS, MRIgFUS)
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Clinical Associate Professor (Honorary), University of Liverpool
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Muthuraman Muthuraman, PhD
Associate Professor
Chair of the Informatics for Medical Technology
University Augsburg
​Augsburg, Germany
Giovanni Oliveros
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Dept of Pathology
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
New York, New York
William Ondo, MD
Director-Movement Disorders Clinic
Houston Methodist Neurological Institute
Houston, Texas
Rajesh Pahwa, MD
Professor, Neurology; Director Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorder Center
The University of Kansas Medial Center
Kansas City, Kansas
Ming-Kai Pan, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology Institute and Molecular Imaging Center
National Taiwan University
Taipei, Taiwan
Sanjay, Pandey MBBS, MD, DNB, DM, FIAN
Professor and Head
Department of Neurology and Stroke Medicine
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences
Kerala, India
Jacopo Pasquini, MD
Post Doctoral Researcher
University of Pisa
Pisa PI, Italy
Daniel Roque, MD
Associate Professor; Vice Chair for Ambulatory Affairs, UNC Neurology
UNC Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Aasef Shaikh, MD, PhD
Penni and Stephen Weinberg Chair in Brain Health
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Neurology
University Hospitals
Cleveland, OH
Ludy Shih, MD, MMSc, FAAN, FANA
Department of Neurology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Holly Shill, MD, FAAN
Director
Lonnie and Muhammad Ali Movement Disorder Center, Barrow Neurological Institute
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Bob and Renee Parsons Chair in Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders
Phoenix, Arizona
Kristina Simonyan, MD, PhD
John W. Merriam and William W. Montgomery Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Research
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Investigator in Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
​Nienke-Timmermans PhD
PhD candidate
Radboud University Medical Center
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Aparna Wagle Shukla, MD
Professor of Neurology Director, Clinical Trials
University of Florida Health
Gainesville, Florida
Theresa Zesiewicz, MD, FAAN
Professor
Department of Neurology
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida
