AGENDA

7:30-8:00 Breakfast and Registration

8:00-8:10 Opening Remarks

Nicole Villemarette-Pittman, PhD
Director of Clinical Research, Ochsner Health, New Orleans, LA

Jeremiah Stone
Executive Director, Epilepsy Foundation

8:10-8:30 Transient Epileptic Amnesia and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Jaishree Narayanan, MD
Epileptologist, Director of Epilepsy and Central Neurophysiology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

8:30-8:50 Sleep and Epilepsy – A Critical Connection

Kevin R. Hargrave, MD
Neurologist, Ochsner Lafayette General Neuroscience Center, Lafayette, LA

8:50-9:00 Break/Q&A

9:00-10:00 Keynote Session – Neuromodulation of Thalamic Targets in Epilepsy

Dawn S. Eliashiv, MD
Professor of Neurology and Co-Director of the UCLA Seizure Disorders Center, Los Angeles, CA

10:00-10:20 Surgical Management of Multifocal Epilepsy

Esther Dupepe, MD
Functional Neurosurgeon, Ochsner Health, New Orleans, LA

10:20-10:40 Management of New Onset Epilepsy

Colin Vanhook, MD
Epileptologist, Ochsner Health, New Orleans, LA

10:40-11:00 Break/Q&A

11:00-12:00 Panel Session: Management of Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Events

Moderator: Anneliese Boettcher, PhD, ABPP, Clinical Neuropsychologist, Ochsner Health

Panelists:

1. Lenny Burgos LCSW, Clinical Social Worker, Ochsner Health, New Orleans, LA

2. Emily Brickell, Psy-D, Clinical Neuropsychologist, Ochsner Health, New Orleans, LA

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:40 Parallel Breakout Groups:

(A) Stigma and Disparities in Epilepsy

Gabriela Tuttrup, MD
Pediatric Epileptologist, Children's Hospital New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

Yash Shah, MD
Pediatric Epileptologist, Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Health, Baton Rouge, LA

(B) Epilepsy and Psychiatric Comorbidities

Mostafa Hotait, M.D, M.Sci.
Adult Epileptologist, LSU Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA

Bern Lee, PhD
Neuropsychologist, Ochsner Health, Baton Rouge, LA

1:40-2:00 Break/Q&A

Translational Research

2:00-2:20 Engaging Therapies for Developmental Encephalopathies:
Genetic Medicines and How to Test Them

Joni Saby, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

2:20-2:40 Efficacy of Intravenous Lacosamide in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Kelly Angelle, MD
Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA

2:40-3:00 A Novel MT-TW Gene Mutation with Suspected Pyridoxine-Responsive Epilepsy

Hiba Elaasar, MD
Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA

3:00-3:10 Closing Remarks: Sponsorship, Acknowledgements, Next Steps

Fawad Khan, MD
Adult Epileptologist, Ochsner Health, New Orleans, LA
Louisiana Epilepsy Care and Research Consortium Conference

3:10-4:00 Reception

Third Annual Louisiana Epilepsy Care & Research Consortium