PAST TOPICS:

 

"Diagnosis and Management of Diplopia"

Gregory Ostrow, MD

Director of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Adult Stabismus, Scripps Clinic

January 19, 2012

 

"Organ Donation; Neurorehabilitation"

Jill Stinebring, RN

Director of Clinical Services, Lifesharing

Michael Lobatz, MD

VP of Medical Affairs and Medical Director, Scripps Rehabilitation Center, Encinitas

November 17, 2011

 

"Recent Innovations in Neurosurgery"

Bob Carter, MD, PhD

Chief of Neurosurgery, UCSD

October 20, 2011

 

"Neurovascular Brain Ultrasound"

Thilo Hoelscher, MD

Director, Brain Ultrasound Research Lab, UCSD

September 15, 2011

 

"Update on Migraine"

Andrew M. Blumenfeld, MD

Director, Headache Center of Southern California

June 16, 2011

 

"Pseudobulbar Affect"

Richard A. Smith, MD

Director, Center for Neurologic Study, La Jolla, CA

May 19, 2011

 

"Treatment of Non-Motor Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease"

Peter A. LeWitt, MD

Professor of Neurology, Wayne State University School of Medicine

Director, Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Program, Henry Ford Hospital

April 21, 2011

 

"CNS Lymphoma - Primary, Secondary, and Unusual Variants"

Jeremy Rudnick, MD

Neuro-oncologist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angelos

March 17, 2011

 

"How to Perform Quality EMGs"

Charles Jablecki, MD

Voluntary Clinical Professor, UCSD

February 17, 2011

 

"Treatment of Essential Tremor with Deep Brain Stimulation"

Kenneth P. Martinez, MD

Medical Director of the Movement Disorder Program, South Coast Medical Center, Aliso Viejo, California

January 20, 2011

 

“Introducing GILENYA (Fingolimod): Prescribing Information, MOA, Patient Services and Q & A”

Jody Corey-Bloom, MD

Director of the UCSD Multiple Sclerosis Center and UCSD Huntington's Disease Center of Excellence (HDSA)

November 18, 2010

 

“Update on Multiple Sclerosis”

Nancy Sicotte, MD

Cedars Sinai

October 21, 2010

 

“Update on Epilepsy” 

Vicente Iragui, MD                          

September 23, 2010

 

“Huntington Disease Treatment Update”

Yvette M. Bordelon, MD, PhD

June 17, 2010

 

“Multifocal Motor Neuropathy; Clinical, Electrophysiological and Treatment Aspects”

Said R. Beydoun, MD, FAAN

May 20, 2010 

 

“Surgical Treatments for Pharmaco-Resistant Epilepsy”

Nicholas Barbaro, MD

March 18, 2010

 

“Advances in Migraine Pathophysiology and Update on Emerging Therapies”

Alan M. Rapoport, MD

February 18, 2010

 

“Update on DBS for Movement Disorders”

William J. Marks, Jr., MD

January 1, 2010 

 

“Genetic Testing for Neuromuscular Diseases”

Jonathan Katz, MD

November 10, 2009

 

“Prion Diseases and Rapidly Progressive Dementias”

Michael Geschwind, MD, PhD

October 15, 2009

 

“Update on Parkinson's Disease”

Joseph Jankovic, MD

September 17, 2009

 

"A New First-in-Class AED: A Case-Based, Interactive Discussion"

Steve Chung, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Arizona

Director, Barrow Epilepsy Monitoring Unit

June 18, 2009

 

"Update on the Diagnosis and Management of Spasticity"

Daniel Bandari, MD

Southern California MS Center

May 21, 2009

 

"Tics and Tacs Plus Emerging Migraine Treatments"

Alan Rapoport, MD

Clinical Professor of Neurology

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California

Founder and Director-Emeritus

The New England Center for Headache, Stamford, Connecticut

April 16, 2009

 

"New Paradigms in Multiple Sclerosis"

Andrew Woo, MD, PhD

Santa Monica Neurological Consultants
 Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology, UCLA

March 19, 2009

 

"Controversies in Stroke Prevention"

Stanley Cohen, MD

Director, Stroke Prevention Program 
Nevada Neurosciences Institute at Sunrise Hospital Professor of Medicine (Neurology), University of Nevada School of Medicine

February 19, 2009

 

"CMT: A Biological and Clinical Perspective"

Michael E. Shy, MD

January 15, 2009 

 

"Update on Parkinson's Disease and the ADAGIO Trial"

J. William Langston, MD

Parksinson's Institute, Sunnyvale, CA

November 20, 2008

 

“The Impact of PRoFESS and ECASS III on Clinical Management of Stroke”

Dawn Matherne Meyer RN, FNP-BC

Stroke Hospitalist Nurse Practitioner

NIH Ruth Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellow, University of California Los Angeles

Sharp Memorial Hospital

October 16, 2008

 

"Controversy in Parkinson's Disease:  Early/Aggressive vs. Delayed/Conservative Treatment with Levodopa."

Homer Moore, MD

Kaiser Permanente Neurology

September 18, 2008  

 

"Canine and Feline Models of Human Muscular Dystrophies"

Diane Shelton, MD

UCSD Department of Neurology

June 18, 2008