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Clinic for Neurology, Clinical Center of Serbia
Str. Dr Subotic 6, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
16th Epilepsy School, 6th Regional metting of epileptologists
According to the concept of the International League against Epilepsy and the criteria of the European Academy of Epileptology (Eurepa), since 2003, our Union of Leagues initiated the series (cycle) of Epilepsy schools
First Epilepsy school the series was held in Šabac, on November 28th 2003. and brought together 28 participants involved in the developmental epileptology from Serbia, Montenegro, Republic of Srpska and FYR Macedonia.
At the end of the last decade, by the meeting in Zagreb, epileptologists from the former Yugoslav republics began with the annual organization of professional, educational events. In late August 2013, the Slovenian League against Epilepsy was the host of the educational program in Ljubljana.
3rd EEG workshop and jubilary 15th Epilepsy school were organized by the Union of Leagues against Epilepsy on September 26-29th, 2013) in the Hotel „Pirg“, The Stanisic Ethno Village, Bijeljina, RS, BH with nice participation of applicants from the region.
16th EPILEPSY SCHOOL was organized by the Union of Serbian and Montenegrin Leagues against Epilepsy, on November 07-09, 2014. in the Hunting manor-Hotel “Castel“ (Ечка) Main Regional Meeting and School topic: “Approaches to the patient with severe, disabling epilepsy“
Pharmaceutical companies partly supported the organization of the 16th Epilepsy School. No special promotion of any antiepileptic drug is encouraged.
Organizer: Union of Serbian and Montenegrin Leagues against Epilepsy
Manager of the educative program: Prof.Dr Nebojša JOVIĆ, EUREPA trainer
School Secretary: Dr. Predrag IGNJATOVIĆ (Predrag.Ignjatovic.npk@gmail.com)
Local Organizer: др Јасмина ТРИФУЊАГИЋ (jtrifunjagic@gmail.com )
- Sixteenth Epilepsy School rallied invited students from from Serbia, Montenegro, Republik of Srpska, and Croatia. . The course was limited to a maximum of 35 applicants to allow an optimal level of interaction with the trainees. Applicants were selected on the basis of their submitted case report paper.
- Plenary lectures, case reports, prepared by participants, tutorials, moderator’s presentation on selected topics, case oriented learning and small group work were the didactic format of the School.
- Applicants, who successfully realized the Workshop program, received the CERTIFICATE.
- Workshop was accredited and included in CME.
By decision No. 153-02-1979/2014-01from 18.08.2014. the Health Council of Serbia has accredited program “Approaches to the patient with severe, disabling epilepsy“(А-1-2006/14) as the 1st category educational course and awarded 6/12 points for participants/lecturers.
A CD with Proceedings entitled “Approaches to the patient with severe, disabling epilepsy“ (ISBN 86-84963-60-6) was prepared and included slide-handouts of lectures. That material was distributed to all applicants during the education.
REGISTRATION FEE
Registration fee of 120 Eur (payment was made in Serbian dinars) included: admission to the educational program, accommodations, Workshop material, coffee breaks, lunch, get-together reception, dinner – farewell party and Certificate of attendance. Travel expenses are not included.
Number of participants was restricted to 36.
Venue
Hotel “Castel“, the castle Kastel Ecka, hunting manor
Kastel ECKA AD Novosadska 7 23203 Ečka, Serbia
Tel.: +381 (0)23 554-800 +381 (0)23 554-888
Е-mail: office@kastelecka.com web site: www:kastelecka.com
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME
“Approaches to the patient with severe, disabling epilepsy“
Friday, November 07, 2014.
09:00 Venue to the Hunting manor-Hotel „Castel“(Ečka)
09:30 Dr. Nebojša Jović
Welcome address.Opening of the meeting and the School
10:00 – 12:30 Plenary lectures (30 min per lecture and 30 min for the discussion after the session)
Moderator: Dr. Nebojša Jović
Dr. Pierre GENTON (Marseille, France)
Difficult to treat JME…
Dr. Petia DIMOVA (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in severe childhood epilepsy: illustration on 3 cases from Bulgaria
Dr.Dragoslav SOKIĆ (Belgrade, Serbia)
Recognition and therapy of co-morbiditiesconsiderably help to patients with difficult to treat epilepsies
Dr.Emilija CVETKOVSKA (Skopje, Macedonia)
Reflex seizures: relationship with refractoriness in epilepsy and possible treatmentinterventions
13:30-14:30 Lunch
15:00 – 17:30 Small group work I (Participants devided into 3 groups with 10-12 students)
Case reports (20-25 minutes for the presentation of cases from clinical practice of participants).
Group 1 Case reports (participants)
Moderators: Dr Ksenija Gebauer-Bukurov, Dr Aleksandar Ristić,
Group 2 Case reports (participants)
Moderators: Dr Dragoslav Sokić, Dr Steva Lukić
Group 3 Case reports (participants)
Moderators: Dr. Marija Knežević-Pogančev, Dr. Nikola Vojvodić
17:30 – 17:45 Break for coffee and refreshments
17:45 – 20:00
Dr Nebojša JOVIĆ (Belgrade, Serbia)
Is there any progression in therapy of some disabling epilepsies?
Dr Stevo LUKIĆ (Niš, Serbia) and Dr. Nikola VOJVODIĆ (Belgrade, Serbia)
Is resistence to antiepileptic drugs predictable?
YES vs. NO
21:00 Dinner
Suturday, November 08, 2014
09:00 – 11:30
Plenary lectures (30 min per lecture and 30 min for the discussion after the session)
Moderator: Dr.Dragoslav Sokić
Dr.Robert KUBA (Brno, Czech Republic)
What to do, when the resective surgery is not indicated?
Dr.Igor RAVNIK (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Managing drug resistant epilepsy in patients from small countries and the teams taking care of them
Dr Slobodan SAVIĆ (Belgrade, Serbia)
What is new in the post-mortal diagnostics of epilepsies?
Dr. Mirjana SPASIĆ (Niš, Serbia)
Does gender of patients affect the development of intractable seizures?
11:30 – 11:45 Break for coffee and refreshments
12:00-13:30
Small group work II (Participants devided into 3 groups with 10-12 students)
Case reports (15 minutes for the presentation and 5-10 minutes for discussion of every case).
Group 1 Case reports (participants)
Moderators: Dr Slavica Vujisić, Dr Milan Borković
Group 2 Case reports (participants)
Moderators: Dr Emilija Cvetkovska, Dr Ružica Kravljanac
Group 3 Case reports (participants)
Moderators: Dr. Milena Đurić, Dr. Aleksandar Ristić
14:00 – 15:30 Lunch
16:00 – 18:30
Plenary lectures (30 minutes for lecture and 30 minutes for discussion after the session)
Moderators: Dr. N.Jović, Dr. Мarija Knežević-Pogančev
Dr. Marija Knežević-POGANČEV (Novi Sad, Serbia)
Children with epilepsy in pediatric intensive care unit
Dr. Ksenija Gebauer-BUKUROV (Novi Sad, Serbia)
Children with intractable epilepsies (Case reports oriented learning)
Dr. Milan BORKOVIĆ (Belgrade, Serbia)
Children with severe, disabling epilepsies (Case reports oriented learning)
Dr Ružica KRAVLJANAC (Belgrade, Serbia)
Hemimegalencephaly – a cause of severe epilepsy in children (Case oriented learning)
Incl.15 minutes for coffee and refreshments
18:45– 20:00
Dr.Hrvoje HEĆIMOVIĆ (Zagreb, Croatia)
Quality of life in patients with intractable epilepsy
21:00 Dinner- farewell party
Restaurent: „Etno kućerak“, str. Gimnazijska 8, Zrenjanin. Email: etno.kucerak@gmail.com.
http://www.etnokucerak.rs/index.htm
Sunday, November 09, 2014
09:00 – 12:00
Plenary session- Selected topics
Moderator: Dr.Dragoslav Sokić
Dr. Ana KELEMEN (Budapest, Hungary)
Surgical treatment of cortical dysplasia
Dr. Slavica VUJISIĆ (Podgorica, Montenegro)
How to overcome the obstacles in the clinical management of patient with severe epilepsy?
Dr.Aleksandar RISTIĆ (Belgrade, Serbia)
Surgical treatment of epilepsy (Case oriented learning)
Dr. Vladimir BAŠČAREVIĆ (Belgrade, Serbia)
Surgical treatment of epilepsy (Case oriented learning)
Coffee and refreshments included
12:30 Presentations of the best case reports
M. Milovanović, P. Ignjatovic, S. Japalak
13:00: Concluding remarks. Certificates
13:30 Lunch
Speakers were asked to timely prepare and submit hand-outs of theirs power-point presentations. This material was collected in a form of CD and it was distributed to all applicants during the school. According to the rules for accreditation of courses, made by the European Epilepsy Academy, the presentation of each speaker was evaluated. The evaluation sheets were distributed at the entrance and collected after the lectures.
Before the beginning of the school, each applicant has prepared with Case report from his own clinical epileptology practice. Reported cases were further discussed. Case reports presentation were organized as small-group sessions. Sessions were coordinated and evaluated by (co)moderators (minimum 2 per session).
REGIONAL MEETING AND SCHOOL FACULTY
| No. | Family and first name (City, Country) | |
| 1. | BAŠČAREVIČ Vladimir (Belgrade, Serbia) | vladabascarevic@gmail.com |
| 2. | BORKOVIĆ Milan (Belgrade, Serbia) | Milan.Borkovic.npk@gmail.com |
| 3. | BUKUROV-Gebauer Ksenija (Novi Sad, Serbia) | gebauerbukurov.ksenija@gmail.com |
| 4. | VOJVODIĆ Nikola (Belgrade, Serbia) | nikovojvodic@gmail.com |
| 5. | VUJISIĆ Slavica (Podgorica, Montenegro) | slavica.vujisic@kccg.me |
| 6. | GENTON Pierre (Marseilles, France) | piergen@aol.com |
| 7. | DIMOVA Petia (Sofia, Bulgaria) | psdimova@gmail.com |
| 8. | JOVIĆ Nebojša (Belgrade, Serbia) | Nebojsa.Jovic.npk@gmail.com |
| 9. | KELEMEN Ana (Budapest, Hungary) | kelemenanna@hotmail.com |
| 10. | KRAVLJANAC Ružica (Belgrade, Serbia) | ruzica.kravljanac@gmail.com |
| 11. | KUBA Robert (Brno, Czech Republic) | robert.kuba@fnusa.cz |
| 12. | LUKIĆ Stevo (Niš, Serbia) | srlukic@gmail.com |
| 13. | POGANČEV-Knežević Marija (Novi Sad, Serbia) | godipo@eunet.rs |
| 14. | RISTIĆ Aleksandar (Belgrade, Serbia) | aristic@eunet.rs |
| 15. | SAVIĆ Slobodan (Belgrade, Serbia) | savkenzi@gmail.com |
| 16. | SAJKO Tomislav (Zagreb, Croatia) | |
| 17. | SOKIĆ Dragoslav (Belgrade, Serbia) | dsokic@gmail.com |
| 18. | SPASIĆ Mirjana (Niš, Serbia) | mjspasic@gmail.com |
| 19. | HEĆIMOVIĆ Hrvoje (Zagreb, Croatia) | hecimovic@inet.hr |
| 20. | CVETKOVSKA Emilija (Skopje, Macedonia) | emilicvetkovska@gmail.com |
SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS
(Family names are cited in alphabetical order)
| No | Family and first name | |
| 1. | Biševac Boban | bbisevac@yahoo.com |
| 2. | Budakov Milka | dr.milkabudakov@gmail.com |
| 3. | Vukelić Petar | Petar911@yahoo.com |
| 4. | Gavrilović Aleksandar | neuroja@orion.rs |
| 5. | Dejanović Ivana | icamargaritis@yahoo.com |
| 6. | Đurić Milena | m.djuric@ptt.rs |
| 7. | Ignjatović Predrag | Predrag.Ignjatovic.npk@gmail.com |
| 8. | Janković Jelena | Jelena.dr.jankovic@gmail.com |
| 9. | Japalak Snežana | snezana.japalak@gmail.com |
| 10. | Jovanović Mirjana | jovanovic.dr.mirjana@gmail.com |
| 11. | Jovanović Gordana | gordanaj1973@gmail.com |
| 12. | Kovačević Maša | Massa.kovacevic@gmail.com |
| 13. | Kosać Ana | kosacana@gmail.com |
| 14. | Marković Gordana | markovicg95@gmail.com |
| 15. | Marković-Milojević Nada | markovic.nada7@yahoo.com |
| 16. | Mitić Vesna | vesnaoct@gmail.com |
| 17. | Milovanović Maja | jmtmilov@EUnet.rs |
| 18. | Mladenović Jelena | Jelena.mladenovic.npk@gmail.com |
| 19. | Nikodinović Jelena | Nikodinovic.j@gmail.com |
| 20. | Nikolić Živan | zivan.nikolic@gmail.com |
| 21. | Ninković Minja | minja.ninkovic@gmail.com |
| 22. | Novaković Nina | ninanovakovic67@yahoo.com |
| 23. | Ostojić Sanja | sanjaostojic@hotmail.com |
| 24. | Petrović Miroslav | drmiroslav@ptt.rs |
| 25. | Radovanović Marija | marijar9marija9@yahoo.com |
| 26. | Redžek-Mudrinić Tatjana | tatjana.redzek@gmail.com |
| 27. | Simić Elvira | simic.elvira@gmail.com |
| 28. | Stevanić Nevena | nevena.stevanic@gmail.com |
| 29. | Stevanović Galina | Galina.Stevanovic.npk@gmail.com |
| 30. | Tomić Dalibor | tomdalibor@yahoo.co.uk |
| 31. | Trifunjagić Jasmina | jtrifunjagic@gmail.com |
| 32. | Ćeranić Mirjana | mywaymira@gmail.com |
| 33. | Cekić Bora | bora.cekic@eunet.rs |
| 34. | Škrijelj Fadil | skrijeljneuro@gmail.com |
| 35. | Theologou Marios | marios.theologou@hotmail.com |
Dr Ljiljana Stančetić-Bačvanin (Sremska Mitrovica)
Dr Jasmina Kišprdilov (Zrenjanin)
A Group of 35 students finished the 16th Epilepsy School.
SOCIAL PROGRAM
Guided sightseeing of Zrenjanin (organized by Dr. J. Trifunjagić) included:
- Zrenjanin City Hall, built in 1816, re-constructed in 1887, neobaroque, Josip Fischer project
- Monument to King Peter I of Serbia (Karadjordjevic)
- Uspenska Serbian Orthodox church built in 1746, baroque, the oldest church in the city.
- Vavedenska church built in 1777 in Baroque style.
- Evangelical church, built in 1837, classicism.
- Roman catholic Cathedral (St. Ivan Nepomuk) built between 1864 and 1868, romanesque, Stevan Đorđević.
- Baroque hall of the Theatre „Toša Jovanovič“ classicism, the oldest theatre building in Serbia, built in 1839.
- Complex composed by the Small bridge, built in 1904, the oldest bridge in the city, Court House, built between 1906 and 1908, romanticism, and Protestant church, built in 1891, neogothic
- Promenade in King Aleksandar I street,: Jovan Panjy palace, Bukovac palace, built in 1905, neorenaissance. Bence’s house, built in 1909, secession and others…
“Trio Grazziozo”: Prof. M. Pejčić -piano, Prof. N. Pejčić -violin and Miss. M. Mladenović, soprano performed very nice and pleasent musical programme .
Links for the TV stories on Epilepsy School opening in Castel
Link „News“: http://ebitv.rs/?p=1227
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mok-m82EMyg
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Union of Serbiand and Montenegrin Leagues against Epilepsy and School Organizers acknowledges (alphabetical order) Alkaloid,Eupharm, GlaxoSmithKline, Hemofarm, Medis, and Novartis-oncology – representative offices in Serbia for both technical and financial support and help.
- Special thanks go to Dr.Jasmina Trifunjagić, who has put special effort as the host and local organizer, for selecting the venue of both Regional meeting and School and for providing optimal working conditions for participants and moderators. Her contribution to the logistical support, and local/regional TV promotion of these events was significant. She organized the sightseeing of interesting places in Zrenjanin for lecturers.
- School organizers would like to thank the brotherhood of Decani Monastery (Kosovo and Metochia, Serbia) for the gift dedicated to the School and to Dr. Boban Bisevac who conveyed their monastic blessing
ANNOUNCEMENT
17th Epilepsy School of the Union of Serbian and Montenegrin Leagues against Epilepsy will be organized in autumn, 2015. The venue will be in the city of Kotor (Montenegro).
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