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EPIPED COURSE 2026
Date : APRIL 22-25, 2026
Location : Girona (Spain)


 
EPIPED 2026
Treatment Strategies in Paediatric Epilepsies

PROGRAM

Plenary interactive lectures
  1. Updated classification of epileptic seizures – is there an impact on treatment choices?
  2. The impact of knowledge generation in neuropathology on treatment decisions
  3. From Syndromes to Localizations: Recognize and treat TEMPORAL LOBE Epilepsies in children
  4. Gaining or Losing function: who to treat and how
  5. Effects of antiseizure medications on reproductive and other functions - what is new for men and women?
  6. Fever and Seizures: the treatment challenge
  7. Current state of the pediatric ASMs in preclinical and early clinical development
  8. The challenge of transition
  9. Learning from your neurosurgeon: Callosotomy; Hemispherectomy; Multilobar resections
 
Interactive training sessions
  1. Learn from a duetto: what to expect from an MRI and how to obtain it
  2. Advanced workup after first seizure – added value in treatment management?
  3. Treating or discharging the neonate?
  4. You suspect a genetic epilepsy. What to ask and how to understand the answer you will receive
  5. Recognize and treat this seizure (video-challenging session)
  6. Become a neuropathologist for 90mn
 
Expected Faculty
Sophie Adler (UK); Javier Aparicio (Spain); Alexis Arzimanoglou (Spain);
Ingmar Blümcke (Germany); Andreas Brunklaus (Scotland); Kess Braun (The Netherlands); Jaume Campistol (Spain); Jakob Christensen (Denmark); Helen Cross (UK);
Valentina De Giorgis (Italy); Jana Dominiguez (Spain); Carmen Fons (Spain);
Floor Jansen (The Netherlands); Elena Gardella (Denmark); Hans Holthausen (Germany); Lieven Lagae (Belgium); Gaetan Lesca (France); Loreto Llanos (Chile);
Maša Malenica (Croatia); Rikke Möller (Denmark); Laia Nou (Spain);
Marietta Papadopoulou (France); Alia Ramirez (Spain); Victoria San Antonio (Germany); Nicola Specchio (Italy);
 
 
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CONTACT

The EPIPED 3 years’ cycle course, on TREATMENT STRATEGIES in PEDIATRIC EPILEPSIES, is organised under the auspices of the Departments of Neurology and Epileptology of the University Hospitals San Juan de Dios (Barcelona, Spain), Sestre Milosrdnice UHC (Zagreb, Croatia) and HCL (Lyon, France). It is endorsed by the European Reference Network for Rare and Complex Epilepsies, ERN EpiCARE and, the Executive Board of ILAE-Europe.
 

COURSE SECRETARIAT- ANT CONGRES
Epiped-course@ant-congres.com
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