April 13-18 | Denver & Online
Annual Meeting: Browse Plenary Sessions
The 2024 Annual Meeting plenary sessions feature leaders in the neurology field presenting the latest and greatest in breakthrough research, controversial issues, and more. View the 2024 plenary sessions for free.
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Controversies in Neurology Plenary Session
Experts discuss the most current and controversial issues in neurology in a debate-style format in which two speakers argue a side of a single topic, followed by a rebuttal.
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Edilberto Amorim, MD, University of California San Francisco
Yes: AI Powered Automated EEG: Supervision Needed?
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Cecil D. Hahn, MD, The Hospital for Sick Children
No: AI Powered Automated EEG: Supervision Needed?
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Eric M. McDade, DO, Washington University School of Medicine
Yes: Alzheimer’s Disease: Is Amyloid Enough?
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David T. Jones, MD, Mayo Clinic
No: Alzheimer’s Disease: Is Amyloid Enough?
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Eric E. Smith, MD, University of Calgary
Yes: Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Treatments: Treating the Silent Vascular Lesion?
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Hugo Javier Aparicio, MD, MPH, Boston University Medical Center
No: Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Treatments: Treating the Silent Vascular Lesion?
Hot Topics in Neurology Plenary Session
Three outstanding speakers provide summaries of their latest, cutting-edge translational research and describe the clinical implications of the results.
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E. Ann Yeh, MA, MD, FRCPC, The Hospital for Sick Children
Progression, Regeneration, and Physical Activity in Pediatric MS
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Andrea L.C. Schneider, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Powered by Numbers: Leveraging Epidemiological Data to Accelerate Research into Action to Improve Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury
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Altaf Saadi, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
Health Disparities and Their Effect on Brain Health
Presidential Plenary Session
This session features the AAN's premier lecture awards for clinically relevant research, with top researchers speaking on some of the most significant neurology findings in 2024.
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Sanjay Gupta, MD
Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN; Multiple Award-Winning Journalist, Author and Neurosurgeon
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Maiken Nedergaard, MD, DMSc, University of Rochester
George C. Cotzias Lecture: The Glymphatic System
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Susan J. Hayflick, MD, PhD, Oregon Health and Science University
Sidney Carter Award in Child Neurology: PKAN and the Arc of a Career
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Mark Hallett, MD, FAAN, NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Robert Wartenberg Lecture: Functional Neurological Disorder: La Lésion Dynamique
Contemporary Clinical Issues Plenary Session
This session highlights the issues most critical to practicing neurologists, including abstracts related to new therapeutic developments, clinical applications of basic and translational research, and innovative technical developments already affecting the practice of neurology.
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Christopher H. Gibbons, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Presenter: Cutaneous Phosphorylated Alpha-Synuclein Deposition in Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Mild Cognitive Impairment
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Sonja Waltraud Scholz, MD, FAAN, National Institutes of Health
Discussant: Cutaneous Phosphorylated Alpha-Synuclein Deposition in Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Mild Cognitive Impairment
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Neil Dhruva, Emory University
Presenter: The Role of Neurocritical Care Specialists in Brain Death Testing
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Ariane Lewis, MD, FAAN, New York University Langone Health
Discussant: The Role of Neurocritical Care Specialists in Brain Death Testing
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Tanisha Hill-Jarrett, PhD, University of California San Francisco
Presenter: The Association Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Subjective Cognitive Functioning Among Black Women
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Raina Croff, PhD, Oregon Health and Science University
Discussant: The Association Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Subjective Cognitive Functioning Among Black Women
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Prashanth Rajarajan, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Presenter: Multi-institutional Study of Neurologic Outcomes in People with Multiple Sclerosis Who Are Treated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Oncologic Indications
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Kristin Marissa Galetta, MD, Stanford University
Discussant: Multi-institutional Study of Neurologic Outcomes in People with Multiple Sclerosis Who Are Treated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Oncologic Indications
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Natalia Murinova, MD, FAAN, University of Washington
Presenter: Prevalence and Co-morbidities of GI Disorders in Migraine in Large Tertiary Medical Center
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Bridget Rita Mueller, MD, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
Discussant: Prevalence and Co-morbidities of GI Disorders in Migraine in Large Tertiary Medical Center
Clinical Trials Plenary Session
Investigators present the latest, landmark clinical trials that are impacting the landscape of patient care in every subspecialty of neurology.
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Michael Strupp, MD, DO, FAAN, University of Munich
Results of a Phase III, Randomized, Placebo-controlled Crossover Trial with N-acetyl-L-leucine for Niemann-Pick Disease Type C
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Jeffrey Aaron Allen, MD, University of Minnesota
Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of Efgartigimod in Patients With Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy: Results From the ADHERE Trial
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Katherine B. Peters, MD, PhD, Duke University
A Randomized, Double-blind, Phase 3 Study of Vorasidenib Versus Placebo in Patients with Mutant IDH1/2 Diffuse Glioma (INDIGO): Analysis of Health-related Quality of Life, Neurocognition, and Seizures
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Anton P. Porsteinsson, MD, University of Rochester
Efficacy and Safety of AXS-05 in Agitation Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease: Results from ACCORD, a Phase 3, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Relapse Prevention Trial
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Lilyana M. Amezcua, MD, FAAN, University of Southern California
One-year Analysis of Efficacy and Safety Data from Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino People with Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis Receiving Ocrelizumab Treatment in the CHIMES Trial
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Tom Solomon, MD, University of Liverpool
DexEnceph: A Study of Dexamethasone in Adults with Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) Encephalitis
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Jason Davies, MD, PhD, University of New York, Buffalo, NY
A Study of the Embolization of the Middle Meningeal Artery with ONYX™ Liquid Embolic System in the Treatment of Subacute and Chronic Subdural HEmatoma (EMBOLISE)
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Leonard H. Van den Berg, MD, University Medical Center Utrecht
Results from a Global Phase 3 Trial Evaluating an Oral, Fixed-dose Combination of Sodium Phenylbutyrate and Taurursodiol in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (PHOENIX)
Frontiers in Neuroscience Plenary Session
This session features basic and translational research related to clinical issues of importance. Seven outstanding speakers summarize their recent research findings and dive into the clinical implications of the results.
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Sandeep Robert Datta, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School
How Does the Brain Compose Spontaneous Behavior?
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Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD, Duke University Medical Center
Neural Circuits and Mental Health
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Josef Parvizi, MD, PhD, Stanford University
Sense of Self in the Brain
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Jocelyne Bloch, MD, Université de Lausanne
Brain Computer Interface
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Gregoire Courtine, PhD, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Brain Computer Interface
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Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Psychedelics in Clinical Neurology
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Renã A.S. Robinson, PhD, Vanderbilt University
Molecular Basis of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease
Neurology Year in Review Plenary Session
Six speakers focus on the latest developments of interest to the clinician that have occurred in a specific subspecialty topic.
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Bianca Santomasso, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Car-T Therapy: Indications for Use and Clinical Management
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Julie Anne Parsons, MD, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Gene Transfer Therapy: Is it Safe?
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Eric Kaiser, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Migraine Management in Special Populations
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David S. Goldstein, MD, PhD, National Institutes of Health
The Current State of Long-COVID: Where Does the Autonomic Nervous System Fit In?
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Dylan J. Edwards, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Updates
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Jinsy Andrews, MD, FAAN, Columbia University
The Future of ALS