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EUROPEAN CHARCOT FOUNDATION SYMPOSIUM 2011

Towards Personalized Treatment in Multiple Sclerosis

December 1, 2, and 3, 2011
Marbella, Spain

Thursday December 1, 2011  
     
13.30 XVII European Charcot Foundation Lecture Montalban, Barcelona
Towards Treatment of Persons with Multiple Sclerosis: on detour and access
14.30 – 15.00 Discussion
SESSION I
Rationale for personalized treatment in face of disease complexity
15.00 Natural course, disease complexity and the differential diagnosis of inflammatory brain diseases Edan, Rennes
15.20 Pathology: the mechanisms during early stages of the disease and later Lassmann, Vienna
15.40 Genetics and environment. The natural course of Multiple Sclerosis and the personal history of the illness. Data from epidemiology Ebers, Oxford
16.00 Personalized medicine: taking shared decision making seriously Spreeuwenberg, Maastricht
16.20 – 16.50 Discussion
16.50 – 17.20 Coffee break
17.30 – 19.00 Integrated Satellite Symposium Merck Serono
"Leveraging established therapies and modern data for individualized MS treatment”
Chair: X. Montalban K. Selmaj
17.30 Treatment tailoring and long term treatment benefits Uitdehaag, Amsterdam
17.50 Individualized treatment from the first demyelinating event Freedman, Ottawa
18.10 Impact of conventional and non-conventional MRI technology on patient management Speaker invited
19.00 – 20.00 Welcome Reception
Friday December 2, 2011  
     
  Session II
Tools for prognosis
08.30 MRI. Early activity, damage and progress of the disease Fazekas, Graz
08.50 Future MRI Tools Filippi, Milan
09.10 Prognostic possibilities of neurophysiology Leocani, Milan
09.30 Biomarkers for damage, repair and side effects of treatment in MS prognosis Giovannoni, London
09.50 Integrating the tools for an individualized prognosis Fernandez, Malaga
10.10 – 10.30 Discussion
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 Integrated Satellite Symposium TEVA
"Guiding therapeutic decisions in MS: is it possible?”
Chair: J. Palace G. Comi
11.00 Defining the patient phenotype Gold, Bochum
11.20 Targeting different aspects of disease pathology Brück, Göttingen
11.40 Drug response markers to Glatiramer acetate Centonze, Rome
12.00 – 12.30 Discussion
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
Session III
Treatment heterogeneity, targets and risks
14.00 Viability of targets: How to tackle pathogenetic heterogeneity as an obstacle for treatment Hohlfeld, Munich
14.20 Combination therapies: the rationale of addition and synergy in personalized treatment Comi, Milan
14.40 Risks in Multiple Sclerosis treatments on immune competence and neuroprotective autoimmunity in patients undergoing immunotherapy Gold, Bochum
15.00 General risks of Multiple Sclerosis treatment Du Pasquier, Lausanne
15.20 – 15.30 Discussion
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
Session IV
Treatment in practice
16.00 Decision on CIS treatment Vass, Vienna
16.20 MRI and treatment decisions in daily practice Brassat, Toulouse
16.40 Interferon-beta. To start and to stop Derfuss, Basel
17.00 Personalized and participatory medicine in MS. How to translate pharmogenomics and genetics? Miller, Haifa
17.20 Antibodies to interferon-beta and other treatments Soelberg Soerensen, Copenhagen
17.40 Perspectives of ex-vivo testing for treatment responders: a key to personalized medicine in MS Hemmer, Munich
18.00 Can biomarkers be selected to predict the course of CIS for every day practice Sastre-Garriga, Barcelona
18.20 – 18.50 Discussion
20.30 Speakers' Dinner
Saturday December 3, 2011  
     
  Session V
Partnership
08.30 Partnership and consent in Multiple Sclerosis treatment Palace, Oxford
08.50 Informed shared decision making and patient autonomy Heesen, Hamburg
09.10 A patients perspective of partnership in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis Von Pückler, Frankfurt am Main
09.30 – 10.00 Coffee break
10.00 How to implement partnership in every day clinical practice Langdon, London
10.20 Measuring results of partnership treatment decisions. On new trial designs Uitdehaag, Amsterdam
Session VI
Personalized Treatment, Partnership and disease complexity
10.40 – 12.10 Round Table Discussion
Guided by E. Havrdova and A. Boyko
12.10 – 12.40 European Charcot Foundation Young Investigators Awards
12.40 Closure
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch


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