SENA BIANNUAL MEETING

Why SENA is still relevant after 40 years

9:10 AM - 9:30 AM Fri

Co-Founder of SENA and Sussex Neurologist

Neuromuscular cases, lesson learned

Dr Rebecca Cooper is a Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Lead for Neurology - Brighton UHSussex NHS Foundation Trust.

Update in HIV - What Neurologists need to know

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Fri

Chair in HIV Medicine, Honorary Consultant Physician and Head of the Department of Global Health and Infection

Areas of expertise: Comorbidities and HIV; inflammation and HIV; ageing and HIV; HIV prevention

Research areas: Ageing and HIV; HIV-associated central nervous system diseases; inflammation and HIV; HIV clinical trials; HIV prevention.

Other relevant positions: Honorary Consultant HIV Medicine

Neuro-ophthalmology videos and case presentations

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Fri

Dr Sarah Cooper is a consultant neurologist at the Royal Sussex County Hospital with a special interest in neuroophthalmology.

Sarah trained in Southampton, London, Edinburgh and Glasgow. She works as a Consultant Neurologist in Brighton. As part of the team at the Sussex Eye Hospital she provides specialist clinics for patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension, myasthenia gravis and other neuro ophthalmic disorders.

Is Cenobamate the next wonder drug for epilepsy?

11:30 AM - 11:50 AM Fri

Dr Julia Aram is a Consultant Neurologist and Epilepsy Lead at Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Dr Aram trained initially as a pharmacist. She then completed a PhD in in-vitro electrophysiological studies / neuropharmacology of epilepsy, before taking on a 18-month post doctorate position at Columbia University in New York City.

On her return to the UK, Dr Aram studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital in London as a mature student. She specialised in Neurology and became a Consultant Neurologist and Epilepsy Lead at Brighton & Sussex University Hospital in 2008.

Is Cenobamate the next wonder drug for epilepsy?

11:30 AM - 11:50 AM Fri

Dr Gill Yates is senior lecturer in pharmacy practice (neurology) at the School of Pharmacy, University of Sussex and neurology pharmacist at Brighton and Sussex University Hospital NHS Trust, Haywards Heath.

Setting up the Brighton s/c FOS Produodopa service:Lessons learnt after 6 months

11:50 AM - 12:20 PM Fri

Eva Bunting qualified from Sheffield University Medical School in 2009. Following the completion of her general medical training, she has pursued a role in neurosciences and is currently a Consultant Neurologist at Brighton and Sussex University NHS Trust, UK.

Is this the cause of my headache, dizziness, tinnitus, facial pain? Incidental scan findings (pineal cysts, large arachnoid cysts and Chiari

12:20 PM - 12:50 PM Fri

Charlotte qualified from Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry (University of London) in 2001. She holds her MBBS, a First-Class Honours BSc in Experimental Pathology, a PhD in Clinical Medical Sciences (Neurogenetics) and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in Neurological Surgery (FRCS).

Her higher surgical training in Neurosurgery was on the London South Thames rotation through King's College Hospital London, St Georges University Hospital London and Hurstwood Park Neurological Centre, Haywards Heath.

Following completion of her Neurosurgical training she undertook a 1-year Skull Base fellowship at The Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences in 2012.

She took up her 1st Consultant post at The Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences in 2013. During her tenure she was Morbidity & Mortality lead, Governance lead, Clinical Lead for Neurosurgery and then Clinical Director for Surgical Neurosciences.

Charlotte moved to University Hospitals Sussex in November 2022 to take over the lead role of the Skull Base service. She specialises in treating all skull base conditions including vestibular schwannoma, meningioma and trigeminal neuralgia.

Charlotte is a British Skull Base Society elected council member and Secretary of the National Vestibular Schwannoma Audit research committee.

How can your nuclear medicine deptartment help you?

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Fri

Professor Sabina Dizdarevic is a Consultant Nuclear Medicine Physician and Consultant Radiologist at University Hospitals NHS Sussex Foundation Trust, Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She is course leader for Nuclear Medicine.

Neurodiversity and hypermobility, and are we seeing more patients with these in the neurology outpatients?

2:30 PM - 3:10 PM Fri

Dr Jessica Eccles trained in medicine at University of Cambridge and University of Oxford and undertook combined clinical academic training in Psychiatry at Brighton and Sussex Medical School.

As an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow she completed her PhD in the relationship between joint hypermobility, autonomic dysfunction and psychiatric symptoms and is now a Clinical Senior Lecturer. Her interests are in the body-brain relationships in musculoskeletal conditions, particularly variant connective tissue, including anxiety, ADHD, Autism, 'brain fog,' and pain and fatigue.

Dr Eccles is a now a Clinical Senior Lecturer at Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the Department of Neuroscience. She is an adult liaison psychiatrist and consultant in the Sussex Neurodevelopmental Service and co-lead of their Neurodivergent Brain Body Clinic.

Measures of consciousness and applications to psychedelics

3:40 PM - 4:10 PM Fri

Dr Adam Barrett is Deputy Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science and researches the neural basis of consciousness.

A digital future for neurology: opportunities and challenges

4:10 PM - 4:40 PM Fri

Professor Dennis Chan is Consultant Neurologist and Professor of Cognitive Neurology UCL, with vast experience treating a range of neurological disorders including headache, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis.

He is an internationally recognised expert in dementia, specialising in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and other memory disorders.

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