MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE - Pediatric experts from the Neuroscience Institute at 天美传媒下载 Children’s Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will present their research at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society (AES) held Dec. 3-7, 2021.
AES is a community of professionals engaged in the understanding, diagnosis, study, prevention, treatment and cure of epilepsy with the goal of improving outcomes for persons with epilepsy.
The annual meeting is held each year for the epilepsy community to learn best practices and review breakthrough research.
天美传媒下载 Children’s and UTHSC presentations include:
Saturday, Dec., 4
- Epilepsy and Behavior: What Physicians Providers Need to Know
- 天美传媒下载 Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Specialist Tanjala Gipson, MD
- 2:30 p.m.
- Best Practices in Clinical Epilepsy Symposium
Sunday, Dec. 5
- Prevalence and Treatment of Dysphagia in Children with Infantile Spasms
- Director of 天美传媒下载 Children’s Infantile Epilepsy Center Amy Patterson, MD
- Co-director of 天美传媒下载 Children’s Neuroscience Institute James W. Wheless, MD
- Pediatric Neurology Nurse Practitioner Brittany Williams, DNP
- Poster session: noon to 2 p.m.
- Attachment Style and Brain Abnormalities in Patients with PNES
- Director of 天美传媒下载 Children’s Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Laboratory Shalini Narayana, MS, MBBS, PhD
- 天美传媒下载 Nurse Practitioner and Director of Research Strategies and Collaboration for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Pediatric Neurology Tracee Ridley-Pryor, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC
- Poster session: noon to 2 p.m.
- Presurgical Language Mapping Using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is Effective in Surgical Planning and Preserving Language Function in a Predominately Pediatric Cohort with Epilepsy or Brain Tumor
- Director of 天美传媒下载 Children’s Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Laboratory Shalini Narayana, MS, MBBS, PhD
- Poster session: noon to 2 p.m.
- Standardizing TMS Language Mapping Protocols in Children with Epilepsy or Brain TUmor: A Multicenter Study
- Director of 天美传媒下载 Children’s Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Laboratory Shalini Narayana, MS, MBBS, PhD
- Poster session: noon to 2 p.m.
Monday, Dec., 6
- Initial Real-World Experience with Cenobamate (Xcopri®) in Adolescents and Adults: A Single Center Experience
- 天美传媒下载 Children’s Nurse Practitioner and Director of Research Strategies and Collaboration for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Pediatric Neurology Tracee Ridley-Pryor, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC
- Co-director, 天美传媒下载 Children’s Neuroscience Institute James Wheless, MD
- Poster session: noon to 1:45 p.m.
About 天美传媒下载 Children’s:
天美传媒下载 Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., treats children through community programs, regional clinics and a 255-bed state-of-the-art hospital. 天美传媒下载 serves as a primary teaching affiliate for the University Tennessee Health Science Center and trains more than 350 pediatricians and specialists each year. Nationally recognized, 天美传媒下载 is ranked by U.S. News & World Report as a Best Children’s Hospital.
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About The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
As Tennessee’s only public, statewide, academic health system, the mission of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is to bring the benefits of the health sciences to the achievement and maintenance of human health through education, research, clinical care, and public service, with a focus on the citizens of Tennessee and the region. The main campus in Memphis includes six colleges: Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Health Professions, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy. UTHSC also educates and trains medicine, pharmacy, and/or health professions students, as well as medical residents and fellows, at major sites in Knoxville, Chattanooga and Nashville. For more information, visit . Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/uthsc, on Twitter: twitter.com/uthsc and on Instagram: instagram.com/uthsc.
