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Lectures of Excellence & WSO Teaching Courses – 6th World Stroke Congress, Vienna, 2008

Lectures of Excellence

Lectures of Excellence:	WSO Leadership in Stroke Medicine Award - Sponsored by Boehringer...
Wolf-Dieter Heiss	Functional Imaging Correlates to Disturbance and Recovery of Language Function

Lectures of Excellence:	President's Award For Contributions to Clinical Stroke Research 2008
Werner Hacke	(No) Satisfaction or: Who Said Treating Stroke Would Be Easy?

Lectures of Excellence
Jeffery M. Vance	Genetics in Complex Diseases like Stroke
Antoine Hakim	The Experience of the Canadian Stroke Network - Bringing Knowledge to Practice
Gregory Del Zoppo	Neurovascular Unit

WSO Teaching Courses

Teaching course 1	Pre-Hospital and Emergency Management of Stroke Patients
H.M. Dewey	Involving the ambulance in improving hospital arriving times
H.J. Baezner	How should patients be examined clinically?
R. Kern	Improving emergency management of patients with acute stroke - Part 1
R. Kern	Improving emergency management of patients with acute stroke - Part 2
H.A. Rowley	Emergency Stroke Imaging
R.J. Adams	Telemedicine for Acute Stroke Evaluation

Teaching course 2	Acute Stroke Treatment Interventions
M. Kaste	Thrombolysis
Y.P. Gobin	New devices for acute stroke
S. Schwab	Hemicraniectomy for ischaemic stroke
F.T. Aichner	Antiplatelets in acute stroke
A.D. Mendelow	Surgical Treatment of Intracerebral Haemorrhage
S.M. Davis	Medical therapies for intracerebral haemorrhage

Teaching course 3	Clinical Trial Methodology and Statistics
M. Fisher	Acute Stroke Therapy Trials - Basic Concepts And Future Directions
R.L. Sacco	How to Design a Secondary Stroke Prevention Trial
G. Howard	Sample Size…How to do it
S. Warach	The use of imaging in acute stroke trias
K.R. Lees	Outcome Assessment
M. Fisher	Drug/Device Approval

Teaching course 4	Clinical Stroke Subtypes and Syndromes
J. Lodder	Lacunar syndromes
M.G. Bousser	Stroke in women
J.S. Kim	Brainstem strokes syndromes
S. Kiechl	Carotid and Vertebral Artery Dissection
J. Stam	Diagnosis and Treatment of Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis
G.J.E. Rinkel	Subarachnoid Haemorrhage

Teaching course 5	Ultrasound Vascular And Brain Imaging
A. Alexandrov	Transcranial Doppler: Uses and Abuses
M.G. Hennerici	Duplex Ultrasound of Carotid Arteries: Limitations and Uses
A. Alexandrov	Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound: Areas of Present Applications
S. Meairs	New technologies of ultrasound

Teaching course 6	Rehabilitation and Nursing in Acute Stroke Recovery
H.M. Dewey	Evidence for the efficacy of stroke rehabilitation
M. Nilsson	Brain Plasticity: How it works
C. Weiller	From brain network to neurorehabilitation
L. Csiba	Stroke units: How do they enhance stroke recovery?
K. Matz	Monitoring and electrophysiological interventions

Teaching course 7	The Dementias
J.-M. Orgogozo	Diagnosis of Dementia, Vascular Dementia (VaD) and Dementia with Cerebrovascular Disease
H. Foerstl	Vascular Risk Factors for AD
V. Hachinski	Identifying the Vascular Component of Cognitive Impairment
R. Schmidt	Imaging Advances in Dementia
F. Fazekas for P. Gorelick	How to Treat Patients With Dementia
M. Dichgans	Controversy in Dementia

Teaching course 8	TIA in clinical practice
P. Sandercock	Transient Ischaemic Attacks (TIA): Definition and Differantial Diagnosis
N.G. Wahlgren	Different types of TIA
P. Amarenco	TIA Clinic: Set-up and Management
A. Buchan	How to use imaging to enhance TIA Management
P.M. Rothwell	Risk of Stroke after TIA or Minor Stroke
P.M. Rothwell	What interventions are available for TIA and when to use them