18.00 Arrival and Registration

19.30 NENA Lecture: Dr Richard Davenport (Edinburgh)

20.30 Drinks reception

21.00 Dinner and Presidential Address

08.30 Coffee

09.00 Research symposium I - Chair: Dr Chris Kobylecki

• Dr Laura White (Preston) "Standardising MND Data"

• Dr Hasson Farid (Manchester) "Pedagogical Challenges in Neurological Education"

• Dr Matthew Goldring (Middlesbrough) "A Year of FND in the Neurological Acute Stroke Unit"

• Dr Mark Ellul (Liverpool) "Encephalitis"

• Dr Oscar Taylor (Middlesbrough) "MMA embolisation for CSDH- reasons for failure"

10.15 Coffee and exhibition

11.15 Research symposium II - Chair: Dr Michael Bonello

• Dr Anas Elshoura (Middlesbrough) "Regional electronic referrals in Neurosurgery"

• Dr Michael Ita (Middlesbrough) "Skull base reconstruction in patients with CSF rhinorhoea"

• Dr Alexander Grundmann (Newcastle) "The Epilepsy Deaths Register"

• Dr Isabelle Ramnarine (Sheffield) "When a face is not a face"

• Dr Rajesh Shil (Liverpool) "Elevated kappa free light chains in neuroinflammatory diseases"

12.30 Annual General Meeting

12.45 Lunch and Exhibition

13.45 Presentation: Liversedge Prize and Crawford Prize

14.00 Clinicopathological conference - Chair: Dr Anna Richardson (NENA President)

  Presentation: Dr Dean Walton (Liverpool) "All In"

15.00 Case Presentations

• Dr Siva Nair (Sheffield) "The GEMS encephalopathy"

• Dr MIchael Bonello (Liverpool) "Pins, needles and Schrodinger's blood test"

• Dr Nikolas Hitiris (Middlesbrough) "Strange Vibrations"

• Dr Chris Kobylecki (Manchester) "Ill communication"

• Dr Richard Ellis (Manchester) "T'was the night before Christmas"

• Dr Georger Thomas (Middlesbrough) "POEMS syndrome and Moya Moya"

• Mr Nitin Mukerji (Middlesbrough) "Choroid plexus lymphoma"

• Dr Meher Lad (Newcastle) "Is it too late?"

• Dr Stephen Brown (Newcastle) "A curious case of unilateral cereballar syndrome"

16.30 Presentation: Presidential Medal, NENA magnum award and Close of Meeting