Practical Approach to Electromyography and Neuromuscular Disorders 2012

September 28-30, 2012
Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA

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Agenda

 

Friday, September 28, 2012

7:30-8:00am
Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00-8:20am
Introduction: Electromyography for clinicians
Peter Siao, MD

8:20-9:30am
Motor Nerve Conduction Studies
Peter Siao, MD

9:30-10:15am
Sensory Nerve Conduction Studies
Janice Wiesman, MD

10:15-10:30am
Coffee Break

10:30-11:30am
Needle electromyography: spontaneous activities
Peter Siao, MD

11:30-12:30pm
Needle electromyography: evaluation of motor unit action potentials (normal and abnormal)
Sanjeev Nandedkar, PhD

12:30-1:45pm
Lunch Break (on your own)

1:45-2:45pm
Needle electromyography: muscle identification
Janice Wiesman, MD

2:45-3:45pm
Approach to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Peter Siao, MD

3:45-4:00pm
Coffee Break

4:00-5:00pm
Approach to Ulnar, Radial, Peroneal Neuropathy, and Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome
Johnny Salameh, MD

5:00-6:00pm
Cervical Radiculopathy, Brachial Plexopathy, Neuralgic Amyotrophy, Neurogenic Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Peter Siao, MD

6:00-7:00pm
Lumbosacral Radiculopathy and Plexopathy
Johnny Salameh, MD

 

Saturday, September 29, 2012

7:30-8:00am
Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00-9:00am
Approach to Myopathy
Peter Siao, MD

9:00-10:15am
Repetitive Nerve Stimulation/ Single Fiber EMG
Peter Siao, MD

10:15-10:30am
Coffee Break

10:30-11:30am
Approach to Polyneuropathy
Peter Siao, MD

11:30-12:30pm
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Daniel L. Menkes, MD

12:30-1:45pm
Lunch Break (on your own)

1:45-2:45pm
Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy
Howard W. Sander, MD

2:45-3:45pm
CIDP Variants
Thomas H. Brannagan III, MD

3:45-4:00pm
Coffee Break

4:00-4:30pm
CPT Coding for EMG
Daniel L. Menkes, MD

4:30-7:00pm
Live demonstration: nerve conduction studies
Peter Siao, MD
Thomas H. Brannagan III, MD
Daniel L. Menkes, MD
Johnny Salameh, MD
Howard W. Sander, MD
Janice Wiesman, MD

 

Sunday, September 30, 2012

7:30-8:00am
Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00-9:00am
Clinical Uses of Botulinum Toxin
Samuel Frank, MD

9:00-10:00am
Botulinum Toxin Injection in the Treatment of Spasticity, Cervical Dystonia, and Other Movement Disorders
Samuel Frank, MD

10:00-10:15am
Coffee break

10:15-12:15am
EMG Case Discussions
Peter Siao, MD
Thomas H. Brannagan III, MD
Daniel L. Menkes, MD
Howard W. Sander, MD
Johnny Salameh, MD
Janice Wiesman, MD

12:15pm
Adjourn