Thank you for a very successful meeting!
Dear friends and colleagues,
it is a great honour and pleasure to announce "Hydrocephalus 2008",
in the sequence of the successful international and interdisciplinary
congress on hydrocephalus held in Göteborg, September
2006, hosted by Carsten Wikkelsö, Göteborg University. In the tradition of the Göteborg meeting, professionals from the various
specialties involved in the care of both paediatric and aged patients
with hydrocephalus will present up-to-date experimental and clinical research
to improve our understanding in the classification, pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment,
outcome, outcome assessment and rehabilitation and quality of life aspects.
On behalf of the conference organizers, we invite you and welcome you
to "Hydrocephalus2008" and look forward to seeing you in Hannover.
Petra M. Klinge, M.D.
International Neuroscience Institute Hannover
Presidentships:
President:
Petra M. Klinge, M.D. PhD., International Neuroscience Institute, Hannover, Germany
Vice President:
Joachim K. Krauss, M.D., PhD., Medical School,
Hannover Germany
Past-President:
Carsten Wikkelso M.D. PhD, Göteborg University, Sweden
Honorary President:
Madjid Samii, M.D. PhD, International Neuroscience Institute, Hannover, Germany
Special Guest:
Peter M.Black, M.D. PhD
President elect of the
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Scientific outline
The 2nd international and interdisciplinary congress "Hydrocephalus 2008" will challenge established as well as non-traditional concepts in the diagnosis, treatment and outcome assessment of hydrocephalus and focus on new clinical and experimental research issues (e.g. "intelligent shunt designs", future concepts of modelling the CSF system and CSF dynamics, non-invasive diagnostic tools, functional and metbolic imaging, biomarkers, neuropsychology and cognitive function and outcome, aspects of dementia, "neuromodulative" pharmacological treatment and "CNS-drug delivery").
According to positive
feed-back from the last meeting, we will maintain the structured character
of the scientific sessions to have the chair and co-chair introduce the
topic ("state-of-the art") as well as conclude at the end what
the session has added to our current knowledge with recommendations for the
future. This should be rounded off by a couple of special lectures to
important topics.
As highlights of the congress, Dr. A. Marmarou, who just recently hosted the successful 4th international hydrocephalus workshop in Rhodes, Greece, May 2007, announced the closing session on Saturday 20th: Summary comments and impact on guidelines - Directions for future research and clinical trials.
Also, the International society for Hydrocephalus and CSF disorders (ISHCSF) will be presented and recruit membership. This society was recently created to serve continuity in hydrocephalus research, to support and promote research networks, funding and infrastructure for young researchers.
International scientific and advisory board:
- Domenico D´Avella (Italy)
- Marc Del Bigio (Canada)
- Peter Paul De Deyn (Belgium)
- Hazel Jones (UK)
- Marianne Juhler (Danmark)
- Flemming Gjerris (Danmark)
- Masatsune Ishikawa (Japan)
- Tony Marmarou (USA)
- Joachim Krauss (Germany)
- Michael Kiefer (Germany)
- Thomas Münte (Germany)
- Shizuo Oi (Japan)
- Brian Owler (Australia)
- John Pickard (UK)
- Jos Tans (The Netherlands)
- MagnusTisell (Sweden)
- Mats Tullberg (Sweden)
- Gerald Silverberg (USA)
- Carsten Wikkelsö (Sweden)
- Mike Williams (USA)
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