CME Course
Muscle & Peripheral Nerve Pathology
19-21 November 2003 Vienna, Austria
the course has been fully booked and no new applicants can be accepted.
The fourth course on Muscle & Nerve Pathology will be held from November 19-21 in Vienna, Austria. The same course was held earlier this year in Amsterdam. The course will be in English, and consist of lectures with an emphasis on teaching. Practical (microscope-based) sessions are part of the course. The registration fee, including catering but excluding travel expenses, hotel costs and meals, is €800.
This three-days course and workshop will provide practising (neuro)pathologists, clinicians and researchers with up-to-date reviews of the classification and the diagnostic problems in muscle and peripheral nerve pathology. The course consists of alternate lectures and slide sessions.
Topics include:
- general muscle pathology
- histochemistry
- immunohistochemistry
- enzyme histochemistry
- muscular dystrophies
- mitochondrial myopathies
- congenital myopathies
- inflammatory myopathies
- toxic and metabolic neuropathies
- demyelinating neuropathies
- hereditary neuropathies
- inflammatory neuropathies.
For the preliminary program: click here!
Participants will receive a richly illustrated work manual of the histopathology of the most common muscular disorders. The text book Structural and Molecular Basis of Skeletal Muscle Diseases edited by George Karpati and the Atlas of Peripheral Nerve Pathology by Rosalind King are also provided.
Grants
A limited number of grants of € 600 is available for young trainees in neuropathology. Please see the application form (MS Word or PDF) for details.
Course organization
H. Budka, local organization
D. Troost, course director
Faculty (in alphabetical order):
- D. Figarella-Branger, Marseille, France
- H.B.I. Ginjaar, Leiden, The Netherlands
- L. Ginsberg, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- H.H. Goebel, Mainz, Germany
- J.E. Hoogendijk, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- R. King, London, England
- A.J. v.d.Kooi, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- M. Lammens, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- R. Lane, London, England
- F. Lehmann-Horn, Ulm, Germany
- M. Mora, Milano, Italy
- A. Oldfors, Gotheburg, Sweden
- J.M. Schröder, Aachen, Germany
- B. Sewry, London, England
- J.P.Sieb, Munich, Germany
- J.M. Vallat, Limoges, France
- M. de Visser, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- J. Weis, Bern, Switzerland
- K. Wong , AFIP, Washington, D.C, USA
Course location and lodging:
The course will take place in the Kolpinghaus, centrally located in Vienna.
Full address: Kolpinghaus 18, Gentzgasse 27, A-1180 Vienna, Austria.
For any further details and hotel information please contact:
EURO-CNS Educational board
Executive Office
Mrs. A. van Schendel
Department of Pathology, section Neuropathology
AMC, H2-126
PB 22660
1100 DD Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Tel: + 31 20 5665649
Fax: + 31 20 6979567
Email: a.vanschendel@amc.uva.nl
