EAN 2024 – 10th Congress Of The European Academy Of Neurology (Videos)

10th EAN Congress Helsinki 2024
June 29-July 2, 2024, Helsinki

Plenary Symposia

All Plenary Symposia take place in the Main Auditorium.
OPENING SESSION (Hybrid)
Saturday, 29 June 2024, 19:00-20:00, Main Auditorium
The Opening Session is the first of four Plenary Symposia at an EAN Congress. It takes place on Saturday evening.
PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM (Hybrid)
Sunday, 30 June 2024, 11:00 – 12:30, Main Auditorium
During the Presidential Symposium, the Named Lectures are presented. One of the Brain Prize awardees is giving a lecture.
OVERARCHING THEME SESSION (Hybrid)
Monday, 1 July 2024, 10:30-12:30, Main Auditorium
This Plenary Symposium covers the Overarching Theme of the respective congress. To highlight a topic of actual interest and importance, EAN defines an overarching theme for every congress.
HIGHLIGHT and BREAKING NEWS (Hybrid)
Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 10:30-12:30, Main Auditorium
The Highlight Session is the last Plenary Session of the EAN Congress organised in the morning of the last congress day.  The Highlight session unites several congress features in one:

Highlights of the congress: selected and summarized by local experts
Latest news: brand new articles from Lancet neurology
Announcement of Tournament Awardees
General information: Presentation of upcoming congress, Handover, thank you and Farewell

Scientific Session Types

SYMPOSIA (Hybrid)
120 minutes
Symposia are scheduled on each congress day and will last 2 hours each. Lecturers will give general information on the main topics of the congress. Special insight will be covered in Teaching courses and Focused workshops.
FOCUSED WORKSHOPS (Hybrid)
90 minutes
Focused workshops (FW) will be held in the morning and last for 1.5 hours. They will cover narrow topics and will aim to promote discussion around new ideas, evidence or theories. Ample time for discussion will be provided.
SPECIAL SESSIONS (Hybrid)
90 minutes
Special Sessions (SpS) cover topics of special interest, prepared by a certain interest group, or disease sub-specialty in order to engage on a discussion with the audience.
CLINICAL GRAND ROUNDS (Hybrid)
In this session, highly experienced neurologists will interview and examine real patients with difficult or complex neurological conditions. They will discuss the clinical diagnosis, request and review all available diagnostic tests and will end by formulating a final diagnosis.
 

Educational Session Types

TEACHING COURSES (Hybrid)
3 hours (2 x 90 minutes with a 30-minute refreshment break)
TCs are held on each congress day in the afternoon.  This relatively didactic format is best suited to sharing knowledge to improve the quality of clinical care, research and educational practice. All TCs are aimed primarily at a post-graduate audience. There are 3 levels of TCs:

Level 1 (Introductory): Aimed primarily at neurologists in training, or those wishing to refresh/update their basic knowledge in the field. Level 1 can also be suitable for undergraduates or general trainees with a particular interest.
Level 2 (Standard): Assumes familiarity with basic clinical knowledge and practice, aimed at specialist trainees or practitioners wishing to update and further develop their knowledge in the field.
Level 3 (Advanced): Aimed at specialist trainees or practitioners with a particular interest in that field, covering the latest advances of particular interest to a specialist audience.

CONTROVERSY SESSIONS (Hybrid)
45-90 minutes
These sessions allow to give a critical overview of the current and most recent advances on key topics, share knowledge, stimulate debate and forge opinions on controversial issues of clinical care, research, educational practice and therapy. The audience is asked to give their Pro/Con feedback at the beginning and the end of the session.
INTERACTIVE SESSIONS (Hybrid)
90 minutes
These sessions are based on case presentations including interactive voting via the polling system of the virtual congress platform. The opinions of colleagues will be collected and integrated in the live summary.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS (Hybrid)
90 minutes
This format shall allow to share and improve knowledge on: “how to best write an academic paper”; “how to plan and organize a clinical or scientific study”; “how to apply for a grant”, “how to get a paper accepted” etc. These sessions (CdS) are open for all participants and primarily aim at a post-graduate audience.
EAN BRAIN CHALLENGE (Hybrid)
The session will give a platform for interactive learning using quiz questions. Two competing teams, a local team and an international team, will try to win the BrainChallenge by giving the correct answer to the case-presentations. The audience can silently vote via the virtual congress platform, when logging into the session. Results will be presented after each case