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May 8 - Section I.
Ioan Stefan Florian, Andras Buki - Ground Floor Conference Room - Knowledge Centre

08:00 - 20:00 Registration, information
09:30 - 10:00 Opening Ceremony
10:00 - 10:30 International initiatives in clinical research for traumatic brain injury

Andrew Maas (Belgium)

10:30 - 11:00 New perspectives of modern neuroimaging in chronic phase of traumatic brain injury-management, therapeutic strategies, follow up and global outcome

Alexandru Vlad Ciurea (Romania)

11:00 - 11:20 Limitations of guidelines in neurotrauma: lessons learned from recent studies

Sándor János (Hungary)

11:20 - 11:40 The concept of German Neurotrauma Registry: Hand in hand toward improved quality of management in traumatic brain injury

Jacek Szczygielski (Germany)

Joint Working Group of German Trauma Society

11:40 - 12:00 When the results of studies are insufficient to make good decisions

Andras Csokay (Hungary)

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch (optional)

May 8 - Section II.
Endre Czeiter, Lars Hillered - Ground Floor Conference Room - Knowledge Centre

13:00 - 13:30 Translating Experimental TBI Research into Successful Clinical Trials & Practice: Can Dreams Come True?

Stefania Mondello (Italy)

13:30 - 14:00 Neurotrauma - The future role of biofluid based biological markers

Kevin K. W. Wang (USA)

14:00 - 14:30 Biomarkers and big data in TBI

Ronald L. Hayes (USA)

14:30 - 14:50 Biomarker research under the umbrella of CENTER TBI

Andras Buki (Hungary)

14:50 - 15:20 Transcortical magnetic stimulation: is there an application in TBI and neurorehabilitation?

Giovanni Raffa (Italy)

15:20 - 15:50 Coffee break

May 8 - Section III.
Tamas Doczi, Giovanni Raffa - Ground Floor Conference Room - Knowledge Centre

15:50 - 16:20 Contemporary policies in the treatment of spine injury

Andreas Demetriades (UK)

16:20 - 16:50 Minimally invasive surgical approaches in spine injury

Attila Schwarcz (Hungary)

16:50 - 17:05 Instrumented Spine Surgery for Traumatic Thoracolumbar Fracture

Fatos Olldashi (Albania)

17:00 - 17:20 A novel ?direccional? double screw fixation method for management of type II odontoid fractures not requiring postoperative neck bracing

Waldemar Koszewski (Poland)

17:20 - 17:50 50 Better together: Human-robot-robot-human interaction during motor therapy in neurorehabilitation

Verena Klamroth-Marganska (Switzerland)

17:50 - 19:30 EMN Presidium Meeting
17:50 - 19:30 Poster session

The implications of the robotic devices in spastic foot therapy after craniocerebral injuries (CC I) Radu Mihai Avram (Romania) Robot-assisted upper limb rehabilitation after traumatic elbow stiffness Corina Sporea (Romania) Repetitive mild traumatic brain injury causes long-term cognitive impairment in rats Sai Ambika Tadepalli (Hungary) IGF-1 deficiency impairs neurovascular coupling Peter Toth (Hungary)

20:00 - 22:00 Presidium member dinner at Kikelet Restaurant

May 9 - Section IV.
Antonino Germano, Bruno Splavski - Ground Floor Conference Room - Knowledge Centre

08:00 - 18:00 Registration, information
08:30 - 08:40 ,,Obituary for Anne-Lise Christensen and Franz Gerstenbrand"

Klaus von Wild (Germany)

08:40 - 09:10 Is there a breakthrough on the horizon in TBI care?

Andreas Unterberg (Germany)

09:10 - 09:40 What is your hospital policy for the management of severe TBI patients? Results of a European web-based survey

Antonino Germano (Italy)

09:40 - 10:10 Cranioplasty in patients suffering from traumatic brain injury ? risk factor analysis and treatment strategies

Jürgen H. Meixensberger (Germany)

10:10 - 10:50 ,,Klaus von Wild EMN Lecture 2018" - Translational Research on Traumatic Brain Injury - A 30-year Perspective

Lars Hillered (Sweden)

10:50 - 11:15 Decompressive craniectomy in the treatment of complex severe traumatic brain injury

Boris Božić (Croatia)

11:15 - 11:45 Beneficial effect of acetazolamide in mouse model of head trauma / decompressive craniectomy: A new perspective on an old drug from the cranial window?

Jacek Szczygielski (Germany)

11:45 - 12:45 Lunch (optional)

May 9 - Section V.
Johannes C. Vester, Ulrich Kunz - Ground Floor Conference Room - Knowledge Centre

12:45 - 13:15 Clinical trials and their effect on evidence based guidelines

Peter Hutchinson (UK)

13:15 - 13:45 Complications of Cranioplasty

Ioan Stefan Florian (Romania)

13:45 - 14:10 Multidimensional Strategies to Improve TBI Clinical Research - T owards a New Gold Standard

Johannes C. Vester (Germany)

14:10 - 14:30 No country for old brain? Cerebral amyloid angiopathy and its role in neurological recovery

Jacek Szczygielski (Germany)

14:30 - 14:45 ANACONDA: Analgosedation in patients with severe TBI with continuous volatile inhaled gases - a promising strategy for long term sedation - An overview

Matthias Menzel (Germany)

14:45 - 15:00 Coffee break

May 9 - Section VI.
Wolf Ingo Steudel, Barbara A. Gregson - Ground Floor Conference Room - Knowledge Centre

15:00 - 15:20 Brain stem blood flow in traumatic brain injury: the exploratory multivariate analysis

Gleb Danilov (Russia)

15:20 - 15:50 Contemporary high resolution ICP monitoring

Marek Czosnyka (UK)

15:50 - 16:10 Psychopathological consequences of severe diffuse and focal brain injury

Oleg Zaytsev (Russia)

16:10 - 16:30 Conceptual approaches to surgical treatment of head injury sequelae

Leonid Likhterman (Russia)

16:30 - 16:45 A new vista for TBI research - CAPTAIN Trial

Dafin Fior Muresanu, Johannes C. Vester (Romania)

16:45 - 17:00 Assessment of early posttraumatic cerebral hemodynamic by transcranial Doppler ultrasonography: up-to-date perspectives

Bruno Splavski (Croatia)

17:00 - 17:20 Progress in a trial of poor grade subarachnoid haemorrhage

Barbara A. Gregson (UK)

17:20 - 18:20 EMN members meeting
19:30 - 22:00 Gala Dinner at Pezsgőház Restaurant

May 10 - Section VII.
Petar Vulekovic, Alexandru Vlad Ciurea - Ground Floor Conference Room - Knowledge Centre

08:30 - 11:00 Registration, information
09:00 - 09:30 Quality of Life after Traumatic Brain Injury

Nicole von Steinbüchel (Germany)

09:30 - 10:00 Should We Abandon Complete Exploration of the Brachial Plexus and Usage of Proximal Viable Nerve Stumps for Grafting as the Primary Treatment Modality in Traction Injuries?

Lukas Rasulic (Serbia)

10:00 - 10:20 Traumatic brain injuries in downhill skiing in Europe: New facts

Wolf Ingo Steudel (Germany)

10:20 - 10:40 Facial Nerve Palsy ? Principles of Reconstruction

Lucian Fodor (Romania)

May 10 - Section VIII.
Lukas Rasulic, Wolf Ingo Steudel - Ground Floor Conference Room - Knowledge Centre

10:40 - 11:10 Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Clinical Center of Vojvodina, Novi Sad

Petar Vulekovic (Serbia)

11:10 - 11:25 Perspectives of the EMN

Ioan Stefan Florian (Romania)

11:25 - 11:45 Closing Ceremony
12:00 - 13:00 Farewell lunch buffet at Knowledge Center