Final Congress Timetable

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Teaching Courses registration is €50 per course. It is recommended to pre-register for the courses prior to arriving in Vienna to ensure your place at the course.  

 

Hall A

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Hall E

08:00

Registration Opens

09:00 - 10:30

 

Teaching
Course #1

Pre-Hospital and Emergency Management of Stroke Patients

Teaching
Course #2

Acute Stroke Treatment and Interventions

Teaching
Course #3

Clinical Trial Methodology and Statistics

Teaching
Course #4

Clinical Stroke Subtypes and Syndromes

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

 

Teaching
Course (cont.)

Pre-Hospital and Emergency Management of Stroke Patients

Teaching
Course (cont.)

Acute Stroke Treatment and Interventions

 

Teaching
Course (cont.)

Clinical Trial Methodology and Statistics

 

Teaching
Course (cont.)

Clinical Stroke Subtypes and Syndromes

 

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 - 15:00

 

Teaching
Course #5

Ultrasound Vascular and Brain Imaging

Teaching
Course #6

Rehabilitation and Nursing in Acute Stroke Recovery

Teaching
Course #7

The Dementias

Teaching
Course #8

TIA in Clinical Practice

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00

 

Teaching
Course (cont.)

Ultrasound Vascular and Brain Imaging

 

Teaching
Course (cont.)

Rehabilitation and Nursing in Acute Stroke Recovery

 

Teaching
Course (cont.)

The Dementias

 

Teaching
Course (cont.)

TIA in Clinical Practice

 

19:00

Opening Ceremonyfollowed by
Get-together Reception, Sponsored by Ferrer International S.A.

 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

 

Hall A

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Hall E

Hall F

07:30 - 08:30

 

Free Communications: Clinical Phenomenology

Free Communications: Hemorrhage

Free Communications: Imaging: CT or MRI

Free Communications: Imaging: Other Modalities

Free Communications: Acute Management I

08:30 - 10:00

 

Main
Theme 1:
Acute Interventions in Acute Ischemic
Stroke - Devices

Main
Theme 2:
Intracranial Atherosclerosis

Main
Theme 3:
Subarachnoid
Hemorrhage - State
of the Art

Main
Theme 4:
Hot Topics in
Clinical Trial
Design

Main
Theme 5:
Brain Repair
and Recovery

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00

Presidential Symposium:
Reducing the Global Burden of Stroke

 

 

 

 

 

12:30 - 14:00

 

 

ESO / WSC Lunch Symposium: Controversies in Stroke Management
Supported by an Unrestricted Educational Grant from Boehringer Ingelheim

 

Satellite Symposium
Ebewe Pharma

Satellite Symposium
Otsuka Pharmaceuticals

 

14:00 - 15:30

Plenary I: The WSO-WHF Symposium
Heart Meets Brain

 

 

 

 

 

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Main
Theme 6:
Acute Interventions in Acute Ischemic Stroke - Part 2: Medical

Main
Theme 7:
Diabetes, hypertension and stroke
Sponsored by an Unrestricted Educational Grant by Boehringer Ingelheim

Main
Theme 8:
Advances in diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound

Main
Theme 9:
Organized Stroke Care: A cost effective approach

Main
Theme 10:
Stroke and
Immunology

Neuro-
Psychologica
Rehabilitation

17:45-19:15

 

 

Satellite
Symposium
sanofi-aventis

Satellite
Symposium Otsuka Pharmaceuticals

 

 
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

 

Hall A

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Hall E

Hall F

07:30 - 08:30

 

Meet the Experts

Young stroke doctors meeting

08:30 - 10:00

Main
Theme 11:
Thrombolysis Update  -
News from TAST Budapest
Sponsored by an Unrestricted Educational Grant by Boehringer Ingelheim

Main
Theme 12:
Can we delay Stroke and Cognitive Impairment?  

Main
Theme 13:
Management issues in stroke

Main
Theme 14:
Pre-hospital
treatment and
telemedicine

Main
Theme 15:
New approaches
in
Neuroprotection
Sponsored by
an Unrestricted
Educational Grant
by Ebewe

Free Communications:
Prevention

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00

Lectures of Excellence
-WSO Prize Boehringer Ingelheim
-Genetics in complex diseases
Like stroke

 

 

 

 

 

12:30 - 14:00

 

Satellite
Symposium
Boehringer
Ingelheim


 


Satellite Symposium
Sponsored by sanofi-aventis/BMS 

 

14:00 - 15:30

Plenary II:
Trends in Stroke Prevention

 

 

 

 

 

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

New Frontiers in Stroke Research – Sponsored By Ferrer

Main
Theme 16:
Treatment issues in developing countries

Main
Theme 17:
Update of Carotid Interventions

Main
Theme 18:
ICH treatment -Controversies

Main
Theme 19:
Translating
“Helsingborg”
into reality

Main
Theme 20:
Genetics of
Stroke /
Pharmacogenomics

Evening

Special Museum Visit for all Registered Participants

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

 

Hall A

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Hall E

Hall F

07:30 - 08:30

 

Free Communications: Miscellaneous I

Free Communications:
Acute Management II

Free Communications: Outcome

Free Communications: Imaging - Organized Stroke Care

Free Communications: Miscellaneous II

08:30 - 10:00

 

Main
Theme 21:
Critical Care of Ischemic Stroke 

Main
Theme 22:
The Role of Stroke
Support Organization  

Main
Theme 23:
The future of
Neuro-Imaging

Main
Theme 24:
Health
Economics

Main
Theme 25

Translational
research:
present and
future
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:15

 

 

 

Lectures of Excellence -
Neurovascular Unit

 

 

11:15 - 12:00

 

 

   

Lectures of Excellence
(cont’d) The Experience of the CSN

   

12:00 - 13:30

 

 

 

Plenary III:
- Breaking News
- Excellence Awards
- Closing Session

 

 

Acute Ischemic Stroke Treatment

Plenary

 

Stroke Prevention

  Free Communications

Hemorrhagic Stroke

  Lectures of Excellence

 

Epidemiology and Stroke Services

  Young Stroke Doctors/Meet the Experts

 

Basic Science and Genetics/Miscellaneous

  Satellite Symposia
  Opening Ceremony & Presidential   Rehabillitation
  Social Event