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| | Sunday, September 21st, 2014 Breakfast teaching courses
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| 08:15-09:30 |
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Services Provided for Patients and Their Families/ Basic Principles of Care in the Nursing Home Saskia Demeulenaere (Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium)/ Wilco Achterberg (Leiden, The Netherlands) | | | | 08:15-09:30 | |
Organising and managing an efficient Enroll-HD clinic – How to get all the work done and manage a busy clinic. Joe Giuliano (Princeton, USA) | | |
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Genetic counselling Rhona Macleod (Manchester, UK) and Nayana Lahiri (London, UK)
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| 08:15-09:30 |
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Dysphagia in HD: the practice of investigation and treatment Anne-Wil Heemskerk (Leiden, The Netherlands) and Falk Schradt (Ulm, Germany)
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Plenary Session VI: 'Gene and Protein Lowering Strategies'
Chair: Beverly Davidson (Iowa, USA) Co-Chair: Doug Macdonald (Los Angeles, USA)
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| 10:00-10:20 |
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Basic understanding: the role of abnormal HTT accumulation Leslie Thompson (Irvine, USA) |
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| 10:20-10:40 |
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Pharmacodynamic and proximal biomarkers for modulation of Huntingtin levels: preclinical studies for translation to the clinic"
Doug Macdonald (Los Angeles, USA) |
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| 10:40-11:00 |
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The steps into clinical trials Jang-Ho Cha (North Wales, USA) |
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| 11:00-11:30 |
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Panel discussion |
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| 11:30-12:00 |
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Tea/Coffee Break |
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Keynote Session II: 'HD families in HD Research'
Chair: Jean-Marc Burgunder (Bern, Switzland) Co-Chair: Astri Arnesen (Kristiansand, Norway) | | |
| 12:00-12:45 |
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Coping with Waiting: HD families between high hopes and day-to-day demands
G. Bernhard Landwehrmeyer (Ulm, Germany) |
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Roundup III and Poster Awards
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| 12:45-13:15 |
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Poster Awards and Lessons of EHDN2014 |
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Programme EHDN 2014 |
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