Upcoming Neuromodulation Event
In personPaid Event
November 11 - 13, 2022 | Mumbai, India
This meeting was originally scheduled for November 19 - 23, 2021 but has now been postponed to November 11 - 13, 2022
The International Neuromodulation Society Third Interim Meeting, held in collaboration with The Neuromodulation Society of India in Mumbai, India.
All times below (GMT+5)
Day 1: Friday, November 11
| Workshop - 1 | ||||
| NEUROMODULATION IN PAIN: FROM NON-INVASIVE DEVICES LIKE VNS TO INVASIVE DEVICES LIKE DBS | ||||
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Non-Invasive treatment options for Chronic pain (including headaches) | Debashish Choudhury | ||
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Indications and device selection for SCS | Marc Russo | ||
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Latest developments in waveform technology for SCS | |||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Techniques of SCS - a step by step video presentation | Krishnan Chakravarthy | ||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Intraoperative and postoperative titration of SCS | Robert Levy | ||
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Peripheral Nerve Stimulation for pain | Konstantin Slavin | ||
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Intrathecal drug delivery systems: Devices and Drugs | Salim Hayek | ||
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Intracranial neuromodulation for pain | Prasad Shirvalkar | ||
| 13:00 onwards | Lunch | |||
| Workshop - 2 | ||||
| NEUROMODULATION IN NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS: FROM rTMS TO DBS | ||||
| 08:30 - 08:50 | Non-Invasive neuromodulation and neurotransmitters | Bhaskar Mukherjee | ||
| 08:50 - 09:10 | rTMS in private psychiatric practice: utility and challenges | Vihang Vahia | ||
| 09:10 - 09:30 | tDCS in a psychiatrist’s office | Rajesh Nagpal | ||
| 09:30 - 09:50 | Clinical Practice guidelines for non-invasive neuromodulation in Psychiatry | Malay Dave | ||
| 09:50 - 10:10 | tDCS for COVID and Long-COVID | Marom Bikson | ||
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee Break | |||
| 10:40 - 11:00 | ECT for Schizophrenia: a critical evaluation of the current evidence | Jagadisha Thirthalli | ||
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Role of NIBS in improving cognitive functions in patients with psychiatric disorders | Donel Martin | ||
| 11:20 - 11:40 | rTMS for mood disorders: recent advances | Muralidharan K | ||
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Non-Invasive neuromodulation for substance use disorders | Avinash Desouza | ||
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Global DBS Programs | Thomas Schlaepfer | ||
| 12:20 - 12:40 | DBS for Psychiatric disorders (Indian experience) - review and results | Paresh Doshi | ||
| 12:40 - 13:00 | Discussion | Discussion | ||
| 13:00 onwards | Lunch | |||
| Workshop - 3 | ||||
| DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION FOR FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY: MOVEMENT DISORDERS, PAIN, PSYCHIATRY | ||||
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s disease - Patient Selection | Hidehiro Hirabayashi | ||
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Deep Brain Stimulation for Dystonia - Pearls of Therapy | Joachim Krauss | ||
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Deep Brain Stimulation for Tremors | Patric Blomstedt | ||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Deep Brain Stimulation for unusual indications | Paresh Doshi | ||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | DBS: Pearls of technique | Ravi Gopal Varma | ||
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Neuromodulation in Epilepsy: VNS, RNS | Jeffrey Arle | ||
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Neuromodulation in Epilepsy: DBS | Stephan Chabardes | ||
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Deep Brain Stimulation for Psychiatric disorders | Bart Nuttin | ||
| 13:00 onwards | Lunch | |||
| Workshop - 4 | ||||
| LESIONING PROCEDURES IN MD, PAIN AND PSYCHIATRY | ||||
| 14:00 - 14:20 | RF lesioning for Chronic Visceral pain | Arun Bhaskar | ||
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Radiofrequency lesioning in for movement and psychiatric disorders | Paresh Doshi | ||
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Peripheral joint RF denervation | G P Dureja | ||
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Radiosurgery: Applications in FN and Lessons learnt | Manjul Tripathi | ||
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Coffee Break | |||
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Role of MRGFUS in Movement disorders and Psychiatry - A Neurologist’s perspective | Alfonso Fasano | ||
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Medial Branch denervation for facetogenic spinal pain | Reda Tolba | ||
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Cordotomy and Cingulotomy for Pain relief | Ido Strauss | ||
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Radiofrequency lesioning for trigeminal neuralgia - What next | Mojgan Hodaie | ||
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Chemical Neurolysis for cancer pain | R P Gehdoo | ||
| 19:30 onwards | Dinner & Cultural Program | |||
| Workshop - 5 | ||||
| DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP | ||||
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Basic programming steps - monopolar review | L K Prashanth | ||
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Understanding Voltage/Pulse Width and Frequencies in DBS programming | TBA | ||
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Advanced programming in Parkinson’s disease - Tips and Pearls | Elena Moro | ||
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Programming in dystonia | Jens Volkmann | ||
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Programming across different technologies: Panel Discussion | Moderator - Pettarusp Wadia/ Sharan Srinivasan | ||
| Panel - Elena Moro, Jens Volkmann, Andrea Kuhn, Alfonso Fasano, Charulata Sankhla" | ||||
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Coffee Break | |||
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Challenging Programming Cases (6 min + 4 min discussion) | Moderators: Andrea Kuhn/Alfonso Fasano Presenters: Pettarusp Wadia, Guruprasad Hosurkar, Sumit Singh, Pankaj Agarwal | ||
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Hands-On programming Workshop | Elena Moro, Jens Volkmann, Pettarusp Wadia, Rukmini Mridula | ||
| 19:30 onwards | Dinner & Cultural Program | |||
| Workshop - 6 | ||||
| NEUROMODULATION WITHOUT DEVICES | ||||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Neurovascular Modulation: A New Mechanistic Paradigm Linking Diverse Invasive and Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Approaches | Marom Bikson | ||
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Neuroscience of Meditation | Sudhir Shah | ||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Cognitive enhancement through guided meditation | Shraddha Shah | ||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Sleep as a Neuromodulator | Joy Desai | ||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 16:30 - 17:00 | The Neuroscience of Shushupti and Jagrata and its consequence on equanimity | Hari Subramanian | ||
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Yoga as a Neuromodulator | W Selvamurthy | ||
| 17:30 - 18:00 | The Saraswatisadhana Experiment | Urvashi Shah | ||
| 19:30 onwards | Dinner & Cultural Program | |||
| Workshop - 7 | ||||
| CADAVER WORKSHOP | ||||
| Venue: MGM Medical College, Sector 1, Kamothe, Navi Mumbai - 410209 | ||||
| Note: Delegates will be divided into 2 batches - Batch 1 lectures in the morning and hands-on stations in the afternoon. Batch 2 vice-versa." | ||||
| PART 1: HANDS-ON WORKSTATIONS | ||||
| Workshop In-Charge: Steven Falowski, Preeti Doshi | ||||
| Workshop Coordinators: Prakash Deshmukh, Meghana Patwardhan" | ||||
| Morning Session (08:30 - 12:05) | ||||
| Station | International Faculty | Relievers | National Faculty | |
| Station A - Spinal Cord Stimulation - Lumbar | Vivek Mehta | Steven Falowski (9:50-10:30) | Kailash Kothari, Snehal Panchal | |
| Station B - Cervical Spinal cord stimulation | Ashish Gulve | Sudhir Diwan (9:50-10:30) | Sweta Salgaonkar, Pratibha Matche | |
| Station C - Surgical skills station | Ann-Katrin Fritz | - | Prakash Deshmukh, Sidharth Verma | |
| Station D - Intrathecal drug delivery system | Neel Mehta | Kavita Poply (10:45-11:25) | Sunita Lawange, Manjiri Ranade | |
| Station E - USG guided PNS | Anuj Bhatia | Anuj Bhatia/Rajendra Sahoo (10:45-11:25) | Krishna Poddar, Babita Ghai | |
| 12:05 - 12:30 | Lunch Break | |||
| Afternoon Session (12:30 - 16:05) | ||||
| Station A - Spinal Cord Stimulation - Lumbar | Vivek Mehta | Hemant Kalia (1:50-2:30) | Hitesh Patel, Nana Morkane | |
| Station B - Cervical Spinal cord stimulation | Ashish Gulve | Mayank Gupta (1:50-2:30) | Samir Desai, Hammad Usmani | |
| Station C - Surgical skills station | Ann-Katrin Fritz | - | Pravesh Kanthed, Ravi Shankar Sharma | |
| Station D - Intrathecal drug delivery system | Neel Mehta | Steven Falowski (2:45-3:25) | Rajendra Sahoo, Sudheer Dara | |
| Station E - USG guided PNS | Anuj Bhatia | Anuj Bhatia/Rajendra Sahoo (2:45-3:25) | Navita Purohit | |
| PART 2: LECTURES | ||||
| Morning Session (08:00 - 12:00) | ||||
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Registration/Orientation | Preeti Doshi | ||
| 08:30 - 08:55 | How to select the right device | Sudhir Diwan | ||
| 08:55 - 09:20 | Technique and tips for conventional SCS | Steven Falowski | ||
| 09:20 - 09:55 | Novel waveforms and Newer technologies | Kavita Poply | ||
| 09:55 - 10:30 | Intrathecal drug delivery: Technology, and Drugs and PNS | Hemant Kalia | ||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:00 - 11:25 | Complications of Neuromodulation - Prevention and Management | Mayank Gupta | ||
| 11:25-12:00 | Discussion - All Faculty & Delegates | |||
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Lunch Break | |||
| Afternoon Session (12:30 - 17:30) | ||||
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Orientation/Preparation | Preeti Doshi | ||
| 13:00 - 13:25 | How to select the right device | Sudhir Diwan | ||
| 13:25 - 13:50 | Technique and tips for conventional SCS | Steven Falowski | ||
| 13:50 - 14:25 | Novel Waveforms and Newer technologies | Kavita Poply | ||
| 14:25 - 15:00 | Intrathecal drug delivery: Technology and Drugs and PNS | Hemant Kalia | ||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 15:30 - 15:55 | Complications of Neuromodulation - Prevention and Management | Mayank Gupta | ||
| 15:55 - 16:30 | Discussion - All Faculty & Delega | |||
| 19:30 onwards | Dinner & Cultural Program | |||
| Day 2 (12th Nov 2022) | ||||
| KEYNOTE SESSION | ||||
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Cortical Stimulation for Motor Recovery | Robert Levy | ||
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Evolution of Neuromodulation in the next decade: As I see | Konstantin Slavin | ||
| 09:30 - 10:10 | Delivering neuromodulation in an Emerging Economy | Marc Russo | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break and Poster Viewing | |||
| Hall A | ||||
| TRACK - PAIN | ||||
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Basics of neuromodulation | Jeffrey Arle | ||
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Assessment and objective documentation of Neuropathic Pain with role of Neuromodulation in its management | Arun Bhaskar | ||
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Indications and selection of Device: SCS or ITDD | Salim Hayek | ||
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Elucidating mechanism of actions of SCS with intraoperative neuromonitoring | Steven Falowski | ||
| 11:50 - 12:10 | New comprehensive theory for the mechanism of action of SCS | Jeffrey Arle | ||
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Determining the therapeutic window for SCS | Lawrence Poree | ||
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Current evidence on SCS and its long-term value | Sam Eldabe | ||
| 12:50 - 13:10 | Can we use imaging and bio-markers to understand and predict outcomes of spinal cord stimulation? | Anuj Bhatia | ||
| 13:10 - 15:00 | Lunch Symposia | |||
| TRACK - PAIN | ||||
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Role of Botulinum Toxin in chronic refractory pain syndromes | Hemant Kalia | ||
| 15:20 - 15:40 | How to start a practice in neuromodulation and select the right device? | Timothy Deer | ||
| 15:40 - 16:00 | How to prevent and manage infections in the practice of Neuromodulation | Preeti Doshi | ||
| 16:00 - 16:20 | How to use Neuromodulation effectively for Visceral pain | Mayank Gupta | ||
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Selection of patients and Technique of Neuromodulation for Cardiac Diseases | Mike Dejongste | ||
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Mechanisms and clinical outcomes of electrical neuromodulation for cardiovascular diseases | Mike Dejongste | ||
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Spinal Cord Stimulation for painful diabetic neuropathy | Sarah Love Jones | ||
| 17:20 - 17:50 | Education and Training : The need and the answer | Ahmed Alkhani/Vivek Mehta | ||
| 19:30 onwards | Dinner & Cultural Program | |||
| Hall B | ||||
| TRACK - NEUROLOGY/NEUROSURGERY | ||||
| 10:30 - 10:50 | My experience with Directional Leads | Alfonso Fasano | ||
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Closed loop DBS- What is the value add? | Andrea Kuhn | ||
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Neuromodulation of the wall of an abnormal brain cavity | Bart Nuttin | ||
| 11:30 - 12:10 | Early Stim Debate - Should All Patients be offered early surgery? (4-7 years) | Moderator: TBA For: Jens Volkmann Against: Elena Moro | ||
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Selection of patients for PD and Tremor Surgery | Hrishikesh Kumar | ||
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Tremor connundrum resolved | Kailash Bhatia | ||
| 12:50 - 13:10 | Deep Brain Stimulation: Potential for Neuroprotection | Suneil Kalia | ||
| 13:10 - 15:00 | Lunch Symposia | |||
| Day 2 (12th Nov 2022) | ||||
| TRACK - NEUROSURGERY | ||||
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Molecular Neuromodulation - an update and the path forward | Suneil Kalia | ||
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Laser ablation of epileptogenic lesions | Ido Strauss | ||
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Directional lead a boon or a curse | Stephan Chabardes | ||
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Neuromodulation for epilepsy VNS to DBS | Aditya Gupta | ||
| 16:20 - 16:40 | MRGFUS guided pallidotomy for Parkinson’s disease | Jin Woo Chang | ||
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Brain computer interface | Parag Patil | ||
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Role of DTI in DBS and MRGFUS targeting | Mojgan Hodaie | ||
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Free Paper | |||
| 19:30 onwards | Dinner & Cultural Program | |||
| Hall C | ||||
| TRACK - PSYCHIATRY | ||||
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Treatment resistance in Psychiatry: Implications for Neuromodulation | Suhas Satish | ||
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Ethical aspects of invasive neuromodulation | Thomas Schlaepfer | ||
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Electrode placement and cognitive side effects with ECT: Insights from computational modelling | Donel Martin | ||
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Re-emergence of transcranial electrical stimulation in schizophrenia | Subh Mohan Singh | ||
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Is there a role for patterned rTMS in psychiatric disorders? | Nishant Goyal | ||
| 12:10 - 12:30 | How far have we reached in accepting DBS for Neuropsychiatric disordes | Bart Nuttin | ||
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Targeting negative symptoms of schizophrenia with rTMS | Nand Kumar | ||
| 12:50 - 13:10 | Exploring social cognition with TMS | Urvakhsh Mehta | ||
| 13:10 - 15:00 | Lunch Symposia | |||
| TRACK - NEUROLOGY/NEUROSURGERY | ||||
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Quality of life tools as outcome predictor after DBS surgery | Jan Vesper | ||
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Deep Brain Stimulation for Tourette Syndrome/ DBS in PTSD | Dwarakanath Srinivas | ||
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Modulating the neural circuitry of OCD with tDCS | Shalini Naik | ||
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Neuromodulation in the context of MHCA 2017 | Venugopal Jhanwar | ||
| 16:20 - 16:40 | NIBS for special populations in Psychiatrist | Umesh Shreekantiah | ||
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Deep Brain stimulation for Neuropsychiatric disorders - Australian experience | Perminder Sachdev | ||
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Non invasive neuromodualation for movement disorders | Nitish Kamble | ||
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Free paper | |||
| 19:30 onwards | Dinner & Cultural Program | |||
| Day 3 - (13th Nov 2022) | ||||
| KEYNOTE SESSION | ||||
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Using computational modelling to develop effective Neuromodulation protocols for Parkinson’s Disease | V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy | ||
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Coffee Break and Poster Viewing | |||
| Hall A | ||||
| TRACK - NEUROSURGERY/NEUROLOGY | ||||
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Dystonia conundrum - Surgical perspectives | Kailash Bhatia | ||
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Surgery for Dystonia - Case Selection | Andrea Kuhn | ||
| 11:10 - 11:30 | DBS for Dystonia - Improving outcomes through technological and clinical advances | Joachim Krauss | ||
| 11:30 - 11:50 | DBS for Tardive dystonia/Focal dystonia/Huntington’s disease | Jan Vesper | ||
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Lesional Surgeries in Functional Neurosurgery | Paresh Doshi | ||
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Evolving role of MRGFUS in Functional Neurosurgery | Jin Woo Chang | ||
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Midbrain Periaqueductal gray control of autonomic dyreflexia accompanying both movement and psychiatric disorders and their therapeutic opportunities for neuromodulation | Hari Subramanian | ||
| 12:50 - 13:10 | What went wrong with the SCCG trial for depression and the way forwards | Konstantin Slavin | ||
| 13:10 - 15:00 | Lunch Symposia | |||
| TRACK - PAIN | ||||
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Chronic refractory pelvic pain - Which is the best NM modality | Krishnan Chakravarthy | ||
| 15:20 - 15:40 | New Indications for Sacral Nerve Stimulation: Overactive Bladder and Bowel Incontinence (Urology) | Amit Chakrabarty | ||
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Future of SCS and waveforms | Marc Russo | ||
| 16:00 - 16:20 | DRG Spinal Cord Stimulation - Technique and Outcomes | Lawrence Poree | ||
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Evoked Synaptic Excitatory Potentials (ESAPs): Origins and implications for Spinal Cord Stimulation | Marom Bikson | ||
| 16:40 - 17:00 | PACC guidelines for drugs used in Intrathecal drug delivery systems | Salim Hayek | ||
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Indian experience of Sacral nerve stimulation | Shailesh Raina | ||
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Discussion | |||
| Hall B | ||||
| TRACK - PAIN | ||||
| 10:30 - 10:50 | “ECAP controlled closed loop SCS” - Simplified | Robert Levy | ||
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Neuromodulation for Chronic refractory Headaches | Ashish Gulve | ||
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Neuromodulation for virgin back patients - evidence and future | Vivek Mehta | ||
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Role of paraesthesia - free stimulation modalities in chronic pain “Compare HFS and Burst” | Ann-Katrin Fritz | ||
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Tailoring intrathecal therapy to match your patient’s needs and systematic troubleshooting | Sudhir Diwan | ||
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Free Paper | |||
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Free Paper | |||
| 12:50 - 13:10 | Free Paper | |||
| 13:10 - 15:00 | Lunch Symposia | |||
| Day 3 - (13th Nov 2022) | ||||
| TRACK- NEUROSURGERY/NEUROLOGY | ||||
| 15:00 - 15:20 | DBS: Awake or Asleep? | Anandh Balasubramaniam | ||
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Imaging the STN and Gpi | Raghuram G | ||
| 15:40 - 16:00 | DBS programming for Neurosurgeon | Manish Baldia | ||
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Setting up of a functional neurosurgery program | Sandeep Vaishya | ||
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Epilepsy- a review and Indian experience | Nilesh Kurwale | ||
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Free Paper | |||
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Free Paper | |||
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Free Paper | |||
| 17:40 - 18:00 | Free Paper | |||
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