Sub-Saharan Africa
EAN-AFAN Regional Teaching Courses in Sub-Saharan Africa
The RTCs in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) aim at bringing teaching of excellence to residents in neurology and neighboring specialties in the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. The RTC is organised in cooperation with AFAN – African Academy of Neurology - and other scientific societies who through their contribution make the RTC possible. The EAN Task Force “Neurology and Africa” together with the EAN Education Committee and Quality Assurance task-force guarantee the high scientific standard of the RTC. This educational activity in SSA started in 2008 and saw the participation of about 900 residents from over 20 countries of SSA.
The EAN Head Office together with the Chairperson of the EAN Task Force “Neurology and Africa” and the local organizer are responsible for the logistics surrounding the RTC in SSA.
RTCs in SSA reaches out to the following audience: Residents in neurology, internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine and all neighboring specialties to neurology.
14th Regional Teaching Course in Sub-Saharan Africa
Saturday, October 28 – Tuesday, October 31, 2023 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Overarching theme
Brain health across the life span
Saturday, 28 October 2023
Stroke: what can be done, what must be done
Chairpersons: William Matuja (TNA) & Erich Schmutzhard (EAN)
09:30 – 10:00 Welcome and opening
William Matuja (Tanzania), Augustina Charway-Felli (AFAN), Paul Boon (EAN), Wolfgang Grisold (WFN), Mohamed Janabi (MNH), Tumaini Nagu (MNH)
10:00 – 10:20 Understanding and managing stroke: From the neuron to the community, a panoramic approach of the patient
Amadou Gallo Diop (Senegal) - AFAN
10:20 – 10:40 Diagnostic and therapeutic acute care stroke management. Including stroke in infectious diseases (HIV, TBC)
Osheik Seidi (Sudan) - AFAN
10:40 – 11:00 Pediatric stroke: Nuances of diagnosis and management, hemoglobinopathies, sickle cell disease and other conditions specific to children
Angelina Kakooza (Uganda) - AFAN
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 – 11:40 Stroke: Neurorehabilitation and secondary stroke prophylaxis
Mayowa Owolabi (Nigeria) - AFAN
11:40 – 12:00 Q&A time
12:00 – 13:00 Clinical Grand Rounds: Stroke
Mohamed Manji (Tanzania) TNA
13:00 – 13:30 How to ... prepare a case- or a scientific presentation
David Garcia Azorin (Spain) - EAN
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 17:00 Clinical case presentations by the faculty in rotating groups
17:00 – 17:30 Test time
Sunday, 29 October 2023
Epilepsies and seizure disorders across all ages
Chairpersons: Paul Boon (EAN) & Augustina Charway-Felli (AFAN)
09:30 – 09:50 Epilepsies: Semiology
Paul Boon (Belgium) – EAN
09:50 – 10:10 First seizure management
Marieke Dekker (Tanzania) - AFAN
10:10 – 10:30 Pharmacological management of epilepsy – choosing the ASM, rational polytherapy and pharmacoresistant epilepsy
Augustina Charway-Felli (Ghana) - AFAN
10:30 – 10:50 Contemporary and appropriate use of technology in the diagnosis and management of epilepsy
Lawrence Tucker (South Africa) - AFAN
10:50 – 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 – 11:30 Status epilepticus and NORSE: Diagnostic workup and emergency management
Fikile Ngqotso (South Africa) - ILAE
11:30 –11:50 Q&A time
11:50 – 12:50 Clinical Grand Round: Epilepsy and seizure disorders
William Matuja (Tanzania) - TNA
12:50 – 13:20 How to … apply for a scientific grant
Amadou Gallo Diop (Senegal) - AFAN
13:20 –14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 17:00 Clinical case presentations by the faculty in rotating groups
17:00 – 17:30 Test time
Monday, 30 October 2023
Emergency Neurology across all ages with specific emphasis on history and clinical presentation
Chairpersons: Wolfgang Grisold (WFN) and Sara Mosbah El-Sadig (AFAN)
09:30 – 09:50 Acute headache with and without fever
Daniele Martinelli (Italy) - IHS
09:50 - 10:10 Impairment of consciousness with and without fever
Erich Schmutzhard (Austria) - EAN
10:10 – 10:30 Acute confusional state with and without fever
Riadh Gouider (Tunisia) - PAUNS
10:30 - 10:50 Acute paraparesis with and without fever
Sara Mosbah El-Sadig (Sudan) - AFAN
10:50 – 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 – 11:30 Acute neuro-myopathies
Wolfgang Grisold (Austria) - WFN
11:30 – 11:50 Q&A time
11:50 – 12:50 Clinical Grand Rounds:Neurological emergencies
Eric Aris (Tanzania) - TNA
12:50 – 13:20 How to …. conceive a scientific project
Wolfgang Grisold (Austria) - WFN
13:20 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 17:00 Clinical case presentations by the faculty in rotating groups
17:00 – 17:30 Test time
19:30 Video dinner: Movement Disorders & Epilepsies
For invited residents and faculty at the Hotel
Tuesday, 31 October 2023
Dementias and Movement Disorders, particular emphasis on history and clinical presentation
Chairpersons: Kigocha Okengo (TNA) & Oluwadamilola Omolara Ojo (MDS)
09:30 – 09:50 Cognitive aging – from normal aging to dementia
Stella-Maria Paddick (UK) - IBRO
09:50– 10:10 Practical tools in the evaluation of cognitive impairment
Lenon Gwaunza (Zimbabwe) - AFAN
10:10 – 10:30 Movement disorders and cognitive decline
Oluwadamilola Omolara Ojo (Nigeria) - MDS
10:30 – 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 – 11:10 Treatment of Parkinson‘s disease and other Parkinsonian syndromes
Oluwadamilola Omolara Ojo (Nigeria) - MDS
11:10 – 11:30 Management of advanced neurodegenerative disease; palliative care in and out of a hospital setting
Jeremy Tanner (USA) - AAN
11:30 – 12:30 Clinical Grand Rounds: Cognitive impairment and movement disorders
Kigocha Okengo (Tanzania) - TNA
12:30 – 13:00 How to …. write a scientific paper
Jeremy Tanner (USA) - AAN
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 16:30 Clinical case presentations by the faculty in rotating groups
16:30 – 17:00 Test time
17:00 – 17:30 Closure and farewell
Organised in cooperation with:
EAN - European Academy of Neurology, AFAN - African Academy of Neurology and Tanzania Neuroscience Association
Together with the local organisers: Kigocha Okengó, Marieke Dekker, Mohamed Manji, Yusuf Jamnagerwalla and Brighton Mushengezi, William Howlett, William Matuja, Eric Aris, Sarah Urasa
Partner Organisations:
AAN American Academy of Neurology
IBRO International Brain Research Organisation
IHS International Headache Society
ILAE International League Against Epilepsy
MDS Movement Disorder Society
PAUNS Pan Arab Union of Neurological Societies
WFN World Federation of Neurology
