Webinar: ICNTN Webinar Series by ICNTN 2021

Meet the Presenters

Ingrid Tein

Director of the Neurometabolic Clinic and Research Laboratory, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.

Dr. Tein is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto and founder and Director of the Neurometabolic Clinic, Investigational Unit and Research Laboratory in 1991, Staff Neurologist in the Division of Neurology and Senior Associate Scientist in the Genetics and Genomic Biology Program in the Research Institute at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children.

Dr. Tein directs the Neurometabolic Clinic for the investigation and treatment of children with fatty acid oxidation, mitochondrial, and peroxisomal disorders and cofactor-responsive epilepsies. Her Neuroinvestigational Unit includes prospective cross-over cofactor trials in children with mitochondrial disorders and the ergometric investigation of metabolic myopathies using BOLD-MRI and 31P-MRS spectroscopy.
Shlomo Shinnar

Professor, The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology

Dr. Shlomo Shinnar is a neurologist, pediatrician and epidemiologist. His expertise focuses on comprehensive epilepsy management, child neurology and epilepsy with a focus on long term studies the prognosis of childhood seizures disorders. He is also an experienced clinical trialist and is the co-director of the Einstein NeuroNEXT cener of Excellence for Clinical Trials in Neurology.

Sessions in this ICNTN series

Ingrid Tein

Neurometabolic disorders: The ones that should not be missed

This webinar will discuss how to recognize the clinical phenotypes of treatable vitamin- and cofactor-responsive early-onset encepha... View more
Precision medicine and Epilepsy Genetics

Treatment of epilepsy remains largely empirical, and individual prescribing based on the mechanism of action is generally not possibl... View more
FEBSTAT: What have we learned so far?

This webinar will discuss the latest findings from The FEBSTAT (Consequences of Prolonged Febrile Seizures) study which prospectively... View more
Pediatric Ischemic stroke: Recent practical advances in acute interventions
Encephalopathic Newborn: It is not HIE, then what?
Pattern recognition in white matter disorders and leukodystrophies

Professor Marjo S. van der Knaap talks on the utility of pattern recognition in white matter disorders and leukodystrophies.
Autoimmune Encephalitis beyond NMDA-R Abs
Practical management of Childhood Narcolepsy/Cataplexy
Pediatric Epilepsy surgery: Have the concepts changed?