Plenary Lectures

Marc Nuwer- Adrian Plenary Lecturer

The lecture title will be “Development of IOM over the years”

Dr Nuwer is Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at UCLA, and served as Department Head for Clinical Neurophysiology at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.

As IFCN Rules chair, ExCo member, and President, he unified the Federation’s EEG and EMG activities together into Clinical Neurophysiology, and so renamed the Federation, its Congresses, its journal, and the book series.   He initiated regional Chapters to spread out IFCN’s teaching, and welcome representation and participation from everywhere. 

He was the first neurologist to establish an intraoperative evoked potential monitoring service, and develop a protocol for somatosensory IOM.   He helped create equipment, guidelines, and outcome studies, and taught IOM to generations of physicians.   His books and publications are widely cited and used. 

Claudia Sommer- Kugelberg Plenary Lecturer

The lecture will be “Autoantibodies to paranodal proteins: Mechanisms and diseases”

Claudia Sommer is a Professor of Neurology at the University of Würzburg, Germany, where she has set up outpatient clinics for patients with neuromuscular diseases and pain, including a Peripheral Nerve Laboratory with a service for nerve-, muscle- and skin biopsies. Research interests are the role of inflammation in neuropathy and pain, and how autoantibodies are related to diseases. She is speaker of the research consortium “ResolvePain” that studies mechanisms of pain resolution. Dr Sommer is active in the development of national and international guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of peripheral neuropathies. She is President Elect of the Peripheral Nerve Society (PNS) and has received the PNS 2023 Gebhart Prize for her work on inflammatory neuropathies. She is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Neurology, and has written numerous original research papers, as well as reviews and book chapters, and edited books on different aspects of peripheral neuropathies and neuropathic pain.

Fernando Cendes- Jasper Plenary Lecturer

The lecture title will be  “The Origin and Propagation of Epileptic Spikes: Insights from Three Decades of Research”  

Fernando Cendes, MD, PhD, FAAN, FAES, is a full Professor of Neurology at University of Campinas – UNICAMP, and Director of The Brazilian Research Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology (BRAINN). Dr. Cendes is the Editor-in-Chief of Epilepsia. His research is focused on Epilepsy, EEG, Neuroimaging, and Clinical Neuroscience, with more than 500 full papers published.