Utah at AAN! The American Academy of Neurology will hold their

Utah at AAN!
The American Academy of Neurology will hold their AAN Annual Meeting
in Philadelphia from April 26 – May 3, 2014. Let’s see what Utah faculty
will be doing there…
Awards
George C. Cotzias Lecture:
Degenerative ataxias: from genes to therapy.
Stefan Pulst
Scientific Platforms
April 30th, 2014
4:00 PM
S40.001 DPPX Autoantibody: Frequency, Clinical Accompaniments and Outcomes
W. Oliver Tobin, Vanda Lennon, Lark Komorowski, Christian Probst, Stacey Clardy, Allen
Aksamit, Claudia Lucchinetti, Sean Pittock, Maja Tippmann-Peikert, Elaine Wirrell, Andrew
McKeon
4:20 PM
S41.003 Symptom codes and opioids: disconcerting headache practice in academic primary
care
Collin Farrell, Greg Keough, Susan Baggaley, Susan Pohl, Kathleen Digre, Lisa Gren, KC
Brennan
May 1st, 2014
2:15 PM
S47.006 Treatment of spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) with MOE antisense
oligonucleotides
Daniel Scoles, Gene Hung, Lance Pflieger, Khahn Thai, Frank Bennett, Stefan Pulst
3:15 – 5:00 PM
S55 Pediatric Stroke and Stroke in the Young
Jennifer Majersik – Session Chair
3:15 – 5:00 PM
S61 Muscle Disease: Gene Therapy and Models
Nick Johnson – Session Chair
4:00 PM
S63.004 AQP4-IgG Assays Comparison in Laboratory Clinical Service
James Fryer, Vanda Lennon, Sean Pittock, Sarah Jenkins, Stacey Clardy, Erika Horta, Eric
Jedynak, Claudia Lucchinetti, Elizabeth Shuster, Brian Weinshenker, Dean Wingerchuk,
Andrew McKeon
Scientific Posters
April 28th, 2014
3:00 – 6:30 PM
Poster Session I
P1.044 Generation of alpha synuclein (SNCA) cell models for high-throughput drug
screening using zinc-finger nuclease technology
Warunee Dansithong, Khanh Thai, Sharan Paul, Stefan Pulst, Duong Huynh
P1.045 ATAXIN-2 (ATXN2) regulates RGS8 expression via RNA interaction
Sharan Paul, Warunee Dansithong, Stefan Pulst
P1.046 Sodium-Potassium ATPase inhibitors as inhibitors of ATXN2 expression
Daniel Scoles, Lance Pflieger, Thomas Dexheimer, David Maloney, Anton Simeonov, Ajit Jadhav,
Stefan Pulst
P1.047 Co-expression networks in generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)
Lance Pflieger, Sharan Paul, Guying Gao, Giovanni Coppola, Stefan Pulst
P1.257 Optical imaging of facial perfusion in migraine
Jonas Peterson, Lindsay Hunter, Melissa Cortez, Jeremy Theriot, KC Brennan
Selected for Data Blitz presentation at Integrated Neuroscience Session on Headache
P1.259 Characterization of Photosensitivity and Pupil Oscillation Rate in Migraine
Lindsay Hunter, Jonas Peterson, Melissa Cortez, Jeremy Theriot, KC Brennan
Selected for additional showing at Integrated Neuroscience Session on Headache
April 29th, 2014
7:30 – 11:00 AM
Poster Session II
P2.069 Regional Variation of Causative ALS Genes
Summer Gibson, Karla Figueroa, Linh P. Huynh, Mark Bromberg, Stefan Pulst
P2.070 Meta-Analysis of ALS Risk for Ataxin-2 (SCA2) CAG Repeat Alleles
Annalese G. Neuenschwander, Khanh Thai, Karla Figueroa, Stefan Pulst
P2.270 Hydrocephalus in Neuromyelitis Optica
Stacey Clardy, Claudia Lucchinetti, Karl Krecke, Vanda Lennon, Orna O’Toole, Brian
Weinshenker, Clara Boyd, Stephen Krieger, Corey McGraw, Yong Guo, Sean Pittock
3:00 – 6:30 PM
Poster Session III
P3.110 Quantifying cerebral collaterals in carotid artery dissection may help stratify stroke
risk
Andrew M. Southerland, John R. Gaughen, Jr., Timothy L. McMurry, Max Wintermark, Jennifer
Majersik, Bradford Worrall
May 1st, 2014
7:30 – 11:00 AM
Poster Session VI
P6.047 Coenzyme Q10, Statin, and Spinocerebellar Ataxias
Sheng-Han Kuo, Raymond Lo, Karla Figueroa, Stefan Pulst, Susan Perlman, George Wilmot,
Christopher Gomez, Jeremy Schmahmann, Henry Paulson, Vikram Shakkottai, Sarah Ying,
Theresa Zesiewicz, Khalaf Bushara, Michael Geschwind, Guangbin Xia, S. Subramony, Tetsuo
Ashizawa
Selected for additional showing at Integrated Neuroscience Session
P6.056 Autoimmune Cerebellar Degeneration with Voltage Gated Calcium Channel
Antibodies: A Case Report and Study of Antibody Reactivity
Marilyn McKasson, Stacey, Clardy, Mark Bromberg, Noel Carlson, John Greenlee
3:00 – 6:30 PM
Poster Session VII
P7.120 The Western States Stroke Consortium Telestroke Project
Gene Sung, Bart Demaerschalk, Christopher Fanale, Jennifer Majersik, Matthew Grantz, Nobl
Barazangi, Dan Capampangan
Educational Lectures
April 27th, 2014
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
C44 Update on Ataxias
Stefan Pulst
1:00 – 1:55 PM
C37 Treatment of Neuromuscular Diseases, Therapy in Neurology
Gordon Smith
April 28th, 2014
9:15 – 9:35 AM
C69 Clinical Approach to a Patient with Dementia, Improving Accuracy of Dementia
Diagnosis: Case Studies with Both Imaging and Neuropathology
Edward Zamrini
9:35 – 9:55 AM
C69 Using Imaging to Evaluate Dementia, Improving Accuracy of Dementia Diagnosis: Case
Studies with Both Imaging and Neuropathology
Norman Foster
11:05 AM – 12:00 PM
C67 Chronic meningitis, Infections of the Nervous System, Part I
John Greenlee
April 30th, 2014
1:00 – 2:00 PM
General Neurology as a Career, The Resident Experience
Michael E. Markowski, Awais Riaz
2:15 – 5:30 PM
C112 Patient #3, Neuromuscular Bedside Rounds Skills Pavilion
Gordon Smith
May 2nd, 2014
10:45 – 11:30 AM
C144 Neuromuscular Diseases, Neurology Update II
Gordon Smith