Joint IMSVISUAL-NAIMS Symposium

Thursday, February 27, 2020, 11:15 am – 1:45 pm
Palm Beach County Convention Center, Grand Ballroom

This symposium is included in your ACTRIMS Forum 2020 registration. You must be registered for the Forum to attend this symposium.


Part 1: Chaired by Jiwon Oh, University of Toronto; Alex Brandt, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
11:15am-11:35am	Harmonizing Neuroimaging Data in Collaborative Networks Taki Shinohara, University of Pennsylvania
11:35am-11:50am	Visual Outcomes in Pediatric Demyelinating Disorders Ann Yeh, The Hospital for Sick Children
11:50am-12:05pm	Retinal Ganglion Cell Layer Thickness for Risk Stratification in Early Multiple Sclerosis Hanna Zimmermann, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
12:05pm-12:15pm	A New MRI Method for Visualizing Subpial Cortical Lesions at 3 Tesla Erin Beck, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health
12:15pm-12:45pm	LUNCH
Part 2: Chaired by Shiv Saidha, Johns Hopkins University; Eric Klawiter, Massachusetts General Hospital
12:45pm-1:00pm	Genetic Predictors of Visual Dysfunction in People with Multiple Sclerosis Kathryn Fitzgerald, Johns Hopkins University
1:00pm-1:20pm	Imaging Correlates of Axonal Damage in MS Susie Huang, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
1:20pm-1:35pm	VISIONARY-MS: A Phase 2 clinical trial of catalytic gold nanocrystals, CNM-Au8, for the treatment of chronic optic neuropathy Robert Glanzman, Clene Nanomedicine, Inc.
1:35pm-1:45pm	Functional Connectivity Predicts MS Patients' Impairment Using An Ensemble Model Applied With A Machine Learning Approach Ceren Tozlu, Weill Cornell Medicine

September 20, 2019February 3, 2020

Save the Date – IMSVISUAL Events at the ACTRIMS Forum

Please save the date for the following IMSVISUAL Events, taking place in conjunction with the ACTRIMS Forum 2020 in West Palm Beach, February 27-29, 2020.

IMSVISUAL Member Meeting: 7:30-9:00am, Thursday, February 27
Joint NAIMS-IMSVISUAL Symposium: 11:15am-1:45pm, Thursday, February 27

August 13, 2019August 26, 2019

2019 ECTRIMS Meeting of IMSVISUAL

IMSVISUAL Meeting

Thursday, September 12, 2019, 17:00
Meeting Room B9, Stockholmsmässan
ECTRIMS Congress Venue

Preliminary Programme

17:00	Welcome and Proceedings F. Paul, Berlin
17:15	Results of the OCTIMS study F. Paul, Berlin
17:30	OCT in experimental MS models P. Albrecht, Düsseldorf
17:45	Vision investigator race 4 brief presentations by junior researchers TBD
18:45	Miscellaneous and Farewell
19:00	End

Snacks and beverages will be provided.

Registration

The number of participants is limited to 50 pax. Please RSVP until September 5th, 2019, by using the online registration form.

January 10, 2019August 26, 2019

IMSVISUAL Symposium at ACTRIMS Forum 2019

It is our pleasure to invite you to our IMSVISUAL symposium at ACTRIMS Forum 2019 (being held in Dallas, Texas, February 28 – March 2), to discuss updates on vision research in multiple sclerosis and related disorders. For the third consecutive year we are fortunate to have secured ACTRIMS as our sponsor.

The symposium, integrated into the ACTRIMS program and CME accredited, will take place on Thursday, February 28th from 12:30pm – 1:45pm. Please see below the confirmed agenda for talks/speakers during the session. This symposium/session is open to all attendees of the ACTRIMS Forum 2019.

I think this will be an exciting symposium with presentations from
several groups representing existing IMSVISUAL member sites from
around the world.

We look forward to seeing you all in Dallas!

IMSVISUAL symposium at the ACTRIMS Forum 2019, Thursday, February 28th

Session Chairs: Laura Balcer, NYU Langone Health and Elena Martínez-Laspiscina, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona

Symposium Schedule

1: “Is there progressive retinal damage in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders?”
Friedemann Paul, NeuroCure Clinical Research Center

2: “Smartphone Suite of Visual Tests in Multiple Sclerosis”
Randy Kardon, University of Iowa Health Care

3: “Corneal Confocal Microscopy: “A rapid non-invasive technique to image neurodegeneration”
Ioannis Petropoulos, Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar

4: “Dynamics of retinal layer atrophy in normal aging and multiple sclerosis”
Elias Sotirchos, Johns Hopkins University

5: “Retinal imaging in EAE for translational neuroprotection studies”
Philipp Albrecht, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf