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Without Borders Blog: The Changing Landscape of Pediatric Neuro-HIVDavid Bearden, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Rochester, NY -- USAI started working with patients with HIV in 1990’s as a research assistant on HIV adherence studies. Things weren’t as bad as they had been during the eighties, but we still lost a lot of patients to central nervous system infections. At that time, the HIV epidemic in the United States was in the process of transitioning from a nearly universally fatal disease to a chronic, somewhat manageable illness. Over the course of the next ten years, this transition occurred at different speeds and with different success rates in different populations, but by the time I started pediatric neurology residency in 2006, many of the pediatricians I worked with had never taken care of a sick child with HIV, and neurologic complications of HIV in children had become quite uncommon. When I talked about my interest in neurologic complications of HIV in residency interviews, one of the most common responses was “I didn’t know HIV caused any neurologic problems.”
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Congress Report: The 23rd World Congress of Neurology, September 16 - 21, 2017, Kyoto, Japan
Steven L. Lewis, MD, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA and Wolfgang Grisold, MD, KFJ hospital, Vienna, Austria
We are pleased to report on the XXIII Congress of the World Federation of Neurology, which took place from September 16 - 21, 2017 in Kyoto, Japan. This report is based in large part on our report on the World Congress that we recently published in World Neurology (1), the WFN’s official newsletter. Interested readers are also encouraged also to sign up for a free subscription to World Neurology.
The World Congress of Neurology is the premiere international conference of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN) and occurs every two years, rotating among each of six major regions of the world, and hosted by a national neurological society (2). This rotation among many regions of the world, to quote WFN president Raad Shakir, “ensures its diversity and uniqueness.” (3). The location of each world congress is decided four years in advance by the WFN’s Council of Delegates (who represent the national member neurological societies from around the world [4]), who vote on nominations from the upcoming region. The previous World Congress of Neurology was held in Santiago, Chile in 2015.
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February 23, 2018: Dr. Gretchen L. Birbeck interviews Dr. Timothy Steiner, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Trondheim, Norway and Imperial College London, Division of Brain Sciences, London, United Kingdom Find the transcript here.
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Resident and Fellow Section: International Issues A Guide to U.S. Academic Global Health Programs in Neurology U.S. trainees interested in undertaking a global health elective should check out this month’s Resident’s and Fellow’s Section. In International Issues: A Guide to U.S. Academic Global Health Programs in Neurology, Samudralwar and colleagues provide pragmatic, insightful advice about how to go about doing this along with a helpful listing of existing opportunities. If you are a health professional in neurology or allied fields working outside of the US who accepts US trainees, please also check out this paper and consider adding your opportunity for neurology trainees to the online directory.
June 30th is the deadline to apply for the ANA’s International Outreach Scholarship.The purpose of the International Outreach Scholarship is to allow young neurologists the opportunity to pursue their global interests in neurology. More information can be found here.
Practice Current Newest Survey: When do you order ancillary tests to determine brain death? Neurology: Clinical Practice has just launched a new Practice Current survey. Given the broad range of approaches to determining brain death in diverse settings with varying resources, this survey promises to provide interesting insights. Please consider completing the survey to add your own perspective at NPub.org/NCP/pc07.
The American Academy of Neurology Global Health Section has posted its most recent newsletter - In this issue you'll find information on the Foundation for African Medicine & Education (FAME), Iceland's health care system, observership experiences at the Neuroscience Center of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, and The International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science in Paris.
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Meet the Editor
Dr. Gretchen Birbeck, MD, MPH, DTMH, FAAN, Without Borders Editor, Rochester, NY
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- AAN International Membership
- AAN Global Health Section
- AAN Updates on Zika Virus
- World Bank Data
- World Federation of Neurology
- International Brain Research Organization
- International Society for the Study of Pain
- World Health Organization: Neurology & Public Health
- NIH Fogarty International Center: Global Brain Disorders Research
- International League Against Epilepsy
- Global Campaign Against Epilepsy
- Lift the Burden: Global Campaign Against Headache
- Brain Disorders Across the Lifespan
Neurology PodcastApril 24, 2018 Issue