Paediatric Neurology Update 2025

Join us for a comprehensive update on the latest advances and management strategies in paediatric neurology at this year's Paediatric Neurology Update. Hosted by the Neurology Department at The Children's Hospital at Westmead (CHW), this event brings together leading experts in various subspecialty fields of paediatric neurology to discuss the management of common childhood neurological disorders, an update on research into those disorders and emerging treatments.

Whether you're a paediatrician, trainee, paediatric neurologist or allied health professional, the update offers valuble insights for the day-to-day practice and management of neurological conditions in children.

This year's program will cover a range of topics in paediatric neurology across 4 focused sessions.

Acute neurological presentations

• Neonatal encephalopathy
• Infection-triggered encephalopathy
• Infections of the CNS

Neurological disorders

• All things tic/Tourette's
• Acquired accidental and non-accidental brain injuries
• Gait abnormalities in neurological presentations

Epilepsy

• First seizure presentation and management
• Exploration of new and old seizure management
• Investigating neurological conditions with a focus on genetic testing.

Clinical video session and quiz

• Phenomenology in neurological conditions

09:00 AM - Welcome and housekeeping

Session 1

09:15 AM - Brains with neonatal problems | Dr Esther Tantsis

09:45 AM - Acute encephalopathy: ITES | Dr Christopher Troedson

10:15 AM - A bug in the system: An ID guide to what is bugging your patient's grey matter | Dr Joel Vosu

10:45 AM - Q&A session

11:00 AM - Morning tea

Session 2

11:30 AM - Tics/Tourette's and co-morbidities | Prof Russell Dale

12:00 PM - Brain injury: differentiating NAI from TBI | Dr Grace Wong, Dr Kristina Prelog

12:30 PM - Using the gait examination to identify neurological disease | Dr Richard Webster

01:00 PM - Q&A session

01:15 PM - Lunch

Session 3

02:00 PM - Approach to the first seizure | Dr Wui-Kwan Wong

02:30 PM - New treatments for epilepsy | A/Prof Deepak Gill

03:00 PM - Anti-seizure medications - old and new | Dr Sachin Gupta

03:30 PM - Genetic investigations in neurology (including epilepsy) - Dr Simone Ardern-Holmes

03:45 PM - Q&A session

04:00 PM - Afternoon tea

Session 4

This session will be run as an interactive quiz including clinical scenarios, videos and images.

04:20 PM - Clinical video session with quiz | A/Prof Shekeeb Mohammad

05:00 PM - Conference close

• Dr Simone Ardern-Holmes: Senior Staff Specialist, CHW and Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sydney. She has extensive experience in treating children with conditions such as epilepsy and seizures, headaches, migraines, movement and developmental disorders, genetic neurological conditions, nervous system tumours, and many others.
• Prof Russell Dale: Professor in Paediatric Neurology, with a keen interest in the interactions between the brain and immune system, and how neurological biomarkers can contribute to the understanding of disease processes and development of future therapeutics.
• A/Prof Deepak Gill: Paediatric Neurologist with over 23 year's experience. He is a consultant at The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney and University of Melbourne, and Head of the Epilepsy Research

• Dr Sachin Gupta: Head of the Department of Neurology at CHW. His main interests are paediatric epilepsy and epilepsy surgery. His presentation will discuss the common ASMs and the place of new ASMs in managing children with epilepsy.
• A/Prof Shekeeb Mohammad: Associate Professor and Paediatric Neurologist with a special interest in movement disorders.
• Dr Kristina Prelog: Co-head of the Department of Radiology at CHW. She is an experienced neuroradiologist and has published widely on a range of radiological features of diseases in peadiatric neurology.
• Dr Esther Tantsis: Paediatric Neurologist with subspecialty interest in cerebral palsy, neurogentics and genetics of epilepsy. She is the medical lead for the Cerebral Palsy Alliance early diagnosis clinic.
• Dr Christopher Troedson: Visiting Paediatric Neurologist, Royal Darwin Hospital. His interests include foetal neurology, neuroradiology and acute/critical care neurology.
• Dr Joel Vosu: Infectious Diseases Fellow at CHW, undertaking advanced training in paediatric infecious diseases, microbiology, and general paediatrics. He has a special interest in Staphylococcus aureus infections and high-consequence infectious diseases.
• Dr Richard Webster: Paediatric Neurologist with expertise in neurogenetic, neurocognitive and neuromuscular disorders. One of his main interests is the development of clinical skills in paediatric neurology.
• Dr Grace Wong: Senior Staff Specialist Forensic Paediatrician and head of the Child Protection Unit at CHW. She has worked in the field of chid protection and forensic medicine as a specialist paediatrician since 2014.
• Dr Wui-Kwan Wong: Paediatric Neurology Consultant with subspecialty experience in epilepsy surgery and neurogenetics.

This year's Update is available for in-person attendance only. To offer greater flexibility to our participants, the sessions will be recorded and made available for on-demand viewing for up to 3 months.

Places are limited - only 120 tickets available! Complete the registration to secure your place.

• Paediatrician/General Practitioner/Consultant: $250 incl. GST
• Trainee/Junior Medical/Allied Health/Nurse: $150 incl. GST
• Recordings only: $100 incl. GST

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November is shaping up to be the largest education extravaganza at The Children's Hospital at Westmead. We're excited to bring together leading experts in their field to discuss current advances in research and practice, and cover emerging trends in a range of paediatric sub-specialities.

See our events line-up below.

• Monday, 10 November: Paediatric Emergency Update
• Tuesday, 11 November: CIRCAN Symposium 2025 (Paediatric inpatient research focused)
• Wednesday, 12 November: Paediatric Neurology Update (register on this page)
• Thursday 13 - Friday 14 November: CHW Paediatric Update

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