08.30

Registration

09.00-

10.00

Highlighting research in headache and CSF disorders

Professor Neil Miller (John Hopkins, Baltimore) and Dr Sui Wong (Moorfield and St

Thomas’s, London)

e.g. MRI-ICP/?SIH/Three misconceptions on OCT imaging of the optic nerve head/UK Trials update/?Waveform data ICP

10.00-

10.30

“This house believes visual snow is a form of migraine”

Chair: Professor Dan Milea, Singapore Eye Institute

Professor Clare Fraser, University of Sydney, Australia – 10 minutes Professor Francesca Puledda, Kings College, London – 10 minutes

Summary and debate:

10:30

Coffee Break

11.00

Animal models of headache mechanisms in raised intracranial pressure

Miss Olivia Grech, University of Birmingham

11.30

Treating migraine, CGRP and the future

Dr Brendan Davis, University Hospital Midlands and Chair of the British Association for the Study of Headache

12.00

Obesity and hormones in animal models of raised intracranial pressure

Professor Nana MacAulay, University of Copenhagen

13:00

Lunch

1400-

1420

Spontaneous intracranial hypotension

Professor Manjit Matharu, Queens Square, London

1420-

1530

The adult IIH hour

Chairs: Miss Margaret Dayan (Newcastle) and Professor Steffen Hamman (Copenhagen, Denmark)

How I manage typical idiopathic intracranial hypertension

Professor Prem Subramanian, University of Colorado, Denver, USA

How I treat idiopathic intracranial hypertension headache

Professor Alex Sinclair, Birmingham, UK

Tackling weight management

Professor Sally Abbott, University hospitals Coventry and Warwick

1530-

1630

The paediatric hour IIH hour

Chairs: Mr Richard Bowman (Great Ormond Street, London) and Miss Sally Painter

(Birmingham Children’s Hospital)

How I measure intracranial pressure in children

Mr Ahmed Toma (Queen’s Square, London)

How I manage typical idiopathic intracranial hypertension

Professor Grant Liu (Children’s Hospital Philadelphia, Philadelphia)

How I treat idiopathic intracranial hypertension headache

Dr Prab Prabhakar (Great Ormond Street, London)

16:30

Closing comments and afternoon tea for all