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Heinen-Florian

Dear Colleagues, dear Friends

The 2025 EPNS Pre-Congress, entitled “The Child and the Brain. Where it’s all started. One day of interactive future.” brings together clinical examination, neurological/neurosurgical/imaging topography, artificial intelligence, neuromodulation, gene therapy and philosophy. The auditorium – open to around 140 participants – and breakout sessions will allow for intensive discussion of each topic.

The EPNS Pre-Congress is offered by the German-Speaking Society of Neuropaediatrics (GNP), representing Switzerland, Austria and Germany. It will take place in one of Munich most modern and innovative places – the BrainLab – just a few meters from our main congress site.

Expect a deeper look in our future with new take-home perspectives – clinical and intellectual.

A warm welcome from the GNP!

Prof. Dr. Florian Heinen
Congress Chair

PD Dr. Lucia Gerstl
Congress Secretary

Programme

Tuesday, 08 July 2025, 10:00 – 17:15 CET

09:30 - 10:00
Registration, coffee break and visit of the industrial exhibition
10:00 - 12:30
Format 1 – Talks & Discussion – Thinking the Future
10:00 - 10:30
The Archimedean point where Neuroanatomy started – The neurological examination in children
Alasdair Parker, Cambridge, United Kingdom
10:30 - 11:00
Where Neuroanatomy becomes complicated – Neuronavigation in Paediatric Neurosurgery
Sandro Krieg, Heidelberg, Germany
11:00 - 11:30
Where Neuromodulation becomes innovative – repetitive magnetic stimulation in children (for headache & CP)
Michaela Bonfert, Munich, Germany
Steffen Berweck, Munich, Germany
11:30 - 12:00
Where innovation becomes common – SMA – mission accomplished?
Katharina Vill, Munich, Germany
Matias Wagner, Munich, Germany
12:00 - 12:30
Discussion Podium
Carsten Bönnemann, Bethesda, USA
Aurelia Peraud, Ulm, Germany
Ingo Borggräfe, Munich, Germany
Peter Baxter, Sheffield, Germany

For the interactive demonstration (format 2), the participants are divided into 2 groups. The groups will be reunited for Coffee Break at 15:30.

Group 1

12:30 - 12:45
Coffee break and cereal bar
12:45 - 14:00
Format 2 - Interactive Demonstration in groups – Deep inside the Future – Neuronavigation – The real BrainLab
4 Groups – Changing – each 15 Min and 5 Minutes changing time
F2.1
Brain Navigation, Brain Surgery
Sebastian Ille, Heidelberg, Germany (Clinic 1)
F2.2
Spinal Navigation, Neurosurgery
Ahmed El Damaty, Heidelberg, Germany (Clinic 2)
F2.3
Neuroimaging, Neuroradiology – What is to come
Nico Sollmann, Munich, Germany (Academy)
F2.4
Anatomy in 3D
Sandro Krieg, Heidelberg, Germany (Spacelab)
14:05 - 15:30
Lunch break and visit of the industrial exhibition

Group 2

12:30 - 13:45
Lunch break and visit of the industrial exhibition
14:05 - 15:30
Format 2 - Interactive Demonstration in groups – Deep inside the Future – Neuronavigation – The real BrainLab
4 Groups – Changing – each 15 Min and 5 Minutes changing time
F2.1
Brain Navigation, Brain Surgery
Sebastian Ille, Heidelberg, Germany (Clinic 1)
F2.2
Spinal Navigation, Neurosurgery
Ahmed El Damaty, Heidelberg, Germany (Clinic 2)
F2.3
Neuroimaging, Neuroradiology – What is to come
Nico Sollmann, Munich, Germany (Academy)
F2.4
Anatomy in 3D
Sandro Krieg, Heidelberg, Germany (Spacelab)

The groups will be reunited for the further programme.

15:30 - 15:45
Coffee break and visit of the industrial exhibition
15:45 - 17:15
Format 1 – F1– Talks & Discussion – Thinking the Future
15:45 - 16:15
Big Data bright future?
Stefan Vilsmeier, Munich, Germany
16:15 - 16:45
Where ‘Digitality’ is explained by childhood – a new philosophy?
Jörg Noller, Munich, Germany
16:45 - 17:15
Discussion Podium
Finbar O’Callaghan, London, United Kingdom
Georg Marckmann, Munich, Germany
Andrea Klein, Bern, Switzerland
Andreas Meyer-Heim, Zurich, Switzerland
17:15
End of Pre-Congress

Faculty

Peter Baxter, United Kingdom
Steffen Berweck, Germany
Michaela Bonfert, Germany
Carsten Bönnemann, USA
Ingo Borggräfe, Germany
Ahmed El Damaty, Germany
Sebastian Ille, Germany
Andrea Klein, Switzerland
Sandro Krieg, Germany
Georg Marckmann, Germany

Andreas Meyer-Heim, Switzerland
Jörg Noller, Germany
Finbar O’Callaghan, United Kingdom
Alasdair Parker, United Kingdom
Aurelia Peraud, Germany
Nico Sollmann, Germany
Katharina Vill, Germany
Stefan Vilsmeier, Germany
Matias Wagner, Germany

CME Certification

The EPNS Pre-Congress will be submitted to the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) for evaluation. We will inform you in good time about the allocation of European CME credits (ECMEC®s). You will receive the information directly after the announcement here or in the congress newsletter.

Industry

Be part of the Pre-Congress – one of the highlights preceding the EPNS congress itself!

Approx. 140 medical experts working in the field of Neuromodulation and searching for possibilities for the therapy of spinal amyotrophia from all over the world are expected to participate in Munich, Germany. The corresponding exhibition takes place on Tuesday, 08 July 2025. It offers many opportunities to interact with all present medical professionals.

The Pre-Congress is the ideal forum to present your company and latest products to international experts.

Are you interested in participating?

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Registration

The day ticket for the Pre-Congress as part of the 16th EPNS Congress entitles you to participate on 8 July 2025 including refreshments during breaks and certification; congress registration is also required. Please note that the Pre-Congress requires a separate registration and is not included in the Congress ticket. Contingent for participation is limited.

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Pre-Congress Venue

In the Auditorium at Brainlab
Olof-Palme-Straße 9
81829 Munich

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