6:00 Exhibitor Room Opens for Setup  Metropolitan Terrace

7:00 – 8:00 Breakfast / Registration Metro Terrace / Quorum Room

7:50 – 8:00 Welcome & Review of Day Activities Jeffrey Klingman, MD (CNS Pres.)

8:00 – 8:30 Demystifying California Lawmaking Garrett Jensen (Managing Director, Friends of the University)

8:30 – 9:00 CMA & CNS: Working Together Stuart Thompson, JD (CMA)

9:00 – 9:30 California Neurology Society on the Hill Stella Legarda, MD (Montage Health)

9:30 – 10:00 YAWE: Championing Epilepsy Care & Grassroots Advocacy PANEL: Abigayle Weitl, Daniel Cohen, Wendy Steel, Natalia Sucher, Jennifer Dang

10:00 – 10:20 Coffee Break Metropolitan Terrace

10:20 – 10:50 Overview of CTE and Concussions Jeff Klingman, MD (Kaiser)

10:50 – 11:20 Health Policy (Topic TBD) Senator Richard Pan, MD (UC Davis)

11:20 – 11:40 Epilepsy Experience at an LA County Hospital & Epilepsy Transportation Act Johanna Rosenthal, MD

11:40 - 11:50 Capitol Tour Preparation Selim Yilmaz, CNS Legislative Advocate

11:45 – 12:45 Lunch Provided by CNS for Attendees Metropolitan Terrace

12:45 Walk to Capitol Gather in Citizen Hotel lobby All members welcome

1:00 – 1:30 Brief Capitol Tour Selim Yilmaz, CNS Legislative Advocate

1:30 - 3:45 Capitol Group Meetings (CNS member groups)

4:00 – 6:00 CNS Reception Metropolitan Terrace 

TBD - Product Theater – TBD 

7:00 – 9:00 Board Meeting 

7:00 – 8:00 Breakfast / Registration Metropolitan Terrace

7:50 – 8:00 Welcome Jeffrey Klingman, MD, CNS Pres.

8:00 – 9:00 Clinician Burnout: Treating the Causes and Not Sugarcoating the Symptoms Paul G. Mathew, MD (Harvard)

9:00 – 10:00 Navigating Parkinson's Disease: Diagnosis and Current Treatment Approaches Lin Zhang, MD, PhD (UC Davis)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break Metropolitan Terrace

10:30 - 11:30 Brief Review of Neuromuscular Complications Associated with Cancer Immunotherapy Ge Xiong, MD, PhD (UC Davis)

11:30 - 12:00 Discussion Section Quorum Room

12:00 - Lunch Provided by CNS for Attendees Metropolitan Terrace

12:30 – 1:30 Product Theater – AstraZeneca:  Understanding Amyloid Transthyretin (ATTR) Amyloidosis. Speaker -TBD

1:30 - 1:45 AAN Report Quorum Room              

- 2:00 Lunch Time End Metropolitan Terrace

2:00 – 3:00 Updates in Multiple Sclerosis and Related Demyelinating Diseases Vaishnavi Vaidyanathan, MD (UC Davis)

3:00 - 4:00 Update on Stroke Management Deepinder S. Sidhu, MD (Kaiser)

4:00 – 4:30 Discussion Section Quorum Room

4:30 - 6:00 CNS Reception Metropolitan Terrace

6:00 - 9:00 Dinner for Attendees Hosted by CNS Metropolitan Terrace

7:00 - 8:00 Product Theater - Amgen:  Uplizna: A treatment that goes beyond the ATTACK Chris Lock, MD (Stanford) (no CME)

6:30 – 8:00 Breakfast / Registration Metro Terrace / Quorum Room

6:30 – 7:30 ATTRv-PN: Advances in Understanding and Managing Amyloid Disease with Peripheral Neuropathy. Priya Dhawan, MD (UCSF) 1 unit CME  (Academic CME)

7:50 – 8:00 Welcome Jeffery Klingman, MD, CNS Pres.

8:00 – 9:00 Headache, Placebo Effects and Future Perspectives for Care Marc E. Lenaerts, MD (UC Davis)

9:00 – 10:00 Developmental Epileptic Encephalopathy and Autism Conditions: Transitional Issues from Childhood to Adulthood Michael Chez, MD (Sutter)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break Metropolitan Room

10:30 – 11:30 The Neuroplasticity Revolution Michael Merzenich, PhD (UCSF)

11:30 - 12:00 Discussion Section Quorum Room

12:00 - Lunch Provided by CNS for Attendees Metropolitan Terrace

12:30 – 1:30 Changing the Course of Symptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease Early: Moving Research to the Real World With New Biomarkers to Improve Diagnostic Precision TBD

- 2:00 Lunch Time Ends Metropolitan Terrace

2:00 – 3:00 Post-Traumatic Encephalopathy Ryan M. Martin, MD, FNCS (UC Davis)

3:00 – 4:00 Dementia – “Amyloid Busting” Therapies Dana McDermott, DO (Montage Health)

4:00 – 4:30 Discussion Section Quorum Room  

4:30 – 6:00 CNS Reception (for everyone) Metropolitan Terrace

6:00 - 9:30 CNS Hosted Dinner for Attendees  Metropolitan Terrace

7:00 – 9:00 History of Epilepsy George Sarka, MD, DrPH (CSUN;CSMC)

7:00 – 8:30 Breakfast / Registration Metro Terrace / Quorum Room

7:50 – 8:00 Welcome Jeffrey Klingman, MD, CNS Pres.

8:00 – 9:00 Parkinson's Disease in Acute Care Setting Kristina Hart, DO (UC Davis)

9:00 – 10:00 Driving for People with Epilepsy Samantha Eve Allen, MD, MS  (UC Davis)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break Metropolitan Terrace

10:30 – 11:30 AVMs in Neurology Jeffrey Klingman, MD 

10:30 - 12:30 Exhibitor Room Breakdown Metropolitan Terrace

11:45 - 12:15 CNS Members Report Jeffrey Klingman, MD (CNS Pres.) + Committee Chairs

12:15 - 12:30 CNS Future Directions & Adjourn Jeffrey Klingman, MD, CNS Pres.

12:30 - 1:30 CNS Conference Planning Committee  Quorum Room