Events

The 6th Annual CNND Symposium

We are excited to announce that the Center for Neuroimmunology and Neuroinfectious Diseases (CNND), is hosting its sixth annual symposium on Wednesday, September 12, 2018 in Seminar Room B and Great Room B at the Eric P. Newman Center (EPNEC), 320 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO.

This year’s symposium, “Rare but Rising: Granulomatous Neurological Diseases” will include presentations by several world-renowned experts on CNS Granulomatous conditions united by the characteristics of granulomatous inflammatory pathology. There will be an opportunity for junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows and students to present a poster and win awards for the best poster in the postdoctoral fellow and student category.

Registration is now open!!

Registration is free but required, and all are welcome to attend. Boxed lunches will be limited so it will be first come first serve.

Deadlines:

Deadline to register is September 4, 2018, Register here: Registration https://wucrtc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_08ufDcwQBZ7F8Q5

Deadline to submit a poster title is September 6, 2018, submit here: Poster Title Submission: https://wucrtc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_byL5b1zjm1GY7MF

For more information please contact Robyn Klein, MD, PhD, Director of CNND at rklein@wustl.edu or Debra Warren, CNND Administrative Coordinator at debrawarren@wustl.edu.

Symposium Schedule

8:30     Registration opens

8:45     Continental breakfast

9:00     Opening Remarks – David Clifford, MD, Melba and Forest Seay Professor of Clinical Neuropharmacology in Neurology, Professor of Medicine and Neurology, Director of the Neuroinfectious Diseases Fellowship Program, Washington University

9:10     Introduction to CNND – Anne Cross, MD, Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Co-Director of CNND, Washington University

9:20      Introduction to Speakers – Robyn Klein, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Director of CNND, Washington University

9:30     Rula Hajj-Ali, MD, Professor Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Staff, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

9:55     Wonder Puryear Drake, MD, Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

10:20    David Robert Moller, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director, Sarcoidosis Clinic, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

10:45    Break

11:00    Courtney Montgomery, MD, Associate Member, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

11:25    Delphine L. Chen, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University

11:50    David Clifford, MD, Melba and Forest Seay Professor of Clinical Neuropharmacology in Neurology, Professor of Medicine and Neurology, Director of the Neuroinfectious Diseases Fellowship Program, Washington University

12:15     Lunch

1:00       Poster Session

3:00       Poster Awards