12th International Conference on Frontotemporal Dementias and 1st International Society for Frontotemporal Dementias Congress - Program

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** All time indicated below are Pacific Standard Time **

Wednesday, March 3, 2021
7:15am	Zoom Registration and Login
7:30	Conference Overview	Facundo Manes MD, PhD, INECO/Favaloro Univ. Argentina
		Bruce Miller, MD, UCSF, USA; Brad Boeve, MD, Mayo Clinic Rochester, USA
		Susan Dickinson, MSGC, Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD)
7:45	President Lecture	Rosa Rademakers, PhD
		Antwerp Univ, Belgium
8:00	FTD & Society	Facundo Manes, MD, PhD INECO/Favaloro University Argentina
	Introduction to FTD
	Session Moderator: Chiadi Onyike, MD, MHS
8:15	Evolving Issues in FTD	Bruce Miller, MD
		UCSF, USA
8:30	Differentiating the Behavioral Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia from Primary Psychiatric Disorders	Chiadi Onyike, MD, MHS
		Johns Hopkins Univ, USA
8:45	Magnetoencephalography (MEG) in FTD, From Mechanisms to Experimental Medicine	James Rowe, MD, PhD
		Univ of Cambridge UK
9:00	Measuring Behavior for Diagnosis of bvFTD	Kate Rankin, PhD	Slides
		UCSF, USA
9:15	Innovative Measures for Assessing Social Cognition	Fiona Kumfor, PhD
		Univ. of Sydney
9:30	Question & Answer
9:45	Anterior Temporal Lobe: Left Versus Right	Marsel Mesulam, MD, Northwestern Univ, USA
10:00	The Nonfluent/Agrammatic Progressive Aphasia Spectrum	Marilu Gorno-Tempini, MD, PhD
		UCSF, USA
10:15	FTD and the Connectome	Murray Grossman, MDCM
		Univ of Pennsylvania, USA
10:30	Longitudinal Studies of FTD	Howard Rosen, MD
		UCSF, USA
10:45	Question & Answer
11:00	Break
	Biomarkers & Treatments for FTD
	Session Moderator: Emily Rogalski, PhD
11:30	Molecular Therapies for FTD	Adam Boxer, MD, PhD
		UCSF, USA
11:45	Overview of Fluid Biomarkers for Neurodegenerative Dementias	Henrik Zetterberg, MD, PhD
		Univ of Gothenburg, Sweden
12:00pm	Endpoints for FTD Clinical Trials	Adam Staffaroni, PhD
		UCSF, USA
12:15	Primary Progressive Aphasia: Nonpharmacologic Intervention Progress and Opportunities	Emily Rogalski, PhD
		Northwestern Univ, USA
12:30	Pharm and Nonpharm Management of Behaviors in bvFTD	Elizabeth Finger, MD
		Univ of Western Ontario, Canada
1:00	Question & Answer
1:15pm	Adjourn
Thursday, March 4, 2021
**All times are in Pacific Standard Time, Live Sessions
7:30am	Zoom Registration and Login
	Genetics from Gene to Molecule
	Session Moderator: Manuela Neumann, MD, PhD
7:45	Genetic Discovery in Diverse Patients Diagnosed with FTD	Jennifer S. Yokoyama, PhD
		UCSF, USA
8:00	Tau in FTD	Maria Spillantini, PhD
		Univ. of Cambridge, UK
8:15	C9orf72 Diagnosis and Therapies	Leonard Petrucelli, PhD
		Mayo Clinic Florida, USA
8:30	Neuroimaging of Genetic Cohorts	Suzee Lee, MD
		UCSF, USA
8:45	FUS in ALS and FTLD	Manuela Neumann, MD
		Univ of Tübingen, Germany
9:00	GRN Gene to Syndrome	Isabelle LeBer, MD, PhD Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, France
9:15	Question & Answer
	Neuropathology
	Session Moderator: William Seeley, MD
9:30	Tau Filaments in Frontotemporal Degeneration and Alzheimer Disease: Molecular Conformers Revealed by Cryo-Electron Microscopy	Bernardino Ghetti, MD
		Indiana Univ, USA
9:45	Copathologies in FTD Syndromes (Neuropathologic Issues)	Glenda Halliday, PhD, FAAHMS
		Univ. of Sydney, Australia
10:00	FTD Neuropathology Update	Ian Mackenzie, MD
		Univ of British Columbia, Canada
10:15	Neuron Type-specific TDP-43 Pathobiology: Gain or Loss of Function?	William Seeley, MD UCSF, USA
10:30	Late Onset FTLD-TDP and LATE	Keith A. Josephs, MD, MST, MSc
		Mayo Clinic Rochester, USA
10:45	Question & Answer
11:00	Break
	Clinical FTD
	Session Moderator Irene Litvan, MD, FAAN, FANA
11:15	Cognitive and Behavioural Dimensions of ALS	Orla Hardiman, BSc, MD, FTCD, MRIA
		Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
11:30	Motor Changes in FTD Spectrum	Brad Dickerson, MD
		Harvard Medical School, USA
11:45	Multiple Corticobasal Degeneration and PSP Presentations	Irene Litvan, MD, FAAN, FANA UCSD, USA
12:00pm	Social and Legal Issues in FTLD	Mario Mendez, MD, PhD
		UCLA, USA
12:15	Lille-Paris ICFTD 2022 / 2nd ISFTD Meeting	Florence Pasquier, MD, PhD
		Univ de Lille, France
12:30	Question & Answer
12:45pm	Adjourn
Friday March 5, 2021
**All times are in Pacific Standard Time, Live Sessions
7:45am	Zoom Registration and Login
Latin America Session of the 1st International Society for Frontotemporal Dementia
	Introduction to FTD Session
	Moderator Facundo Manes, MD, PhD
8:00	FTD and Society	Facundo Manes, MD, PhD INECO/Favaloro Univ. Argentina
8:15	Advances in FTD	Bruce Miller, MD
		UCSF, USA
	FTD the Clinical Syndromes
8:30	bvFTD	Leonel T. Takada, MD, PhD
		Univ.of São Paulo, Brazil
8:50	Bilingualism in FTD	Jessica de Leon, MD
		UCSF, USA
9:10	Neuropathologic Patterns in Primary Progressive Aphasia	Marsel Mesulam, MD
		Northwestern Univ, USA
	Northwestern University, USA
9:30	Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Language	Adolfo Garcia, PhD
		REDLAT Argentina
9:50	Panel Discussion: FTD Diagnosis in Low Education Populations	Ricardo Nitrini, MD
		Department of Neurology, São Paulo, Brazil
		Nilton Custodio, MD, PhD
		Institute of Neurosciences
		Lima, Peru
		Elisa de Paula Franca Resende, MD, PhD, GBHI
		Francisco Lopera, MD
		Univ. de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
10:20	Break
REDLAT Session
Session Moderator: Agustin Ibanez, PhD
10:40	REDLAT Overview	Agustin Ibanez, PhD
		REDLAT Argentina
10:55	REDLAT Clinical Organization	Andrea Slachevsky, MD PhD
		GERO and Univ. of Chile, Chile
	FTD Genetics in South America	Claudia Ramos, MD
11:10		Univ. de Antioquia - Medellín, Colombia
11:30	FTD Mutations in Bogota, Colombia	Diana Matallana, PhD
		Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
11:50am	Lunch
Special Topics in FTD Session
Moderator Stefanie Pina Escudero, MD
1:00pm	Emotion in FTD	Virginia Sturm, PhD
		UCSF, USA
1:20	Imaging-Genomics in FTD	Corey McMillan, PhD
		Univ of Pennsylvania, USA
1:40	Social Determinants of Health	Stefanie Piña Escudero, MD
		GHBI
2:00	Sex Differences in FTD	Ignacio Illán-Gala, MD, PhD
		Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital Barcelona, Spain
2:20	Discussion
2:30	Break
Bluefield Symposium Clinical Trials & Progranulin Session
Moderator Rosa Rademakers, PhD
2:50	Progranulin Genetics	Rosa Rademakers, PhD
		Antwerp Univ, Belgium
3:10	Molecular Pathology of Progranulin Deficiency: From Mouse to Human	Eric Huang, MD, PhD
		UCSF, USA
3:30	Progranulin Families	John C. van Swieten, MD, PhD Erasmus MC-University, Netherlands
3:50	GRN Models, Lipids and the Lysosome	Robert V. Farese, MD
		Harvard Medical School, USA
4:10	Progranulin, Multi-granulin Fragments and Granulins: Differential Modifiers of Lysosome Function	Aimee Kao, MD, PhD
		UCSF, USA
4:30	Clinical Trials for Progranulin	Julio Rojas, MD, PhD
		UCSF, USA
4:50pm	Adjourn
PRE-RECORDED SESSIONS
Time	Title	Faculty	Recordings
	International Consortium for FTD
15 min	GENFI	Jonathan Rohrer, FRCP, PhD Univ College London, UK	Video
15 min	ALLFTD	Brad Boeve, MD Mayo Clinic Rochester, USA	Video
15 min	Japanese Frontotemporal Dementia Consortium	Manabu Ikeda, MD, PhD Osaka Univ, Japan	Video
15 min	Latin American Initiative ReDLat	Agustin Ibanez, PhD REDLAT	Video
15 min	Australia, Dominantly Inherited Non-Alzheimer Dementias	Olivier Piguet, PhD Univ of Sydney, Australia	Video
15 min	Neuropsychiatric International Consortium for FTD (NIC-FTD)	Yolande Pijnenburg, MD, PhD Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands	Video
	Special Topics
15 min	FTD Diagnosis in Low Education Populations	Sonia Brucki, MD, PhD University of Sao Paulo	Video
15 min	iPSC Derived Neurons in FTD	Selina Wray, PhD Univ. College, England	Video
15 min	Neuropsychological Assessment in FTD: Practical Considerations	Katya Rascovsky, PhD Univ of Pennsylvania, USA	Video
15 min	Bilingualism and Diagnosis of FTD	Suvarna Alladi, MD Department of Neurology, Bangalore, India	Video
15 min	Misdiagnosis of FTD	Shunichiro Shinagawa, MD, PhD Jikei Univ, Tokyo, Japan	Video
15 min	Primary Progressive Aphasia in Chinese Language	Boon Lead Tee, MD GBHI	Video
15 min	Tests of Frontal Lobe Function	Bruno Dubois, MD, PhD Institute of the Salpétrière University Hospital at Paris	Video
15 min	Late Onset FTD	Sang Won Seo, MD, PhD Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, South Korea	Video
	Family Track
20 min	Introduction	Bruce Miller, MD UCSF, USA
	Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD)
		Susan Dickinson, MSGC	Video
		Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD)
15 min	Experiences of Caring for a Person Living with FTD	Jennifer Merrilees, RN, PhD UCSF, USA	Video
20 min	Approach to Caregivers in Latin America	Teresa Torralva PHD	Video
		Julian Bustin, MD
		INECO, Argentina
		Facundo Manes,MD PhD INECO/Favaloro Univ. Argentina

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