Peripheral Nerve Society


1999 Meeting Preview

Meeting Program

Wednesday, July 21, 1999

 Time

Activity

Venue

9 am - 11 pm
 Check-in UCSD - Room Assignment  Warren Conference Center

 1 pm - 2 pm
 Lunch - PNS Board Meeting  Faculty Club

3 pm- 9 pm
 PNS Registration  Theater, Price Center

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
 Reception  Faculty Club Bar

7:30 pm- 8:45 pm
 Dinner  Faculty Club Dining Room

9 pm - 10 pm
 Bunge Memorial Lecture - Tony Yaksh  Theater

 

Thursday, July 22

 Time

Activity

Venue

7 am - 8:20 am
 Breakfast  Canyon Vista Cafeteria

8:30 am - 10:00 am
 Platform Session 1: Inflammatory Neuropathies  Theater

10:00 am - 10:30 am
 Coffee  Theater

10:30 am - 12:45 pm

 Platform Session 2: Pain and the Peripheral Nerve

 and Plenary Lecture: Skin Biopsies - Jack Griffin

 Theater

12:45 pm - 3:00 pm

 Lunch

 Poster Session 1:
 Pain and the Peripheral Nerve
 Growth Factors in Peripheral Nerve Disease
 Clinical Management and Therapy
 Ballroom

3 pm- 4:30 pm
 
 Platform Session 3: Cellular and Molecular Studies of
 Peripheral Nerve Disease
 Theater

4:30 pm- 5 pm
 Coffee  Theater

5 pm - 6 pm
 
 Platform Session 4: Growth Factors in Peripheral
 Nerve Disease
 Theater

6:15 pm- 10 pm
 
 Mexican Dinner at the Birch Aquarium on the UCSD campus.
 The Aquarium is available for our exclusive use
 and over looks the Pacific ocean and city of La Jolla.

 Sponsored in part by Myelos Corporation

 SIO Birch Aquarium

 

Friday, July 23

 Time

Activity

Venue

7 am - 8:20 am
 Breakfast  Canyon Vista Cafeteria

8:30 am - 9:30 am
 Platform Session 5: Inflammatory Neuropathies  Theater

9:30 am - 10:30 am
 Platform Session 6: Clinical Management and Therapy  Theater
 10:30 am - 11:00 am  Coffee  
 11:00 am - 12:00 pm  Plenary Lecture: Visualizing the Neurochemistry of Pain - Pat  Mantyh  Theater
 12 noon - 12:45 pm  General Assembly  

12:45 pm - 3:00 pm

 Lunch

 Poster Session 2:
 Cellular and Molecular Studies of Peripheral Nerve Disease
 Inherited Neuropathies
 Inflammatory Neuropathies
 Ballroom

3 pm - 6:30 pm

 Group Social Activities (select one)

 Various

7 pm - 8 pm

8 pm - 10:30 pm

 Concert - Anna Marie Conti

 Dinner and Discussion Groups

 Mandeville Center

 Faculty Club

 

Saturday, July 24

 Time

Activity

Venue

7 am - 8:20 am
 Breakfast  Canyon Vista Cafeteria

8:30 am - 10:00 am
 Platform Session 7: Diabetic and Other Metabolic
 Neuropathies
 Theater

10:00 am - 10:30 am
 Coffee  Theater

10:30am - 12:00 pm
 Platform Session 8: Mechanisms of Nerve Degeneration
 and Regeneration

 and Plenary Lecture: The Irritable Nociceptor in Post-herpetic  Neuralgia - Howard Fields

 Theater

12:45 pm - 3:00 pm

 Lunch

 Poster Session 3:
 Mechanisms of Nerve Degeneration and Regeneration
 Diabetic and Other Metabolic Neuropathies
 Electrophysiological Studies in Neuropathy
 Ballroom

3 pm - 5 pm
 Discussion Groups
 Kennedy: Skin biopsies
 Gold: Chaperone proteins
 Schroder: Hereditary neuropathies
 Conference Rooms in
 the Student Center

6 pm - 10:30 pm

 Banquet

 Sponsored by The Institute for Diabetes Discovery

 Hotel del Coronado

 

Sunday, July 25

 Time

Activity

Venue

7 am - 8:30 am
 Breakfast  Canyon Vista Cafeteria

 7 am - 8:30 am
 Breakfast - PNS Board Meeting (with new members)  Canyon Vista Cafeteria

8 am and at 2 hour intervals thereafter
 Depart - free UCSD Shuttle Bus to San Diego Airport  Shuttle to Airport

 

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