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2025-2026 Grand Rounds Series | CNS

If Sex Matters Why Don't We Teach It Yet? Transforming Neurology Curricula for the Era of Precision Medicine

Presenter: Dr. Esther Bui

Original air date: April 17, 2026  Running time: 1 hour

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe Women's Neurology and why such a subspecialty is needed
  • Review educational gaps and share how an American Academy of Neurology curriculum was developed
  • Discuss the future of Women's Neurology and how Canada is leading the way

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Autoimmune Encephalitis: A Primer for Diagnosis and Management

Presenter: Dr. Jennifer McCombe

Original air date: December 12, 2025  Running time: 1 hour

Learning Objectives:

  • Review an approach to the diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis
  • Discuss the analysis of autoantibody testing in specific clinic settings.
  • Demonstrate how an understanding of disease patholophysiology allows for a rational approach to treatment of autoimmune encephalitis.

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2024-2025 Grand Rounds Series | CNS

Cerebral Venous Thrombosis: An Update

Presenter: Dr. Thalia Field

Original air date: May 2, 2025  Running time: 1 hour

Learning Objectives:

  • Review recent research relating to the epidemiology, pathophysiology, management and prognosis of cerebral venous thrombosis
  • Review persisting uncertainties and directions for future research
  • Discuss clinical management and current guidelines in the context of current knowledge, and knowledge gaps

Modernizing Migraine Care: Insights from the New CHS Guidelines, CGRP Advances, and Emerging Therapies

Presenter: Dr. Lik Hang Tommy Chan

Original air date: March 7, 2025  Running time: 1 hour

Learning Objectives:

  • Review key recommendations from the updated CHS guidelines and their application in the management of migraine, including CGRP-targeted therapies.
  • Highlight strategies for combining preventive and acute therapies, such as CGRP monoclonal antibodies, gepants, and neuromodulation, to enhance patient outcomes.
  • Discuss the role of PACAP-targeted therapies in addressing unmet needs in migraine treatment.

 

Changing Diagnostic and Treatment Paradigms in Multiple Sclerosis 

Presenter: Dr. Jiwon Oh, Medical Director, BARLO Multiple Sclerosis Program, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto

Original air date: January 31, 2025  Running time: 1 hour

Learning Objectives:

  • To discuss changes in MS diagnosis, treatment initiation, and treatment optimization that have improved clinical outcomes in the past three decades
  • To discuss upcoming changes to the MS diagnostic criteria
  • To discuss emerging biomarkers that may become incorporated in clinical practice in the near future to further improve clinical outcomes in people with MS

 

Emerging Disease Modifying Therapies for Alzheimer Disease

Presenter: Dr. Howard Chertkow

Original air date: October 18, 2024  Running time: 1 hour

  • To understand the impact of coming anti-amyloid disease modifying therapies for AD
  • To appreciate other mechanisms of disease modification we will see in the future.