Child Neurology Society 2009

After considerable discussion at the March Executive Committee meeting, it was decided that the CNS will initiate an effort to develop an endowment for the lectureships, awards and prizes which are given each year at the annual meeting. This includes the Hower Award, the Sachs Lectureship, the D’Souza International Travel Award, The Dodge Young Investigator Award, the Lifetime Achievement Awards, Neuroscience Research Prize for the outstanding paper by a high school science student (Jointly sponsored with the AAN) and the Outstanding Junior Member awards. If we do not have to depend on corporate funding for these fundamental components of our meeting it would do two things:

1. Ensure that the awards and prizes are secure and can reliably be given each year
2. Allow greater flexibility in the use of the corporate support we do get for the annual meeting.

Its clear that to build an endowment of this magnitude will take time, effort and generosity, but I have no doubt that we can and should do it. Accordingly, an endowment fund pledge drive will be launched in conjunction with this year's meeting which will give everybody the opportunity to participate in the effort. Other endowment campaigns may also be initiated as this process begins to be more clearly defined. This would include the possibility of the creation of separate funds to support individual awards, the Phil Dodge Young Investigator Award, for example. (More...)

Abstracts are listed by Platform Session or Poster Session with contact/submitting author (NOT first author) listed to the right. Acceptance correspondence with presentation guidelines will be sent by May 22. Notification of non-acceptance will be sent June 2.
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The proposed Neurobiology of Disease in Children (NDC) Symposium on Muscular Dystrophy, slated as the opening symposium of the CNS 38th Annual Meeting, has been announced and is available by clicking this link. The full proposed CNS Scientific Program and Meeting Agenda (with accepted abstract presentations) will be posted May 20.

Please note: Meeting registration cannot begin prior to ACCME approval of the proposed Scientific Program. The CNS Scientific Program is undergoing a final revision and will be submitted for approval in late May with ACCME approval anticipated in early June.

• Hotel reservation information will be posted June 15.
• On-line meeting registration will begin July 1.

• A list of accepted abstracts will be posted May 18.
• Registration will open July 1
• Hotel booking information will be posted June 15

Louisville is a lively, hidden jewel among American cities featuring lots of downtown restaurants, bars and clubs as well as a variety of great museums and family attractions, including:

• Churchill Downs/Kentucky Derby Museum
• Louisville Slugger Museum
• Frazier International History Museum
• Actor’s Theater of Louisville—one of America’s great regional theaters (epicenter of the country’s best known theater festival, the Humana Festival)
• The Muhammad Ali Center
• Speed Art Museum

The Claire Chee Award for Excellence in Child Neurology Nursing was established by the Association of Child Neurology Nurses in the year 2000. This award, given annually, recognizes and honors the nurse who, as a member of the ACNN, has rendered distinguished service within the profession of child neurology nursing. The recipient is one who demonstrates, through strength of character and competence, a commitment to the care of children and their families with neurological disorders. She/he is acknowledged by her/his peers as one who renders qualities of compassion, resourcefulness, leadership, knowledge, communication, and inspiration.

Candidates for the Award for Excellence may be submitted by any member of the Association of Child Neurology Nurses or the Child Neurology Society to the Award Committee. The Award Committee will evaluate the nominations and determine the most deserving candidate for the year. The Award will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Child Neurology Nurses. Please submit nominations by April 30, 2009 using the ACNN nomination form posted on the CNS website Annual Meeting page; you may also request a copy directly from Tamara H. Langhoff, RN, MS, CPNP (langhoff@mcw.edu).

On 22 November 2008 in Los Angeles, California, one month short of his 80th birthday, the world of paediatric neurology lost an icon and one its contemporary fathers, and the World at large lost a true Renaissance Man – physician; scientist; playwright; philosopher; connaisseur of good literature, art, music and food; humanist and liberal thinker who deplored discrimination, intolerance, prejudices and false values of all types. The life he lived was as interesting and inspiring as were his contributions to paediatric neurology and his understanding of the world around him, both medical and social. He succumbed to colonic carcinoma and complications of chemotherapy. More