My Brain & Medicine 2025
My Brain & Medicine 2025 – Registration is now open
(virtual event)
Join us online for a patient event where we will be joined by a host of professional and lived experience speakers.
The presentations are aimed at patients, carers and family members with an interest with encephalitis.
Starting on Monday, April 28, 2025 at 1:00PM BST, this event will bring together experts and patients, from around the world to share their knowledge and experience of encephalitis.
Topics to include:
- Overview of infectious encephalitis
- Overview of autoimmune encephalitis
- Overview of encephalitis in children
- Overview of recovery and rehabilitation
- Encephalitis and post-encephalitis experiences shared by those affected and their families
Confirmed Speakers:
- Overview of infectious encephalitis – Professor Arun Venkatesan MD, PhD, Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in the Department of Neurology, Division of Neuroimmunology and Neuroinfectious Diseases, United States
- Overview of autoimmune encephalitis – Dr Marianna Spatola, DIBAPS Research Institute, University of Barcelona and La Caixa Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain.
- Emotional changes following encephalitis – Dr Bonnie-Kate Dewar, Clinical Neuropsychologist, Neuropsychlogy Services Ltd, United Kingdom.
- Overview of encephalitis in children – Dr Renata Paolilo, MD, Ph.D. Pediatrics, Pediatric Neurology, Ph.D., São Paulo University and Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Adjustment in identity after brain injury in children and young people – Dr Andrea Pickering, Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Research Tutor, Salomons Institute for Applied Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
- Lived experience (autoimmune encephalitis) – Subha Thangaraj, India
- Lived experience (viral encephalitis) – Craig Mosgrove, United States
The talks are aimed at patients, family members, carers and anyone with a specific interest in encephalitis. There will be an opportunity for delegates to ask questions and to connect with others by joining a Zoom meeting at 5.00pm (BST)
If you would like to join the Zoom meeting afterwards you must register for the Zoom virtual gathering meeting ticket as well as the online event ticket. There are a limited number of tickets available to join the Zoom meeting
However, if you are unable to join us live, a recording will be made available to ticket holders afterwards.
Download a copy of the programme here
Register for your free ticket.
