Program

Friday, November 1, 2024

18:00 - 19:00 Registration Congress/Networking

19:00 - 19:15 Official Opening

19:15 - 19:30 Opening speeches
Speakers:
Minister of Social Affairs
Vice Prime Minister, Mr. Charles Cooper

19:30 - 19:50 Healthy Living with Neurological disorders
Speaker: Dr. Ayal Zahavi

19:50 - 20:10 Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy
Speaker: Dr. Julio Furlan

20:10 - 20:30 Life After Spinal Cord Injury
Speaker: Mr. Alton Paas

20:30 - 20:50 Q&A

Saturday, November 2, 2024

8:30 - 9:00 Registration Congress/Networking

09:00 - 09:20 MS in Curaçao: Diagnosis, current treatments, and potential treatments for the future
Speaker: Dr. Cariana Prada

09:20 - 09:40 Experience of an MS patient
Speaker: Ms. Shirley Cuffy

09:40 - 10:00 Experience of a Mental Health Counselor as husband and caregiver
Speaker: Joseph Kock M.S.

10:00 - 10:20 Informal Care: the Dutch experience
Speaker: Drs. Jan van Amstel

10:20 - 10:40 Q&A

10:40 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:20 Stepping to the Beat: how and why rhythms in music and metronomes can help in the physical rehabilitation of walking for people with Multiple Sclerosis with relapsing remitting and progressive forms
Speaker: Dr. Lousin Moumdjian

11:20—11:40 Neuroplasticity and Multiple Sclerosis
Speaker: Dr. Roderick Blom

11:40 - 12:00 Music Therapy: Evidence-based therapy for neurological disorders
Speaker: Marjon Halmeyer-Roos BSc.

12:00 - 12:20 Q&A

12:20 - 13:30 LUNCH BREAK

13:30 - 13:50 Management of Sleep Disorder Breathing in SCI
Speaker: Dr. Julio Furlan

13:50 - 14:10 Cervical Stenosis database of Curaçao
Speaker: Dr. Mireli Mongen

14:10 - 14:30 Prevention and management of heterotopic ossification in spinal cord injury
Speaker: Dr. Hugo Nuñez

14:30 - 14:50 Interactive session with the Chair

14:50 - 15:10 Q&A

15:10 - 15.40 Break

15:40 - 16:00 Spinal cord injury database of Curaçao
Speaker: Dr. Ellianne Dos Santos Rubio

16:00 - 16:20 Stroke Chain Care in Curaçao
Speaker: Dr. Gertstenbluth

16:20 - 16:40 Workshop Neurological Examination for doctors
Speaker: Dr. Merkies

16:40 - 17:00 Q&A

Sunday, November 3, 2024

8:30 - 9:00 Registration Congress/Networking

09:00 - 09:20 Prevention of Stroke in Curaçao
Speaker: Dr. Mark Baptista

09:20 - 09:40 Osteoporosis in patients with spinal cord injury
Speaker: Dr. Hugo Nuñez

09:40 - 10:00 I got stroke, now what else? Psychological aspect of patient & family
Speaker: Drs. Martha Atienzo

10:00 - 10:20 Q&A

10:20 - 10:40 Break

10:40 - 11:00 Unemployment Among Disabled Persons and their Caregivers
Speaker: Mrs Ruthmilda Larmonie-Cecilia, Ex-Minister of Social Affairs

11:00 - 11:20 Latest Developments on Functional Electrical Stimulation after SCI
Speaker: Dr. Julio Furlan

11:20 - 11:40 Key to reducing traffic accidents and trauma
Speaker: Mr. Michiel Pas

11:40 - 11:55 Q&A

11:55 - 12:00 Closing Speech