First International Spinal Cord Injury Treatments & Trials Symposium
第一屆國際脊髓損傷治療與臨床試驗交流會
17-20 Dec, 2005 Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
17 December 2005 (Saturday)
| Time |
Session |
Venue |
| 07:45 — 08:30 |
Registration & Tea Reception |
Lift Lobby & Foyer |
| 08:30 — 09:00 |
Opening Ceremony |
Lecture Theatre |
| 09:00 — 09:40 |
Plenary Lecture 1: Recovery of the Spinal Cord Functions after Spinal Cord Injury: Neurocontrol Aspects
Chair: Paul TAM (Hong Kong SAR, China)
Speaker: Milan DIMITRIJEVIC (Houston, USA) |
Lecture Theatre |
| 09:40 — 10:10 |
Keynote Lecture 1: Surgical Management of Acute Spinal Cord Trauma
Chair: John LEONG (Hong Kong SAR, China)
Speaker: Charles TATOR (Ontario, Canada) |
Lecture Theatre |
| 10:10 — 10:30 |
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing |
Foyer |
| 10:30 — 12:30 |
Session 1A: Care of Spinal Cord Injury
Session Chair: Charles TATOR (Ontario, Canada) and Wai-Sang POON (Hong Kong SAR, China)
- Predicting Outcome in Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
- John DITUNNO (Philadelphia, USA
- Orthopedic Management for the Chronic Spinal Cord Injuried
- Keith LUK (Hong Kong SAR, China)
- Maximizing the Rehabilitation after Spinal Cord Injury
- John McDONALD (Maryland, USA)
- Neurosurgical Management of Chronic Spinal Cord Injury
- James GUEST (Miami, USA)
- Sexual Function and Spinal Cord Injury
- Claes HULTLING (Stockholm, Sweden)
- Application of Biological Chitin Tubes in Spinal Cord Injury Research
- Baoguo JIANG (Beijing, China)
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Lecture Theatre |
| 12:30 — 14:00 |
Lunch Break and Poster Viewing |
Exhibition Area |
| 14:00 — 14:30 |
Keynote Lecture 2: Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury: Thirty Years Review and Conclusion
Chair: Jizong ZHAO (Beijing, China)
Speaker: Shaoting XU (Beijing, China) |
Lecture Theatre
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14:30 — 15:30
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Session 1B: Care of Spinal Cord Injury
Session Chair: John McDONALD (Maryland, USA) and Jianjun LI (Beijing, China)
- Surgical Management of Acute Cervical Spinal Cord Injury in the Presence of Head Injury
- Wai-Sang POON (Hong Kong SAR, China)
- Rehabilitation Management of Spinal Cord Injury in China Present Situation: Prospects for 21st Century
- Jianjun LI (Beijing, China)
- Spinal Cord Injuries: 15 Years of Outcome Analysis
- Jizong ZHAO (Beijing, China)
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Lecture Theatre |
| 15:30 — 16:00 |
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing |
Foyer |
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16:00 — 17:00
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- Orthopedic Management of Spinal Cord Injury in China
- Zhuojing LUO (Xi'an, China)
- Orthopedic Management to Improve the Functional Outcome in Spinal Cord Injury
- Yat-Wa WONG (Hong Kong SAR, China)
- Reinnervation for Neurogenic Bladder and Bowel after Spinal Cord Injury: Historic Review
- Chuanguo XIAO (Wuhan, China)
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Lecture Theatre |
| 17:00 — 18:00 |
Panel Discussion: How to Maximize the Functional Outcome in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation
Panel Chair: Keith LUK and Yat-Wa WONG (Hong Kong SAR) |
Lecture Theatre |
| 18:30 — 20:00 |
Welcome Reception |
Foyer and Garden |
18 December 2005 (Sunday)
| Time |
Session |
Venue |
| 08:30 — 09:00 |
Registration and Poster Viewing |
Lift Lobby & Foyer |
| 09:00 — 09:40 |
Plenary Lecture 2: Evidence-based Strategies for Identifying Effective Therapies for Spinal Injury — Systematic Review and Large Simple Trials
Chair: Wise YOUNG (New Jersey, USA)
Speaker: Michael BRACKEN (New Haven, USA) |
Lecture Theatre |
| 09:40 — 10:10 |
Keynote Lecture 3: The Present Status of Basic Research on SCI in Mainland China
Chair: Kwok-Fai SO (Hong Kong SAR, China)
Speaker: Gong JU (Xi'an, China) |
Lecture Theatre |
| 10:10 — 10:30 |
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing |
Foyer |
| 10:30 — 12:30 |
Session 2A: Clinical Trials in China
Session Chair: Ying-Shing CHAN (Hong Kong SAR, China) and Baoguo JIANG (Beijing, China)
- Basic and Clinical Researches of Olfactory Ensheathing Cells for Spinal Cord Injury
- Hongyun HUANG (Beijing, China)
- Transplantation of Olfactory Ensheathing Cells for the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury Experimental and Clinical Observation
- Tiansheng SUN (Beijing, China)
- Olfactory Ensheathing Cells: Migratory Property after being Transplanted in Spinal Cord
- Huiyong SHEN (Guangzhou, China) Intraspinal Transplantation of Human Fetal Schwann Cells in Paralysed Patients
- Hui ZHU (Kunming, China)
- Clinical Study on Repair of Injured Spinal Cord by Transplants of Autologous Bone Marrow Stem Cell
- Yongfu ZHANG (Zhengzhou, China)
- The Mechanism of Immediate Neurofunction Restoration after Subdural Lysis of Old Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury
- Shaocheng ZHANG (Shanghai, China)
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Lecture Theatre |
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12:30 — 14:00
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Lunch Break and Poster Viewing
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Exhibition Area |
| 14:00 — 14:30 |
Keynote Lecture 4: Spinal Cord Repair with Acidic FGF as a Treatment for the Patients with Chronic Paraplegia and Quadriplegia
Chair: Shew-Ping CHOW (Hong Kong SAR, China)
Speaker: Henrich CHENG (Taipei, Taiwan) |
Lecture Theatre |
| 14:30 — 15:30 |
Session 2B: Clinical Trials around the World
Session Chair: James GUEST (Miami, USA) and Mai-Har SHAM (Hong Kong SAR, China)
- Development of Valid Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trial Guidelines
- John STEEVES (Vancouver, Canada)
- A Phase 1 Controlled Trial of Autologous Olfactory Ensheathing Cell Transplantation in Human Spinal Cord Injury
- Adrian NOWITZKE (Woolloongabba, Australia)
- Thoracolumbar Fracture Management: Anterior Approach
- Dadi JIN (Guangzhou, China)
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Lecture Theatre |
| 15:30 — 16:00 |
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing |
Foyer |
| 16:00 — 17:00 |
- Treatment of Complete Spinal Cord Injury by Autologous Bone Marrow Cell Transplantation and Administration of Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor (GM-CSF)
- Yoon HA (Inchon, Korea)
- Cell Technologies in the Complex Therapy of Spinal Cord Injury: from Trial to Clinical Practice
- Andrey BRYUKHOVETSKIY (Moscow, Russia)
- Self Assembling Nano Material for CNS Lesion Repair
- Rutledge ELLIS-BEHNKE (Cambridge, USA)
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Lecture Theatre |
| 17:00 — 18:00 |
Panel Discussion: What Have We Learnt from the First Generation of Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trials
Panel Chair: Wise YOUNG (New Jersey, USA) |
Lecture Theatre |
19 December 2005 (Monday)
| Time |
Session |
Venue |
| 08:30 — 09:00 |
Registration and Poster Viewing |
Lift Lobby & Foyer |
| 09:00 — 09:40 |
Plenary Lecture 3: Advances in the Treatments of Spinal Cord Injury
Chair: Grace TANG (Hong Kong SAR, China)
Speaker: Wise YOUNG (New Jersey, USA) |
Lecture Theatre |
| 09:40 — 10:10 |
Keynote Lecture 5: Transplantation of Olfactory Ensheathing Cells in Rat
Chair: Siu-Wa TANG (Hong Kong SAR, China)
Speaker: Geoffrey RAISMAN (London, United Kingdom) |
Lecture Theatre |
| 10:10 — 10:30 |
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing |
Foyer |
| 10:30 — 12:30 |
Session 3A: Experimental Acute Therapies
Session Chair: Geoffrey RAISMAN (London, United Kingdom) and Daisy SHUM (Hong Kong SAR, China)
- Combined Treatment of Lithium Chloride and Chondroitinase ABC
- Kwok-Fai SO (Hong Kong SAR, China)
- Acute Transplantation of Radial Glial Neural Stem Cells Promotes Recovery after Spinal Cord Contusion
- Martin GRUMET (New Jersey, USA)
- Use of hESC-derived Oligodendroglial Progenitors in the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury
- Hans KEIRSTEAD (Irvine, USA)
- The Nogo66 Receptor and CNS Axon Regeneration: New Treatment Strategies for Spinal Cord Injury?
- Daniel LEE (Cambridge, USA)
- LINGO-1 and Its Role in Axon Regeneration
- Sha MI (Cambridge, USA)
- Genetic Mechanisms of Methylprednisolone Protection of Oligodendrocytes from SCI-induced Death
- Chung HSU (Taipei, Taiwan)
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Lecture Theatre |
| 12:30 — 14:00 |
Lunch Break and Poster Viewing |
Exhibition Area |
| 14:00 — 14:30 |
Keynote Lecture 6: Towards Spinal Cord Repair — Combinatorial Strategies Involving Neuroprotection and Axonal Regeneration
Chair: John STEEVES (Vancouver, Canada)
Speaker: Xiao-Ming XU (Louisville, USA) |
Lecture Theatre |
| 14:30 — 15:30 |
Session 3B: Experimental Chronic Therapies
- Application of Biological Chitin Tubes in Spinal Cord Injury Research
- Baoguo JIANG (Beijing, China)
- Multimechanistic Repair of Injured Spinal Cord: White Matter vs. Gray Matter
- Yang TENG (Boston, USA)
- Secondary Degeneration Reduced by Inosine after Spinal Cord Injury in Rats
- Siwei YOU (Xi'an, China)
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Lecture Theatre
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| 15:30 — 16:00 |
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing |
Foyer |
| 16:00 — 17:00 |
- Schwann's Cells and Spinal Cord Injury — Basic and Clinical Studies
- Shiqing FENG (Tianjin, China)
- Dog Sciatic Nerve Regeneration across a 30-mm Defect Bridged by an Artificial Nerve Graft
- Xiaosong GU (Nantong, China)
- Axonal Regeneration of Lower Motor Neuron
- Wutian WU (Hong Kong SAR, China)
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Lecture Theatre |
| 17:00 — 8:00 |
Panel Discussion: The Role of Combinational Therapy in Spinal Cord Injury Therapy
Panel Chair: Wutian WU (Hong Kong SAR, China) |
Lecture Theatre |
| 18:30 — 22:00 |
Gala Dinner |
HK Academy of
Medicine Jockey
Club Building |
20 December 2005 (Tuesday)
| Time |
Session |
Venue |
| 08:30 — 09:00 |
Registration and Poster Viewing |
Lift Lobby & Foyer |
| 09:00 — 09:40 |
Plenary Lecture 4: Obstacles and Opportunities for Collaborations among Academia, Industry and Government
Chair: Karen LAM (Hong Kong SAR, China)
Speaker: Johan KARLBERG (Hong Kong SAR, China) |
Lecture Theatre |
| 09:40 — 11:00 |
Session 4A: Spinal Cord Clinical Trials — Design, Quality and Ethics
Session Chair: Tiansheng SUN (Beijing, China) and Edwin HUI (Hong Kong SAR, China)
- From Discovery to Clinical Trials
- Paul VANHOUTTE (Hong Kong SAR)
- Study Designs and Outcome Measures in Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trials
- Andrew BLIGHT (New York, USA)
- Quality Assurance Measures within the China SCI Clinical Trial Network
- Johan KARLBERG (Hong Kong SAR, China)
- Ethical and Legal Concerns of Stem Cell Research
- Edwin HUI (Hong Kong SAR, China)
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Lecture Theatre |
| 11:00 — 11:30 |
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing |
Foyer |
| 11:30 — 12:30 |
Panel Discussion: Will China Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trial Data be Accepted by Overseas Regulatory Authorities?
Panel Chair: Paul VANHOUTTE (Hong Kong SAR)
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Lecture Theatre |
| 12:30 — 14:00 |
Lunch Break and Poster Viewing |
Exhibition Area |
| 14:00 — 15:30 |
Panel Discussion: Most Promising and Feasible Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trials
Panel Chair: Wise YOUNG (New Jersey, USA) and Kwok-Fai SO (Hong Kong SAR, China) |
Lecture Theatre
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| 15:30 — 16:00 |
Summary of the Symposium
- Wise YOUNG (New Jersey, USA) |
Lecture Theatre |
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