12th European Narcolepsy Days

WELCOME MESSAGE

The 12th European Narcolepsy Days – Towards an individualized therapy which immediately follows the 18th European Narcolepsy MasterClass, is a joint meeting with patients and includes clinical and scientific sessions on narcolepsy and its treatment, lectures on the most recent publications in the field of narcolepsy, pediatric updates, short presentations by young investigators on current research projects, a poster session and a keynote lecture on clinical, pathophysiological and therapeutic aspects of narcolepsy and its socio-economic impact. Representatives of national patient organizations will host a joint workshop with clinicians and a second session in which questions prepared by patients will be discussed together with physicians and scientists.

EVENT FORMAT

The meeting will be held in Hybrid format; due to covid-19 restrictions the meeting will be streamed out for the virtual audience and in addition, a limited number of participants will be allowed to join the meeting in-person. Upon online registration process, all attendees will have the chance to select the in-person or the virtual participation. In-person passes are limited and will be assigned on first-come first-served basis

Further information on registration fees, rules are listed here below.

YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD

The European Narcolepsy Network (EU-NN) aims to facilitate clinical and scientific progress in the field of narcolepsy and other hypersomnias of central origin. For the 12th European Narcolepsy Days (Berlin, 18th-19th September 2021) the EU-NN will again award a “Young Scientist Award”.

If you are under 35 years of age, are MD or PhD and have published an article on narcolepsy or hypersomnias of central origin within this or the last year, you are invited to apply for this award.

The award is 1’000.00 € and includes an invitation to the 12th Narcolepsy Day in Berlin including a presentation of the scientific work (accommodation and travel expenses included).

The application deadline is July 1st 2021.

The application, consisting of a CV (max 3 pages) with a clearly stated birth date and the article upon which the application is based, should be sent to the Scientific Committee of the EU-NN represented by Birgitte Kornum: kornum@sund.ku.dk

ABSTRACTS AND POSTERS

All attendees of the 12th European Narcolepsy Days are invited to submit abstracts for the short Oral Presentations Session and the Poster Session.

According to tradition, there will be awards for Best poster and Best oral presentation. Four to six abstracts will be selected for oral presentation in the young investigator session. To be eligible for the oral session the presenting author should be a student, post doc, or similar levels. The job position of the presenting author should be clearly stated in the submission email.

Abstract format:

• File format ⇒ Word (.doc, .docx)
• Language ⇒ English
• Font ⇒ Times new Roman, 11-point font
• Title ⇒ boldface, lowercase letters
• Authors Names ⇒ for each author, type in the last name, first name, and the indexes of the laboratories separated by a comma. (Eg: John White 1,2,3)
• List of institutions to which the authors belong ⇒ italics
• Abstract body ⇒ less than 300 words, single space

It is mandatory including, after the abstract body:

• Name of the presenting author
• current status of the presenting author (undergraduate student, graduate student, PhD student, Postdoctoral fellow, Assistant/Associate/Full professor)
• E-mail and phone number of the presenting author

PLEASE NOTE: abstracts which do not follow instructions will be rejected.

Deadline for abstract submission is: July 1st 2021.

Abstracts must be submitted electronically to Birgitte Kornum kornum@sund.ku.dk

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REGISTRATION FEES

IMPORTANT:
The meeting will be held in Hybrid format; due to covid-19 restrictions the meeting will be streamed out for the virtual audience and in addition, a limited number of participants will be allowed to join the meeting in-person.
Upon online registration process, all attendees will have the chance to select the in-person or the virtual participation.
In-person passes are limited and will be assigned on first-come first-served basis

For the in-person participation it is mandatory a valid EU Digital COVID Certificate

PLEASE NOTE: Online registration will be avaiable soon, meanwhile participants can pre-register for free. Free Pre-Registration is a non binding registation, as soon as the official online registration form will be available the Organizing Secretary will recontact each pre-registered attendee. Registration to both European Narcolpesy Network 2021 meetings (18th European Narcolepsy Masterclass & 12th European Narcolepsy Days) provide 25% discount on (eg. if you register for both meetings you will get 25% discount on the total registration fee -> 112,50 € instead of 150.00 €)

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LANGUAGE

Official Language is English
Simultaneous translation will not be provided.

CME CREDITS

• The 12th European Narcolepsy Days – Narcolepsy: Towards an individualized treatment, Berlin, Germany, 18/09/2021-19/09/2021 has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 6 European CME credits (ECMEC ®s)
  Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity
  18.09.2021 – 4 CME credits
  19.09.2021 – 2 CME credits

• An application has been made to Ärztekammer Berlin

LOCAL ORGANIZER

PROF. DR. ULF KALLWEIT Professor of neurology, Witten/Herdecke University Witten, Germany	DR. med CHRISTIAN VEAUTHIER Charité – Medical University Berlin Berlin, Germany

IN COLLABORATION WITH

European Sleep Foundation (ESF)
www.europeansleepfoundation.ch