Programme

21st November 2025 SWIPE Meeting

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09:15Venue Open / Refereshments
09:45Welcome and Introduction
Dr Hayley King, Consultant General Paediatrician, UHBW & Dr Ravi Poorun, NIHR Clinical Lecturer, UoE
10:00The role of genetic testing in rare epilepsy disorders
Dr Sam Amin, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, UHBW
10:45Epilepsies with variable diagnostics
Dr Thiloka Ratnaike, Paediatric Neurology Trainee, UHBW
11:15Refreshment break
11:35Snippets from Exeter
12:00Outcome prediction in paediatric vagal nerve stimulation therapy: what does the evidence tell us?
Mr Will Singleton, Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon, UHBW
12:45Paediatric Neurosurgical Research Talk
Dr Oliver Sluijters, Neurosurgical Trainee, NBHT
13:10Lunch
13:55Clinical and genetic spectrum of GRIN-associated epileptic encephalopathies: A case series
Dr Saraswathi Holla, Paediatric trainee, UHBW
14:35Epilepsy 12 Discussion and Network Update
Dr Archana Murugan, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, UHBW and Colin Dunkley, Epilepsy 12
15:20Refreshment break
15:40CESS Updates and new technological and research developments within the network
Mr Mike Carter, Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon, UHBW
16:20A case of pancytopenia in a child with Dravet syndrome
Dr Katy Burnage, Paediatric Neurology Trainee, UHBW
16:40Feedback, wrap-up.