PhD Student Session

Programme

• 13.00 - 13.10 | Platform presentations - Laurits Taul-Madsen & Arianne Gravesteijn

Platform Presentions

• 13.10 - 13.20 | Quantifying the Risk of Relapses and Disability Accrual in Multiple Sclerosis: From Evidence-Based Observations to Personalised Assessment - Federica Di Antonio
• 13.20 - 13.30 | Workshop – receive feedback on your presentation and work with your presentation in groups - Guilia Piovani
• 13.30 - 13.40 | Understand perceptive accuracy for motor performance to personalize task-specific training in people with multiple sclerosis - Gianluca Florio
• 13.40 - 13.50 | Wearable technologies and Virtual Reality for the assessment of ADLs in Multiple Sclerosis - Erica Grange
• 13.50 - 14.00 | Biomechanical and neurophysiological assessment of ankle plantarflexors' spasticity in people with multiple sclerosis - Anne Boi
• 14.00 - 14.10 | Break
• 14.10 - 14.20 | Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Resistance exercise in people with multiple sclerosis - Therese Andersen
• 14.20 - 14.30 | From theory to practice: Towards optimal brain health for people living with MS - Olivia Wills
• 14.30 - 14.40 | Efficacy of Progressive Power Training in Enhancing Neuromuscular and Physical Function in Older Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: Preliminary Results from the PoTOMS Trial - Tobias Gaemelke
• 14.40 - 14.50 | A Closed-Loop Extended Reality System to Enhance Balance in people with Multiple Sclerosis: a protocol for a feasibility study - Gabriele Perachiotti
• 14.50 - 15.00 | Health-Related Quality of Life in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis - Effects of Different Interventions and Predictors of Change - Nadine Patt
• 15.00 | Closing

(Programme is subject to change)

Call for Abstracts

We invite you to submit an abstract for an oral presentation at the young investigator/PhD session. We encourage you to invite abstracts describing the overall framework of your PhD (background, objectives, methods, perspectives), however other abstracts are welcome as well.

The deadline for abstract submission is Sunday, March 17, 2024 (23h59 CET) with feedback regarding acceptance/non-acceptance by Monday, March 25, 2024.

• All abstracts must be submitted when you register yourself in .doc or docx format and should be written in English
• At the time of submission, the material should not have been published or accepted for publication.
• References, tables or figures are not allowed
• No symbols or specific formatting
• The body of the abstract should be limited to maximum 300 words
• The subject should treat the results of a specific research project, including reviews. However, original data are preferred
• In addition, there should be a running title submitted with a maximum of 45 characters
• All abstracts have to be submitted by the presenting author.
• If the abstract has more than one author, the main author should be clearly identified (fe: label: 'main author:')

Registration

Registration is required despite an abstract submission. Discover more and register by clicking on the link down below: