Dr. Roberta La Piana, MD, PhD, Montreal Neurological Institute

Moderator: Dr. Sunita Venkateswaran, MD, FRCPC, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) 8:40 AM - 9:10 AM - Acquired and hereditary demyelinating diseases: overlapping phenotypes and pathogenic mechanismsSpeaker: Dr. Jennifer Orthmann-Murphy, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania(20 min. talk followed by Q/A) 9:10 AM - 9:40 AM - The place of patientsSpeaker: Heidi Edwards, The Sisters’ Hope Foundation (20 min. talk followed by Q/A)

Moderator: Dr. Sridar Narayanan, PhD, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM - Genetic diseases mimicking multiple sclerosis: radiological misleading features analyzed through a multination studySpeaker: Dr. Natalia Shor, MD, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris (20 min. talk followed by Q/A) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM - Advanced imaging tools and ultra-high-field MRI to investigate white matter abnormalitiesSpeaker: Dr. David Rudko, PhD, Montreal Neurological Institute(20 min. talk followed by Q/A)

Moderator: Dr. Roberta La Piana, MD, PhD, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM - Open Science: An essential component to any International Collaborative NetworkSpeaker: Francis Ouellette, Executive Director, Neuro Bioinformatics Core Facility, Montreal Neurological Institute(20 min. talk followed by Q/A) 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM - Round Table between the WM Rounds members