Day 2 Full Agenda
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Breakfast
(included with registration)
Session 3a (clinical) - Epidemiology of PTE
Introduction: Severn B. Churn, PhD, NIH-NINDS, Session Moderator
"Epidemiology of Post-Traumatic Epilepsy" - Andrea Schneider, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Seizures after traumatic brain injury: prevalence, prognostic factors and clinical impact in the CENTER-TBI cohort - Samuel Corper
"AI in post-traumatic epilepsy" - Matthew Pease, MD, Indiana University"Beyond the Seizures: Addressing the High
Burden of Premature Mortality in Post-Traumatic Epilepsy" - Mary Jo Pugh PhD, RN, University of Utah
Causes of mortality in veterans with post-traumatic epilepsy: a matched cohort study using global burden of disease classifications- Zulfi Haneef
Data Blitz 3 (Clinical, Recovery & Outcomes)
Introduction: Aristea Galanopoulou, MD, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Session Moderator
"Spatial distribution of traumatic brain injury contusions and post-traumatic epilepsy" - Daniel Brennan
"Characterizing early seizures and post-traumatic epilepsy following penetrating brain injury" - Elizabeth Carroll
"Underrecognized Traumatic Brain Injury in Idiopathic Epilepsy Diagnoses" - Tristan Colaizzi (presented by Justin Weppner)
"Structural brain network deviations predict recovery after traumatic brain injury" - Nishant Sinha, University of California, San Francisco
"Longitudinal neuropsychological outcomes after traumatic brain injury and PTE" - Maira Foresti
"Reframing PTE: lived experience, cognitive morbidity, and personalization" - Matthew McCaskill
Break
Session 3b (clinical)- Clinical risk factors for PTE
Introduction: Alexandra Ulyanova, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Session Moderator
"Leveraging Biomarkers for PTE Risk Prediction" - Amy K. Wagner, MD, University of Pittsburgh
"Quantitative EEG and Imaging Biomarkers of Post-Traumatic Epilepsy" - Jennifer A. Kim, MD, PhD, Yale University
"It is all written in the waves" - Edilberto Amorim, MD, University of California, San Francisco
"Multifractal-guided machine learning framework for late post-traumatic seizure prediction following hemorrhagic traumatic brain injury" - Kseniia Kriukova
"Precision prevention of post-traumatic epilepsy: a metabolomics-driven machine learning framework unlocks early predictive biomarkers" - Xiang Mao (Nancy Temkin Lecture - the Highest Scoring Abstract Award)
Lunch
Poster Session
Session 3c (clinical)- PTE Clinical Trial Readiness
Introduction: Pavel Klein, George Washington University, Session Moderator
"The importance of Common Data Elements for PTE research" - Severn Churn, Ph.D., NINDS, NIH
"Informatics-Driven Approaches to PTE: Linking Acute EEG, MRI Lesion Phenotypes, and Longitudinal Outcomes" - Dominique Duncan, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
"Neuroimaging of post-traumatic epilepsy" - James J Gugger, MD, PharmD, University of Rochester
"Post-Traumatic Epilepsy as Model of Epileptogenesis: Novel Biomarkers and Therapeutics" - James Castellano, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
"Center experience in conducting clinical trials in prevention of post-traumatic epilepsy after TBI" - Luiz Eugênio Mello
Break
Discussion and Wrap-up: What are the ideal patient populations to recruit in early phase clinical trials of anti-epileptogenic therapies for PTE?
Discussion with Session 3 moderators and invited platform speakers:
Severn B. Churn, Alexandra Ulyanova, Pavel Klein, Andrea Schneider, Matthew Pease, Mary Jo Pugh, Amy Wagner, Jennifer Kim, Edileberto Amorim, Dominique Duncan, Jim Gugger, James Castellano, and Luiz Eugênio Mello