Date: 6-7th February 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Establish the fundamentals of neuroanatomy in dogs and cats.
• Describe and interpret a comprehensive neurological examination, emphasizing differences between dogs and cats.
• Localise a lesion within the CNS and provide a differential diagnosis based on the VITAMIND framework.

Module Summary:

• The Neurological Examination.
• Localization of Spinal Lesions.
• Localization of Intracranial Lesions.
• Differential Diagnosis Based on VITAMIND.

Speaker: Elsa Beltrán

Date: 6-7th February 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Describe and interpret the neurological examination in patients with peripheral nervous system disorders.
• Understand diagnostic methods for patients affected by the peripheral nervous system.
• Differentiate the most common diseases of nerves, muscles, and neuromuscular junctions, including their diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.

Module Summary:

• Neurological examination of the peripheral nervous system.
• Complementary test for peripheral nervous system diseases.
• Most common nerve diseases.
• Most common neuromuscular junction diseases.
• Most common myopathies.
• Clinical cases study.

Speaker: Ane Uriarte

Date: 6-7th March 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Understand epilepsy classification and clinical presentation.
• Identify long-term versus emergency treatment for epileptic seizures.
• Differentiate between epileptic seizures and paroxysmal dyskinesias, including their treatment and prognosis.

Module Summary:

• Epilepsy: Clinical Presentation and Classification.
• Epilepsy Treatment.
• Movement Disorders.

Speaker: Holger Volk

Date: 6-7th March 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Understand cerebrospinal fluid function and its diagnostic utility.
• Understand the differences between advanced imaging procedures when studying the spine and the brain, including when to choose CT versus MRI and how to interpret them.

Module Summary:

• Cerebrospinal Fluid: Technique and Interpretation.
• CT Scan vs MRI in the Spine.
• CT Scan vs MRI in the Brain.
• Interactive Clinical Cases.

Speaker: Anna Suñol

Date: 17-18th April 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Stabilisation of the neuro-emergency patient.
• Recognising and treating status epilepticus in dogs and cats.
• Treatment approach to the traumatised spine and brain.

Module Summary:

• Introduction to neurological emergencies including assessment and stabilisation.
• Cluster seizures and SE.
• Traumatic brain and spinal injuries.
• Acute encephalopathies, including vestibular disease.
• Clinical cases.

Speaker: Sophie Wyatt

Date: 17-18th April 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Recognize the clinical presentation of a stroke and discuss treatment and prognosis.
• Understand the most common inflammatory brain diseases in dogs and cats, including their treatment.
• Recognize and treat metabolic encephalopathies.

Module Summary:

• Vascular encephalopathies: ischemic and haemorrhagic.
• Immune-mediated encephalitis.
• Infectious brain disorders (including ear infections).
• Metabolic and toxic encephalopathies.

Speaker: Bruno Lopes

Date: 15-16th May 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Identify the differences in presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer in the brain or spine.
• Clinical case presentation with decision making.

Module Summary:

• Brain tumour classification and clinical presentation.
• Brain tumour diagnosis and symptomatic therapy.
• Brain tumour treatment.
• Spinal/nerve tumour classification and clinical presentation.
• Spinal tumor treatment.
• Clinical cases.

Speaker: Tim Bentley

Date: 15-16th May 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Clinical presentation, diagnosis and prognosis of vascular versus inflammatory myelopathies.
• How to treat the challenging discospondylitis.
• The most common spinal cord diseases in cats.
• Clinical case discussion.

Module Summary:

• Vascular myelopathy.
• Inflammatory and infectious diseases of the spine.
• Degenerative myelopathy: clinical presentation and differential diagnosis.
• Interactive clinical cases.

Speaker: Alex Forward

Date: 12-13th June 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Presentation of the most common vertebral malformation with their clinical signs, epidemiology and treatment.
• Understand the lumbosacral syndrome and it’s challenging presentation.

Module Summary:

• AA luxation.
• Articular process dysplasia and SAD.
• Lumbosacral: clinical presentation, treatment, and prognosis.

Speaker: Sebastien Behr

Date: 12-13th June 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Present the most relevant congenital brain diseases for daily clinical practice.
• Physiopathology and clinical presentation of Hydrocephalus and Chiari-Like malformation.
• Diagnostic approach of storage diseases with a focus on Lafora disease, neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, and metabolic diseases like L-2-HGA.
• Understand age-associated cognitive decline.

Module Summary:

• CSF disorders – hydrocephalus and supracollicular fluid collection.
• CSF disorders – Canine Chiari and syringomyelia.
• Neuropathic pain: Management of Canine Chiari and syringomyelia.
• Inherited brain diseases.
• Canine/Feline dementia.
• Congenital brain disorders.

Speaker: Susana Monforte-Monteiro

Date: 10-11th July 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Define the different types of disc herniations and their treatment.
• Understand the different types of caudal cervical myelopathies and their treatment and prognosis.

Module Summary:

• Intervertebral disc disease: classification and clinical presentation PF.
• IVDD: Diagnostic techniques, treatment, and prognosis PF.
• Caudal cervical spondylomyelopathy.

Speaker: Paul Freeman

Date: 10-11th July 2027

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Identify and integrate various. neurological diseases discussed during the postgraduate program based on clinical cases.

Module Summary:

• Clinical cases neurological examination and localisation.
• Clinical cases brain.
• Clinical cases spine PF.

Farewell and conclusion of the postgraduate program.

Speaker: Nick Grapes