ABN 2024
Speaker & Chair Guide
Thank you for your input into the meeting
Please read below for information about your roles
The deadline to upload your slides via the link has passed. Please bring your slide deck to the Speaker Preview Room on a USB drive.
Speakers & Chairs
• Read the information below and email us with any queries
• Our response is 48 hours, but is usually within 24 (Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm)
Training Day speakers
There is no speaker preview room or chair for your session, but all other information below remains the same.
Speaker Information
Preparing your talk
• You will present from a lectern, with a fixed mic
• You will have a radio button device to move on your slides
• The chair will manage questions from the audience via the app at the conclusion of your presentation
• We can check your slides beforehand to ensure that the text displays properly and any video files are correctly embedded
• Upload your slide deck on/before 1700 on Thur 16 May
• Bring a backup of your work to the meeting on a pen drive
• Be sure to include copies of any video or sound files used, just in case we need to convert them
• If you plan to use your own computer to present, this is fine but please inform us of this on/before 1700 on Thur 16 May
Presenting from your own lap top
Speaker preview room
Your presentation
Chair Information
If you have not chaired a session at an ABN event before, please visit the speaker preview room for instructions on how to chair and use the Q&A software.
Speaker Preview is located in the Soutra on the ground floor, to the right of the registration desk.
• If you are chairing an abstract session, please read the abstracts in advance and think of questions to ask the presenter (links below)
• Our chairs are a mixture of those that have chaired before and those that haven’t
• Please plan who will do what with your co-chair before your session so you can share the work equally
• Note down questions you can ask in advance, if needed
• It is essential that your session runs to time
• A member of the ABN office team will be the room manager and your point of contact in the hall
• A printed chair pack will be on the top table when you arrive
• The chair pack will outline any announcements you need to make for your particular session and remind you of these guidelines
• If you are unclear about any aspect of your role, please consult the chair pack, ask your co-chair or ask your room manager
General Announcements for the audience
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Use the app for Q&A. If you need help to post a question, ask a member of staff, at the ABN stand or the registration desk
• Thank you to our sponsors who help make this meeting possible
• Please visit the exhibition stands in the Cromdale Hall, and the sponsored symposia sessions
Handling Q&A
Delegates ask questions on the app – as they do, the questions will appear on the screen in front of you
• Aim for a diversity of questions
• Gently bring the question time to a close within the allotted time in order to keep to schedule
Scoring - Parallel Session chairs
• Please ensure you score each poster in your session via the scoring link provided here or via the app.
• You are welcome to score other abstracts too
• Please complete your scoring by 1330 on Thur 23 May
Read your abstracts now
Summary of chair names
| Day & Time | Session | Chairs |
| Tue 21: 0915 | Plenary Session 1: Pathogenic mechanisms of neurological disorders | Ingrid Hoeritzauer & Martin Turner |
| Tue 21: 1130 | Parallel Session 1: Cognitive/Vascular | Akram Hosseini & John Janssen |
| Tue 21: 1130 | Parallel Session 2: Epilepsy | Lina Nashef & Shanika Samarasekera |
| Tue 21: 1405 | Medallist Lecture | Tom Warner (Citation) |
| Tue 21: 1445 | Plenary Session 2: Difficult management issues | James Holt & Biba Stanton |
| Wed 22: 0900 | Plenary Session 3: Expert advice for the non-expert | Emma Tallantyre & Jeremy Rees |
| Wed 22: 1120 | Gordon Holmes Lecture | Lucy Kinton (Citation) |
| Wed 22: 1200 | Plenary Session 4: Acute neurology in practice | Rustam Al-Shahi Salman & Krista Farrell |
| Wed 22: 1530 | Plenary Session 5: Developing a new service | Claire Rice & Arani Nitkunan |
| Wed 22: 1700 | Parallel Session 3: General/QST | Pooja Dassan & Jon Stone |
| Wed 22: 1700 | Parallel Session 4: Movement Disorders | Thomasin Andrews & David Breen |
| Thur 23: 0930 | Case Presentation Competition | Louise Davidson & Matt Jones |
| Thur 23: 1045 | Practical Neurology lecture | Phil Smith & Geraint Fuller |
| Thur 23: 1215 | Parallel Session 5: MS/Inflammatory | Alasdair Coles & Kate Petheram |
| Thur 23: 1215 | Parallel Session 6: Neuromuscular | Carolyn Gabriel & Chinar Osman |
| Thur 23: 1445 | Plenary Session 6: Video Session | Sofia Eriksson & David Nicholl |
| Thur 23: 1545 | CPC | Richard Davenport |