• Submitted by: manso
• International
• 04 / 06 / 2011

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Por Fany Rodríguez.Havana, Apr. 5 (Prensa Latina) The Cuba-Great Britain Neurology Meeting, the first such annual forum in Latin America, continues Tuesday, with presentations on epilepsy and Parkinson''s disease.

The Association of British Neurologists and the Cuban Society of Neurology and Neurosurgery are sponsoring the event at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Clinic Surgical Hospital is aimed at creating a space for exchanging information on the topic.

Meeting participants include Martin Rossor, a professor of clinical neurology at Londonâ?Ös Neurology Institute, where he has developed a clinic specializing in early dementia and infrequent etiology have been created.

Rossor also chairs the National Institute of Dementia Research and is the president of the British Neurologists Association, and his research has centered on neurodegenerative dementia.

Another important figure attending this meeting is Christopher Butler, a clinical lecturer in Neurology at the University of Edinburg, as well as Kevin Talbot, senior researcher and consulting neurologist of the University of Oxford, and Andrew John Lees, Neurology professor at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square.

Cubans taking part in the meeting include doctors Jesus Perez Nellar, Juan C. Libre, Carlos Santos Anzorandia, Nelson Gomez, Calixto Machado, Orestes Herrera Lorenzo, Claudio Scherle, and others.