My Brain & Medicine – New York, United States

Please note this is a FREE in-person event only for patients, family members and caregivers.

My Brain & Medicine. Encephalitis Survivors and Caregivers Day

Venue: New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 50 Haven Avenue, Suite 109 , New York, NY 10032, USA

Room:  50 Haven Ballroom (in the Lower Level)

Friday 26 September 2025 – 13.30 – 17.30hrs (Eastern Time)

Sessions to include:

• Overview of infectious encephalitis – Assoc Prof Kiran Thakur, Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
• Overview of autoimmune encephalitis – Assist Prof Sarah Flanagan Wesley, Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
• Overview of encephalitis in children – Dr Molly Wilson-Murphy, Boston Children’s Hospital.
• Rehabilitation following encephalitis – Assist Prof Akin Beckley, Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
• Seizure management in encephalitis – Dr Claude Steriade, NYU Langone’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center.
• Psychiatric management in encephalitis – Prof Steven Kushner, Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Center for Precision Psychiatry & Mental Health – New York Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
• Encephalitis Community ‘lived experiences’ – Jim Cooper (infectious encephalitis)  and Rachael Muggleton (autoimmune encephalitis).

The event will finish with a drinks and nibbles reception.

A copy of the programme can be downloaded here 

If you would like to attend this in person event then please register for your FREE ticket here.

This event was organized in collaboration with the Divisions of Critical Care and Hospitalist Neurology and Neuroimmunology in the Department of Neurology at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

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