Date: April 30th-May 1st, 2026

Location: Tampa Marriott Water Street
505 Water St, Tampa FL 33602

April 30

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7:00am          Registration; Continental Breakfast 

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7:55am          Welcome: From bench to bedside towards tremor therapy development  

                 Sheng-Han Kuo & Aparna Wagle Shukla 

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Session 1:      Recent advances in Tremor Physiology and Clinical Science 

                          Moderator: TBD

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8:00am          The Global Burden of Essential Tremor and the Economic Costs of Treatment     

                          Kandice Kapinos                        

 

8:20am          Prevalence and Clinical Significance of Common and Rare Tremor Disorders

                         Sanjay Pandey

 

8:40am          Postmortem-based Diagnostic Criteria for Essential Tremor

                         Phyllis Faust

 

9:00am          Neuropathological basis of ET-Dementia

                         Elan Louis

 

9:20am          Proteomic signatures of essential tremor

                         Giovanni Oliveros (Phyllis’ postdoc)

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9:40am          Distinguishing Parkinson's Disease Tremor from Essential Tremor: Clinical and                                             Experimental Tools             

        Matteo Bologna

 

10:00am        Neurophysiologic Signatures of Essential Tremor and Implications for DBS            

        Lauren Hammer

              

10:20am        TBD (Selected platform presentation)

              

10:30am        TBD (Selected platform presentation)

 

10:40am         Break

 

Session 2:       Basic and translational research of tremor: what do we learn?

                           Moderator: TBD

 

11:10am          Frequency Encoding Mechanism of Essential Tremor

                           Ming-Kai Pan

 

11:30am          Thalamic Gating of Movement Frequency: Implications in Tremor Disorders  

                           Christopher Chen

 

11:50am           Bi-directional Regulation of Cerebellar Physiology of Ataxia and Tremor

                            Sheng-Han Kuo

 

12:10am           Purkinje Cell Axonal Pathology of Essential Tremor

                            Hirofumi Fujita

 

12:30am           TBD (Selected platform presentation)

 

 

Lunch               1:00pm to 2pm (60 min)

 

Session 3:         From Mechanisms to Medicine: Identifying the Key Pathophysiological basis underlying                              Essential Tremor and Parkinson’s disease for Targeted Therapies

Moderator:     

 

2:00pm              Initial poll - What is the Main Mechanism for Essential Tremor?

                            

 

2:05pm              Hyper-excitability of the T type Calcium Channels is the Key Mechanism 

                            Theresa Zesiewicz

 

2:20pm              Insufficient GABA Mechanism is the Key Mechanism          

                            William Ondo

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2:35pm              Discussion

                       

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Moderator:      TBD

 

2:50pm              Initial poll- What is the Main Mechanism for Parkinsonian Tremor?

                            TBD

 

2:55pm             Dopaminergic Dysfunction: A Central Contributor to Parkinsonian Tremor

                            Michiel F. Dirkx

 

3:10pm             Serotonin and not Dopamine: A Central Contributor to Parkinsonian Tremor

                            Jacopo Pasquini

 

3:25pm            Discussion 

                          TBD

 

3:40pm           Refreshment Break 

 

 

Session 4:       Industry perspective (4pm-5:30pm)

Moderator:   

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4:10pm           [Various industry presenting data or pipeline development]

 

5:20pm           Panel discussion- academic and industry collaboration 

                          Moderator: Sheng-Han Kuo & Aparna Wagle Shukla

 

6:00pm           Adjourn

 

7:00pm           Reception and Dinner: Sunset cruise at Tampa Bay

 

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                                                                     May 1 

 

7:00am           Registration, Continental Breakfast

 

Session 5:      Recent Advances in Imaging of Tremor Disorders

Moderator:  TBD 

 

8:00am           Updates on Parkinson’s Disease Tremor Imaging

                         Rick Helmich

 

8:20am          New Insights of Dystonic Voice Tremor Imaging

                         Kristina Simonyan

 

8:40am          Enigma tremor

                        Max Laansma

 

9:00am          Mechanistic Insights Into Orthostatic Tremor

                        Cecile Gallea

 

9:20am          TBD (Selected platform presentation)

               

9:30am          Refreshment Break 

 

Session 6:     Advances in Therapeutic Development for Tremor

                        Moderator: TBD 

 

10:00am       Peripheral Neuromodulation for Tremor Management 

                        Rajesh Pahwa

 

10:20am       Botulinum Toxin for Tremor: A Targeted Approach to Symptom Management

                      

 

10:40am       Advances in DBS Therapy: Evolving Targets and Adaptive Systems.

                       Alfonso Fasano

 

11:00am       Thermal Lesioning with Precision: Updates on Focused Ultrasound

                        Antonella Macerollo

 

11:20am        New Horizons in Tremor: Pharmacological Innovations and Clinical Trials

                        Aparna Wagle Shukla

 

11:30am        TBD (Selected platform presentation)

 

11:40am        TBD (Selected platform presentation)

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12:00am        Lunch 

 

12:00pm        Poster sessions 

 

Session 7:      Parallel session 

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1:30pm-2:30pm

Moderator:    TBD (Selected platform presentation)

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                           Electrophysiological Tools for Tremor Evaluation: What Every Clinician Should Know    

                           Katie Longardner

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                           Decoding Head Tremor: Electrophysiological Tools for Diagnosis and Management.

                           Aasef Shaikh

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                           Smart Wearables for Tremor Detection: Algorithms, Accuracy, and Clinical Relevance  

                          Steve Charles

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                          Machine Learning Approaches to Understanding and Managing Tremor Disorders.  

                          Muthuraman Muthuraman

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                          Artificial Intelligence in Tremor Diagnosis and Management: Current Applications and                              Future Directions.

                          Nienke A Timmermans

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                         Work and Activity Impairment in Individuals with Essential Tremor.

                         Ludy Shih

 

Session 8:      Brainstorming session

 

2:30pm          What Do We Need to Move Tremor Research Forward? Perspectives for the Next                                        Generation

                         TBD

 

3:30pm           Refreshment Break 

 

Session 9:       Challenging cases & video rounds

 

3:50pm           Tremor Video Rounds: Case-Based Learning and Diagnostic Pearls

                           Steven Frucht & Hyder Jinnah

 

4:50pm          Closing remarks

                         Sheng-Han Kuo & Aparna Wagle Shukla