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Scientific Program 2025

08:00-18:00

Registration

09:00 - 13:00

Pre-congress Workshop. 7th INTERNATIONAL COURSE: AN UPDATE ON FACIAL PARALYSIS. LA PAZ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FACIAL NERVE UNIT (Highlights)

13:00 - 14:00

Boxed Lunch

IFNS 2025 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM SCHEDULE

14:00 - 18:00

IFNS 2025 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

19:00

Opening Ceremony
Room Convención

20:00

Welcome cocktail

08:00-18:00

Registration

08:00 - 18:00

IFNS 2025 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

08:00 - 10:00

Parallel sessions: Presentations & Round table discussion
Room Convención - Neuromuscular retraining & Botulinum Toxin (Special session)
Helen Martin (UK) Karen Young & Catriona Neville (UK), Babak Azizzadeh (US), Andrés Lorenzo & Camilla Ekwall (Sweden) Laura Hetzler & Sara Macdowell (US) Fabian Volk

Room Viena - Facial reanimation for long standing paralysis
Room Caracas - Quality of life. Psychological issues
Room Londres - Perioral reanimation

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 12:30

Keynote lectures Plenary session
Room Convención - Babak Azizzadeh. "The Evolution of Selective Neurectomy for Post-Facial Paralysis Synkinesis”
Tessa Hadlock. 25 years of facial reanimation: Where we are and where we are headed
Jackie Diels “Beyond Face Value: 40 Years of Facial Retraining”
Q & A

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 15:30

Parallel sessions: Presentations & Round table discussion
Room Convención - Vestibular schwannoma and other skull base lesions
Room Viena - Facial reanimation for long standing paralysis
Room Caracas – Quality of life. Psychological issues
Room Londres – Video presentation
Room París – Hands-on session 01. Facial nerve and facial muscle surface electrostimulation Jena Session
Orlando Guntinas-Lichius, Gerd Fabian Volk, Thomas Schick, Christina Repitsch, Christina Buchgeher

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00 - 18:00

Parallel sessions: Presentations & Round table discussion
Room Convención – Vestibular schwannoma and other skull base lesions
Room Viena – Facial reanimation for long standing paralysis
Room Caracas – Quality of life. Psychological issues
Room Londres – Video presentation
Room París – Electrostimulation devices for demonstration

08:00 - 18:00

IFNS 2025 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

08:00 - 10:00

Parallel sessions: Presentations & Round table discussion
Room Convención 1 – Nerve Transfers
Room Convención 2 – Neuromuscular retraining. Physical therapy
Room Viena – Static procedures and Botulinum Toxin
Room Caracas – Oncological patients

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 12:30

Parallel sessions: Presentations & Round table discussion
Room Convención 1 – Nerve Transfers
Room Convención 2 – Neuromuscular retraining. Physical therapy
Room Viena – Botulinum Toxin and Treatment of Synkinesis (Non Surgical)
Room Caracas – Head and Neck Surgery. Maxillofacial and Plastic Surgery
Room París – Hands-on session 02. Using High-Resolution Ultrasound to Assess Post-Facial Paralysis Synkinesis: Machine Settings and Technical Aspects for Facial Surgeons Upsala Session
Andrés Rodríguez, Andreas Kehrer


Room Londres - Future Research Panel The Past, Present, and Future of Facial Palsy Research
Matt Miller, Tessa Hadlock, Wei Wang, Alison Snyder-Warwick, Suresh Mohan, JP Pepper


12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 15:30

Parallel sessions: Presentations & Round table discussion
Room Convención 1 - Nerve Transfers
Room Convención 2 - Treatment of Synkinesis (Surgical)
Room Viena - Botulinum Toxin and Treatment of Synkinesis (Non Surgical)
Room Caracas - Surgical anatomy
Room París - Hands-on session 03. Facial muscle ultrasonography Jena Session
Gerard Fabian Volk, Johannes Krauß, Orlando Guntinas-Lichius

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00 - 18:00

Parallel sessions: Presentations & Round table discussion
Room Convención 1 - Mentor session. BABAK AZZIZADEH. Deep plane facelift technique
Room Convención 2 - Treatment of Synkinesis (Surgical)
Room Viena - Facial nerve repair and grafting
Room Caracas - Oculoplastic Surgery
Room Londres - Surgical anatomy

18:00 - 18:30

SCBS Meeting. Bid for IFNS 2029 (Chair: BABAK AZZIZADEH)
Room Convención 1

09:00 - 13:00

IFNS 2025 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

09:00 - 11:00

Parallel sessions: Presentations & Round table discussion
Room Convención 1 - Bell’s palsy and other acute facial paralysis
Room Convención 2 - Facial nerve and skull base tumors
Room Viena - Bilateral facial paralysis. Hemifacial spasm and other unusual facial nerve disorders
Room Caracas - Pediatric facial paralysis
Room Londres - Selected Highlights in oral presentation
Room París - Hands-on session 04. Facial Nerve Electrodiagnostics Jena Session
Orlando Guntinas-Lichius, Paul Funk, Marius Arnz, Gerard Fabian Volk

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 13:30

Parallel sessions: Presentations & Round table discussion
Room Convención 1 - Traumatic and iatrogenic facial nerve injury. Facial nerve decompression
Room Convención 2 - Facial nerve and skull base tumors
Room Viena - Future and Bioengineering
Room Caracas - Pediatric facial paralysis
Room Londres - Selected Highlights in oral presentation
Room París - Outcomes Standardization Committee: Standardized Measures For Facial Reanimation Surgical Outcomes
Matthew Miller, Luis Lassaletta, Gregory Borschel, Sam Oyer, Tessa Hadlock, Ayato Hayashi, Tal Kaufman, Eyal Gur, Teresa González, Alexander Cárdenas, Jon-Paul Pepper, Alison Snyder-Warwick, Wei Wang, Berke Ozucer, Federico Bolognesi, Michael Klebuc, Rachel Baptista, Abraham Zavala, Kallirroi Tzafetta

13:30 - 14:00

Adjourn. Closing Ceremony
Room Convención 1