08:30 - 10:30 NEUROLOGY WORKSHOP for Non-Neurologists
Practical Implications on Patient Centric Care With Take Home Messages for Non-Neurologists and Neurologists
Chairs:
Marc De Baets (Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands) 
Tatsusada Okuno (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan)

Understanding Myasthenia Gravis (MG) as a Non-Neurologist, Maria Isabel Leite (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
Topics to be discussed:
- When and how to suspect MG?
- Ordering antibodies - when it is more than anti-AChR?
- Is there a role for following antibody titers post operatively?
- Understanding diagnostic modalities
 
Does The Presence of a Thymoma Influences The Treatment Strategies for MG?  Marc De Baets (Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Topics to be discussed:
- Classic therapy with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors
- Immunosuppressive therapy
- Mechanical immunomodulatory therapy
- Biologic therapies
- Measured objective responses therapy guidance

When to Operate, When Not to Operate, Jens Rueckert (Charite, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)
Topics to be discussed:
- Optimizing and understanding pre-operative treatments
- Non thymomatous myasthenia gravis vs. thymoma with myasthenia gravis pretreatment regimes

Understanding Implications of Myasthenia Gravis on Patients, Mohammad Ashraghi (John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK)
Topics to be discussed:
- Practical implications for everyday life Interactions with medications
- Treatment implications with chemo and radiotherapy

Paraneoplastic Syndromes - An Unusual Case, Marc De Baets (Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Topics to be discussed:
- When to suspect?
- How to screen if suspected?
- How to avoid complications?
- Is the treatment different than in myasthenia gravis?

10:30 - 11:00 BREAK

11:00 - 12:00 Future Studies/Collaborations: Working Group Discussion/Formulation
Chairs:
Joshua Sonett (Columbia University/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA)
Maria Isabel Leite (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)

Topics to be discussed:
- Myasthenia gravis and other paraneoplastic syndromes in thymoma: prospective studies, biobanks, collective series
- Thymectomy implications in adults
- Can we prospectively study and how?
- Thymectomy in children and adolescents
- MGNET collaboration
- MGFA collaboration 
- Solicitation of ideas/projects

12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH BREAK

13:00 - 16:00 ITMIG Committee Meetings
All ITMIG members are welcome!

13:00: Thymic Carcinoma WG and Mediastinal WG (45 mins)
13:45: Mediastinum Collaboration WG (15 mins)
14:00: Database Committee (30 mins)
14:30: Artificial Intelligence WG (20 mins)
14:50: Biology WG (20 mins)
15:10: Communication Committee (15 mins)
15:25: Membership Committee (15 mins)
15:40: Steering Committee (10-20 mins depending on time remaining)

16:00 - 19:00 BREAK

19:00 - 21:00 JLCS GALA DINNER
All ITMIG2024 attendees are welcome!