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It is a great pleasure to invite you to attend the 3rd World Congress on Huntington’s Disease (WCHD 2007), which will take place at the International Congress Center in Dresden (Germany) from September 9, 2007 to September 11, 2007. We look forward to welcoming you to this gathering of the world’s leading Huntington’s Disease (HD) researchers, thinkers and activists.

The World Congress is a joint meeting of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN) Research Group on Huntington's Disease (HD) and the International Huntington Association (IHA). Traditionally, the WFN Research Group on HD and the IHA met separately every two years; the Congress in Dresden will be the 22nd Meeting of the WFN Research Group on HD and the 17th meeting of the IHA. Since the 2003 Congress (Toronto) these meetings have been restructured and now form a joint meeting which goes under the name of World Congress on Huntington's Disease (WCHD). The WCHD in 2007 is organised in association with the clinical, scientific and patients’ organisations concerned with HD.

The congress offers a scientific program open to clinicians, basic scientists and HD organisations.The scientific programme includes presentations covering:

  • genetics
  • pathogenesis
  • clinical aspects of HD (neurology,neuropsychology,neuropsychiatry and genetic counselling)
  • neuropathology
  • biomarkers (imaging and biomarkers in body fluids)
  • drug discovery and development
  • clinical trial results

  • the latest therapeutic advances
  • public policy
  • care and coping strategies
  • education
The congress will therefore be of interest to all researchers and health professionals concerned with HD, and to members of the HD associations.

International Huntington Association (IHA)

For IHA members the World Congress will start with the Business Meeting on Saturday, September 8, 2007 and will be supplemented by parallel sessions of the IHA on Monday, September 10, 2007 and Tuesday, September 11, 2007, which will feature updates, reports and presentations related to the work of the IHA members around the world.
For this meeting two official delegates and two observers from each IHA member country are cordially invited. Due to space limitations at the conference venue meeting slots will be allocated primarily to official delegates. 

European Huntington´s Disease Network (EHDN)

The World Congress will be preceded by the 4th Annual Plenary Meeting of the European HD Network (EHDN 2007) which extends from Friday, September 7 to Saturday, September 8, 2007. Next to present members and associated members of the EHDN; the EHDN meeting is opened to two delegates and two observers of the IHA member countries. Those IHA members who are capable of on-going contribution to EHDN working groups can apply for associated membership including applying for travel and accommodation costs up to a certain limit for the EHDN meeting.

Continuing Medical Education

For participation in the WCHD 2007:

  • the Sächsische Landesärztekammer has granted 18 points to the congress
  • the EACCME has granted 18 European CME credits (ECMEC) to the congress
For granting of the CME points the individual barcode is required. Each participant will get a confirmation of participation in the congress.