Recorded Webinars

August 2012-Concussion: The Perfect Storm

Presenter is Richard Ellenbogen, MD, Chief of Neurosurgery at Harborview Medical Center and attending neurosurgeon at Seattle Children’s Hospital

April 2012: Assessment & Prognosis in Severe TBI

Presenter is John Whyte, MD, PhD, Director, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute

March 2012-2011 Field Triage Guidelines: What Are They and What’s New

Presenter is E. Brooke Lerner, PhD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin.

February 2012-TBI in Older Adults: Risk Factors, Outcomes, and Treatment Implications

Presenters are Fecilia Goldstein, PhD and Angela Ashley, MD from the Department of Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine.

January 2012-Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Clinical, Sports, and Combat Concusison Perspectives

Presenter is Jeffrey Barth, PhD, ABPP-Cn, Professor and Co-Director of the Neurocognitive Assessment Laboratory.

November 2011: Sports Concussions: The Role of a “Return to Academics” Plan

Presenter is Mark Halstead, MD, Director of the Sports Concussion Clinic at the Washington University Sports Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri

August 2011: Neurorehabilitation of Pediatric TBI

Presenter is Joelle Mast, PhD, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Blythedale Children’s Hospital.

July 2011: Mild TBI and Postconcussive Symptoms in Children & Adolescents

Presenter is Keith Owen Yeates, PhD, Director of the Center for Biobehavioral Health at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Chief of the Section of Pediatric Psychology and Neuropsychology at Nationwide Children’s.

June 2011: Ageing After TBI-Life Expectancy and Health

Presenter is Steven Flanagan, MD, Howard A. Rusk Professor and Chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, and the Medical Director of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center.

May 2011 Webinar: Concussion in Youth Sports

Presenter is Stan Herring, MD, University of Washington Medicine Health System, Seattle Washington.

March 2011 Webinar: Imaging of Minor Head Trauma

Presenter is Robert Zimmerman, MD, FACR, Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital.

February 2011 Webinar: TBI as Chronic Disease

Presenter is Brent Masel, MD, President and Medical Director of the Transitional Learning Center at Galveston.

January 2011 Webinar: Assessment of Clinical Utility of Biomarkers of TBI

Presented by Ron Hayes, PhD, Founder, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Banyon Biomarkers, Inc.

October 2010 Webinar: Managmenet of Concussions in the Young Student-Athlete: New Rules, New Tools

Presented by Gerard A. Gioia, PhD, Pediatric Neuropsychologist, Chief Division of Pediatric Neuropsychology, Director, Safe Concussion Outcome Recovery & Education (SCORE) Program, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC

September 2010 Webinar: A Unified Science of Concussion

Presented by Jamshid Ghajar, MD, PhD, Chief of Neurosurgery at Jamaica Hospital-Cornell Trauma Center, Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and President of the Brain Trauma Foundation.

August 2010 Webinar: Rehabilitation of Sensorimotor Deficits Following Traumatic Brain Injury: a Case Series

Presented by Neera Kapoor, OD, MS, FAAO, FCOVD-A, Associate Clinical Professor, Director, Raymond J. Greenwald Rehabiliation Center, and Program Supervisor for the Residency in Vision Rehabilitation (Acquired Brain Injury)/Primary Eye Care at SUNY, State College of Optometry.

July 2010 Webinar: Hidden in Plain Sight: The Story of Progesterone and Brain Injury

Presented by Donald Stein, PhD, this presentation will discuss the past and present work using progesterone and some of its metabolites in the treatment of traumatic brain injury and stroke. Both pre-clinical and clinical results will be presented.

June 2010 Webinar: Hemodynamic Managment in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury

Presented by Monica Vavilala, MD, this presentation will detail the importance of blood pressure management in children with severe TBI and also discuss the relationship between blood pressure and cerebral blood flow, metabolism, and autoregulation. Information will be presented on the relationship between hypotension and poor outcomes in childrens with severe TBI.

May 2010 Webinar: Seizure Prevention & Management after TBI: Focus on the Neuro-ICU

Presented by Lori Shutter, MD, this presentation focuses on current information on the incidence, significance, and management of seizures after traumatic brain injury (TBI). It will also provide insight regarding the direction of current research in this area.

April 2010 Webinar: Hypertonic Saline

Presented by Roland Torres, MD, this presentation focuses on understanding the indications for diuretics in the setting of severe TBI, reviewing the controversy surrounding the use of hypertonic saline, in the management of patients with severe TBI, assessing the current available evidence for the use of hypertonic saline in severe TBI, summarizing current deficiencies in the available evidence in favor of the use of hypertonic saline in the management of severe traumatic brain injury, and identifying appropriate patients to treat with hypertonic saline.

March 2010 Webinar: Lessons from the Neurosurgical Theater: Operation Iraqi Freedom

Presented by Gerald Grant, MD, this presentation highlights the important lessons learned during a 6 month deployment of a neurosurgeon in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Unique aspects of the blast injuries will be discussed as well as the recommended management of these complex injuries.

February 2010 Webinar: Management of Severe Pediatric TBI

Presented by P. David Adelson, MD, FACS, FAAP this presentation discusses the basic principles of age at injury and their considerations as they apply to clinical management will be reviewed. As well, the recommendations for the medical and surgical management as outlined in the evidence based document, the “Guidelines for the Acute Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Infants, Children, and Adolescents” by Adelson et al, 2003 will be reviewed.

January 2010- Decompressive Craniectomy: The RESCUEicp Trial

Presented by Peter Hutchinson, MD this presentation focuses on ICP guided management of TBI, a literature review of Decompressive craniectomy, surgical technique and an update on the RESCUEicp study. For more information on the study go to www.rescueicp.com.

COMING SOON:January 2010 Webinar: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and the US Military

Presented by Kathy Helmick, MS, CRNP, CNRN, this presentation focuses on the current Department of Defense led initiatives to help ensure state of the art TBI care for combat wounded service members. Advancements in clinical care as well as clinical challenges will be discussed. Areas for translation into nursing clinical practice will also be discussed.