UT Southwestern Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease Symposium

[Guest guest]

UT Southwestern Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease Symposium

Sponsored by Department of Neurological Surgery and Neurology

Saturday, July 24, 2010

T. Boone Pickens Biomedical Building, 14th Floor Dining Room, 6001 Forest Park

Road, Dallas, Texas 75390

8:00 amRegistration and Continental Breakfast

8:15 amOpening remarks White, MD

8:30 amAcute Stroke: Time is brain Lee, MD

8:50 amEmergent Care of Cerebrovascular Disaster Wengui Yu, MD, PhD

9:10 amTreatment of acute basilar artery with Penumbra Device Robin Novakovic,

MD

9:30 amHematoma evacuation, aneurysm clipping, and beyondBabu Welch, MD

9:50 amAcute stroke case presentation: great save Kim Rickert, MD

UT Southwestern Cerebrovascular Center Faculty

Duke Samson, MDProfessor and Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery

Purdy, MDProfessor and Director, Neuroradiology/Neurointerventional

Radiology

White, MD Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery and Radiology

Mark , MDAssociate Professor of Neurology

Lee, MDAssistant Professor of Neurology

Madden, MDAssociate Professor, Neurological Surgery

Lee Pride, MDAssociate Professor of Radiology and Neurological Surgery

Christiana Hall, MDAssistant Professor, Neurology and Neurological Surgery

Robin Novakovic, MD Assistant Professor, Neurology and Radiology

Kim Rickert, MD Instructor, Department of Neurological Surgery and Radiology

Worthy R. Warnack, M.D.Associate Professor of Neurology

Babu Welch, MDAssistant Professor, Neurological Surgery and Radiology

Wengui Yu, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery and Neurology

Target audience: Paramedics, EMTs, and other health care professionals involved

in the acute evaluation, resuscitation and transportation of patients with acute

stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases.

Purpose: To educate emergent care givers in new concepts and techniques related

to the management of acute stroke and cerebrovascular disaster.

Learning objectives: At the conclusion of this symposium, participants will be

able to:

1). appreciate the symptoms and signs of acute stroke and cerebrovascular

disaster

2). understand state-of-art emergent care and transportation of stroke patient

3). know endovascular and surgical options in the management of cerebrovascular

diseases.

Continuing education credit: CEUs will be awarded through UTSW Dept of Emergency

Medicine Education and the State of Texas to Paramedics and EMTs

Parking: free on-site parking.

Registration: By Friday, July 16, 2010 call Vicki Rankin at , or

E-mail: Vicki.rankin@...

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