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Best Recoveries from Stroke
January 29,2013, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

A presentation to stroke survivors, their families, concerned citizens, media and health professionals

Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability and affects every aspect of living. Stroke survivors and their families want to get better and want to know what services, treatment and practices work best.

"Best practices" is a medical term used to evaluate quality of care and can also be adapted to describe what stroke survivors can do for themselves to aid in their own recoveries. The UCLA Stroke Center and the Stroke Association of Southern California will make a presentation and lead a discussion on how to achieve optimal recovery from stroke.

Presentors:

  1. Jeffrey Saver, M.D., Professor of Neurology, will discuss life-saving emergency treatments that reduce and reverse the injury of acute stroke and the role of the public in that success. Dr. Saver is the director of the UCLA Comprehensive Stroke Center.
  2. S. Thomas Carmichael, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Neurology, will discuss how valid research creates safe and effective treatments. Dr. Carmichael is Vice Chair for Research and Programs at UCLA and Co-Principal Investigator, Stanford-UCLA Stroke Stem Cell project.
  3. Bruce Dobkin, M.D., Professor of Neurology, will discuss how plasticity, practice and recurrent therapy improve
    functioning. "How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice." Dr. Dobkin is Director of the UCLA Neurologic Rehabilitation and Research Unit.
  4. David Merrill, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, will discuss how to improve mood, thinking and experience of life after stroke. He is an Adult and Geriatric Psychiatrist at the UCLA Semel Institute.
  5. Reams Freedman, M.F.T., stroke survivor and director of the Stroke Association of So. CA, will discuss how survivors and families can support their own recoveries. Even with advancing technology, there are steps of recovery that survivors must do for themselves.

Past Events

International Symposium on Collaterals to the Brain
November 6-8th
Los Angeles, CA

The International Symposium on Collaterals to the Brain is a multidisciplinary scientific conference focused on collateral perfusion in acute and chronic neurovascular disorders.

This conference will convene leading experts to cover key aspects of this burgeoning field, with a total of 200 participants for a 2-day conference in an academic setting. The confirmed program is structured into 5 sessions covering the history and translational research on collaterals, chronic role of collaterals, imaging features, acute stroke aspects, and considerations of clinical trial design for collateral therapeutics. A seminar and panel discussion is devoted to mentoring the next generation of investigators in collateral perfusion. Publication plans include a detailed roadmap on research steps on collaterals for the next 5 years.

The symposium welcome reception and interactive dinner seminar will convene at the W Hotel, immediately adjoining the UCLA campus.Symposium lectures will be held at UCLA Covel Commons, providing 5,925 square feet of space in an ideal networking venue for breaks and lunch. These comprehensive meeting facilities include child and family care, with access for individuals with disabilities. Housing is available at a wide range of hotels with convenient location.

Agenda:

November 6th, 2012 - Introduction and welcome receiption

November 7th, 2012 - Collateral circulation: From old to new
                                         Collateral into chronic phases
                                         Lunch
                                         Imaging of collaterals
                                         Dinner seminar: Mentoring the next generation on collateral perfusion

November 8th, 2012 - Collaterals in acute ischemic stroke
                                         Collateral therapeutics
                                         Concluding remarks and next steps   

 

Invited speakers:

  

Gregory W. Albers, MD (Stanford, CA, USA)
Andrei V. Alexandrov, MD (Birmingham, AL ,USA)
Anne W. Alexandrov, PhD, RN (Birmingham, AL, USA)
Oh Young Bang, MD, PhD (Seoul, Korea)
Ivo R. Buschmann, MD (Berlin,Germany)
Andrew M. Demchuk, MD (Calgary, AB, Canada)
Colin P. Derdeyn, MD (St.Louis, MO, USA)
James E. Faber, PhD (Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
Ed Feldmann, MD (Boston, MA, USA)
Myron D. Ginsberg, MD (Miami, FL, USA)
Nestor R. Gonzalez, MD (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Rishi Gupta, MD (Atlanta, GA, USA)
David S. Liebeskind, MD (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Liping Liu, MD (Beijing, China)
James E. Faber, PhD (Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
Ed Feldmann, MD (Boston, MA, USA)
Myron D. Ginsberg, MD (Miami, FL, USA)
Nestor R. Gonzalez, MD (Los Angeles, CA, USA)

 

Nestor R. Gonzalez, MD (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Rishi Gupta, MD (Atlanta, GA, USA)
David S. Liebeskind, MD (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Liping Liu, MD (Beijing, China)
David J. Mikulis, MD (Toronto, ON, Canada)
Raul G. Nogueira, MD (Atlanta, GA, USA)
Mark W. Parsons, MD (Newcastle, Australia)
Rema Raman, PhD (San Diego, CA, USA)
Marc Ribo, MD, PhD (Barcelona, Spain)
Tatjana Rundek, MD, PhD (Miami, FL, USA)
Noriko Salamon, MD (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Jeffrey L. Saver, MD (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Ashfaq Shuaib, MD (Edmonton, AB, Canada)
Cathy A. Sila, MD (Cleveland, OH, USA)
Steven Warach, MD, PhD (Austin, TX, USA)
Max Wintermark, MD (CharloYesville,VA, USA)
KS Lawrence Wong, MD (Hong Kong, China)
Albert J. Yoo, MD (Boston, MA, USA)

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