Series Description: 

This biweekly conference series gives clinicians an opportunity to stay up to date on the latest advances and recommendations in neurovascular care via review of emerging evidence in peer-reviewed journal articles. It also serves as a platform to share best practices with teammates across specialties, subspecialties, and service-lines. Additionally, this is a forum for clinicians to come together to discuss complex or rare patient cases and share various expertise so as to make informed decisions on the patients' treatment plan.

Target Audience: 

Nurse Practitioner (NP)

Nurse, Registered (RN)

Pharmacists (PharmD)

Physicians (MD or DO)

Physician Assistant (PA)

Psychologists

Social Workers

Learning Objectives - After Attending This Activity Learners Should Be Able To:

1. Discuss and review difficult neurovascular cases with team members of various specialties and disciplines to facilitate optimized care plan recommendations.

2. Adopt new evidence-based treatment options into practice based on review of peer-reviewed journal articles.

3. Discuss social determinants of health impacts on clinical presentation and/or implicit biases impacts on treatment planning.

Culturally Appropriate Care Which is Free of Implicit Biases (AB 1195 & 241):

• • Saiyasit, N., Butlig, E., Chaney, S., Traylor, M., Hawley, N., Randall, R., Bobinger, H., Frizell, F., Crook, E., Lin, M., Hill, B., Keller, J., & Nelson, A. (2022) Neurovascular dysfunction in diverse communities with health disparities: Contributions to dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease. Front Neurosci; 16. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.915405; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9279126/
  • Liskay, A. M. et al. (2019). Abstract WP486: Do Social Determinants of Health Predict Recovery in the First 90 Days After Stroke?  Stroke Vol. 50, No. Suppl_1. Retrieved from https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/str.50.suppl_1.WP486
  • Rinaldo L, Rabinstein AA, Cloft H, Knudsen JF, Castilla LR, Brinjikji W. Racial and ethnic disparities in the utilization of thrombectomy for acute stroke, analysis of data from 2016 to 2018. Stroke. 2019; 50:2428–2432. https://Doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.118.024651
  • Pikula, A., Catanese, L., Bushnell, C., Caso, V., & Silver, J. (2020). How to be savvy about gender disparities in academic stroke medicine. Stroke; 51(9). https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.029546

Disclosure of Financial or In-Kind Commercial Support & Conflict of Interest

No one involved in the planning or presentation of this educational activity have any relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. No financial or in-kind commercial support was received to produce or promote this educational activity.   

– Provider Designee/Verification: Kerri Maya, MSL, RN