Conference Agenda

*Agenda subject to change.

7:30am - Registration and Breakfast

8:00 am - Welcome Remarks - Mohammad Sajed, MD

8:05am - Aging and Brain Health: Lessons Learned from the Most Vulnerable: What Home Visits and Peer Mentoring Tell Us about Parkinson’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia - Jori Fleisher, MD, MSCE, FAAN

8:30am - Aging and Brain Health: Brain Health and Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment - Phil Gorelick, MD, MPH

8:55am - Aging and Brain Health Session - Alzheimer's Disease: Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment - Justin Long, MD, PhD

9:20am - Declaration of Brain Death - Rajeev Garg, MD, MS

9:40am - Current and Emerging Medical Therapy for Parkinson's Disease - Mahesh Padmanaban, MD

10:10am - Break

10:25am - Neuro-Palliative Care: Person-Centered Care for People Living with Serious Neurologic Illness– Heather Leeper, MD

10:55am - Endovascular Thrombectomy in Large Core Ischemic Strokes: Insights from Major Trials and Clinical Implications– Brandon Bond, MD

11:15am - Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence in Stroke: A Review - Benjamin Kummer, MD

11:55am - Business Meeting - Mohammad Sajed, MD

12:00 pm - Lunch

1:00 pm - Update on Advanced Anti-CD20 Therapeutics to Improve Outcomes for Patients with Multiple-Sclerosis - Daniel Wynn, MD

2:00 pm - Pediatric Neurology: Ischemic Stroke: Hot Topics - Megan Barry, DO

2:20pm - Pediatric Neurology: Therapeutic Advances in Childhood Epilepsies - Joyce Wu, MD

2:40pm - Pediatric Neurology: Leukodystrophies - Jennifer Rubin, MD

3:00 pm - Break

3:15 pm - Science of Compassion in Neurological Care - Sarah Zallek, MD (This session is co-sponsored by the Clinical Neurological Society of America)

3:45 pm - TTRemendous Advances in Transthyretin Amyloidosis Treatment - Sami L Khella, MD

4:45 pm - Trainee Presentation: Efficacy of Stimulant Use for Excessive Daytime Sleepiness in Lewy Body Dementia: A Case Study - Lizbeth Lopez, MD

4:55 pm - Trainee Presentation: Transient Locked-In Syndrome – Danah Bakir, MD

5:05 pm - Trainee Presentation: Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease and the Cognitive Variable – Jade Park, MD

5:15 pm - Closing Remarks - Mohammad Sajed, MD

5:30 pm - Adjourn