Meeting of the Minds 2019: Agenda

Brain Injury and Coma
Friday, October 25 • 8 am to 12:30 pm

8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45 Welcome
Raphael Davis, MD

Co-Director, Stony Brook University Neurosciences Institute
Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, Stony Brook Medicine
9:00 Keynote Speaker
Central Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment of Cognitive Deficits After Traumatic Brain Injuries
Nicholas Schiff, MD 
Jerold B. Katz Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Feil Family Brain & Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College
9:40 Speaker Introduction: Raphael Davis, MD    
9:45 Managing the Return to Consciousness After Brain Injury
Chuck Mikell, MD
Co-Director, Stony Brook Movement Disorders Center, Stony Brook Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
10:10 Speaker Introduction: Chuck Mikell, MD  
10:15 Who Wakes Up After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury? A New Approach
Sima Mofakham, PhD 
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Stony Brook Medicine
10:40 Speaker Introduction: Patricia Coyle, MD, FAAN, FANA
Interim Co-Director, Stony Brook University Neurosciences Institute
Director, Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center, Stony Brook Medicine
Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Neurology
10:45 Brain Imaging in Disorders of Consciousness
Elizabeth Wirkowski, MD
Director of Neurocritical Care Unit Education
Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Stony Brook Medicine
11:10 Speaker Introduction: Alfredo Fontanini, MD, PhD
Co-Director, Stony Brook University Neurosciences Institute
Professor and Chair, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook Medicine
11:15 Machine Learning Approach to Escaping the Attractor of Unconsciousness
Il Memming Park, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook Medicine
11:45 Q & A
12:25 Closing Remarks: Chuck Mikell, MD
   
 
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