The Chinese Neurosurgical Society, WFNS Neurotrauma Committee and Global Neuro Lecture Series—Neurotrauma
- 23 December 2022 - 01 May 2023
- China | Shanghai
- Andrew Reisner Emory University
- Guoyi Gao Beijing Tiantan Hospital
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Andrew Reisner
Emory University -
Guoyi Gao
Beijing Tiantan Hospital
Andrew Reisner
Emory University
Name and Title(s): Professor Andrew Reisner MD
Profession: Physician
Job title: Pediatric Neurosurgeon
Other Affiliations:
1 World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies - WFNS 2 American Association of Neurosurgeons - AANS 3 Congress of Neurological Surgeons - CNS 4 International Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons IISPN 5. Society of British Neurosurgeons - SBNS (International member)
Areas of specialty:
Neurotrauma, Pediatric neurosurgery
Additional biographical information:
Dr. Andrew Reisner is a board certified pediatric neurosurgeon. He completed a neurosurgery residency at Emory University in 1993 and subsequently did a fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He has been an attending neurosurgeon at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) for 25 years. He has a large clinical practice and has averaged over 400 surgical cases annually over this period. He is directly responsible for all aspects of the patients’ care and manages the full gamut of pediatric neurosurgical problems, including brain tumors, congenital CNS diseases, hydrocephalus and trauma.
Dr. Reisner is a Professor in both the Departments of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics, Emory University and is involved in resident training. He established the fellowship in Pediatric Neurosurgery at Emory University in 2012.
Dr Reisner established the Neurotrauma and Concussion programs at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) and, as Director, is responsible for the logistics and monitoring of compliance of implemented evidence-based pathways (see attached CHOA Neurotrauma 1 page summary). Dr Reisner championed the implementation of evidence-based pathways in 2022 for severe TBI which has resulted in sustained 40 % improvement in mortality (peer reviewed published data). The concussion program, Pediatric Concussion Care | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (choa.org) established in 2015 has fulfilled the overwhelming need for management of these children and to date, the concussion program has had > 50,000 patient interactions. The CHOA Concussion guidelines (toolkit) have been adopted worldwide concussion-tookit.pdf (choa.org)
Dr. Reisner’s research activity includes a variety of clinical aspects of pediatric neurosurgery with a focus on head injuries. He established the Pediatric Neurotrauma Lab in 2018, a translational lab housed on the Emory campus. The laboratory efforts focus on pediatric TBI and concussion biomarkers and has budget of over $5 million, including approx. $500,000 in NIH awards. Most notable findings are a biomarker that correlates with TBI severity and may have utility in identifying victims of child abuse.
He has authored over 126 papers, abstracts and book chapters and given over 320 presentations nationally and internationally (details in accompanying CV and NIH Biosketch).
Dr Reisner was appointed Elaine and John C. Carlos Chair of Neurotrauma at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta in 2017.
His awards include the Trubshaw Medal, given to the most distinguished surgical resident, resident teaching awards and multiple community service awards. More recently, in 2020 he was awarded the Children’s Care Network – Award of Merit for significant contributions to Pediatrics.
In 2021, Dr Reisner was nominated to the Chair, Neurotraumatology, World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) – 2021-2023. The WFNS represents more than 30,000 neurosurgeons worldwide and works with its member societies to improve neurosurgical care and enhance research worldwide.
Guoyi Gao
Beijing Tiantan Hospital
Name and Title(s): Guoyi Gao
Profession: Physician
Other Affiliations:
none
Areas of specialty:
Neurotrauma
Additional biographical information:
Name and title(s): Guoyi Gao, M.D., PhD.
Current position(s) and affiliations:
Professor and chair of the Neurotrauma division, Neurosuegery Department, Beijign Tiantan hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijign, China.
Vice Chairman of Young Member committee of Chinese Trauma Society
Vice director of Neurotrauma Board of Chinese Trauma society
Board member of Education Committee, Chinese Neurosurgeon Society
Vice Director of Head trauma committee of Shanghai Neurosurgical Association
Specific expertise: Neurotrauma, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
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Andres M. Rubiano
Universidad El Bosque, Bogota, Colombia
Name and Title(s): Professor Andres M. Rubiano MD, PhD(c), IFAANS, FACS
Profession: Physician
Job title: Professor of Neurosciences & Neurosurgery
Other Affiliations:
Meditech Foundation Medical and Research Director
Areas of specialty:
General neurosurgery, Neurotrauma, Critical/Intensive care, Epidemiology, Prehospital care, Emergency care, Research Scientist
Additional biographical information:
Name and title(s): Andres M. Rubiano, MD, PhD
Current position(s) and affiliations: Medical & Research Director, Meditech Foundation, Cali, Colombia
Professor of Neurosciences and Neurosurgery -Director of Neurotrauma Research, Universidad El Bosque, Bogota, Colombia / Professor of Neurological Surgery, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
Chair of the Neurotraumatology Committee of the WFNS / Chair of the International Committee of the Neurotrauma and Critical Care Section of the AANS.
Specific expertise: His expertise is in Neurotraumatology and Clinical Research, including aspects like trauma systems, emergency care, neurosurgery, and critical care.
Corrado Iaccarino
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Name and Title(s): Prof Corrado Iaccarino
Profession: Physician
Job title: Neurosurgeon
Other Affiliations:
University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy AUSL RE IRCCS of Reggio Emilia, reggio Emilia, Italy
Areas of specialty:
General neurosurgery, Neurotrauma
Additional biographical information:
Name and title(s): Prof. Corrado Iaccarino M.D. PhD
Current position(s) and affiliations:
Associate Professor in Neurosurgery, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia – Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences – University Hospital of Modena – Neurosurgery Division – Modena, Italy.
Member of the Italian Neurosurgical Society (Vicepresident 2024-2026)
Member of the Advisory Board of the Neurotraumatology Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.
Member of Guide Lines Task Force of European Association of Neurosurgical Societies
Former Head (2014-2016/2018-2020) and former Secretary (2012-2014/2016-2018) of the Traumatic Brain Injury Group of the Italian Society of Neurosurgery.
Specific expertise: Traumatic brain injury, Cranial reconstruction, spine trauma, neuronavigation and neuroendoscopy
Anthony Figaji
University of Cape Town
Name and Title(s): Professor Anthony Figaji MBChB FCS Phd
Additional biographical information:
Name and title(s): Anthony Figaji MBChB, MMED, FCS (Neurosurgery), PhD
Current position(s) and affiliations:
Professor and Head Paediatric Neurosurgery at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
National Research Foundation SARChI Chair of Clinical Neurosciences
Secretary of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
Scientific chair of the Society of Neurosurgeons of SA
Pediatric Director of the Brain Trauma Foundation.
He is past president of the International Neurotrauma Society and one of the founder members of Global Neuro.
Specific expertise: Paediatric Neurosurgery
Laura Lippa
Ospedali Riuniti Livorno
Name and Title(s): Dr Laura Lippa MD
Additional biographical information:
Consultant Neurosurgeon at Ospedale Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
Currently serving as co-Chair of the WFNS Neurotrauma Committee and as secretary of the Neurotrauma Committee, Italian neurosurgical society (SINCh). Member of the EANS Neurotrauma Committee and both the EANS and WFNS Young Neurosurgeons.
Research, education, mentorship geek.Peter Hutchinson
University of Cambridge
Name and Title(s): Professor Peter Hutchinson
Additional biographical information:
Peter Hutchinson BSc (Hons), MBBS, PhD (Cantab), FRCS (Surg Neurol) FMedSci is Professor of Neurosurgery, NIHR Research Professor and Head of the Division of Academic Neurosurgery at the University of Cambridge. He is Director of Clinical Research at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
He holds an Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon post at Addenbrooke’s Hospital with a sub-specialist interest in the management of neuro-trauma, specifically head and traumatic brain injury. He has a research interest in acute brain injury, utilising monitoring technology to increase the understanding of the pathophysiology of brain injury, and in the investigation and treatment of concussion. He also leads the international RESCUE studies evaluating the role of decompressive craniectomy in traumatic brain injury. He was awarded the Olivecrona Prize (the “Nobel Prize for Neurosurgery”) for his work on cerebral metabolism in acute brain injury).
He has co-authored over 500 publications (including NEJM, Lancet and Brain) and been lead applicant in over £20m of grants (including MRC and NIHR). He is joint editor of the Oxford Textbook of Neurological Surgery and “Head Injury – A Multidisciplinary Approach”.
He is Director of Clinical Studies at Robinson College, Past President of Clinical Neurosciences Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, Meetings Secretary of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons, Treasurer of the International Neurotrauma Society and Chief Medical Officer for the Formula One British Grand Prix.
Konstantinos Fountas
University of Thessaly
Name and Title(s): Prof. Konstantinos Fountas MD, PhD
Additional biographical information:
Dr. Kostas N. Fountas was born in Athens, Greece. He completed his undergraduate education in Athens, and graduated from the Medical School of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He subsequently completed his neurosurgical residency, and a fellowship in Epilepsy and Electrophysiological Neurosurgery at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA. He has completed his thesis on the role of proton MR spectroscopy in the preoperative evaluation of intracranial tumors.
He is the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Medical School of University of Thessaly, in Larisa, Greece, since 2009. He has established and runs a busy Epilepsy and Brain Tumor Program at his home institution. He has also been appointed as a Clinical Instructor at the Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA since 2004.
His research interests focus on epilepsy imaging and surgery, electrophysiological surgery, and advanced imaging and surgical treatment techniques of brain tumors.
He has contributed 215 peer-reviewed articles in PubMed indexed journals, while he is the author of more than 30 chapters of neurosurgical textbooks, and the editor of two major neurosurgical textbooks. He has been served as an instructor in several international workshops. He has delivered more than 300 presentations in international neurosurgical meetings, receiving several international awards.
He is a member of several international neurosurgical societies, among them the EANS, AANS, CNS, ASSFN, ESSFN, and WSSFN. He serves as the president of the Greek Neurosurgical Society since 2021, as well as active member of the board of the Greek American Neurosurgical Society, and the South-Eastern Neurosurgical Society. He has served as the President of the Web & Publication Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. He is a member of the Editorial Board in 5 PubMed listed neurosurgical journals, while he serves as e reviewer in more than 50 neuroscience journals.
Gregory Hawryluk
Cleveland Clinic
Name and Title(s): Temporary Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery Gregory Hawryluk MD, PhD, FRCSC
Profession: Physician
Areas of specialty:
Neurotrauma
Additional biographical information:
Name and title(s): Dr. Gregory Hawryluk,MD, PhD, FRCSC
Current position(s) and affiliations: Neurosurgeon at Cleveland Clinic and Medical Director of the Brain Trauma Foundation
Greg completed his neurosurgical residency at the University of Toronto. During this time he also completed a basic science PhD in Neural Repair and Regeneration under the supervision of Dr. Michael Fehlings which examined the mechanism by which neural precursor cells augment recovery from spinal cord injury.
He leads the development of the Brain Trauma Foundation's head injury guidelines, Co-Directed the development of the SIBICC algorithms and is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards for academic achievements such as the Murray Goldstein Award of the National Neurotrauma Society as well as humanitarian awards such as the University Health Network’s Sopman Humanitarian Award.
Specific expertise: spine and brain trauma
Amos Adeleye
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan,
Name and Title(s): Professor Amos Adeleye MBBS, FWACS, FACS, IFAANS, Fellowship Skull Base Surgery (Jerusalem)
Profession: Physician
Job title: Professor of Neurological Surgery and Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon
Areas of specialty:
General neurosurgery, Neurotrauma, Skull base, Pediatric neurosurgery, Epidemiology, Prehospital care, Emergency care
Additional biographical information:
Dr. Amos Olufemi Adeleye is a Professor of Neurological Surgery at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan; and a Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon, Universlty College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. Professor Adeleye received post-residency clinical training in advanced skull base surgical techniques for 2 years at the Department of Neurosugery, Hadassah Medical Center, Ein-Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel. He currently carries out research in the practice of low-cost Neurosurgery; in particular, low-cost operative neurosurgery. He is also deeply involved with epidemiological, clinical, radiological and operative treatment research in neurotrauma; particularly traumatic brain injury, all, also in the setting of low-resource practice
Maximilian Mehdorn
mehdorn-consilium
Name and Title(s): Maximilian Mehdorn MBBS, FWACS, FACS, IFAANS, Cert Skull Base Su
Additional biographical information:
Neurosurgical training in Zürich San Francisco and Essen, 1973 - 1982, assistant professor department of neurosurgery isn't lesson 1984, chairman department neurosurgery, Kiel University, 1991 until 2015, since then in private practice. Extensively Traveling, more than 400 publications
Ava Puccio
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Name and Title(s): Associate Professor Ava Puccio RN, PhD
Other Affiliations:
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing (Secondary Appointment) Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge (TRACK-TBI)--Biorepository PI
Areas of specialty:
Neurotrauma, Critical/Intensive care, Nursing, Research Scientist
Additional biographical information:
Ava M. Puccio, RN, PhD, is an assistant professor in the department of neurological surgery and also co-director of the Neurotrauma Clinical Trials Center in collaboration with David O. Okonkwo, MD, PhD.
Dr. Puccio received her bachelor of science degree in neuroscience in 1988 and bachelor degree in nursing in 1994, both from the University of Pittsburgh. In 1995, she joined the Department of Neurological Surgery as a nurse coordinator on the National Acute Brain Injury Study: Hypothermia (NABIS:H) study and also the coordinator for the Brain Trauma Research Center. She pursued advanced schooling to graduate with a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Pittsburgh in 2000 and as a university scholar (top 2% of class) from the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing with a doctoral degree, emphasis in neuroscience in 2008. Her dissertation, “Effect of short periods of normobaric hyperoxia on local brain tissue oxygenation and cerebrospinal fluid oxidative stress markers in severe traumatic brain injury” was published in the Journal of Neurotrauma in 2009.
Dr. Puccio was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh in 2010 and received her adjunct faculty position with The School of Nursing, Department of Acute/Tertiary Care in 2010 with collaborations with Yvette Conley, PhD and Richard Henker, RN, PhD. She was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2022. Dr. Puccio currently manages a team of on-call nurses, laboratory staff, neuropsychological outcome staff and regulatory staff for several observational and interventional trials involving TBI initiatives with a team science approach. Dr. Puccio is the PI of the National TBI Biorepository which houses biospecimens for several multi-center initiatives, ie. TRACK-TBI and BioBOOST. Her research focus is on blood- and genomics-based biomarker development for TBI, as well as novel therapeutic interventions in TBI clinical trials. Dr. Puccio educates clinical neuro ICU nurses in the pathophysiology and treatment of neurotrauma patients and current research initiatives. In conjunction with David Okonkwo, MD, they instruct residency training on multi-modality placement and management of intracranial catheters for the Management of Severe TBI at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Niklas Marklund
University of Lund
Name and Title(s): Niklas Marklund
Additional biographical information:
Name and title(s): Niklas Marklund, M.D.,PhD.
Current position(s) and affiliations:
Professor and Academic Chair at the Department of Neurosurgery at Lund University, Sweden
Director of LUBIN Lab, Lund Laboratory for Brain Injury research in Neurosurgery
Founding member and vice president of ENO (European Neurotrauma Organization)
Consultant neurosurgeon (överläkare), Lund University Hospital
European editor J Neurotrauma
Chair- Swedish Sports Concussion Society (SSCS)
Member (elected) World Federation of Neurological Surgery (WFNS)
Neurotraumatology Committee and Scandinavian Neurotrauma Committee (SNC)2017.-2021 Chair EANS Trauma & Critical Care
Specific expertise: Neurotraumatology that includes experimental as well as clinical research and ranges from sports-related concussions to neurocritical care topics, vascular disorders and spinal neurosurgery.
Niklas Marklund is since 2016 professor and academic chair at the Department of Neurosurgery at Lund University, Sweden, as well as professor of neurosurgery at Uppsala University, Sweden. He went to medical school in Umeå, Sweden and had his neurosurgical training in Uppsala. After his PhD on traumatic brain injury in 2001, he spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow in Philadelphia, USA continuing his research on neurotraumatology. His main clinical and scientific areas of interest are neurotraumatology that includes experimental as well as clinical research and ranges from sports-related concussions to neurocritical care topics, vascular disorders and spinal neurosurgery.
Niklas Marklund was 2010-2016 the Swedish representative in the EANS training committee as well as the scientific secretary of the Swedish Neurosurgical Society. He hosted the 2015 Uppsala training course, is a current member of the EANS exam committee and is a Swedish course leader for the annual Scandinavian neurosurgical courses, Beitostolen, Norway. He is the current mentor of 5 PhD students and on the editorial board or associate editor of five journals including Frontiers in Neurology- Neurotrauma, Journal of Neurotrauma and Acta Neurochirurgica. He is elected member of the Scandinavian Neurotrauma Committee, European Brain Injury Consortium, and the Neurotrauma Committee of the WFNS. Niklas Marklund has a genuine sports interest and enjoys the art of piano playing. He is of course an individual member of the EANS and was in October 2017 elected as the section chair of Trauma & Critical Care of the EANS.
DR. Brahma Balakrishnan
Aishwaryium International
Name and Title(s): Datuk Dr DR. Brahma Balakrishnan MBBS; MSc Acute Medicine
Additional biographical information:
Dr. Barunashish Brahma is a neurosurgeon in Atlanta, Georgia and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Northside Hospital Atlanta. He received his medical degree from University of Michigan Medical School and has been in practice for more than 20 years.
Nqobile Thango
UCT Neurosurgery
Name and Title(s): Nqobile Thango
Additional biographical information:
Nqobile Thango is a paediatric neurosurgeon, lecturer and researcher at the UCT Neuroscience Instituite. Her research interests include understanding how the brain responds to injury at a cellular level (TBI/Infections). Along with neurosurgical research education and capacity building.
She is part of the Young African Neurosurgeons Forum, research co-lead WFNS Global Surgery committee and Young Neurosurgeons Forum.
Andreas Unterberg
Heidelberg University Hospital
Name and Title(s): Prof. Dr. med Andreas Unterberg MD, PhD
Additional biographical information:
Currently Chairman and Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
He studied medicine at the Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich from 1974 to 1981. He achieved his M.D. degree in 1982. During the following years he was a research fellow at the Institute for Surgical Research in Munich (Director: Professor Dr. A. Baethman). In 1985 and 1986 he was a research fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Division of Neurological Surgery of the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond/Va./USA, working under Professor Antony Marmarou. His habilitation thesis was finished in 1988 at the LMU Munich.
From 1987 to 1990 he was a resident at the Department of Neurosurgery in Munich (Director: Professor Dr. F. Marguth). In 1990 he became Associate Professor at the Department of Neurosurgery of the Free University in Berlin. In 1991 he was promoted to a full Professor of Neurosurgery. Since 1995 he was Vice Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Charité, Humboldt-University of Berlin. In 2003 he became Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery in Heidelberg.
He received numerous awards, e.g. the E.K.-Frey-Medal of the German Society for Intensive Care Medicine and the Upjohn Award for Neurosurgical Research. He is member of various international societies and expert committees. He served as principal investigator for some clinical studies concerning neurotraumatology, subarachnoid hermorrhage and treatment of intracerebral hematomas.
Skull base, pituitary, vascular as well as glioma surgery are nowadays his clinical focuses.
Professor Unterberg published more than 600 original papers and numerous books.
From 2008 to 2010 he served as President of the German Society of Neurosurgery (DGNC). From 2011 to 2013 he was President of the German Society for Neurointensive Care.
Since July 2022, he is currently until 2024 President of the International Neurotrauma Society (INTS).
Alexander Younsi
BG Klinik Ludwigshafen
Name and Title(s): Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Younsi FEBNS
Profession: Physician
Job title: Neurosurgeon
Other Affiliations:
Heidelberg University Hospital
Areas of specialty:
Neurotrauma, Spinal surgery
Additional biographical information:
I am a Neurosurgeon interested in Neurotraumatology, TBI, and SCI, with a research lab for experimental neuroregenerative and neuroprotective treatment approaches.
Muhammad Tariq Khan
Name and Title(s): Muhammad Tariq Khan FRCS
Rebeca Alejandra Gavrila
Name and Title(s): Rebeca Alejandra Gavrila
Additional biographical information:
Rebeca Gavrila is a PhD student in the Cognitive and Molecular Neurosciences program at KU Leuven (Belgium). Her research focuses on the functional impact of Traumatic Brain Injury in the elderly population. She holds a BSc in Physical Therapy from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and a MSc in Neuroscience from the Autonome University of Madrid (Spain).
Massimiliano Visocchi
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF ROME , POLICLINICO GEMELLI
Name and Title(s): Massimiliano Visocchi ximenarodriguez
Anna Elmers
Designer Health Partners
Name and Title(s): Anna Elmers
Wilco Peul
University Neursurgical Center Holland, The Hague & Leiden
Name and Title(s): Prof. Wilco Peul MD, PhD, MPH, MBa
Profession: Physician
Job title: Professor&Chair Neurosurgery
Other Affiliations:
President UEMS Section Neurodurgery
Areas of specialty:
Neurotrauma, Spinal surgery, Critical/Intensive care, Epidemiology, Emergency care
Additional biographical information:
Name and title(s): Wilco Peul, Prof. MD, PhD, MPH, MBa
Current position(s) and affiliations: Chair University Neurosurgical Center Holland (UNCH) , LUMC | HMC | HAGA Leiden-The Hague
Specific expertise: Neurotrauma & Spine
Franco Servadei
Humanitas University
Name and Title(s): Professor Franco Servadei No
Profession: Physician
Job title: Prof of Neurosurgery
Areas of specialty:
General neurosurgery, Neurotrauma, Critical/Intensive care
Additional biographical information:
Name and title(s): Franco Servadei, M.D.
Current position(s) and affiliations:
Professor of Neurosurgery, Humanitas University , Milano, Italy
Honorary Professor of Neurosurgery at Burdenko Institute, Moskow, Russia, Universita’ Italiana di Buenos Aires, Argentina, University of Surabaya, Indonesia, north Wetsern University, Peshawar Pakistan andUniversity of Cambridge , UK.
Chairman the Neurotrauma Committee of the WFNS (2002-2009)
President Italian Neurosurgical Society 2010-2012
President Elect , WFNS (2015) and President of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies from 2017 to 2021 than Padt President
Invited speaker in the last 10 years to 72 international meetings in all the 5 Continents of the WFNS
Visiting professor in UK, Taiwan, Russia, Argentina, India, Indonesia, USA, Brazil, Vietnam, France, Bolivia
Chairman of 5 international training course for young Neurosurgeons, teacher in other 17 Courses
Organizer of 5 International World Meetings
Specific expertise: Neurotrauma
Muhammad Tariq Khan
Name and Title(s): Muhammad Tariq Khan FRCS
Ramon R Diez-Arrastia
Penn Medicine University City
Name and Title(s): Ramon R Diez-Arrastia MD, PhD
Additional biographical information:
Dr. Diaz-Arrastia serves as Contact-PI for Penn NeuroNEXT. He currently the Presidential Professor of Neurology and Director of Clinical Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research at Penn, a position that he assumed in July, 2016. Dr. Diaz-Arrastia received his MD and PhD degrees at Baylor College of Medicine in 1988, and after an internship Beth Israel Hospital and the Harvard Medical School, he trained in neurology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He was on the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern from 1993 to 2011, where he rose through the ranks from Assistant to Full Professor of Neurology. From 2011 to 2016 he was Professor of Neurology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), and Director of Clinical Research at the Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, a federal intramural research program focused on TBI at USUHS and the National Institutes of Health.
His research for the past 25 years has focused on understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neuronal injury and neuroregeneration, with the goal of developing novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. He has been Principal Investigator on multiple local and national clinical studies in TBI, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, and HIV-related neurological disorders, although for the past several years his focus has been on TBI.
He is the Scientific PI for the Brain Oxygen Optimization in Severe TBI (BOOST) Phase 3 trial, recently funded by NINDS as one of the first clinical trials conducted by SIREN (Strategies to Innovate Emergency Clinical Trials Network). He was contact PI for the BOOST Phase 2 trial, and thus have experience in designing and implementing Phase 2 trials that lead to definitive Phase 3 studies.
He is also currently co-PI of TRACK-TBI (Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury), a multi-institutional observational study designed to develop precision medicine tools, including neuroimaging and biomarkers, to improve the design of the next generation of clinical trials in brain injury. He has also served in several national and international committees related to TBI clinical research and practice, convened by the NIH, DoD, and the IOM. He additionally has extensive experience mentoring junior investigators, and over the past 10 years have been primary mentor for four K23 awardees, who have gone on to successful academic careers.
Rebekah Mannix
Name and Title(s): Rebekah Mannix MBBS, FWACS, FACS, IFAANS, Cert Skull Base Su
Additional biographical information:
Rebekah Mannix MD, MPH is a Senior Associate in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is also co-director of the Boston Children's Hospital Brain Injury Center. As a practicing clinician, Dr. Mannix has overseen numerous innovations in the care of pediatric brain injured patients. Her translational research has been widely published including recent articles in Nature, Nature Communications, JAMA, and Annals of Neurology.
Joshua Vova
Name and Title(s): Joshua Vova MD
Additional biographical information:
Dr. Vova joined the staff at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta in 2008, and currently serves as the director of rehabilitation services. He is board certified in pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, pediatric rehabilitation medicine and brain injury medicine. Dr. Vova’s main clinical focus is caring for children with disabling conditions and striving to improve their function and quality of life. He is actively involved in the cerebral palsy, spasticity, brain tumor and spina bifida multidisciplinary clinics.
Dr. Vova serves on multiple clinical and administrative committees at Children’s. He has also served as the residency director for the Emory Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency and the fellowship director for the Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Fellowship. He continues to work with Emory University and Morehouse School of Medicine where he still assists as an adjunct professor. Dr. Vova’s research interests include spasticity management, anti-NMDA antibody receptor encephalitis and technology and robotics in rehabilitation. He has also presented at numerous conferences and has published textbook chapters on caring for children with special needs.
Antonio Belli
University of Birmingham
Name and Title(s): Prof Antonio Belli
Profession: Scientist
Job title: Professor of Trauma Neurosurgery
Areas of specialty:
General neurosurgery, Neurotrauma
Additional biographical information:
Prof Belli graduated from Tor Vergata University in Rome in 1992 with a degree in Medicine and Surgery. He completed a doctoral degree (MD) on neurobiochemistry of brain ischaemia and reperfusion at Tor Vergata University and then moved to the UK in 1994.
He trained as a neurosurgeon at King’s College Hospital, Atkinson Morley’s Hospital, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital, The Royal Free Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital.
Prof Belli ia a former Director of the NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre in the UK and is an NIHR Senior Investigator. He has been Chief or Principal Investigator of numerous neurotrauma studies and has led multiple large-scale grants.
Elham Rostami
University of Uppsala
Name and Title(s): Elham Rostami
Additional biographical information:
Elham Rostami, MD, PhD, born in Iran. She studied at Karolinska Institute in Sweden. she interned in Bangalore, India and provided medical care for children with Aspergers in Sweden all while obtaining fellowships from Johns Hopkins to research stroke, training on fMRI techniques at NIH in Bethesda, and starting a PhD on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). After graduating in 2008, Rostami worked as an ED physician, and worked on addiction, prior to graduating from neurosurgery training in 2017, after which she was appointed an associate professor in neurosurgery, a clinical scientist at the prestigious Karolinska Institute, and a consultant neurosurgeon at the Uppsala University Hospital in the subsequent years. She also holds a Wallenberg clinical fellow position.
Rostami’s extensive research profile encompasses many aspects of TBI, from biomarkers, physiology, pharmacology, treatment, and imaging amongst many others. She authored and co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed publications, and contributed to myriad book chapters. She is a recognised authority on CBF, and has been an invited speakers to several major conferences to speak on the matter, including the EANS and Euroanaesthesia. In addition to her busy clinical duties, she is active in mentoring research theses for PhD students both as a main and as a co-supervisor. She has attracted over 13 million Swedish Krona (EUR ~1.3 million) in research funding. Furthermore, Rostami serves as the Vice Chair of the Neurotrauma Section of the EANS, is a member of the Swedish Ethical Review Authority, and is a commissioner in the assessment group of the Faculty of Medicine's Foundation for Psychiatric and Neurological Research.
The Chinese Neurosurgical Society, WFNS Neurotrauma Committee and Global Neuro Lecture Series—Neurotrauma has been developed for neurosurgeons and other health care providers, including residents, dedicated to the integral management of Neurotrauma, as well as complex and interdisciplinary patient care.
This Twelve-week Lecture Series will focus on multiple aspects of neurotrauma and its management. It will cover multiple neurotrauma-related topics such as traumatic brain injuries (TBI), the management of neurotrauma in the elderly and pediatric populations, ASDH, Biomarkers, Post-trauma neuroinflammation and Epilepsy, Sleep, Coagulation and TBI, and Autonomic dysfunction following TBI, among others.
Each week two lectures will be presented by international faculty and broadcast in both English and Chinese.
At the end of the Lecture Series, a live 1.5-hour webinar with the participation of some of the international faculty that presented and local faculty will address participants' questions and concerns.
Participants will be able to interact throughout the course by sending their questions and concerns through a chat.
Agenda
(See Preliminary Program)
By completing this course, participants will be better able to:
- Describe and discuss latest evidence-based trends in the management of TBI
- Appreciate best practices of the continuum of TBI care from prehospital, emergency, intensive, surgical, and rehabilitative phases of treatment
- Understand evolving trends and innovations in contemporary surgical and medical techniques of neurotrauma management.
Phone: +13217322199, Email: ximena.rodriguez@globalneuro.org