Step Up to Wake Ups & Shake Ups

Please note: A number of speakers have elected to NOT have their slides posted to the NECC and Bizzabo websites this year.  Where applicable, slides have been uploaded here.  Summary slides will be shared following the summit where possible.  

Thursday October 25, 2018

8:00 am – 9:00 am: Registration, Exhibitors, Poster Tour, Breakfast

9:00 am – 9:15 am: Welcome & Opening Remarks
Jeremy Cushman, MD, MS, EMT-P, FACEP, FAEMS - Vice Chair, NECC; Associate Professor & Chief, Division of Pre-Hospital Medicine, University of Rochester - Rochester, NY
Steven R. Levine, MD, FAHA, FAAN, FANA - Past Chair, NECC; SUNY Distinguished Professor, Executive Vice Chair, Neurology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Brooklyn, NY
Brian Silver, MD, FAHA - Chair, NECC; Vice Chair, Neurology, University of Massachusetts Medical School - Worcester, MA

9:15 am – 10:20 am: Opening Plenary & Keynote Sessions

9:15 am – 9:40 am: A Sprouting Root of Recovery: Role of Stem Cells
Sean Savitz, MD - Professor, Department of Neurology, Frank M. Yatsu, MD Chair in Neurology, Director, Vascular Neurology Program, UT Health - Houston, TX

9:40 am – 10:05 am: A New Dawn Defuses Through: Updates on the Trials
Raul G. Nogueira, MD - Director, Neuroendovascular Service, Marcus Stroke & Neuroscience Center, Grady Memorial Hospital; Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Radiology, Emory University School of Medicine; Immediate-Past President, Society of Vascular & Interventional Neurology (SVIN); Editor-In-Chief, Interventional Neurology Journal - Atlanta, GA

10:05 am – 10:20 am: Q & A

10:20 am – 10:45 am: Break & Exhibitors

10:45 am – 12:00 pm: ISC Highlights & Panel Discussion

10:45 am – 11:05 am: ComparASE: Tenecteplase vs. Alteplase 
E. Clarke Haley, MD - Emeritus Professor of Neurology & Neurosurgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine - Charlottesville, VA

11:05 am – 11:25 am: Going Forward or Back? AHA|ASA 2018 Guideline Update
Andrew Southerland, MD, MSc - Associate Professor, Neurology & Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia Health System - Charlottesville, VA

11:25 am – 12:00 pm: Q & A

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Lunch, Exhibitors, Poster Sessions, Lunch ‘N’ Learn Sessions

1:00 pm -2:15 pm: Oral Abstracts – Theory to Practice Presentations

The Impact of Extending the Acute Stroke Triage Criteria to 24 Hours from Last Known Well - Dawn Beland, MSN, RN, CCRN-K, ACNS-BC, CNRN, SCRN - Hartford Hospital - Hartford, CT

CTA Collaterals vs. CT Perfusion CBF Maps for Core Infarct Volume Assessment in Patient Transfer for Intra-Arterial Thrombectomy? - Shahmir Kamalian, MD - Massachusetts General Hospital - Boston, MA

Hospital and EMS Collaborative through an EMS Quality Group - Joshua Onyan, BSN, RN, SCRN - Upstate University Hospital - Syracuse, NY 

When to Stop: Diminishing Returns from Additional Thrombectomy Passes - Scott B. Raymond, MD, PhD - Massachusetts General Hospital - Boston, MA

12 Versus 24 Hour Bed Rest After Acute Ischemic Stroke Reperfusion Therapy - Brian Silver, MD - University of Massachusetts Medical School - Worcester, MA

2:15 pm – 3:00 pm: Thursday Afternoon General Session

2:15 pm – 2:35 pm: Minor Stroke, Major Consequences: MaRISS and PRISMS Updates
Jose Romano, MD, FAHA, FAAN - Chief, Stroke Division, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine - MIami, FL

2:35 pm – 2:45 pm: Q & A

2:45 pm – 3:00 pm: American Stroke Association Community Conscience Award & Address – A Worthy Sole & How They Make It Work
Olijade Williams, MD - Medical Director, Stroke Center, Columbia University - New York, NY

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Break / Transition 

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm: State Stroke Systems: Working Breakout Sessions 

Connecticut
Richard Kamin, MD, FACEP - EMS Program Director, University of Connecticut Health Center; Medical Director, CT DPH OEMS - West Hartford, CT

Maine | New Hampshire | Vermont
Timothy G. Lukovits, MD - Medical Director, Cerebrovascular Disease & Stroke Program, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center - Lebanon, NH
Matthew Sholl, MD, MPH - Medical Director, Maine EMS, Maine Medical Center - Portland, ME

Massachusetts
Jonathan Burstein, MD, FACEP, FAEMS - MA State EMS Medical Director, MA DPH OEMS - Boston, MA

New York
David Ben-Eli, MD, FACEP, FAEMS - Division Medical Director, Office of Medical Affairs, Fire Department of New York - New York, NY
Ethan Brandler, MD, MPH, FACEP - Associate Director of Emergency Medical Services, SUNY Stony Brook - Stony Brook, NY
Jeremy Cushman, MD, MS, EMT-P, FACEP, FAEMS - Vice Chair, NECC; Associate Professor & Chief, Division of Pre-Hospital Medicine, University of Rochester - Rochester, NY
Michael Redlener, MD, FAEMS - Assistant Professor, Medical Director for EMS & Disaster Preparedness, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai St. Luke's & Mount Sinai West - New York, NY

New Jersey
Mark Merlin, DO, EMT-P, FACEP - Chair, NJ EMS Council, Department of Health - Newark, NJ

Rhode Island
Kenneth Williams, MD, FACEP, FAEMS - Medical Director, EMS Division, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University - Providence, RI

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm: Close of Day 1 – Poster Session Tour, Sponsored Dinners

Friday October 26, 2018

7:00 am – 8:00 am: Breakfast, Exhibitors, Poster Session

8:00 am – 9:00 am: Concurrent Breakout Sessions 

Breakout A: A Dose of Prevention – The role of Sex, Gender & Pregnancy 
Tracy Madsen, MD, ScM - Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University - Providence, RI
Eliza Miller, MD - Assistant Professor of Neurology, Columbia University - New York, NY

Breakout B: When to Worry About Dizzy? Identification of Posterior Circulation Stroke
J. Adam Oostema, MD, FACEP- Associate Professor, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine - Grand Rapids, MI
Jonathan Edlow, MD, FACEP - Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Boston, MA

Breakout C: Fragmentation & Contemplation: Transfers & Transitions of Care
Joan Breen, MD- Director of Day Rehabilitation Program, Neurology, Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital - Bradford, MA

9:00 am – 9:15 am: Short Break / Transition

9:15 am – 9:45 am: C. Miller Fisher Keynote Address: Big Data Reveals the Big Picture for Stroke Outcomes
Judith Lichtman, PhD, MPH, FAHA - Associate Professor and Chair of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health - New Haven, CT

9:45 am – 10:15 am: Updates from 2017 Stroke Tank Winners

9:45 am - 9:55 am: Enhanced Medical Control in the Pre-Hospital Triage of Patients with a Suspected Severe Stroke
Curtis Benesch, MD, MPH - Professor of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Department of Neurology, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry - Rochester, NY

9:55 am - 10:05 am: Pre-Hospital Triage Decisions for Patients with Suspected Stroke Due to Large Vessel Occlusion Stroke: A Decisions Analytic Modeling Cost Effectiveness Study
Kori Zachrison, MD, MSc - Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital - Boston, MA

10:05 am - 10:15 am: Q & A

10:15 am – 10:45 am: Break & Hotel Check Out

10:45 am - 11:55 am: The Debate Stage: Mobile Technologies & Stroke Care 

11:45 am – 11:20 am: Where to Treat? The ED or the Street: The Argument For & Against Mobile Stroke Units 
Nina Gentile, MD - Professor & Associate Chair for Research, Temple University School of Medicine - Philadelphia, PA
James Grotta, MD - Director, Houston Mobile Stroke Unit Consortium - Houston, TX

11:20 am - 11:55 am: Human vs. Machine: Pre-Hospital Decision Making
Ethan Brandler, MD, MPH, FACEP - Associate Director of Emergency Medical Services, SUNY Stony Brook - Stony Brook, NY
Jason McMullan, MD, FAEMS - Director, Division of EMS, University of Cincinnati Department of Emergency Medicine - Cincinnati, OH 

11:55 am – 1:25 pm: Stroke Tank: Pitch it to the Judges!^TM

1:25 pm – 1:30 pm: Close of Day 2 – Adjournment & Wrap Up