Commonwealth Center of Excellence in Stroke Stroke Conferences

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Since 1997, the Commonwealth Center of Excellence in Stroke has presented a monthly Neurology/Neurosurgery Stroke Conference, attended by Neurology and Neurosurgery faculty and housestaff and third-year medical students rotating on the Neurology clinical services.

This conference is sponsored jointly by the Department of Neurology, the Division of Neurosurgery in the Department of Surgery, and the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging with educational grants provided by Sanofi and Bristol-Myers Squibb. It is unique in that it provides the only recurring opportunity for structured interaction between faculty, housestaff, and students associated with these three units.

Each conference involves presentation of one or more patient cases illustrating clinical aspects of cerebrovascular disease and includes open discussion, review of radiologic studies, distribution of a reference list, and commentary from participants.

The Stroke Conference is held every third Friday at 8:00 a.m. in Room HX303 of the University of Kentucky Hospital.

Selected Stroke Conference Topics

September 21, 2007. Blood Dyscrasias in Stroke. Anand G. Vaiahnav, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology

August 17, 2007. Leaving on a Jet Plane.... Michael R. Dobbs, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology

July 20, 2007. Update on Clinical Stroke Research for 2007-2008. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology and Director of the Commonwealth Center of Excellence in Stroke and Anand G. Vaiahnav, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology

June 15, 2007. Albumin in Acute Stroke: The ALIAS Trial. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology and Director of the Commonwealth Center of Excellence in Stroke

May 18, 2007. tPA in Acute Ischemic Stroke: "Phase IV" Experience. Anand G. Vaiahnav, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology

April 20, 2007. Leg Weakness in a Young Woman. Michael R. Dobbs, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology

March 16, 2007. Osler's Triad Revisited: A Heart Murmur, an Infected Foot, and a Stroke. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology and Director of the Commonwealth Center of Excellence in Stroke and Sebastian Espinosa, Neurology Resident

December 16, 2006. Stroke Jeopardy. Michael R. Dobbs, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology

November 17, 2006. Unholy Trinity: Cancer, Clots, and Cerebral Infarcts. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology andDirector of the Commonwealth Center of Excellence in Stroke and Mikel D. Smith, M.D., Professor of Cardiology and Director, Cardiology Laboratory, Gill Heart Institute

October 20, 2006. "Brachial Plexopathy" in a High School Principal. Michael R. Dobbs, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology

September 15, 2006. Unusual Case of Bilateral PCA Stroke. Gregory Jicha, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology and Anand G. Vaishnav, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology

July 21, 2006. Certification in the NIH Stroke Scale. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology and Director of the Commonwealth Center of Excellence in Stroke

May 19, 2006. Management of Hypertension in Cerebrovascular Disease. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology and Director of the Commonwealth Center of Excellence in Stroke

April 21, 2006. Hemiparesis in a 16-Year-Old Girl with Down Syndrome. Anand G. Vaiahnav, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology and Sebastian Espinosa, M.D., Neurology Resident

March 17, 2006. A 19-Year-Old Man with Macroglossia, Midline Somatic Deformities, and ... a Stroke. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology and Director of the Commonwealth Center of Excellence in Stroke

February 20, 2006. Sodium and Rubidium Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigations of Experimental Stroke. Stephen C. Jones, Ph.D., Professor of Anesthesiology, Drexel University College of Medicine and Director of Anesthesiology Research, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

January 20, 2006. The Man Who Blew His Nose and Became a Paraplegic. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology and Director of the Commonwealth Center of Excellence in Stroke

November 18, 2005. The Clinical Spectrum of Vascular Dementia. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology and Director of the Commonwealth Center of Excellence in Stroke

October 21, 2005. Evidence-Based Medicine for Ischemic Strome Management. Anand G. Vaiahnav, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology

September 16, 2005. Controversies in the Management of Intracranial Arterial Stenosis. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology andDirector of the Commonwealth Center of Excellence in Stroke and Curtis Given, M.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology (Neuroradiology)

August 26, 2005. Common Uncommon Cause of Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Anand G. Vaiahnav, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology and Sharon Werthammer, M.D., Neurology Resident

December 17, 2004. Endovascular Therapy of Basilar Artery Thrombosis. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology andDirector of the Commonwealth Center of Excellence in Stroke, Curtis Given, M.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology (Neuroradiology), and Neil Troffkin, M.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery)

June 17, 2004. Treatment of Hypertension in Acute Ischemic Stroke. Kerri Remmel, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Neurology Universsity of Louisville School of Medicine