Commonwealth Center of Excellence in Stroke Stroke Conferences

Sanders-Brown Center on Aging

From 1997 through 2009, the Commonwealth Center of Excellence in Stroke 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 was 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 was unique in that it provided the only recurring opportunity for structured interaction between faculty, housestaff, and students associated with these three units.

Each conference involved 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.

In 2010, the Stroke Conference was transformed into a distance learning resource under the aegis of the Department of Neurology and Kentucky Telecare. The Stroke Conference is held every third Friday at 8:00 a.m. in Suite K-128, Wing D, Kentucky Clinic.

Selected Stroke Conference Topics

December 18, 2009. Trisomy Triple Whammy: Acute Left Hemiparesis in a 30-Year-Old Woman with Down's Syndrome. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology and Director of the University of Kentucky Stroke Program

October 16, 2009. Brothers Unbalanced: Two Men with Acute Ataxia. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology and Director of the University of Kentucky Stroke Program and Gregory Parks, M.D., Neurology Resident

September 18, 2009. A 49-Year-Old Woman with Headache and Multiple Intracranial Mass Lesions. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology and Director of the University of Kentucky Stroke Program

August 24, 2009. Pituitary Apoplexy: An Unusual Cause of Stroke. Robert Owen, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology and Anand G. Vaishnav, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology

May 15, 2009. A Diagnostic Dilemma: Multiple Brain Lesions in a 24-Year-Old Woman with Clotting Disorder. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology and Director of the University of Kentucky Stroke Program

April 17, 2009. Cerebral Venous Thrombosis. Anand G. Vaishnav, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology

March 20, 2009. Interventional Cases in Acute Stroke. Michael Chen, M.D., Assistant Professor in Neurology, Neurosurgery and Radiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois

January 16, 2009. 24 (hours in the Emergency Department with Kiefer Sutherland). L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology and Director of the University of Kentucky Stroke Program

November 21, 2008. Epidemiology of ICH. Ayrton Massaro, M.D., Associate Professor of Neurology

October 17, 2008. Stranger in a Familiar Land. Michael R. Dobbs, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology

September 19, 2008. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: To Clip or to Coil?. Christian N. Ramsey, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

August 15, 2008. Carotid Stenosis. Anand G. Vaishnav, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology

July 18, 2008. Nuts and Bolts (and Wires and Magnets) of Acute Ischemic Stroke Management. Michael R. Dobbs, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology

June 20, 2008. An Unwelcome Dinner Guest: Transient Monocular Blindness and Aphasia Before Dessert. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology and Director of the University of Kentucky Stroke Program

May 16, 2008. Lacunar Strokes. Anand G. Vaishnav, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology

April 18, 2008. Not Gone, Not Forgotten . . . Neuroprotective Therapy for Hyperacute Stroke. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology and Director of the University of Kentucky Stroke Program

February 15, 2008. Blalock-Taussig Shunt and Vertibrobasilar Ischemia. Anand G. Vaishnav, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology, Hani Kushlaf, M.D. and Jorge Alegria, M.D., Neurology Residents

January 18, 2008. Have MERCI: Acute Onset of Lethary and Extraocular Muscle Palsies. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology and Director of the University of Kentucky Stroke Program

December 21, 2007. The Eyes Have It: Vertical and Horizontal Gaze Paresis, Nonreactive Pupils, and Coma. L. Creed Pettigrew, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Neurology and Director of the University of Kentucky Stroke Program

September 21, 2007. Blood Dyscrasias in Stroke. Anand G. Vaishnav, 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 University of Kentucky Stroke Program 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 University of Kentucky Stroke Program

May 18, 2007. tPA in Acute Ischemic Stroke: "Phase IV" Experience. Anand G. Vaishnav, 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