Our residents are always traveling here and there in search of new, cool knowledge, from large societal conferences like AAN, AES and SFN to smaller conferences like NCS, AHS Annual Headache Conference, and Yale School of Medicine-Hosted Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Conference.
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h and Justine Cormier, two of our PGY4’s attended the Neurocritical Care Society conference this September in Boca Raton, Florida. They attended a variety of talks and debates on a variety of topics such as current ethical issues in NCC, multimodal monitoring and critical care EEG, NORSE (new-onset refractory status epilepticus, TBI (traumatic brain injury), and international neurocritical care, to name a few. They also attending interactive workshops on airway and bronchoscopy and creating quality improvement projects in the ICU setting.
Chindhuri Selvadurai, PGY3 also attended a subspecialty conference this September, the Yale School of Medicine-Sponsored conference on Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders. Chindhuri attending many talks and workshops on various movement disorders and their varied treatments from medications to botox to deep brain stimulation. These talks were put on by both local faculty and visiting leaders in the field.,
Vanessa Cooper, PGY3, also recently attended the American Headache Society 60th Annual Conference in Philadelphia. She attended lectures on various headache and pain syndromes and their treatments, including cutting edge new treatments coming down the pipeline. She networked with leaders in the field and participated in an interactive botox and trigger point injection simulation.