Curriculum

List of Lectures & Conferences

Basic Science Lectures: This is Neurology basic science resident lectures with an emphasis on cerebrovascular diseases (i.e. cerebrovascular neuroanatomy, cerebrovascular neuropathology, etc.). The dates of these specific conference will be available in the beginning of academic year. These conferences typically occur on Mondays at Noon, but may also be held on Wednesdays at Noon.

Clinical Didactic Conferences: This is neurology clinical science resident lectures with an emphasis on cerebrovascular diseases. The dates of these specific conferences will be available in the beginning of academic year. These conferences typically occur on Wednesdays at noon, but may also be held on Mondays at noon.

Cerebrovascular Case Conference: It is an interdisciplinary case conferences attended by Neurosurgery, Neurointerventional Radiology, Neurocritical Care, and Vascular Neurology faculty, staff, and residents. The conference is led by a vascular neurology fellow or senior resident. In general, 2 to 3 patient cases will be presented and discussed by the group. This conference occurs weekly on Thursday mornings at 10:00 a.m.

Stroke/Neurocritical Care Journal Club: It is a combined monthly stroke/neurocritical care journal club lead by the vascular neurology clinic fellow or neuro-critical care fellow. This conference occurs monthly on a Tuesday at noon.

Neurosciences Grand Rounds: The Neurosciences Grand Rounds occurs on each Thursday at 11:00 am with a speaker either internally or externally. Usually there are 4 slots dedicated to stroke topics.

SPOTRIAS Webinar Series: Hosted by SPOTRIAS (Specialized Programs of Translational Research in Acute Stroke), the archived lectures of this series can be found on the network’s website along with information about the network and upcoming lectures at SPOTRIAS.

A Sample of Webinar Topics in 2012

Topic: Management of Brain AVMs
Speaker: JP Mohr
Institution: Columbia

Topic: Understanding MR perfusion imaging
Speaker: Ona Wu
Institution: Partners

Topic: Hypothermia
Speaker: Hemmen
Institution: UCSD

Topic: Cell Therapy and Stroke
Speaker: Savitz
Institution: UT Houston

Topic: Genetics in Stroke
Speaker: Rosand
Institution: MGH

Topic: TeleStroke 101: the evidence
Speaker: Meyers
Institution: UCSD

Topic: Imaging as a surrogate Marker for Outcomes in Stroke
Speaker: Steven Cramer
Institution: UCI

Topic: ICH - new therapies
Speaker: Nicole Gonzales
Institution: UT Houston

Topic: Minimally invasive Rx IVH
Speaker: Paul Vespa
Institution: UCLA

Topic: Improving Acute Stroke Care Delivery
Speaker: Lee Schwamm
Institution: MGH/Partners

Topic: TCD - enhanced thrombolysis
Speaker: Andrei Alexandrov
Institution: UAB

Reading List

Journal Articles

Asymptomatic Carotid Surgery Trial (ACST) Stroke. 2004; 35(10): 2425-7.

Failure of extracranial-intracranial arterial bypass to reduce the risk of ischemic stroke. Results of an international randomized trial. The EC/IC Bypass Study Group. N Engl J Med 1985 Nov. 7; 313(19):1191-200.

International STICH International Surgical Trial in Intracerebral Haemorrhage, Stroke. 2000;31:2536.

ISAT International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial, Stroke 33:646, 2002; ISAT homepage; Lancet 360:9342, 2002.

mCIT Modified Constraint-Induced Therapy in Stroke, Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2004; 85: 14-18.

NASCET North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial . NEJM 1998 12;339(20):1415-25.

NINDS-tPA NINDS t-PA Stroke Trial, N Engl J Med.1995;333:1581-1587.

NovoSeven Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH) Trial, NEJM 2008 May 15;358(20):2127-37

PROGRESS, Perindopril Protection Against Recurrent Stroke Study, J Hypertens 1995 Dec;13(12 Pt 2):1869-73.

SPAF III Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation III, Lancet 1996 Sep 7;348(9028):633-638.

SPARCL Stroke Prevention by Aggressive Reduction in Cholesterol Levels N Engl J Med 2006;355:549-59.

STOP II Optimizing Primary Stroke Prevention in Sickle Cell Anemia, N Engl J Med 2005;353:2769-78.

TOAST Trial of ORG 10172 in Acute Stroke, JAMA 279: 1265-1272, 1998

WASID Warfarin-Aspirin Symptomatic Intracranial Disease Study N Engl J Med. 2005 Mar 31;352(13):1305-16.

CREST Stenting versus endarterectomy for treatment of carotid-artery stenosis.NEJM 2010 Jul 1;363(1):11-23.

SAMMPRISNEJM. 2011 Sep 15;365(11):993-1003

RE-LY Dabigitran for stroke prevention in afib NEJM 2009 Sep 17;361(12):1139-51

Text Books

Uncommon Causes of Stroke, ed. Bogousslavsky and Caplan. 2001 Cambridge University Press. New York, NY.

Stroke Syndromes, ed. Bogousslavsky and Caplan. 2001 Cambridge University Press. New York, NY.

Caplan's Stroke- A clinical approach, by Louis Caplan. 2000 Butterworth Heineman. Woburn, MA.

Clinical Neurocardiology, by Caplan, Hurst, Chimowitz. 1999 Marcel Decker, Inc. New York, NY.

Sample Neurology Weekly Lecture Schedule

Monday

10 a.m.: Refractory Epilepsy Conference

12 p.m.: Epilepsy Journal Club/Grandrounds: CSB 419, Guest Speakers

12 p.m.: Neurology Resident Noon Lecture: CSB 429, “Seizure Semiology and Localization”

Tuesday

12 p.m.: Primer Course for Fellows (EEG): 400 EL113, “Electroclinical Epilepsy Diagnosis/Syndromes”

12 p.m.: Neurology Resident Noon Lecture: CSB 429, “First Seizure Assessment and When to Treat”

12:30 p.m.: Stroke Journal Club: Early surgery versus initial conservative treatment in patients with spontaneous supratentorial lobar intracerebral haematomas (STICH II)

Wednesday

7:20 a.m. to 7:50 a.m.: Morning Report: "A Case of Dystonia"

12 p.m.: Primer Course for Fellows (EEG): 400 EL113, “ICU Monitoring”

12 p.m.: Neurology Resident Noon Lecture: CSB 429, “Medical Management of Seizure”

Thursday

8 a.m.: Pediatric Neurology Conference: CSB 301, AAA presents a paper

9 a.m.: Neuro-Oncology Conference

10 a.m.: Cerebrovascular Conference

10 a.m.: Neurophysiology: SEI Auditorium, “Interictal Epileptiform”

10 a.m.: Movement Disorders Video Rounds

11 a.m.: Neurosciences Grand Rounds: SEI Auditorium, “Pediatric Status Epilepticus”

12 p.m.: Neurology Resident Noon Lecture

1 p.m.: Tumor Board at Hollings Cancer Center

Friday

12 p.m.: Primer Course for Fellows (EEG): 400 EL113, “Inpatient Monitoring Safety”

12 p.m.: Neurology Resident Noon Lecture: CSB 429, Neuromuscular Disease RITE Review