8th Annual Stroke and Neurocritical Care Symposium

Advanced Management of Neurological and Neurosurgical Emergencies and Critical Care

AUDIENCE GUIDE

Friday, September 18, 2026

SESSION 1: EYES ON STROKE 8:00 am The Bleeding Edge: ICH Management in 2026 Igor Rybinnik, MD 8:30 am The Timing Question: Minimally Invasive ICH Evacuation Revisited Gaurav Gupta, MD 9:00 am ICAD Reloaded: Revisiting an Old Enemy Srihari Sundararajan, MD 9:30 am EVT 2.0: Distal Vessels and Lytics Post Thrombectomy Emad Nourollah-Zadeh, MD 10:30 am Debate: Sticky Business: Anticoagulation in APLS Stroke Pro – Danielle Nascondiglio, DO Con – Ashwin Sridharan, MD 11:00 am Code Stroke, Size Small: Advances in Pediatric Stroke Care Keynote Speaker: Michael Rivkin, MD   SESSION 2A: Mini-Fellowships: Physician and Advanced Practice Providers 1:00 pm Interactive Case Presentations – Gray Zones: Where Guidelines End and Clinical Judgement Begins Roger C. Cheng, MD, Ram C. Gowda, MD, Aaron Kaplan, MD, Deviyani Mehta, MD, Danielle Nascondiglio, DO, Igor Rybinnik, MD

 

Session 2B: Mini-Fellowships: Nurse 1:00 pm Strauma Javicia Peterson-Cole, DNP, RN, APN, NP-C, SCRN 1:20 pm Atypical Stroke Presentation Catherine Galgano, BSN, RN, CCRN Jennifer O’Leary, BSN, RN 1:40 pm EVD Care/IRRA Flow Kristie Varghese, PA-C 2:00 pm Femoral Access Complications Bennett Wacaster, RN 2:20 pm Bowel Patterns in Stroke (Ileus) Verdane Simeon-Bennett, BSN, RN, CCRN 2:40 pm Dysphagia (PES Therapy) Florence Chukwuneke, RN, AGPCNP-BC, CNRN, NVRN-BC Alexandra Reilly, M.S.Ed., CCC-SLP   SESSION 3 3:15 pm The Final Diagnosis: Death by Neurological Criteria Aaron Kaplan, MD 3:45 pm Beyond Platelets: The Next Chapter in Stroke Prevention Michael Lindsay, MD 4:15 pm Debate: Cut, Stent, or Wait? CREST-2 and the Modern Asymptomatic Carotid Dilemma Pro – Justin Ady, MD Con – Emad Nourollah-Zadeh, MD