The International Stroke Conference features more than 800 presentations highlighting the most recent advances in the basic sciences of cerebral circulation and brain function, clinical stroke research and outcomes, rehabilitation science, and surgery, as well as exhibitors showcasing the newest advancements in stroke products and services.
Program Description
This 2½-day conference provides a forum in which to present recent scientific work related to stroke and cerebrovascular disease. More than 850 abstract presentations, lectures, debates and forums will be featured. This year, special symposia will focus on numerous topics including: mitochondria and cell death after brain ischemia; busting myths of ICH; deterioration after acute ischemic stroke; psychosocial distress in stroke survivors and caregivers: cross-cultural considerations; cardiac dysfunction in stroke; issues in unruptured aneurysms; controversies in subarachnoid hemorrhage management; incorporating the EMS and emergency department settings in acute stroke research; multimodality management of cerebral arteriovenous malformations; and the global issues of stroke. Sessions in clinical categories will center on diagnosis, acute management, in-hospital treatment, rehabilitation and recovery, pediatric stroke, prevention, community/risk factors, nursing, emergency medicine, outcomes, vascular cognitive impairment and systems of stroke care. Sessions in surgical and interventional categories will focus on aneurysm, carotid revascularization, intracranial atherosclerotic occlusive disease, ischemic stroke intervention, SAH Management and vascular malformations.
Program Objectives
The conference provides an educational experience for neurologists, neurosurgeons, neurointerventionalists, neuroradiologists, endovascular specialists, physiatrists, emergency medicine specialists, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals and basic researchers in the major fields of cerebrovascular disease and stroke: experimental models and translational research, physiology, pathology, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and rehabilitation.
- To present recent advances in basic models of stroke and translational research, and in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and rehabilitation of stroke and cerebrovascular disease
- To present new and ongoing clinical research advances through the Late-Breaking Science session and Ongoing Clinical Trials posters
- To provide a forum for exchange of new research by scientists and investigators working in stroke and cerebrovascular disease
Learning Objectives
After attending the International Stroke Conference, participants will be able to
- Discuss stroke pathophysiology and its different subtypes in order to achieve more rational approaches to patient care as it relates to cerebral ischemia and the major forms of brain hemorrhage
- Identify trends and new directions for stroke research affecting patient care
- Understand stroke in women, children and minorities
- Understand controversies in vascular cognitive impairment
- Discuss stroke systems of care
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