Symposium
First Annual NeuroTrauma Symposium 2012
How to Talk to Families and Patients About Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injury
                 
 Saturday, June 9, 2012
 8:00 am to 1:00 pm  (Check-In begins at 7:30 am)
 LAC+USC Medical Center Inpatient Tower (conference rooms A & B)
 Contact:  Peter Gruen, M.D. at peter.gruen@med.usc.edu
 Symposium and Parking - FREE
 
 RSVP by email to Robin Young at royoung@dhs.lacounty.gov
 Please provide name and contact email address.

 For information, please contact Maybeth Francone at
 (323) 226-6511 or mfrancone@dhs.lacounty.gov

 NURSING CEUs - FREE.  Los Angeles College of Nursing and Allied
 Health, Education and Consulting Services. Provider Number 10563 will
 award 4.5 contact hours for County and Non-County nurses.

 Click on link to download applicable form for:  LAC+USC 
 and Non-LAC+USC nurses. Please complete and fax form to
 (323) 226-6343.  Attention:  Maybeth Francone.

 Click here for map of LAC+USC Medical Center.


SYMPOSIUM OBJECTIVE

The participant will acquire and improve techniques to have a compassionate yet honest communication with patients and family members about traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury. The participant will be able to convey unfamiliar, intimidating, unpleasant, frightening information accurately and honestly with sensitivity and clarity so that patients and families can understand and accept reality while maintaining hope.

PRESENTERS FORMAT

A multidisciplinary panel of experts will address some of the questions patients and families often ask during provider-patient/family discussions regarding neurotrauma topics. Experts will explain pathophysiology, diagnosis, prognosis, management, complications, alternatives, etc. to emotionally vulnerable people who although welcome information, yet they frequently resist communication during extremely stressful times.

Click here to view Symposium video.

Click here to view Symposium Moderator script.

  Opening Remarks, Sean Henderson, M.D. (Chair, Emergency Medicine)
  Family Feedback, Jacqueline Nevarez (TBI Survivor Mother)
  Communication Theory and Principles, Pamelyn Close, M.D. (Palliative Care)
  Children with Brain and Spinal Cord Injury, Luis Montes, M.D. (Pediatric Rehab)
  Culturally Sensitive TBI and SCI Communication, Carol and Carolyn Bloch, R.N.
                                                                      (Nursing Education)
  Spiritual and Emotional Support, Father Chris Ponnet
  Pathophysiology of TBI and SCI, Peter Gruen, M.D. (Neurosurgery)
  Life Support, Margarita Bass, M.D. (Surgical ICU)
  Intracranial Pressure Monitoring, Martin Pham, M.D. (Neurosurgery)
  Surgery, Gabriel Zada, M.D. (Neurosurgery)
  Persistent Vegetative State, Nerses Sanossian, M.D. (Neurology)
  Withdrawal of Life Support, Pamelyn Close, M.D. (Palliative Care)
  Brain Death, Jeffrey Johnson, M.D. (Pediatrics)
  Organ Donation, Robert Coppel (OneLegacy)
  Post-Concussive Syndrome, David Baron, M.D. (Psychiatry)
  Rehabilitation, Arousiak Varpetian, M.D. (Neurology)
  Reintegration, Samia Rafeedie, O.T.D. (Occupational Therapy)
  Patient Feedback, Eric Gibson (SCI Survivor Patient)
  Program Evaluation, Peter Gruen, M.D.