This Friday January 9th, Dr. Matthew Kirschen from University of Pennsylvania, co-author of the 2023 AAN/AAP/SCCM Brain Death Guidelines, will moderate a case-based panel discussion titled, “Navigating Uncertainty: Challenging Cases in Pediatric Brain Death Determination”. The expert panelists will discuss a range of topics including determination of brain death in children with posterior fossa injury and metabolic derangements.
Registration Link: https://bit.ly/PNCC_DNC_Challenges
Date & Time: Friday, January 9th, 01:00 – 02:00 PM Central Standard Time
Moderator: Dr. Matt Kirschen is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics, and Neurology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is the Associate Director of Pediatric Neurocritical Care at CHOP. His research is focused on using multimodality neuromonitoring to detect and prevent brain injury in critically ill children, predicting recovery after severe acute brain injury, and the accurate diagnosis of brain death. He received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and his MD and PhD from Stanford University in Neuroscience. He completed his pediatrics residency at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, followed by fellowships in both child neurology and pediatric critical care medicine at CHOP.
Panelists:
- David M. Greer, MD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and the Richard B. Slifka Chief of Neurology at Boston Medical Center. He has authored more than 350 peer-reviewed manuscripts, reviews, chapters, guidelines and books including the NCS Brain Death Toolkit. His research interests include predicting recovery from coma after cardiac arrest, brain death, and multiple stroke-related topics, including acute stroke treatment, temperature modulation and stroke prevention.
- Nicole McKinnon, MD, PhD is Assistant Professor at University of Toronto and a Critical Care Medicine physician at Sick Kids. Her translational research aims to determine whether functional memory deficits are more pronounced in the setting of sedative agents that act as agonists for the GABA receptor following cerebral ischemia, as well as whether GABA agonism through sedatives alter the hippocampal neuronal involved in learning and memory.
- Dana Harrar, MD, PhD is Associate Professor at George Washington University and co-Director of the Critical Care Neurology program and Director of the Pediatric Stroke Program at Children’s National Medical Center. Her research interests include childhood stroke, ICU EEG monitoring and pediatric neurocritical care.
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