2025 CV/Stroke Symposium
| When |
Oct 24, 2025
from 07:30 AM to 02:15 PM |
|---|---|
| Where | Clinical Translational Research Building - Rooms 101/102/Foyer, 505 S Hancock St, Louisville, KY 40202 |
| Contact Name | Jordan Miller |
| Contact Phone | 502-588-7414 |
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Target Audience
Emergency medicine providers, primary care providers, neurologists, neurosurgeons, nurses, patients/families.
7:30 a.m. – Registration & Breakfast
7:55 a.m. – Welcome
8:00 am – Josh Abecassis, MD & Saad Hasan, MD – “Overview of Cerebrovascular and Stroke Programs”
8:30 a.m. –Redi Rahmani, MD – “The Multimodal Treatment of Aneurysms”
9:00 a.m. – Natalie Niekro – Patient Story
9:30 a.m. – Aakashi Shah, MD – “Amyloid Angiopathy in the Spectrum of Cerebrovascular Disease: From Transient Ischemic Attacks to Stroke”
10:00 a.m. - Coffee Break
10:15 am- Sarah Wagers, MD – “Common Post-Stroke Symptoms”
10:45 a.m. – Keynote – Matthew Bender, MD – “Stroke Thrombus Proteomics: Implications for Etiology and Management”
11:30 a.m. – LUNCH
12:00 p.m. – Keynote - Saurav Das, MD - "What Evidence-Based Stroke Practice Is — and What It Is Not: A Journey Through Cases"
12:45 p.m. – David Dornbos, MD – “Leveraging Real-Time Perfusion Imaging in the Setting of Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke to Identify Specific Proteomic Fingerprints and Platelet Phenotypes in Variable Perfusion Regions”
1:15 p.m. – Roberto Chulluncuy Rivas, MD – “Emerging Data for Medium Vessel Occlusions (MeVo) Thrombectomy”
1:45 p.m. – Natalie Niekro – “How to Build a Stroke Program”
2:15 p.m. – Final Remarks & Adjourn
Course Directors and Faculty
Dale Ding, MD
Director of CNS Endovascular Surgery Fellowship, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of Louisville
Josh Abecassis, MD
Director of Cerebrovascular Program, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of Louisville
Kimberly Meyer, PhD, ACNP-BC, CNRN, APRN
Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of Louisville
Faculty
Matthew Bender, MD, KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Imaging Sciences
Division of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease
University of Rochester Medical Center
Saurav Das, MD, KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Associate Professor
Washington University
Nasir Fakhri, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
University of Louisville
Saad Hasan, MD
Assistant Professor
Director, Neurology Clerkship Program
Department of Neurology
University of Louisville
Redi Rahmani, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Louisville
Roberto Chulluncuy Rivas, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
University of Louisville
Aakashi Shah, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
University of Louisville
Sarah Wagers, MD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Neurosurgery, Division of PM&R
Traumatic Brain Injury
University of Louisville
David Dornbos, MD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Neurosurgery
University of Kentucky
Continuing Education Credit
Physician Credit - The University of Louisville Continuing Medical Education office designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Accreditation
The University of Louisville School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Nurses - This program has been approved by the Kentucky Board of Nursing for 6.6 continuing education credits through University of Louisville Hospital, provider number 4-0068-12-26-1439. The Kentucky Board of Nursing approval of an individual nursing education provider does not constitute endorsement of program content. Completion criteria to obtain CE's: Attend entire session and complete the evaluation.
Special Services
To request disability arrangements, please contact Jordan Morton at least 14 days prior to the date of this program. Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development fully complies with the legal requirements of the ADA and the rules and regulations thereof.
Brochure
CLICK HERE for a copy of the course brochure
Registration
Registration for this conference is free. Please register in advance to allow for event planning.
CLICK HERE to Register for the Conference
Acknowledgments
We thank our participating companies for their support of the 2025 CV/Stroke Symposium: Updates in Cerebrovascular Disease, a final listing of supporters and exhibitors will be available at the meeting.
Accreditation Disclosure
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, the Office of Professional and Educational Development, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its accredited educational activities. All Planners, faculty, reviewers, and other persons that affected the content of this CME activity were required to submit a financial disclosure form from which relevant conflicts of interest were determined. If any relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies were disclosed, the materials each of them prepared for this program (or influenced) were peer-reviewed and determined to be without ineligible company bias, were considered fair and balanced in terms of therapeutic options, and presented evidence-based content. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated prior to this activity.
Learner Consent Statement
Names or contact information of learners will not be shared with any ineligible company or its agents without the explicit consent of the individual learner.
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