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Please join us for Emergency Medicine Department Conference on 10/24 at Sinai in Hatch Auditorium. The schedule for our conference is:

9am M&M - Dr. Shen
10am ID Board Review - Dr. Bhagia
11am Radiology Series: Approach to the Chest Radiograph - Dr. Zvi Lefkovitz
12pm EM-IM Conference - Dr. Curtis
1pm Guest Lecturer: Facial Trauma: Bony Injuries - Dr. Peter Taub

The Emergency Medicine Department will be hosting a Neuroresuscitation Journal Club with the Neurology and Neurosurgery Departments on Tuesday, October 23 in Hatch Auditorium at 5PM with dinner and drinks to follow at 7PM.

Articles and speakers (password required):

The STICH trial: Dr. Ed Sloan, Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
The t-PA and NINDS trial: Dr. Steve Levine, Professor of Neurology, Mount Sinai: NINDS trial investigator
The Novo7 and FAST trial: Dr. Stefan Mayer, Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Columbia University: FAST PI
The NASCIS II trial: Dr. Bev Walters, Professor of Neurosurgery, Brown University: AANS Chair for the Spinal Cord Injury Guidelines

Ultimately the goal is looking at study design and ask what could have been done better - why are we still arguing 12 years after NINDS; why was the phase 2b trial with NOVO-7 so positive, the drug was embraced and the NEJM published the trial, and then the phase 3 trial bombed and showed no benefit; why did the NINDS write a dear doctor letter about methylprednisolone and create a standard of care when now the intervention is looked at simply as an option.