Full Schedule
April 7th
Exhibitor Setup
4:00pm - 7:00pm
Early Registration for Attendees and Speakers
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Optional Sponsors Dinner
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Sevaro Cocktail Hour - Hotel Bar
9:00pm - 10:00pm
April 8th, Morning
Registration Open
7:00am - 8:30am
Breakfast - Sponsored by Phagenesis
8:00am - 8:30am
Opening Remarks - Main Room
Raj Narula, MD
CEO and Co-Founder, Sevaro Health
8:35am - 8:50am
Keynote Session - Main Room
Dare to Matter – Overcoming fears, self-doubts, and embracing intentional risk in neuroscience innovation
Pete Smith: Stroke Survivor, SmithImpact
8:55am - 9:45am
9:45am - 9:55am
Break
Session 1 - Main Room
Breaking Barriers: Virtual Innovation for Neuroscience Excellence
Lauren Voltz, Assistant VP of Hospital Partnerships, Sevaro Health
Branden Robinson, Chief Growth Officer, Sevaro Health
10:00am - 10:35am
Session 2A - Breakout Room A
Emergent Prehospital Coordination: A Critical Link in Stroke Management
Kim Gannon, MD, PhD – Physician Executive of Neurosciences Christiana Care
10:40am - 11:15am
Session 2B - Breakout Room B
Emergency Department Challenges & Optimizing Stroke Team Workflows to Meet Gold Plus Standards
Jose Cepeda, RN Director Emergency Services, Wellington Regional Medical Center
Break
11:20am - 11:25am
Session 3 - Main Room
Telerehab, AI & Wearable Robotics Innovations to Deliver Record Setting Outcomes
Kristin Nuckols, OTD, MOT, OTR/L Cofounder & Chief Clinical Officer, Imago Rehab
11:25am - 12:00pm
Lunch - Sponsored by X
12:05pm - 1:00pm
Break
1:00 - 1:10pm
Wednesday Afternoon
Session 4A - Breakout Room A
AI & APP Integration in
Stroke Care
Varsha Singh, DNP-APP, Stroke Program Manager, St. Joseph’s Health
1:10pm - 1:45pm
Session 4B - Breakout Room B
Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Healthcare
Karen Seagraves, PhD, MPH, RN, KOL
AI Healthcare Strategic Advisor
Session 5 - Main Room
Expanding Thrombectomy Services & Stroke Market Strategy
Michelle Luffy, MSN, RN, Senior Vice President, Consulting at Corazon
1:50pm - 2:25pm
Session 6A - Breakout Room A
AI & Automation in
Stroke Management
Deepak Nair, MD, VP Neuroscience Service Line, OSF HealthCare
2:30pm - 3:15pm
Session 6B - Breakout Room B
Transforming Neurological Care: Houston Methodist's System-Wide EEG Program
Jaishma Devaiah, MHSA, MSW, System Service Line Director Neuroscience, Houston Methodist
3:15pm - 3:20pm
Break
Session 7 - Main Room
CTP in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Do We Still Need It?
Kevin Abrams, MD, Chief of Radiology, Baptist Hospital Section Chief, Neuroradiology and MRI, Miami Neuroscience Institute, Baptist Hospital
3:25pm - 4:00pm
Session 8 - Main Room
Mobile Stroke Units & Neuroscience Care Delivery
Tarun Bhalla, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology and Imaging Services and Director of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Services, University of Rochester Medical Center
4:05pm - 4:40pm
Dinner @ Hotel Restaurant
- Sponsored by X
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Event Night / DJ (Bring cocktail attire and dancing shoes)
- Sponsored by X
6:30pm - 9:30pm
Thursday
Optional Excercise
Yoga (Meet in lobby at 7am)
Outdoor Walk (Meet in lobby at 7am)
7:00am - 8:00am
Breakfast - Sponsored by X
Speaker:
8:00am - 8:30am
Session 9A - Breakout Room A
Have We Reached our Limits? Evaluating the Recent Neurovascular Stroke Trials, Evaluating, Medium, and Distal Vessel Occlusions
John Gaughen, Jr., MD,
Neurointerventional Surgeon, President, Commonwealth Neurovascular Specialists
9:05am - 9:40am
Session 9B - Breakout Room B
HiFu Use for Essential Tremors and
Tremor Dominant Parkinson’s
Wendy Elliott, MBA/HCM,
AVP Marcus Neuroscience Institute
9:45am - 9:50am
Break
Session 10A - Breakout Room A
Can Value Be Measured From a Multidisciplinary Physician Led Spine Governance Committee
Craig Brubaker, PhD, Vice President Neuroscience Institute Advent Health
9:55am - 10:30am
Session 10B - Breakout Room B
Optimizing Digital Care in the
Rural Appalachian Highlands
Penni Kyte, MBA Digital Care Strategy Officer
Jessica Halsey, MBA, BSHS, AVP Neuroscience Service Line
Session 11 - Main Room
"Phagenyx: Innervating for Innovation" - A Novel Intervention for Treating Neurogenic Dysphagia
Andrei Alexandrov, MD, Chair Department of Neurology, University of Arizona College of Medicine
10:35am - 11:10am
Closing Remarks - Main Room
Raj Narula, MD, CEO and Co-Founder, Sevaro Health
11:15am - 11:30am
Optional NASCAR Hall of Fame and Race Simulator Experience
12:30pm - TBD