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