Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW, Washington, DC 20005
2017-03-02
NICIS-America is a two-day conference that provides a selective overview of cutting edge research in genetics on precision medicine in neurocritical care and stroke. Speakers include thought leaders of neurological disease, proteomics, microbiome analysis, multimodality monitoring, brain mapping, molecular, neuroimaging, mathematical modeling, machine learning, and advanced clinical trial design. The conference is designed for an interdisciplinary audience of clinicians and researchers with an interest in neurological injury and stroke. This includes intensivists, neurointensivists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroanesthesiologists, neuroradiologists, physiatrists, psychiatrists, neuropsychologists. This year's conference is devoted to the theme of Precision Medicine for Neurocritical Care and Stroke. Advances in genetics and in image-guided therapy are already leading to major changes in the classification, management and outcomes of patients with ischemic stroke. New management paradigms are being actively explored in the domains of acute neurological injury—intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, anoxic-ischemic brain injury, traumatic brain injury. However, more effective predictive modeling and treatment strategies are desperately needed in these populations. This year's symposium is divided into two major themes. Day One is focused on Models and Methods. Day Two is focused on making the transition from models to therapies. Topics to be covered include: •
The Potential for Transformation (systems biology in neurological diseases, precision medicine for critical care) •
Big Science (the White House Precision Medicine Initiative, the BRAIN initiative, the Human Connectome Project, International Stroke Genetics Consortium, etc.) •
Methodologies (statistical models, machine learning approaches, high-throughput approaches for biomarker discovery and validation, adaptive clinical trial design) •
Biological Models (genetic models of ischemic stroke, computational modeling, brain-gut-microbiome interaction in stroke, brain dysfunction in sepsis) •
Management (biomarkers for neurocritical care, cerebral pressure autoregulation, goal directed blood pressure mangement) • Prediction (EHR-driven predictive analytics, MRI pattern classification for TBI, mapping for coma recovery prediction)
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