Thursday, May 21, 2026
Description
This Stroke Symposium is designed to improve knowledge, competence and performance of providers engaged in the management of stroke patients by highlighting current best practices and clinical guidelines. The goal is to reduce the gaps in the care of a stroke patient to improve outcomes.
This symposium will be held at the MART Auditorium and virtually via Zoom.
Registration information to follow shortly...
Dates and Times
Start: 5/21/2026 7:00 AM
End: 5/21/2026 4:00 PM
Objectives
- Discuss the different surgical approaches for patients with intracerebral hemorrhage.
- Discuss the recent practice guidelines for the management of acute ischemic stroke.
- Understand the pathophysiology of stroke in women.
- Verbalize how dysphagia affects stroke patients and treatment options for rehabilitation.
- Discuss the management of stroke found incidentally in imaging.
- Discuss the use of perfusion imaging in the diagnosis of stroke.
- Discuss stroke-related clinical studies currently being done at Stony Brook medicine.
- Verbalize nursing role in the assessment and delivery of acute treatment in the mobile stroke unit.
- Verbalize role of EMS pre-hospital assessment in the achievement of acute stroke time targets.
- Verbalize how middle meningeal artery embolization can be a treatment option for patients with refractory headache.
Speakers
Panels
Location
MART Auditorium
Stony Brook Medicine
Lauterbur Drive
Stony Brook, NY 11794
Accreditation
The School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.