2025 Symposium Schedule

Sunday, March 16, 2025

Registration

8:00 am – 5:00 pm CDT

Educational Sessions

8:00 – 9:00 am CDT

Untangling the Web: Monoclonal Antibodies Targeting β Amyloid in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Mild Alzheimer's Dementia (AD)

Jennifer Woods, MSN CCNS CNRN SCRN
Pharmacology Hours: 1

9:05 – 10:05 am CDT

Pediatric Cervical Spine Traumatic Injury: What to Do When It Happens

Amanda Johnson, DNP APRN CPNP-PC/AC

Break

10:05 – 10:20 am CDT

Educational Sessions

10:20 – 11:20 am CDT

Get the Skinny on GLP-1 Agonists and Parkinson's Disease

Kara Zimcosky, APRN FNP-C CNRN

11:25 – 11:55 am CDT

Helping Patients Dance Again: Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Use in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

Elaine Regacho, MSN FNP-BC

Lunch with Exhibitors & Posters

12:00 – 1:00 pm CDT

Educational Sessions

1:00 – 1:30 pm CDT

Unraveling the Web: Carotid Web as a Rare Cause of Stroke in the Young

Courtney Bloss, MSPAS PA-C
Pharmacology hours: 0.5

1:35 – 2:35 pm CDT

Fentanyl, Ketamine, and Psilocybin: The Neurological Effects and Why People are Dying

Marianne Beare Vyas, PhD ANP-BC CNRN
Pharmacology hours: 1

2:40 – 3:10 pm CDT

Outpatient Arginine Infusions as a Preventative Treatment for Stroke-Like Episodes in MELAS Syndrome

Heather Pomella, MSN RN CPNP CNRN
Pharmacology hours: 0.5

Break with Exhibitors & Posters

3:10 – 3:25 pm CDT

Educational Sessions

3:25 – 4:25 pm CDT

Clipping, Coiling, Embolizing, Resecting, and Revascularizing for Pediatric Cerebrovascular Disease

Jennifer Judge, FNP CNRN
Christopher Isibor, FNP-BC CNRN

4:30 – 5:00 pm CDT

To Zap or Not to Zap? That is the Question: High Intensity Focused Ultrasound

Rachel Stouffer, MSN APRN CNRN

Symposium Reception

5:00 – 6:00 pm CDT

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