2025 Symposium Schedule
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Registration
8:00 am – 5:00 pm CDT
Room: Grand Foyer (5th floor)
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
Room: Borgne (3rd floor)
9:05 – 10:05 am CDT
Pediatric Cervical Spine Traumatic Injury: What to Do When It Happens
Amanda Johnson, DNP APRN CPNP-PC/AC
Room: Borgne (3rd floor)
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
Pharmacology hours: 1
Room: Borgne (3rd floor)
11:25 – 11:55 am CDT
Helping Patients Dance Again: Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Use in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Elaine Regacho, MSN FNP-BC
Room: Borgne (3rd floor)
Corporate Lunch Symposium: Neurocrine
12:00 – 1:00 pm CDT
Room: Grand Ballroom A/B (5th floor)
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
Room: Borgne (3rd floor)
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
Room: Borgne (3rd floor)
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
Room: Borgne (3rd floor)
Break with Exhibitors & Posters
3:10 – 3:25 pm CDT
Room: Napoleon Ballroom & Foyer (3rd floor)
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
Room: Borgne (3rd floor)
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
Room: Borgne (3rd floor)
Symposium Reception
5:00 – 6:00 pm CDT
Sponsored by UCB, Inc.
Room: Maurepas (3rd floor)
Join us for the 2025 AANN Neuroscience Nursing Annual Conference following the Neuro-APP Symposium!
Additional fee required to attend. Discounted registration available for registrants of the AANN Annual Conference and Neuro-APP Symposium.