The Jaffe Comprehensive Stroke Center at Maimonides, Maimonides Neurosciences Institute, and SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Department of Neurology present the 2025 Brooklyn Stroke Symposium.
A free, hybrid, virtual/in-person, symposium featuring exciting topics on clinical paradigms of the diagnosis and management of acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke and new research.
- Date: Thursday, May 15, 2025
- Location:
Maimonides Medical Center
Schreiber Auditorium, Administration Building, 2nd Fl.
4802 Tenth Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11219 - Virtual Symposium: via Webex
- CME Credits: Maximum of 8.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.™
Symposium Objectives
- Present an overview of recent advancements in clinical approaches to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of strokes, especially cryptogenic strokes.
- Explore cutting-edge research on treatment modalities relevant to stroke management.
- Offer insights into diagnosis and management of strokes in select patient populations, including women, children, and individuals with migraine headaches.
- Provide an overview of spinal cord and retinal (CRAO) infarctions and their vascular anatomy to enhance understanding and outcomes of these relatively rare but severely debilitating disease processes.
Who Should Attend
- Physicians, including neurologists, neurosurgeons, neurointerventionalists, radiologists, intensivists, hospitalists, cardiologists, vascular specialists, emergency, and critical care specialists, as well as medicine, primary care, and other physicians.
- Healthcare professionals, including first responders/EMTs, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, rehabilitation specialists, and others.
- Interested public.
2025 PROGRAM
7:00 - 8:00am
Breakfast & Registration (Maimonides Medical Center Schreiber Auditorium)
Sponsor Exhibits (Maimonides Medical Center second floor 2C conference room)
8:00 - 8:05am
Daniel M. Rosenbaum, MD – Welcome Remarks
Distinguished Service Professor & Chair of Neurology
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Regional Chair of Neurology
Maimonides Medical Center
8:05 – 8:15am
Q. Tony Wang, MD, PhD – Opening Remarks
Director, Jaffe Comprehensive Stroke Center
Maimonides Medical Center
Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology Maimonides/SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
8:15 – 8:45am
Leah Croll, MD – Stroke In Women
Attending Physician, Jaffe Comprehensive Stroke Center Maimonides Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
8:45 – 9:45am
Mitchell Elkind, MD, MS, FAAN, FAHA – Cryptogenic Stroke: ARCADIA Trials Updates
Chief Clinical Science Officer
American Heart Association
Professor Emeritus of Neurology and Epidemiology
Columbia University
9:45 - 10:00am
15-Minute Break/Q&A/Sponsor Exhibits
10:00 - 10:30am
Murray Choueka, MD – Stroke in Migraineurs: The Link in Between
Director, Headache Medicine
Maimonides Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
10:30 - 11:30am
Suman Ghosh, MD, MPA- Pediatric Stroke Management
Attending Pediatric Neurologist
Maimonides Medical Center
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Pediatric Neurologist, Attending Physician
NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County Hospital
11:30am – 12:00pm
Robert Frankel, MD – Brain & Heart Initiative: A Two-Way Street
Vice Chair, Cardiology & Director, Interventional Cardiology
Maimonides Health
12:00 – 12:30pm
Q. Tony Wang, MD, PhD – Heparin Infusion in Acute Stroke Management: Dinosaur or Phoenix?
Director, Jaffe Comprehensive Stroke Center
Maimonides Medical Center
Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology
Maimonides/SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
12:30pm - 1:00pm
30-Minute Lunch Break/Q&A/Sponsor Exhibits
1:00 – 2:00pm
Philippe Gailloud, MD – Spinal Cord Stroke—Relevant Vascular Anatomy, Imaging, Presentation
Interventional Neuroradiology
The Johns Hopkins University
2:00 – 3:00pm
Alex Chebl, MD – Carotid Revascularization: Past, Present & Future
Director Henry Ford Comprehensive Stroke Center, Director Division of Vascular Neurology
Henry Ford Health
3:00 – 3:15pm
15-Minute Break/Q&A/Sponsor Exhibits
3:15 – 4:15pm
Levi Dygert, MD – Central Retinal Artery Occlusion: The Consensus & Controversies
Director of Stroke & Vascular Neurology
NYU Langone, Long Island
4:15 – 4:45pm
Christine Mau, MD – Current Management of Acute & Chronic Subdural Hemorrhage
Attending Physician, Neurosurgery
Maimonides Medical Center
4:45 - 5:00pm
Q&A/Sponsor Exhibits
5:00pm
Q. Tony Wang, MD, PhD – Closing Remarks
Director, Jaffe Comprehensive Stroke Center
Maimonides Medical Center
Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology, Maimonides/SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Symposium Presented by
Jaffe Comprehensive Stroke Center & Maimonides Neurosciences Institute
The Jaffe Comprehensive Stroke Center at Maimonides is among the elite few hospitals designated as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by the Joint Commission. U.S. News & World Report ranks Maimonides as a ‘Best Regional Hospital’ and High Performing for Stroke Care (2024/25).
Maimonides has been on the American Heart Association Gold Plus Honor Roll for 16 consecutive years and earned the Target Advanced Therapy and Stroke Elite plus awards for its exceptional care in thrombolytic treatment and endovascular therapy. Our team of neurologists, neurointerventionalists, neurosurgeons, and neuroradiologists takes an adaptive multidisciplinary approach 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, performing minimally invasive procedures and managing patients in state-of-the-art facilities.
Maimonides Neurosciences Institute is recognized for clinical excellence and is a leading center for neurosciences research and medical education. The Institute is comprised of the Divisions of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuroradiology, Neurocritical Care, and the Jaffe Comprehensive Stroke Center.
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Designated as both a Joint Commission Certified Advanced Primary Stroke Center and a Primary Stroke Center by the NYS Department of Health, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is recognized for providing high standards of care for the diagnosis and management of stroke patients in Brooklyn. Using advanced multi-modal diagnostic imaging studies, it offers cutting-edge medical therapy for ischemic stroke.
SUNY Downstate is the first and leading university hospital and clinical research center in Brooklyn, and one of the leading cerebrovascular research centers (in combination with Kings County Hospitals and the Jaffe Comprehensive Stroke Center at Maimonides Medical Center) in the state. The Regional Stroke Center offers stroke prevention education and screening through community outreach programs to the population it serves and is also part of the NIH-sponsored Stroke NET Clinical Trials network under the Columbia University-Weill Cornell Regional Coordinating Center.
Maimonides and SUNY Downstate formed a partnership in 2017 to expand delivery of, and access to, high-quality neurosciences care in Brooklyn. Together we have a joint Department of Neurology led by Regional Chair Dr. Daniel Rosenbaum.
CONTINUING EDUCATION ACCREDITATION & DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
Maimonides Medical Center is accredited by The Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Maimonides Medical Center designates this LIVE activity for a maximum of 8.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.™ Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Policies and standards of the Medical Society of the State of New York and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education require that speakers and planners for continuing medical education activities disclose any ineligible companies they may have with commercial interests whose products, devices or services may be discussed in the content of a CME activity.
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For more information, please contact us:
Tel: (718) 283-7603
Email: stroke@maimo.org