Neurology in the Inpatient Arena: Challenges and Advances
Maimonides Neurosciences Institute, Brooklyn Neuroscience Center at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County, and SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Department of Neurology proudly present the 2025 Maimonides Neurology Symposium.
This free, virtual and in-person symposium will feature new research and clinical paradigms related to the diagnosis and management of complex neurologic conditions and science.
Neurology in the Inpatient Arena: Challenges and Advances
Date: Friday, November 14, 2025
Location:
Maimonides Medical Center
Schreiber Auditorium, Administration Building, 2nd Floor
4802 10th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11219
Virtual symposium: Via Webex
CME credit: Up to a maximum of 5.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Symposium topics
Symposium topics include the following:
- Epilepsy in the intensive care unit
- Neurologic complications in oncologic patients
- Diagnostic approaches to neuroinfectious diseases
- Neuropsychiatric dilemmas in the hospital
- Neuropalliative care
- Acute neuropathies
- Neurologic prognostication after cardiac arrest
- A multidisciplinary evaluation of gait
Who should attend
This conference is designed with the following audiences in mind:
- 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 members of the public
2025 program details
8:00–8:05 am: Welcome remarks
Daniel Rosenbaum, MD
Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of Neurology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Regional Chair of Neurology, Maimonides Medical Center
8:05–8:15 am: Introduction
Nuri Jacoby, MD, FAAN
Vice Chair of Neurology, Maimonides Medical Center
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
8:15–9:00 am: Psychiatric Dilemmas in Inpatient Neurology
Daniel Shalev, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medicine in Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine
9:00–9:45 am: Acute Neuropathies
Nuri Jacoby, MD, FAAN
Vice Chair of Neurology, Maimonides Medical Center
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
9:45–10:30 am: Topics in Critical Care EEG: To Connect or Disconnect (cEEG): Why That Isn’t the Best Question
Susanna O’Kula, MD
Attending Physician, Neurology, Maimonides Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Neurology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
10:30–10:45 am: Break/Q&A
10:45–11:30 am: Navigating Goals of Care in the Inpatient Setting
Eileen Harrigan, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
11:30am–12:15 pm: Neuroprognostication Post Cardiac Arrest
Darya Khazanova, MD
Attending Physician, Neurology, Maimonides Medical Center
12:15–1:00 pm: Lunch/Q&A
1:00–1:45 pm: Cases in Neuroinfectious Diseases
Yaacov Anziska, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology and Neuromuscular Division Chief, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
1:45–2:30 pm: Neurologic Complications of Cancer Immunotherapy
Bianca Santomasso, MD
Assistant Attending Neuro-oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2:30–2:45 pm: Break/Q&A
2:45–2:50 Closing remarks
2:50–3:15 pm (in-person only): A Multidisciplinary Evaluation of Gait
Christian Amlang, MD
Attending Physician, Department of Neurology, Maimonides Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Neurology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Yaacov Anziska, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology and Neuromuscular Division Chief, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Symposium presented by
Maimonides Health
Maimonides Neurosciences Institute is recognized for clinical excellence and is a leading center for neurosciences research and medical education. The institute comprises the Divisions of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuroradiology, and Neurocritical Care, and the Jaffe Comprehensive Stroke Center.
Maimonides Department of Neurology offers some of the most advanced and comprehensive neurology services in the country. Our neurologists treat all brain and nervous system conditions and use the most advanced diagnostic and treatment technologies.
Brooklyn Neuroscience Center at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County
The Brooklyn Neuroscience Center at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County is the first neuroscience center at a public hospital in New York City. It provides outstanding compassionate patient care, research, and education for conditions that affect the nervous system at all stages of life. With an interdisciplinary approach, H+H Kings County links specialists in adult neurology, epilepsy, movement disorders, neurocritical care, neuroendovascular surgery, neuroimmunology, neuroradiology, neurosurgery, pediatric neurology, rehabilitation medicine, stroke, and traumatic brain injury. The robust neuroscience research program features investigator-initiated research along with numerous NIH-funded clinical trials.
H+H Kings County is a teaching affiliate of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences Center and trains residents, fellows, and medical students in adult neurology, pediatric neurology, stroke, and clinical neurophysiology.
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Department of Neurology
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Department of Neurology is recognized for providing the highest standards of care for the diagnosis and management of neurology patients in Brooklyn. SUNY Downstate is the first and leading university hospital and clinical research center in Brooklyn, and one of the leading neurology and cerebrovascular research centers in the state (in combination with H+H Kings County Hospital’s Thrombectomy Capable Stroke Center and the Jaffe Comprehensive Stroke Center at Maimonides Medical Center). It also supports a National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC)–accredited Level 3 Epilepsy Center.
Continuing education accreditation and disclosure statement
Maimonides Medical Center is accredited by The Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) to provide continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. Maimonides Medical Center designates this LIVE activity for a maximum of 5.75 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.
Contact us
For more information, please contact us:
Call: 718-283-6411
Email: NeuroSymposium@maimo.org
Previous symposiums
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