Saving the Brain 5th Annual Neuroscience Symposium October 13, 2012   Sponsored by the Santa Barbara Neuroscience Institute, this symposium is for critical care physicians, internal medicine physicians, neurologists, neurosurgeons, primary care physicians, registered nurses, and other healthcare practitioners.   More than 150 physicians, nurses, and other professionals attended the third annual Saving the Brain Symposium in 2010 to hear the latest advances in the Neurosciences.   Topics and speakers for 2011 included:

Vascular Neurosurgery, Giuseppe Lanzino, MD, Mayo Clinic Minimally Invasive Cranial Surgery, Marvin Bergsneider, MD, UCLA Neuro Critical Care, Howard Yonas, MD, University New Mexico Spinal Surgery, Thomas Jones, MD, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Complex Neurovascular Cases, Alois Zauner, MD, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Microdialysis, Urban Ungerstedt, MD, Karolinska Institute, Sweden ICP Monitoring, DaiWai Olson, PhD, RN, Duke University Medical Center Development of Regional Stroke Network, Todd Czartoski, MD, Swedish Medical Center Neurotrauma, Stephen Kaminski, MD, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Advances in Epilepsy, Linda Chen, MD, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Update in Brain Tumor Surgery, Jeffrey Weinberg, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center Stroke, David Liebeskind, MD, UCLA Stroke Center

		The 2012 agenda will be posted here as soon as it is available. Please check back in the summer.   Please contact Gary Milgram, Service Line Director, at gmilgram@sbch.org to be placed on an advanced mailing list for speakers, agendas, and other updates.
Dr. Gregory Albers, Director, Stanford Stroke Center, and Dr. Philip Delio, Director, Medical Director, Cottage Stroke Program