Saving the Brain Annual Neuroscience Symposium 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 fourth annual Saving the Brain Symposium in 2011 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

See the full program below to get a feel for our exciting agenda.   Please contact Gary Milgram, Service Line Director, at gmilgram@sbch.org to be placed on an advanced mailing list for the 2012 symposium.       Dr. Gregory Albers, Director, Stanford Stroke Center, and Dr. Philip Delio, Director, Medical Director, Cottage Stroke Program

2011 Program
Welcome	Philip Delio, MD Neurologist, Neurology Associates of Santa Barbara; Director of Stroke Services, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
Neuro Critical Care	Howard Yonas, MD Chairman Department of Neurological Surgery, Director of Cerebrovascular Program, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Microdialysis	Urban Ungerstedt, MD Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
ICP Monitoring: Myth, Magic or Medicine?	DaiWai Olson, PhD, RN, CCRN Assistant Professor of Medicine and Neurology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham
Update in Brain Tumor Surgery with Intraoperative MRI	Jeffrey Weinberg, MD, FACS Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Endonasal Resection of Skullbase Tumors	Marvin Bergsneider, MD Professor, Division of Neurosurgery, UCLA; Co-Director, Neuroendoscopy Program, UCLA Medical Center
Controversies in Acute Resuscitation of Traumatic Brain Injury	Stephen Kaminski, MD, FACS Medical Director, Trauma Services and Surgical ICU, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
Advances in Epilepsy	Linda Chen, MD Neurology, Sansum Clinic, Santa Barbara
Hemodynamics and Collateral Flow in Acute Ischemic Stroke	David Liebeskind, MD, FAHA, FAAN Associate Neurology Director, UCLA Stroke Center; Neurology Director, UCLA Stroke Imaging Program
Definitive Endovascular Cure of Complex Intracranial Aneurysms	Giuseppe Lanzino, MD Professor of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic; Consultant, Department of Neurologic Surgery; Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Telestroke: Developing a Regional Stroke Network	Todd Czartoski, MD Director, Inpatient Neurology Service, Swedish Neuroscience Institute, Seattle
Spinal Surgery	Thomas Jones, MD Neurological Surgery, Neurosurgical Associates of Santa Barbara; Medical Director, Santa Barbara Neuroscience Institute
Complex Neurovascular Cases	Alois Zauner, MD Neurological Surgery and Neurointerventional Radiology, Neurosurgical Associates of Santa Barbara; Adjunct Professor, UCSB