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Cerebrovascular/Stroke Symposium
October 24, 2025 @ 7:30 am - 2:30 pm
You are invited to attend the Cerebrovascular/Stroke Symposium, hosted by the Departments of Neurological Surgery and Neurology with the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Join us Oct. 24 at the Clinical & Translational Research Building (505 S. Hancock St.) in rooms 101/102 for a full day of learning about updates in cerebrovascular disease and intracranial aneurysms.
Attendees can earn free CME; breakfast and lunch are included. You can also register for the Brain Aneurysm Foundation’s first Louisville 5K on Oct. 25.
AGENDA
7:30 a.m. – Registration & Breakfast
7:55 a.m. – Welcome
8 a.m. – Dr. Josh Abecassis & Dr. Saad Hasan – “Overview of Cerebrovascular and Stroke Programs”
8:30 a.m. – Dr. Redi Rahmani – “The Multimodal Treatment of Aneurysms”
9 a.m. – Patient Story: Natalies Niekro
9:30 a.m. – Dr. Akashi Shah – “Amyloid Angiopathy in the Spectrum of Cerebrovascular Disease: From Transient Ischemic Attacks to Stroke”
10 a.m. – Coffee Break
10:15 a.m. – Dr. Sarah Wagers – “Common Post-Stroke Symptoms”
10:45 a.m. – Keynote Speaker: Dr. Matthew Bender – “Stroke Thrombus Proteomics: Implications for Etiology and Management”
11:30 a.m. – Lunch
Noon – Keynote Speaker: Dr. Saurav Das – “What Evidence-Based Stroke Practice is – and What it is not: A Journey Through Cases”
12:45 p.m. – Dr. David Dornbos – “Leveraging Real-Time Perfusion Imaging in the Setting of Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke to Identify Specific Proteomic Fingerprints and Platelet Phenotypes in Variable Perfusion Regions”
1:15 p.m. – Dr. Roberto Chulluncuy Rivas – “Emerging Data for Medium Vessel Occlusions (MeVo) Thrombectomy”
1:45 p.m. – Natalie Niekro – “How to Build a Stroke Program”
2:15 p.m. – Final Remarks & Adjourn
