2024 EaRLY TBI Conference
February 22-23, 2024
Tentative
Schedule
Thursday, February 22nd
Thursday will focus on skill building workshops on the following topics:
9 am EST - 10 am EST Moving from the Academy to Industry
11 am EST - 12 noon EST Current Insights Into Military Funding Mechanisms
1 pm EST - 2 pm EST Strategic Digital Branding
2 pm EST - 3 pm EST Storytelling in Scientific Communication
3 pm EST - 4 pm EST AI 101: Augmenting Scholarly Research with Intelligent Tools
3 pm EST - 4 pm EST Do I Stay or Leave? Changing Jobs as an Early Career Researcher
Friday, February 23rd
10 am EST - 11 EST: Abstract presentations : Pediatric Concussion
11 am EST - 12 noon EST Abstract presentation : Concussion in Collegiate Populations
12 - 1 pm EST: Lunch Break
1 pm EST - 2 pm EST: Abstract presentations : Concussion in Special Populations
2 pm EST - 3 pm EST: Senior Panel Presentations
3 pm EST - 4 pm EST: Senior Panel Discussion
Senior Panel Speakers
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Amber Donaldson, DPT M Physio (Manip), SCS, CSCS, FACSM
Vice President Sports Medicine
US Olympic and Paralympic Committee
Para-athlete considerations
Tamara Valovich McLeod, PhD, ATC, FNATA
Professor
A.T. Still University
Focusing on the patient perspective
Julie Wilson, MD
Outreach Club Co-Medical Director, Concussion Program Co-Director, Orthopedics Co-Medical Director of Informatics
University of Colorado School of Medicine / Children's Hospital Colorado
Get them moving and keep them moving: Physical activity and re-injury risk in pediatric concussion
Workshop Speakers
Strategic Digital Branding
Lael Annmarie
Entrepreneur, digital/social marketer
Do I Stay or Leave? Changing Jobs as an Early Career Researcher
Zach Kerr
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Patrick Ledwidge
Western Kentucky University
Moving from Academia to Industry
Coming Soon
AI 101: Augmenting Scholarly Research with Intelligent Tools
Aaron Montgomery
Associate Professor, Baldwin Wallace University
Storytelling in Scientific Communication
Katherine Breedlove
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Current Insights Into Military Funding Mechanisms
David Cifu
Virginia Commonwealth University
Abstract Presenters
Aaron Sinnot
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Guardian Cap Soft-Shell Padding Efficacy in American Football Throughout a Competitive Season
Collegiate 11 - 12p EST
Caitlin Gallo
PhD Student
University of Delaware
Effect of Repetitive Head Impacts in Collegiate Ice Hockey on a Multifaceted Concussion Test Battery
Collegiate 11 - 12p EST
Scott Passalugo
PhD Student
University of Delaware
Emerging Concussion Assessments Baseline Performance in Ice Hockey Players Across Age Groups
Collegiate 11 - 12p EST
Kristiana Brickman
PhD Student
Western Kentucky University
The association between the P300 ERP amplitude and indices of concussion recovery in an acute sample
Special Populations 1-2p EST
Grace Revill
PhD Student
University College London
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury but not Orthopaedic Injury is Associated with Subsequent Psychiatric Problems and Mental Health Service Use in 9 to 12-Year-Old Children
Pediatrics 10-11 EST
James Shih
Research Fellow
University of Michigan
Longitudinal relationship between Youth Football Participation and Hippocampal Volumes: Insights from the ABCD Study
Pediatrics 10-11 EST
James Wilkes
Research Scientist
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
The Intersection of Sleep and Head Impacts in Division I Collegiate Football Players: A Pilot Study
Collegiate 11 - 12p EST
Bryna Goeckner
Graduate Student
Medical College of Wisconsin
Associations of progesterone and estradiol with concussion and clinical outcomes in female athletes and cadets
Special Populations 1-2p EST
Kumiko Hashida
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Georgia
Predicting Simulated Driving Performance in Individuals with Concussion
Collegiate 11 - 12p EST
Ellie Birch, MA, CCC-SLP
Indiana University
Social Communication Rating Scale for Conversational Discourse in Traumatic Brain Injury
Special Populations 1-2p EST
Sam Zeff
Assistant Professor
Cal State - Long Beach
Gait modifications during dynamic visual acuity tasks in contact sport athletes
Collegiate 11 - 12p EST
Wan Rong Eunisse Chua
Graduate Student
Arizona State University
A Protocol to Measure Synaptosome Quantity in Rats Using Flow Cytometry
Special Populations 1-2p EST
Mahima Desai
Undergraduate Student
Virginia Commonwealth University
The Influence of Sport Type on Immediate Removal from Play Following Concussion in Adolescent Athletes
Pediatrics 10-11 am EST
Scott Passalugo
PhD Student
University of Delaware
Emerging Concussion Assessments Baseline Performance in Ice Hockey Players Across Age Groups
Collegiate 11-12 pm EST
Kate Smulligan
PhD Candidate/Physical Therapist
University of Colorado School of Medicine / Colorado Children's Hospital
Predicting Subsequent Injury Risk After Concussion: The Role of Cervical Spine Proprioception
Pediatrics 10-11 am EST
Patrick Ledwidge
Assistant Professor
Western Kentucky University
A trial-by-trial examination of working memory ERP brain dynamics after a season of high-school football
Pediatrics 10-11 am EST
Sam Walton
Assistant Professor
Virginia Commonwealth University
Associations of Age at First Concussion and Sex with Long-Term Mood-Related Outcomes in Active-Duty and Veteran Military Service Members
Special Populations 1-2 pm EST
Landon Lempke
Assistant Professor
Virginia Commonwealth University
Test-Retest Reliability and Minimal Detectable Change of an Ecologically Valid Return to Activity Evaluation: The Functional Assessment of Neurocognition in Sport (FANS)
Special Populations 1-2 pm EST