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• Pediatric Concussion

  • When
    13 Jan 2025
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

   
  Gerard Anthony Gioia, PhD
  Director, Safe Concussion Outcome, Recovery and Education (SCORE) Program
  Past President, Sports Neuropsychology Society

  Gerard Gioia, Ph.D., is the director of the Safe Concussion Outcome, Recovery & Education (SCORE) Program at Children's National Hospital. He is a professor at George Washington University School of Medicine. He directs the Neurobehavioral Core research laboratories for Children’s National’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center.

  Dr. Gioia treats persons and families with brain injuries with dual areas of interest in disorders involving the executive functions and pediatric concussion/ mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). He has been the Principal Investigator of several multi-site CDC-funded research studies of pediatric mild TBI with a focus on the development of methods/tools for the evaluation of the executive functions and post-concussion neuropsychological functioning. He has developed several smartphone apps, Concussion Recognition & Response and Concussion Assessment and Response (CARE Sport), the Acute Concussion Evaluation (ACE) and ACE Care Plan, a pediatric neurocognitive test for concussion, and post-concussion symptom scales for children and parents. He works closely with the CDC on their “Heads Up” concussion educational programs, as a contributing author to the toolkits.

  Dr. Gioia has been an active participant in the 2004, 2008, and 2012 International Concussion in Sport Group Consensus meetings, and was on the American Academy of Neurology Sports Concussion Guideline Author panel. He is the team neuropsychologist for the NHL’s Washington Capitals and the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens, school systems, and numerous youth sports organizations in the Baltimore-Washington region. He consults with the local and National Governing Organizations of ice hockey, lacrosse, football, rugby and soccer related to concussion management and is on the Medical Advisory Committee for USA Football and the National Advisory Board of the Positive Coaching Alliance.

  
  

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• PNNS 38th Annual Conference

  • When
    8 Mar 2025
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    8:30 AM - 4:45 PM
  • Location
    Wisteria Hall, Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle, WA

   PNNS 38th Annual Conference 
  Functional Neurological Disorders
  in Kids & Teens
  Michael W. Kirkwood, PhD, ABPP-CN
  &

  AI Applications in Neuropsychology
  Jonathan Deright, PhD, ABPP

  
  

  Morning Presentation (9:00 - 12:00)

  Functional Neurological Disorders
  in Kids & Teens:
  The State of the Science and Recommendations for Practice
  

  
  

  Michael W. Kirkwood, PhD, ABPP-CN
  Director, Rehabilitation Psychology & Neuropsychology
  Children’s Hospital Colorado
  &
  Professor, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
  University of Colorado School of Medicine
  Aurora, CO
  

  Dr. Kirkwood is a Professor in the Department of PM&R at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Director of the Rehabilitation Psychology & Neuropsychology Program at Children’s Hospital Colorado. He is also a founder and co-director of the hospital’s Concussion Program and Rehabilitation FND Program. He is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist with subspecialty certification in pediatric neuropsychology. His clinical and research interests focus on pediatric TBI, FND, and validity testing. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and is the editor/author of 4 scientific books.

  Functional neurological disorders (FND) and related conditions have been recognized for centuries and occur commonly across multiple healthcare settings. A vast literature has focused on FND in adults. Relatively little attention has been devoted to pediatric FND, particularly within neuropsychology. This workshop will provide an overview of the extant pediatric research. Current conceptualizations will be reviewed including how the field has moved away from diagnosing by exclusion to the need for positive markers. Common risk factors, symptom presentations, and areas of controversy will be examined. Pediatric clinical management is not yet evidence-based, but promising empirically grounded recommendations will be provided. Cases will be used to illustrate the importance of a biopsychosocial approach to clinical evaluation and management. The role of neuropsychology in multidisciplinary care will be explored, as will ideas for establishing and running a pediatric FND clinic.

  Learning Objectives

  1)     Describe the base rate of FND and related conditions in children and teens.

  2)     Examine risk factors and presentations for pediatric FND.

  3)     Explain the role of the pediatric neuropsychologist in multidisciplinary FND care, as well as empirically-grounded clinical management strategies.

  
  
  

  Afternoon Presentation (1:30 - 4:30)

  AI Applications in Neuropsychology

  
  

  Jonathan Deright, PhD, ABPP
  Private Practice in Clinical and Forensic Neuropsychology
  McLean, VA
  

  Jonathan DeRight is a board certified neuropsychologist and works in clinical and forensic settings in the Washington, DC metro area, including Virginia and Maryland. He earned his bachelor’s degree in neuroscience at the University of Rochester and completed his PhD at Syracuse University. He went on to complete a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

  
  
  

  
  

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• Evaluation and Treatment of Adult ADHD

  • When
    12 May 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

   
  Jeanette Wasserstein, PhD, ABPP
  Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosurgery
  Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  

  Dr. Jeanette Wasserstein is a neuropsychologist who is known for her clinical work synthesizing conventional therapies with emerging understanding of brain functioning. She works with a wide age range and spectrum of patients, but specializes in adults with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as learning disabilities or attention deficit disorder.

  Currently Director of New York City-based CNS Support and on the faculty of The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Wasserstein founded the graduate Neuropsychology training program at The New School for Social Research. Her other academic appointments have been in the Graduate Department of Neuropsychology, Queens College, The Institute for Child, Adolescent and Family Studies and the Department of Neurosurgery, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

  Dr. Wasserstein has co-authored the book Adult Attention Deficit Disorder: Biological Mechanisms and Life Outcomes (special edition of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences) and is currently working on other books in the areas of learning disabilities and nonverbal learning disability. She has also authored or co-authored many articles that have been published in the fields leading journals.

  Dr.Wasserstein's educational background includes two years of post-doctoral studies in Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuropsychology from City University of New York, an M.A. in Developmental Psychology from Teachers College of Columbia University, and a B.S. in Psychology from Barnard College of Columbia University.

  
  

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