Emergency Neurological Life Support (ENLS) course 2024

Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Shaheen Shaikh, M.D., FASA Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine and ENLS Co-Director . Dr. Shaikh well recognized for her contributions to the field of Neuroanesthesia and has been an Invited Speaker for Grand Rounds lectures in New England, Canada, England and India. She has played an important role in the Annual Meeting Society of Neurosciences and Critical Care and the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiology. She has been invited to serve as moderator for several clinical poster sessions. Dr. Shaikh is currently serving on the Education Committee of the Society of Neurosciences and Critical Care, American Society of Neuroanesthesia and the American Society of Scientific and Educational Exhibits. She organized the first ENLS Course at UMass, endorsed by the Neuro- Critical Care Society.

Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery

Wiley Hall, MD - Assistant Professor of Neurology; Director of the NeuroICU and TeleStroke Services and ENLS Co-Director. Dr. Hall is a neurointensivist caring for critically ill patients, including those with intracranial hemorrhage, cerebral edema, traumatic brain injury and neuromuscular disorders.

Raphael A. Carandang, MD - Associate Professor of Neurology, Anesthesiology & Surgery; Director of Faculty Care Program and Neurohumanities Program. Dr. Carandang practices as a neurointensivist at the lakeside 2 Neurotrauma ICU, as a stroke neurologist on the University Campus and as a Telestroke physician and Electronic ICU physician at UMASS Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is triple boarded completing fellowships in stroke neurology at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and neurocritical care at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. His research interests include cerebral edema and prognostication in traumatic brain injury, effects of nicotine on vasospasm in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and stroke epidemiology. He is the Site PI for the New England Regional Coordinating Center of the NIH Stroke Net Consortium and MR WITNESS trial and Co-Investigator of the OPTIMISM TBI study and of the IDEF trial.

Brian Silver MD, FRCPC, FAHA, FAAN, FANA. Professor and Vice Chair of Clinical Operations, Department of Neurology at UMass Memorial Medical Center and University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. He is the Endowed Chair in Neuroscience Research at UMass Chan Medical School.

Thomas A. Pieters, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, Director of Spinal Oncology, Co - Director Spine Surgery. His clinical interests are Adult Brain Tumors, Adult Neurosurgery, Degenerative Spine Disorders, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Spinal Microsurgery, Spinal Reconstruction, Stereotatic Radiosurgery, Syringomyelia, Tethered Cord, Trauma Neurosurgery.

Ph*rm*cy Medicine

Nadine Jaber, PharmD, BCPS- Clinical Ph*rm*cy Specialist- Neuro ICU. Dr. Jaber is a clinical pharmacist caring for critically ill patients in the Neuro/Trauma ICU at UMass Memorial Medical Center. She completed her Doctorate of Ph*rm*cy at the University of Connecticut in 2012 and residency training and Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, CT.

Nursing

Raymond St. Peter, RN, MSN, CCRN. Mr. St. Peter is a staff nurse at UMass Memorial Healthcare on 2LSICU with experience in Cardiology (Acute Care) and Neurology/Trauma (Critical Care). He has been an RN since 2005 and a former EMT with in depth training into clinical informatics, interfacing applications and data-sharing. He is faculty at UMass' Graduate School of Nursing and Quinsigamond Community College. Mr. St. Peter enjoys hiking, travel, and lifelong learning.

Emergency Medicine

Michael H. Sherman, MD Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School Department of Emergency Medicine, UMass Memorial Medical Center Department of Critical Care Medicine, UMass Memorial Marlborough Hospital.

Emergency Neurological Life Support (ENLS):
‘What to do in the critical first hours of a neurological emergency’

8a-8:15a Introduction to ENLS

8:15a-8:50a Traumatic Brain injury

8:50a-9:20a Intracranial hypertension

9:20a-9:50a Traumatic Spinal cord injury

9:50a-10:05a COFFEE BREAK (included)

10:05a-10:40a Spinal cord compression

10:40a-11:10a Airway, ventilation, sedation

11:10a-11:40a Status Epilepticus

11:40a-12:15p Coma

12:15p-12:45p LUNCH (included)

12:45p-1:20p Acute ischemic stroke

1:20p-1:50p Subarachnoid hemorrhage

1:50p-2:20p Intracranial Hemorrhage

2:20p-2:35p COFFEE BREAK

2:35p-3:05p Meningitis/Encephalitis

3:05p-3:35p Pharmacotherapy

3:35p-4:05p Weakness

4:05p-4:30p Resuscitation after cardiac arrest

4:30p-5p Questions & Wrap up

Host or Publisher Co-Directors: Shaheen Shaikh, MD & Wiley Hall, MD