Week 3, Day 1

Welcome to the start of the third week with us! We hope you enjoyed your weekend after the holiday and are excited to have two guest speakers and our second discussion on Shaken Brain this week!

We will start our morning with a Monday Check-In meeting at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET.

Following this, we will have our expert guest speaker talk by Dr. Steven Broglio today at 11:15 am PT | 1:15 pm CT | 2:15 pm ET. Dr. Broglio is the director of U-M Concussion Center and NeuroTrauma Research Laboratory where he oversees clinical care, educational outreach, and multidisciplinary research on concussions. You can check out his short profile on this website here.

Our second expert guest speaker talk will be by Dr. Allyssa Memmini on Tuesday at 1:00 pm | 3:00 pm CT | 4:00 pm ET. Dr. Memmini is a CA community member and an Assistant Professor at University of New Mexico with a focus on influence of concussion in university setting. You can check out her short profile on our website here.

We also have our second discussion on Shaken Brain Chapters 5-7 on Friday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET.

Start-of-day Procedure

1. Check Slack for new messages

2. Check the schedule in #weekly-schedules on Slack, on the week page in this portal

3. Check the ‘day page’ (like this one) for tasks & content

4. Check your project resource Google doc in your project folder for new resources

5. Check in with your PM on Slack

6. Check in with your project partner(s) on Slack

There are 2 (new) tasks to do today:

• Start working on your newsletter synopsis!

  The deadline is Tuesday July 9th.

• Continue to work on your project.

  Reminder: Make sure you have most of your research done by Wednesday July 10 because your outline is due this Friday on July 12.

Curriculum for Today

We’ve provided a group of educational resources below. We’ve listed them in an order that we hope will build on your understanding of concussions as you go through them.

Unit 4: College students and Return-to-Learn (~2h 45 min)

Dr. Allyssa Memmini is speaking on Tuesday, and one of her areas of research is Return-to-Learn plans for college students! 

• Read Achieving Consensus Through a Modified Delphi Technique to Create the Post-concussion Collegiate Return-to-Learn Protocol (~60 min), a review Dr. Memmini co-authored with several prominent concussion researchers. Dr. Memmini will b speaking a bit about this research in her talk on Tuesday

• This blog post (~15 min), written by Concussion Alliance board member Susan Klein, synopsizes key points of the review. Use it to help guide your reading!

• Read our Communities resource for College Students (~30 min), and compare our RTL protocol with the above study’s (~20 min)

Also read our Accommodations (Auxiliary Aids) & Strategies Guide for College Students (~25 min) and our Concussion Guide for College Educators (~15 min)