Week 2, Day 1

Welcome back to Week 2 of your externship! We have a group check-in with rose-bud-thorns and then project group check-in meetings with Conor, Gigi, and Sam!

Our third expert guest speaker is Dr. Uzma Samadani; Dr. Samadani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Minnesota with a graduate faculty appointment in Neuroscience. She is also an attending neurosurgeon at the Minneapolis Veterans Administration Medical Center and founder of the neurodiagnostic start-up Oculogica Inc, which has developed the first baseline free concussion diagnostic cleared for marketing approval by the FDA.

There are two Tasks for today:

Monday Meeting! Rose-bud-thorn, project check-ins

Before the meeting:

  • Check your proposed timeline and assess where you are in your process

  • Check-in with your project partner (if relevant)

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Check-in Meetings with Conor, Gigi, and Sam

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Work through this curriculum for today:

This curriculum wraps up our introduction to concussions and segues us into our next topic, where we will dive more deeply into sports related concussions.

  1. Read What Happens to Your Brain When You Get a Concussion? and What Happens to Your Brain When You Get a Concussion: a Deeper Dive. 

  2. Read CA webpage on Concussion & Rehabilitation Clinics

  3. Read CA webpage on Headaches

  4. Read CA webpage on Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction

Tutorials and Skill Building:

  1. Read Squarespace: Pages and content basics, All about images

  2. Read Canva: Create social media posts and stories, infographics, infographics and charts

  3. Watch December 2020 Squarespace tutorial recording

Reminders/things to note:

  1. If you haven’t already, please write a quick note of gratitude to our Week 1 guest speakers!

  2. Send Gigi (gp@concussionalliance.org) a picture and blurb for your Concussion Alliance profile.

  3. Gentle reminder to work on your projects!