Week 2, Day 2

Welcome back to Week 2 of your externship! Today is a fully remote working day, we will miss seeing your faces on Zoom, but we are excited to see you on Wednesday for our guest speaker talk!

Our third expert guest speaker is Dr. Uzma Samadani on Wednesday; 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 is one Task for today:

Final drafts of your newspaper synopsis are due today at 5pm PST

• Check your draft for edits and adjust accordingly, you have all day today to rewrite!

Work through this curriculum for today:

This curriculum will get us ready for Dr. Samadani’s talk and takes us more deeply into concussion treatment.

1. For Dr. Samadani’s talk

   • Editorial: “When Will a Clinical Trial for Traumatic Brain Injury Succeed?”

   • Review: “Will eye tracking change the way we diagnose and classify concussion and structural brain injury?”

2. Read CA webpage on Persistent Post-Concussive Symptoms

3. Read CA webpage on Graduated Exercise Therapy

4. Read CA Vestibular Therapy webpage.

5. Read CA blog post interview of Sarah Gallagher on Vestibular Therapy and Telehealth for Concussions

Tutorials and Skill Building:

1. None, focus on 1- your newsletter synopsis, 2- readings, and 3- your projects! :)

Reminders/things to note:

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

   • Inspiration: https://www.concussionalliance.org/internship-program

2. Keep up the fantastic work on your projects!