Week 2, Day 3

Welcome back to Week 2 of your externship! Today we have the opportunity to hear from Dr. Uzma Samadani!

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 is one Task for today:

Guest speaker Dr. Uzma Samadani

Be sure to have read:

Zoom link:

Work through this curriculum for today:

This curriculum will get us ready for our discussion on Shaken Brain on Friday and for our viewing of the movie Concussion.

  1. Part 2 Shaken Brain- pages 127-190

  2. Watch John Leddy 2021 talk on: Physiology of Concussion with respect to The Autonomic Nervous System and Cerebral Blood Flow Regulation, the role of exercise tolerance testing in the prescription of individualized sub-threshold aerobic exercise for the treatment of concussion and persistent post-concussive symptoms (PPCS), and how the principle of “exercise intolerance” is used in the treatment of mTBI/concussion. 

  3. Watch Physical Rehabilitation Following a Concussion, Katherine Schneider, Associate Professor and Clinician Scientist (Physiotherapist), Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary.

Tutorials and Skill Building:

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

Reminders/things to note:

  1. Keep up the fantastic work on your projects!