Week 2, Day 5
Welcome to Week 2! We’ll still be bringing you educational materials and resources so you can continue to learn about mTBI, this week we’ll be transitioning to a heavier focus on content creation.
Thank you for your work on the Concussion Update newsletter! The newsletter is now published on our website.
New Tasks/Notifications
Guest Speaker (Monday 6/28): 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.
Guest Speaker Reading (Please read these today in preparation for Dr. Samadani’s talk on Monday):
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?”
Educational Resources:
Concussion Curriculum
Read Shaken Brain, Ch. 5
Reminders
Thank-you’s to Caroline Saksena, Dr. Sandel
Please write a short thank-you note to Caroline Saksena in this document Dr. Sandel in this document. We’d like to send it before the end of the week, so try and get to it today or tomorrow!
Project Research
Congratulations on getting to the start of your projects! As you jump into the research stage, remember to create whatever files and documents you’ll be using in the project resources folders that your PM has shared with you.
Continue your initial research on your project!