Week 7, Day 4

This week you’ll be hearing from two Expert Guest Speakers, Dr. Monique Pappadis on Tuesday and Dr. Yelena Goldin on Thursday. You’ll also have the opportunity to hear other experts via webinars and podcasts.

There are three tasks (plus an optional task) to do today:

  • Write a thank you message to Dr. Pappadis on this document.

  • Start preparing for Dr. Sandel’s talk on Tuesday.

    • Read her bio on our website. Dr. Sandel has just agreed to be on the Concussion Alliance Professional Advisory Board! (As has Dr. Zasler!)

    • Read her PowerPoint presentation, which is an encapsulation of Chapter One of her book Shaken Brain.

    • Read Chapters Two and Three. We wouldn’t be assigning any additional chapters — though the entire book is terrific!

      • Doctor Sandel taught a course on concussions for the UC Davis Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) residents, using Shaken Brain as the textbook. Below are the questions she posed to the residents regarding each chapter of the book. While you don’t need to write out responses to each of these questions for both chapters, we thought that they would help guide your reading.

        1) What do you think are the main points in the chapter you reviewed? Do you agree with the author?

        2) What teaching points for patients do you think are most important?

        3) Highlight 1 or 2 references that you think are most interesting and helpful to you as a physiatrist. Discuss the important facts or viewpoints for these. (These can be studies or review articles.)

        4) How has reading the chapter changed your knowledge or perspectives on concussion?

  • Optional Podcast:

    • Listen to episode 37 of Concussion Corner on sleep and cognitive behavioral therapy:

  • Finish any reading for today’s speaker. You can read Dr. Yelena Goldin’s bio here.

This week:

  • Continue working on your projects.

  • Upcoming 30 minute talks:

    • Friday 7/31/20 Michael Hylin of Southern Illinois University, Manipulation of the gut microbiome following Juvenile traumatic brain injury.

  • Reminders for those working in Squarespace:

    • Always make sure that you are not making changes to a live page.

    • Squarespace has no version control. If you make changes to a page and then save that change, you cannot get the original version back. This applies to editing from two computers as well; Squarespace also does not support two active editors, so make sure that only one person is editing a page at a time. Squarespace has even had trouble when someone else has the page selected but is not editing, it can be really finicky.