A specialty in critical care medicine and neuroscience provides the foundation for the Neuroscience Section. This section educates and promotes the interdisciplinary practice of critical care medicine by members who share an interest in neuroscience injuries and neurological manifestations of critical illness. The section advises the Society on matters pertaining to neuroscience and supports the research and practice of neuroscience and critical care medicine.
The Neuroscience Section provides members with the opportunity to network with critical care colleagues, influence the neuroscience profession, and strengthen leadership skills. In addition, one can contribute to both the section and SCCM at large through the Neuroscience Section.
Goals:
1) Be a home for intensive care caregivers who have an interest in brain and spine injury
2) Suggest Neuroscience topics to the Society
3) Contribute to the continuing education of general intensivists in topics of neuroscience that all intensivists need to know.
Who are we:
1) Over 2,200 members
2) Open to all specialties and disciplines
Leadership
Chair - Rajeev K. Garg, MD, MS, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Chair-Elect - Aarti Sarwal, MD, Wake Forest Baptist Health Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Secretary/Treasurer - Asma Zakaria, MD, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia, USA
Past-Chair - Rhonda S. Cadena, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mooresville, North Carolina, USA
Members At-Large
Angela Hays Shapshak, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Casey Albin, MD, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Aleksandra Yakhkind, MD, MS, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Sahar Fatima Zafar, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Sarah Nelson, BS, MD, MPH, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, New York, USA
Trainee Liaison
Joshua Bauer, UPMC Neurocritical Care Fellowship
Council Liaison
Jose Javier Provencio, MD, FCCM, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Board Liaison
Mary J. Reed, MD, FCCM, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA
Douglas Falconer Naylor, Jr., MD, FACS, MCCM, University Hospitals of Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Subcommittees
Communications update: Brooke Barlow, Erik Lawson, Aarti Sarwal
Education subcommittee updates: Sarah Nelson, Rhonda Cadena
Research subcommittee updates: Rajeev Garg, Sarah Nelson
Mentorship & Collaboration updates: Kent Owusu, Asma Zakaria, Sahar Zafar