Attending the NINDS TBI Classification Workshop, & InTBIR
NINDS TBI & InTBIR
Bethesda, MD || January 22-23, & 24-25, 2024
Back-to-back meetings in Washington, DC covered the revised classification of TBI in a much-needed move away from “mild, moderate, and severe.” The panel of “lived experience” members, whose initial TBIs played out in unpredictable ways, underscored the need for a restart as to how we classify this disease.
More information about the TBI Classification Workshop, including recordings of the event, can be found here. We will certainly be hearing more about the new classification and how to use it in subsequent meetings and publications. More information on the InTBIR meeting can be found here.
Ethan presents his poster on advancing the Moberg Cloud Platform for large-scale physiological data analysis.
Two pillars of the TBI community, and wonderful friends: Ramon Diaz-Arrastia and Claudia Robertson.
Geoff Manley and Andrew Maas practicing their vaudeville dance routine… actually recovering from various surgeries.
Peter Smielewski flew in and out of Philly to get to the DC meetings mostly because of the delicious cheesesteaks and, to a lesser extent, because the flights were cheaper and he’s vegetarian. We had lunch at the appropriately named Cogito Coffee house around the corner from the company. We would like to say this place was the inspiration for the COGITATE trial, but it wasn’t.
Peter having a bake sale to raise money for TBI research (or at least it looked that way).
We gravitated to pool tables late at night to process what we heard during the day. Ethan takes on his uncle, Dr. Radim Moravec, who works at the nearby National Cancer Institute.
Group shot of the characters attending the InTBIR & TBI Classification meeting at NIH.
