NNS 2023
National Neurotrauma Society Meeting
Austin, TX || June 25-28, 2023
Following a record breaking heat wave, Austin hosted the annual National Neurotrauma Society (NNS) meeting. The science was great and the bars at night were fun, so the heat didn’t matter much. I flew to the neurotrauma meeting from the Psychedelic Science convention in Denver (see here) and the transition from “consciousness to coma” was quite interesting.
As we are seeing with many meetings, data management and AI are becoming prevalent themes—as they should. This has likely been facilitated by the development of data science tools specific for neurocritical care. At the NNS meeting, there was an NIH-sponsored series of workshops on the Pre-Clinical Interagency Research Resource – TBI (PRECISE-TBI). In one of their workshops, the PRECISE-TBI group presented a “sandwich” of reasons for sharing data including stewardship and public service, secondary analysis and hypothesis generation, rigor, reproducibility, transparency, and collaboration.
Proving Philly and Pittsburgh are not rivals: Enjoying drinks together at the posters. Left to right: Philly (Dick Moberg, Ethan Moyer), Pittsburgh (David Puccio, Olivia Raymond, Peyton McIntyre).
Hanging on the wall of one of the speakeasies we stumbled into.
Dr. Laura Ngwenya led an interesting session on cortical spreading depolarizations featuring CSD rock star Dr. Jed Hartings. Laura also hosted a bourbon-drinking “special interest” group meeting later that evening on the back porch of the Four Seasons Hotel.
Ethan Moyer tackling a robot bull at one of the Austin bars on 6th Street.
