Brain Attack & Cerebrovascular Disease: Update 2025

Brain Attack & Cerebrovascular Disease: Update 2025 is organized by Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S), Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) and will be held on Nov 07, 2025 at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, United States of America.

Description:
The Brain Attack course is a yearly comprehensive review of the field of cerebrovascular disease. It covers epidemiology, diagnosis, acute management, secondary prevention, and rehabilitation. Our audience includes physicians and also nurses and emergency medicine services personnel from the tri-state area as well as nationally. The course is held yearly with a series of core topics focusing on acute stroke management and is supplemented by new lectures each year to cover advances in the field.

The faculty for the course includes stroke specialists from the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medicine as well as faculty from the departments of radiology, neurosurgery, emergency medicine, and rehabilitation medicine, and expert guest faculty from outside our institution. Our multidisciplinary team provides a broad-spectrum curriculum and a practical approach to the cerebrovascular field. The Brain Attack Course ?fulfills the 8-hour annual CME/CH requirement for Stroke Centers as per the New York State Department of Health and certifying organizations such as The Joint Commission. The course will also include 1 hour of Call Review with CME accreditation.

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be better able to:

• Recognize diagnostic challenges and modern advances in prehospital stroke care.
• Describe the evidence behind different antithrombotic treatment options for stroke prevention in patients with high-risk comorbidities, including history of atrial fibrillation with intracerebral hemorrhage, cardiomyopathy, and thrombophilias.
• Analyze the safety and efficacy of endovascular therapy for medium or distal vessel occlusions.
• Review the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and optimal treatments for patients with central nervous system vasculopathies.
• Discuss modern advances in the management of different subtypes of intracranial hemorrhage.