Free CME Opportunity for MD Alumni!
Sponsored by the Office of Philanthropy and Alumni Relations, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Dean’s Research Symposia
Friday, May 3 • 1-4 p.m.
Room 5206 (5th Floor)
Bowman Gray Center for Medical Education
475 Vine Street, Winston-Salem
Substance Use and Addiction Research, Clinical Care, and Education at the Leading Edge at Wake Forest School of Medicine
The Wake Forest School of Medicine Center for Research on Substance Use and Addiction (CRSUA), founded in 2016, is a catalyst for translational research, clinical care and education. This educational session provides a sample of work in this critical area of health and wellness. Speakers and topics include:
- Amber Brooks, MD, Department of Anesthesiology: Taking Control of Pain in the Face of the Opioid Epidemic: A View from Wake Forest Baptist Health.
- Michael Nader, PhD, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology: Personalized medicine approach to identify effective treatments using nonhuman primate models of substance abuse, social behavior and brain imaging.
- Laura Veach, PhD, Department of General Surgery: Advances in Substance Use and Addiction Clinical Care and Education at Wake Forest Baptist Health.
- Mark Wolfson, PhD, Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy: Results of a 24-Community Randomized Trial to Prevent Teen Drinking Parties.
Presentations will be followed by a panel discussion with audience participation.
Improving Concussion Prevention and Care through Engineering, Imaging, and Clinical Research
Wake Forest School of Medicine biomedical engineering, radiology, sports medicine and other neuroscience-affiliated programs have been studying and treating concussion in youth to Division I athletes at Wake Forest University since 2010. Over that time we have employed and developed new instrumentation to measure subconcussive head impact exposure in youth sports. We have used the data to study practice structure and biomechanics of head impacts, particularly in youth football.
This work has translational applications, realized through collaboration with neuroimaging experts, neurosurgery, neurology, neuropsychology and sports medicine. Most recently, we are beginning to study an expanding group of sports including girls’ soccer, boys’ hockey and other sports.
This multidisciplinary team is collecting data, measured through biomechanics, to improve safety for athletes across the spectrum.
- Chris Miles, MD, Department of Community and Family Medicine
- Joel Stitzel, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Jill Urban, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Chris Whitlow, MD, PhD, Department of Radiology
Registration deadline is Tuesday, April 30!
Credit: The Wake Forest School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Accreditation: The Wake Forest School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medicine Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.