Brain Talk
Date: March 6, 2010
Time: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location: Lancaster Host Resort
Dr. Kerstin Bettermann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and is the Stroke Fellowship program director at Penn State. She is member of the Penn State Neuroscience Institute, the Penn State Institute of Diabetes, and the Stroke Research Core.
Dr. Bettermann is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded Quantitative Occlusive Vascular Disease study at Penn State, to assess the risk for stroke in patients with vascular occlusive disease. She is the PI on a Clinician Scientist Development Award at Penn State College of Medicine, awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services, to study cerebral blood flow volume in acute ischemic stroke, and to study vasoreactivity in patients with diabetes and vascular disease. She is co-investigator in several multicenter trials (SENTIS, RESPECT, IMS-3).
Dr. Bettermann’s studies aim at identifying and preventing stroke, especially among individuals who suffer from diabetes. This patient population has a risk of stroke that is two-and-a-half times higher than those who do not have diabetes. Dr. Bettermann’s studies will further our understanding of the impact blood sugar elevation has on blood vessels, thereby allowing us to assess disease progression, develop more effective therapies to help monitor the early stages of diabetes and identify patients at risk in order to delay or prevent the complications associated with this disease. She is also actively investigating vascular dementia and cerebral microvascular disease.
Additional Awards
Date: Feb. 5, 2010 Speaker: Daniel Feinberg, MD, FAAN, Vice President of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety for Catholic Health East, Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology, University of Pennsylvania Topic: Patient Safety for Neurologists
Date: Feb. 12, 2010 Speaker: G. Timothy Reiter, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, PSU Topic: Minimal Access Laminectomy: Does the Size of the Incision Matter?
Date: Feb. 19, 2010 Speaker: Sergio Bergese, MD, Assistant Professor, Clinical Anesthesiology, Ohio State University Medical Center Topic: Patients at Risk: Rethinking Acute Blood Pressure Management
Date: Feb. 26, 2010 Speaker: Michael Strong, MD, FRCPCP, Professor and Co-Chair, Dept. of Clinical Neurological Sciences, London, Ontario Topic: Cognitive Dysfunction in ALS
The following Physicians have been named to the "Best Doctors in America, 2009-2010"
Neurology
79. Jayant N. Acharya, MD
80. David C. Good, MD
81. Milind J. Kothari, DO
82. Stephen C. Ross, MD
83. Zachary Simmons, MD
84. Richard B. Tenser, MD
