May 20, 2010 - May 21, 2010
Hotel Allegro Chicago
Chicago, IL
Hotel Allegro Chicago
Chicago, IL
13.75 CLE including 1 hour of ethics
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
- Normal Brain Function
Dianne Jay Weaver
- What Is Brain Injury?
-Loss of onsciousness Is Not Required for a Brain Injury
-How Do We Know There Wasn't a Loss of Consciousness?
-Amnesia
Bruce H. Stern
- Mechanisms of Brain Injury
- Internal Mechanisms of Brain Injury
-Biomechanics of Impact
- Focal Brain Injuries
-Diffuse Brain Injuries
-The Structure of the Neuron
-Axonal Injury Without a Blow to the Head
Gordon S. Johnson, Jr.
- Brain Injury is a Process
Bruce H. Stern
- Imaging Studies
-Imaging Studies May Be Normal
- CT—Computerized Tomography
- MRI—Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- EEG—Electroencephalography
- PET—Positron Emission Tomography
Gordon S. Johnson, Jr. - Brain Injury Symptomatology
-Brain Injury Symptomatology—Laundry List
-Headache
-Multi-Attending
-Measuring Attentional Problems
-Fatigue
-Sleep Disturbances
Michael V. Kaplen
- Emotional Issues
- Depression Has Many Elements
- The Defense Abuses Depression
- The Defense Abuses Depression, Cont’d
-Risk of Subsequent Brain Injury
-Risk Factors
-Risk Factors for Long Term Problems
-Who Is More at Risk for Long Term Problems?
Dianne Jay Weaver
- Neuropsychology
Bruce H. Stern - The Lineup of Experts in a TBI Case
Kenneth B. Goldblatt
- Ethics in a TBI Case
-The Nightmare Cases You Must Try to Avoid
-Ethics of Firing a TBI Client
-Ethics of Settling a Case with a Frontal Lobe Patient
Karen K. Koehler, Antonio M. Romanucci
- Understanding the Vulnerable Client
-Pre-Morbid Risk Factors
-Converting a Causation Defense to Element of Diagnosis
Gordon S. Johnson
- Exposing the Pseudoscience of Defense Biomechanics
Mariusz Ziejewski, Ph.D.
- Post-Traumatic Vertigo
Timothy Hain, M.D.
Friday, May 21, 2010
- Direct Examination of a Plaintiff’s Expert
Charles G. Monnett, III
- Behavioral Neurology
Marc E. Hines. M.D.
- Panel Discussion
-Loss of Earning Capacity After a Brain Injury
-Understanding the Impact of Frontal Lobe Deficits
-Processing
-Attentional and Emotional Challenges and Synergism of these Deficits in Causing Disability
Gordon S. Johnson, Jr., Anthony M. Gamboa, Jr., Ph.D., Marc E. Hines, M.D.,
Nils Varney, Ph.D.
- The Life Care Plan—Understanding the Full Extent of the Daily Needs—How
Much is Too Much?
Thomas P. Routh
- Neuroimaging
Randall L. Rozek, WI
- Defense Experts—The Predictable Defenses you Will See
-Malingering
-Somatoform Disorder
-Causation Defenses
Gordon S. Johnson, Jr.
- Deposing the Defense Neuropsychologist
Joseph C. Wu, M.D.
- Pediatric Brain Injury Case
Patrick Donohue
