NINDS TBI Classification and Nomenclature Workshop

January 22, 2024 | 9:00 - January 23, 2024 | 5:00
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The National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke (NINDS) is planning a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Classification and Nomenclature Workshop to be held January 22 - 23, 2024, at the NIH in Bethesda, MD. 

Under the guidance of the Steering committee, six working groups have been developed; clinical experts and stakeholders in the TBI field have been invited to participate in these working groups. Working group members are currently meeting regularly working towards meeting their working group objectives. The workshop will be two-fold: 1) to highlight the working groups’ findings after reviewing data from previous and existing clinical studies and 2) to seek public input and feedback from the TBI community and stakeholders with the goal of informing the development of a more precise, and evidence-based classification system – beyond the terms that are currently used “mild, moderate, severe”.

 

Agenda(pdf, 116 KB) (Tentative agenda - subject to change)

 

Steering Committee

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Dr. Geoffrey Manley
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Dr. Michael McCrea
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Dr. Kristin Dams-O'Connor 
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Dr. Andrew Maas
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Nsini Umoh, PhD
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Hibah Awwad, PhD
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Adele Doperalski, PhD

  

 

Working Group Chairs/Co-Chairs

  1. Clinical/Symptoms (GCS) – Days 1 & 14 
    • Dr. David Menon (Chair)
    • Dr. Noah Silverberg
    • Dr. Adam Ferguson
  2. Imaging – Days 1 (CT/MRI) & 14 (MRI) 
    • Dr. Christine MacDonald (Chair)
    • Dr. Esther Yuh
  3. Blood based biomarkers – acute, subacute, chronic 
    • Dr. Jeff Bazarian (Chair)
    • Dr. Henrik Zetterberg
  4. Psychosocial & Environmental Modifiers 
    • Dr. Lindsay Nelson (Chair)
    • Dr. Lindsay Wilson
  5. Implementation Science 
    • Dr. Peter Bragge (Chair)
    • Dr. Molly McNett
  6. Retrospective Classification
    • Dr. John Corrigan (Chair)
    • Dr. Michael Alosco
    • Dr. Joukje van der Naalt

 

Invited Speakers

Mr. Scott Hamilton

Mr. John Del Cecato

Ms. Melanie Wienhoven

 

This workshop is an open meeting. The main sessions of the workshop will be broadcast live via NIH Videocast. The findings of the working groups and outcomes from the workshop will be shared with the public in a written report on this website. Public input and feedback will be accepted for 90 days from the day of posting the written report. 

Please contact Dr. Adele Doperalski for additional information related to this workshop.