Continuing Education Opportunties

• Registration
• General Conference Call Materials - Please complete the following forms and send them to us via Email.
  • Conference Call Evaluation Survey (DOC, 182 KB) - Please complete this form at the end of the call. The information will be used to plan future calls.
  • CME Biographical Form (DOC, 42 KB) - Please complete this form if you would like to receive continuing medical education credits.

2010 Conference Calls

• June 23, 2010
  • Dysphagia Screening: A Team Approach - Onslow Memorial Hospital (PDF, 1.23 MB)
• May 26, 2010
  • tPA Use and Legal Aspects of Acute Stroke Treatment (PDF, 1.45 MB; Dr. Justin Zivin)
• April 28, 2010
  • Overview of the American Heart Association’s International Stroke Conference; February 24 - 26, 2010; San Antonio, TX. Presented by John C. Costopoulos, Director of State Health Alliances for North Carolina with the American Heart Association.
  • Downloads for Conference Call:
    • Abstracts From the 2010 International Stroke Conference
      • Oral Presentations
      • Poster Presentations
      • State-of-the-Art Stroke Nursing Symposium Presentations
• March 24, 2010
  • Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy vs. Stenting Trial (PDF 501 KB; Author: Wayne M. Clark, MD; Presentation by: Dr. Matthew Edwards, Associate Professor of Vascular Surgery and Public Health Sciences at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Dr. Edwards is a NIH funded investigator in the area of outcomes improvement. He served as the Wake Forest site interventionalist performing carotid stent procedures in CREST. He has funded research interests examining the cognitive effects of procedural related embolization during carotid revascularization.)
• February 24, 2010
  • EMS Stroke Plan of Care (PDF 887 KB; Jane H. Brice MD, MPH)
• January 27, 2010
  • Mock Stroke Code Presentation (PDF, 382 KB; Alice Liskay, RN, BSN, MPA, CCRC; Coordinator, Ohio Paul Coverdell Acute Stroke Registry)
  • Mock Stroke Code Scenarios (PDF, 9 KB)

2009 Conference Calls

• Calendar/Dates
  • NCSCC & TSSN 2009 Conference Call Schedule (PDF, 44 KB)
• December 9, 2009
  • Expanding the Window for tPA Administration: IV tPA Beyond 3 Hours (PDF, 1.82 MB; Andrew W. Asimos, MD; Director of Emergency Stroke Care, Carolinas Medical Center; Charlotte, NC)
• October 28, 2009
  • Health Literacy: Understanding the Problem & Finding Some Solutions (PDF, 770 KB; Nandini Sen, Ph.D.; Media and Intervention Specialist, NC Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Branch)
• September 23, 2009
  • Rehabilitation from the Perspective of a Stroke Survivor (PDF, 52 KB; Ralph Preston, stroke survivor and videographer)
• August 26, 2009
  • In-hospital Acute Ischemic Stroke (PDF, 423 KB; Dr. Soojin Park, MD; Assistant Professor; Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Anesthesiology & Critical Care; Penn Medicine)
• July 22, 2009
  • Sample County EMS System: EMS Acute Stroke Triage and Destination Plan Template (PDF, 59 KB)
  • North Carolina Outcomes Data System (PDF, 8 KB)
• June 24, 2009
  • Presentation: The NC SCC TIA sub-study - A Multicenter Evaluation of the ABCD2 Score’s Accuracy for Predicting Early Ischemic Stroke in Admitted Transient Ischemic Attack Patients (PDF, 1.1 MB; Andrew W. Asimos, MD)
  • Agenda (PDF, 38 KB)
• May 27, 2009
  • Presentations:
    • Geographic Analysis of Drive Time to Certified Stroke Centers in the Tri-State Stroke Network Region (PDF, 1.71 MB; Jenna Khan, MPH)
    • Drive Time Analysis of North Carolina Stroke Deaths to Joint Commission Certified Primary Stroke Centers: Has Access Improved in 2 Years? (PDF, 862 KB; Andrew W. Asimos, MD)
  • Agenda (PDF, 45 KB)
• March 25, 2009
  • Presentation: "Beyond the Hospital" (PDF, 1.50 MB; Margaret Rudisill, RN); N.C. Stroke Association (NCSA)
• January 28, 2009
  • Presentation: Observation Medicine - CMS, OPPS, the RAC, and a TIA-ADP: “Alphabet Soup” (PDF, 715 KB; Michael A. Ross, MD, FACEP)