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Yale-New Haven Hospital news release
Release date: May 7, 2007
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Yale-New Haven Stroke Center to host stroke symposium
The Yale-New Haven Stroke Center and Yale School of Medicine department of neurology will sponsor the first annual Lawrence M. Brass Memorial Stroke Symposium, Primary and Secondary Stroke Prevention Updates, for healthcare professionals on Friday, June 15 from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Harkness Auditorium on 333 Cedar Street in New Haven. Joseph Schindler, MD, director of the YNHH Stroke Center, and other leading experts in cerebrovasuclar disease, will discuss stroke center certification; stroke epidemiology; antithrombotic therapy; blood pressure and statin therapies; diabetes and stroke; sleep and stroke; transient ischemic attack; carotid endarterectomy and stenting; and neuroimaging and stroke.
The stroke symposium will also include a remembrance of Lawrence Brass, MD, the former medical director of the cerebrovascular center at YNHH and professor of neurology and epidemiology and public health at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Brass was an internationally recognized expert on stroke who helped lead the largest case control study ever conduced for hemorrhagic stroke. He was a leader in developing innovative epidemiologic methodologies for studying stroke and for improving the quality of care for stroke patients. Dr. Brass died last year of lung cancer at the age of 49.
Yale-New Haven Hospital treats more than 800 stroke patients a year. The YNHH Stroke Center specializes in rapid diagnosis and treatment of stroke, hospital stroke consolations and the promotion of primary and secondary stroke prevention strategies through community outreach programs and in specialized outpatient stroke clinics. More than 750,000 people suffer from stroke each year and it is the leading cause of adult disability in the United States.
To register or to obtain information, please call (203) 785-4578 or visit www.cme@yale.edu.
Yale-New Haven Hospital is a 944-bed, not-for-profit hospital serving as the primary teaching hospital for the Yale School of Medicine. Yale-New Haven was founded as the fourth voluntary hospital in the U.S. in 1826 and today, the hospital complex includes Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital and Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital, with a combined medical staff of about 2,400 university and community physicians practicing in more than 100 specialties. See www.ynhh.org for additional information.
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Last revised: April 26, 2007 (dh)
