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One-Day Summit Focuses on Sports Concussions

Football Players
This one-day summit will take place Friday, April 29, and is a training event for physicians, nurses, athletic trainers, therapists, EMTs, first responders and athletic directors with the focus on sports concussions on how the Upper Peninsula health care and athletic professionals can improve diagnosis and evaluation.  Check out the full conference schedule.

 

Summit Highlights
MRI

Concussions: New Frontiers

Dr. Mark Lovell will present the mornings keynote on the new approaches to the management of concussions, including new testing methods and new uses of technology in diagnosis and prognosis.  In the afternoon, a discussion on complicated cases will be held.
Hockey Player

Return to Play

A panel of Upper Peninsula experts will present on the continuum of care in concussion from being sidelined to returning to sports action.  A discussion on concussions in the youth athlete will also take place later in the day.
Boy and Soccer Ball

Concussions and Youths

Dr. Alexis Wolfe will lead a discussion regarding the diagnosis and treatment of concussions in the very young athlete.
Keynote Speaker

Mark LovellNMU alumnus Mark R. Lovell, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized sports concussion expert and founding director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sports Medicine Concussion Program. The program is the first and largest program of its kind to both clinically manage and scientifically study the neurocognitive effects of sports-related concussion and develop better methods of post-concussion evaluation to determine when it is safe for an athlete to return to sports following a concussion.  Dr. Lovell developed and implemented league-wide neurocognitive testing for both the National Football League and the National Hockey League during the 1990s. 

Meet the Summit Faculty

U.P. Standard of Care
U.P.Summit participants will be involved in discussion of key issues in implementing a standard of care in the UP resulting in development.  This feature will be moderated by Jan Hillman of Marquette General Health System.  Discussion points will include resources currently available, individual organization’s current policies and procedures, and use of technology.

Summit Vendors

Vendor speakingA wide variety of vendor displays will be available during the summit.  Participants are encouraged to browse the vendor displays during the morning registration period (7:30-8 a.m.), during the two breaks (9 a.m. and 1:45 p.m.), during lunch (noon) and at the conclusion of the presentations (4:15 p.m.).