The 29th Annual National Neurotrauma Society Symposium

描述(由申请者提供)：国家神经创伤学会(NNTS)年度研讨会是全球范围内在创伤性脑和脊髓损伤领域交流信息的主要论坛，在这项申请中，PIS寻求资金支持20名最优秀的博士后和博士后参加会议，并寻求10,000美元用于部分支持30名受邀演讲者的旅行。2011年，NNTS将与美国神经外科医生协会创伤科、国际脑损伤协会和美国神经科学护士协会共同主办这次会议。这种史无前例的外展程度将为会议带来真正的多学科层面，从而将涵盖从急性创伤后事件到恢复、再生和修复的创伤性脑损伤和脊髓损伤的范围。PI将包括一个公共外展会议，由当地一位体育传奇人物主持，针对初中生和高中生，他们将被鼓励观看海报，并将由患者幸存者和学生助学金获得者授课。亮点将包括关于临床脊髓损伤试验的伦理、冲击伤建模、脑损伤的老化以及累积/重复脑损伤的会议，在体育和军事中。通过这种方式，私人投资机构将继续鼓励妇女和少数族裔进入神经创伤领域，并促进整个神经创伤护理的研究。 与公共卫生相关：美国有超过150万新的创伤性脑损伤病例出现在急诊室，每年有超过5万人死亡。此外，在美国，每120个家庭中就有一个在照顾残疾的神经创伤幸存者。每年大约有12,000例新的脊髓损伤发生。因此，对于45岁以下的人来说，神经创伤是造成死亡和残疾的最大原因。每年，神经创伤致残的社会成本超过500亿美元。国家神经创伤学会会议是传播这一领域研究信息的主要全球论坛，对于2011年的会议，3个专业学会将共同主办会议，因此，提出的神经创伤研究范围将涵盖急性护理、病理生理学、再生和修复以及伴随神经创伤的老龄化。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The annual National Neurotrauma Society (NNTS) Symposium constitutes the major forum worldwide for exchanging of information in the fields of both traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, and in this application, the PIs seek funding support for the 20 best pre- and post-doctoral students to attend the meeting, and $10,000 towards partial support for the travel of 30 invited speakers. In 2011, the NNTS will co-host the meeting with the trauma section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the International Brain Injury Association, and the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses. This unprecedented degree of outreach will introduce a truly multidisciplinary dimension to the meeting, which will thus span the spectrum of TBI and SCI from acute post-injury events to rehabilitation and regeneration and repair. The PIs will include a public outreach session, hosted by a local sports legend, and aimed at middle and high school students, who will be encouraged to view the posters, and who will be taught by patient survivors, and by the student grant awardees. Highlights will include sessions on the ethics of clinical SCI trials, blast injury modeling, ageing with TBI, and cumulative/repetitive TBI, in sports and the military. In this way, the PIs will continue to encourage women and minorities into the neurotrauma field, and foster research across the continuum of neurotrauma care. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Over 1.5 million new cases of traumatic brain injury present to emergency rooms in the United States and over 50,000 die each year. Moreover, one in every 120 families in the United States is caring for a disabled neurotrauma survivor. Approximately 12,000 new spinal cord injuries occur each year. Thus, neurotrauma is the largest cause of death and disability, for persons under 45 years of age, in the world. The societal costs of the neurotrauma disabilities exceed $50 billion per year. The National Neurotrauma Society Meeting is the premier worldwide forum for dissemination of research information in this field, and for the 2011 meeting, 3 professional societies will co-host the meeting, such that the spectrum of neurotrauma research presented will span acute care, pathophysiology, regeneration and repair, and ageing with neurotrauma.