The 29th Annual National Neurotrauma Society Symposium

描述（申请人提供）：一年一度的国家神经创伤学会（NNTS）研讨会构成了世界范围内交流创伤性脑损伤和脊髓损伤领域信息的主要论坛，在此申请中，PI为20名最好的博士前和博士后学生寻求资金支持参加会议，2000美元用于部分资助30名受邀发言者的旅费。2011年，NNTS将与美国神经外科医生协会、国际脑损伤协会和美国神经科学护士协会的创伤科共同主办会议。这一前所未有的外联活动将为会议带来真正的多学科层面，从而涵盖创伤性脑损伤和脊髓损伤的范围，从急性伤后事件到康复、再生和修复。PI将包括一个公共宣传会议，由当地体育传奇人物主持，针对初中和高中学生，鼓励他们观看海报，并由患者幸存者和学生补助金获得者教授。重点将包括关于临床SCI试验伦理学的会议，爆炸伤建模，TBI老化，以及体育和军事中的累积/重复TBI。通过这种方式，PI将继续鼓励妇女和少数民族进入神经创伤领域，并促进整个神经创伤护理连续体的研究。 公共卫生相关性：在美国，超过150万例新的创伤性脑损伤病例出现在急诊室，每年有超过50，000人死亡。此外，在美国，每120个家庭中就有一个在照顾一名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，神经创伤是世界上45岁以下人群死亡和残疾的最大原因。神经创伤残疾的社会成本每年超过500亿美元。国家神经创伤学会会议是传播该领域研究信息的首要全球论坛，2011年会议将由3个专业学会共同主办，因此，所介绍的神经创伤研究范围将涵盖急性护理、病理生理学、再生和修复以及神经创伤老化。

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.