AINA held a reception and educational program at the International Stroke Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii on February 7, 2019.  After a social reception, there was a presentation by Dr. Maarten Lansberg from Stanford University on current concepts regarding brain perfusion imaging in acute stroke. AINA thanks I-Schema for an educational grant to support this program.

Thanks to all those who were able to attend!

Congratulations to the following two AINA life members who were recently elected as AAN section Chairs:

Neuromuscular section

Raghav Govindarajan, University of Missouri

Interventional Neurology section

Ashutosh Jadhav, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

AINA Neurology Trainee Award

Headed to the International Stroke Conference (ISC) Meeting in early February in beautiful Hawaii? 

We are pleased to have a special keynote speaker for the evening:

Keynote Speaker
Maarten G. Lansberg, MD, PhD
Stanford Stroke Center
Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurological Disorders

Dr. Maarten Lansberg completed his neurology training at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and his neurovascular fellowship at Stanford University. Following fellowship, he joined the faculty of the Department of Neurology at Stanford where he is currently an Associate Professor. Dr Lansberg’s research interest is in the design and conduct of clinical trials to test new methods for diagnosing and treating stroke patients. He has been an investigator on dozens of stroke trials. The primary focus of his research has been on the use of modern imaging techniques for the evaluation of acute stroke. These techniques include diffusion-weighted MRI, perfusion-weighted MRI and CT perfusion. Dr. Lansberg played a lead role in the recently completed DEFUSE 3 trial, which demonstrated that patients selected with MR or CT perfusion imaging benefit from endovascular stroke therapy up to 16 hours after onset.  Dr Lansberg is also the lead investigator on several stroke recovery trials.

Please go to the AINA Website to RSVP you are attending the AINA Stroke Symposium.

The AINA Stroke Symposium is sponsored in part by:

The Tarang is the electronically published newsletter of the Association of Indian Neurologists of America. This is an opportunity to share the work throughout the year with our membership! Have something you are proud of at the local, state or national level? Be sure to share with us that we can include in the Tarang and/or monthly eNews! 

Take a look at the 2018 Tarang Newsletter and previous by clicking here.

On Sunday, December 2nd, the AINA-Epilepsy Section held their meeting in conjunction with the American Epilepsy Society. Approximately 100 people in attendance from the U.S., Canada and India. Information about AINA was shared, along with featured presentations. See below a few photos from the event! Thank you all for coming, and we look forward to future opportunities with all! Special thank you to Dr. Sanjay Singh and Dr. Prakash Kotagal for organizing the event!

AINA held its first reception for the interventional neurology community on November 16, 2018. The reception was held during the Annual meeting of the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN). Thanks to Drs. Sandra Narayanan, Ashutosh Jadhav, and Vishal Jani for helping to organize the event. AINA looks forward to adding the energy of interventional neurologists to the AINA family.

The SVIN society’s mission is to represent the advancement of interventional neurology as a field with the ultimate goal of improving clinical care and outcomes of patients with stroke and cerebrovascular diseases.  Interested members can learn more at https://www.svin.org/m/

More than 100 people applied for the 2018–2019 Emerging Leaders Program. The 16 selected participants started the program in October and will work in two groups on projects assigned by AAN committees, with one group working on “How can the AAN educate residents about practice management issues, including coding and reimbursement?” and the other “How can the AAN develop a framework to score and measure engagement in order to improve the AAN’s member engagement?” At the Annual Meeting, the groups will meet with committee leadership to present their recommendations, which will then be reviewed and prioritized for implementation. Program participants are:

• Neerali S. Bernard, DO, Davis, CA
• Deepa Bhupali, MD, Chicago, IL
• Gregory S. Day, MD, MSc, St. Louis, MD
• William Deeb, MD, Gainesville, FL
• Charles Esenwa, MD, Bronx, NY
• Timothy R. Fullam, MD, Biloxi, MS
• Felicia Gliksman, DO, Hackensack, NJ
• Donna Chandler Graves, MD, Charlotte, NC
• Jamika Hallman-Cooper, MD, Atlanta, GA
• Lynn Kataria, MD, Washington, DC
• Amy Pappas, DO, West Bloomfield, MI
• Payal B. Patel, MD, New Haven, CT
• Aarti Sarwal, MD, FAAN, FNCS, Winston Salem, NC
• Jonathan K. Smith, MD, Cincinnati, OH
• Christopher Tarolli, MD, Rochester, NY
• Rujuta Bhatt Wilson, MD, Los Angeles, CA

Dr Jeyaraj D Pandian is a Professor of Neurology and the Principal of Christian Medical College (CMC), Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He got elected as the Vice-President of World Stroke Organization (WSO) for a two-year term. He is the first Asian to take up this position.

He served two terms as a board of Director of WSO from Asia/Oceania region for 6 years from 2008, and he was the past Chair of World Stroke Campaign International Working Group of WSO. He is a member of the Stroke Research and the WSO Policy committees. He is also in the editorial board of International Journal of Stroke, Journal of Stroke and European Stroke Journal.

During his earlier tenure with WSO he won the bid to host the Xth World Stroke Congress in Hyderabad in the year 2016. He was the Co-chair of Congress which had a huge impact to stroke care in the region. Dr Pandian has made significant contribution to stroke care services in low and middle-income countries. He is the National PI for the newly created Indian Stroke Clinical Trial Network (INSTRuCT).

Several AINA members contributed to the World Stroke Congress in Montreal, Canada Oct 17-20. The roles included invited speakers and oral abstract presenters.

AINA members shared an informal networking dinner. Pictured are (L to R):

Drs. PN Sylaja, Aneesh Singhal, Rohit Bhatia, Dheeraj Khurana, Jeyeraj Pandian, Dileep Yavagal, Pooja Khatri, Seemant Chaturvedi