Bill Coplin, MD Co-chair

Daryl Gress, MD Co-chair

Marek Mirski, MD

Wade Smith, MD

John Terry, MD

Carole Thomas, MD

Paul Vespa, MD

Adrian A. Jarquin-Valdivia, MD

 

The Accreditation Committee was originally charged with developing specific guidelines for fellowship and detailing necessary required skill sets. UCNS has assumed responsibility for fellowship program review and accreditation based on those guidelines. The committee will review those skill sets and begin to plan modifications and additions as neurocritical care training evolves. The Committee has been charged with facilitating more uniform structure among fellowship programs specifically related to application and acceptance issues. A subcommittee was formed to deal with these issues. The subcommittee of fellowship directors or program directors facilitated discussion and implementation of procedures to address the concerns of fellows and programs. A successful match program has been established.
 

Wendy Wright, MD Chair

Tamer Abdelhak, MD

David Freeman, MD

Romer Geocadin, MD

Elias Girlado, MD

Panos Varelas, MD

Adam Webb, MD

 

Gene Sung, MD, MPH, Chair

Opeolu Adeoye, MD

Arun Amar, MD
Gretchen Brophy, PharmD, BCPS, FCCP, FCCM

E. Sander Connolly, Jr., MD

Jennifer Frontera, MD

Joshua Goldstein, MD

Galen V. Henderson, MD

Andrew Kofke, MD     

Arthur Lam, MD         

Peter LeRoux, MD

Geoffrey Ling, MD, PhD

Stephan Mayer, MD

Laura H Mcilvoy, PhD, RN, CCRN, CNRN

Chad Miller, MD
Theresa Murphy, PharmD        

J. Javier Provencio, MD

Adnan Qureshi, MD

Claudia Robertson, MD

David Seder, MD        

Michel Torbey, MD, MPH      

Christine Wijman, MD, PhD

Susan Yeager, MS, RN, CCRN, ACNP

 

The Annual Meeting Committee shall consist of the President-Elect (Chair of the committee) and other members chosen by the President-Elect and confirmed by the Board. This committee will plan the annual NCS meeting by coordinating the scientific program, review course, and obtaining speakers for all programs. The committee will work with the Fundraising Committee in an effort to raise funds, which will support the annual meeting.    

 

Cherylee Chang, MD Chair

Jose Suarez, MD Vice-Chair

Neeraj Badjatia, MD

Ed Manno, MD

Walter Koroshetz, MD

Paul Nyquist, MD

J. Javier Provencio, MD

Michael Souter, MD

John Terry, MD

Perry Ball, MD

 

Committee members are also approved by the Certification Council of the United Council of Neurological Subspecialties (UCNS) and serves as the writing committee for the UCNS Neurocritical Care Certification Examination. The committee works with the UCNS staff and its vendors who provide metric support for the test (currently, Measurement Research Associates, Inc of Chicago (MRA)). Utilizing the core curriculum, the committee writes test items for the examination using the test specifications as set by the UCNS and MRA. 

 

The committee also supplies to the UCNS supporting documentation and rationale for answers based on basic knowledge or current guidelines/literature support. The committee assists the UCNS to determine the norm or standards utilized to interpret tests. The committee amends and revises the test and the test items as determined by the performance of that item on the previous examination and as new knowledge is generalized in the literature and by published, established professional guidelines. 

 

Lori Shutter, MD Chair

Mary Kay Bader, MSN, RN, CCRN, CNRN

Rodney Bell, MD

Gretchen Brophy, MD

Dea Mahanes, RN, MSN, CCRN, CNRN, CCNS

Javier Provencio, MD

Gene Sung, MD

 

Guidelines Steering Committee Mission Statement: The purpose of the NCS Guidelines Steering Committee is to direct the development of specialty appropriate clinical management guidelines. The committee will strive to obtain diversity among the identified topic experts to facilitate a thorough review of the available evidence. Guidelines produced through the efforts of this committee will be based on the best current medical evidence and expert opinions.

 

Guidelines Steering Committee Description: The NCS Guideline Steering Committee will determine topics suitable for guideline development, identify key experts in the chosen topic, facilitate the development of ‘best practice’ clinical management guidelines, and review the final document. The committee will organize expert panels to address controversial issues as needed. In addition, they will coordinate approval of any final document with the Neurocritical Care Society Board of Directors and determine the appropriate means of distribution to society members.

 

Lori Shutter, MD Chair

Patricia Blissitt, RN, PhD, CCRN, CNRN, CCNS, CCM, APRN, BC

Sandralee Blosser, MD

David Greer, MD

Dea Mahanes, MSN, RN

Owen Samuels, MD

Kiranpal Sangha, PharmD

Michael Souter, MD

 

Gene Y. Sung, MD Chair

Amin Alpesh, MD

Mary Kay Bader, RN, MSN, CCRN, CNRN

Gretchen M. Brophy, PharmD, BCPS, FCCP, FCCM

Ross Bullock, MD, PhD

Filissa Caserta, MSN, CRNP-AC, CNRN

Geoff Ling, MD, Ph.D., COL, MC, USA

Alan Multz, MD

 

Gretchen Brophy, PharmD, BCPS, FCCP, FCCM Chair

Brian Alldredge, PharmD

Thomas Bleck, MD, FCCM

Jan Claassen, MD

Suzette LaRoche, MD

Rodney Bell, MD

Michael Sperling, MD

David Treiman, MD

Paul Vespa, MD, FCCM

 

Jose Suarez, MD Chair

Salvador Cruz-Flores, MD

Jennifer Frontera, MD

Romergryko Geocadin, MD

Carmelo Graffagnino, MD

Christiana Hall, MD

Walter Koroshetz, MD

Peter LeRoux, MD

Stephan Mayer, MD

Marek Mirski, MD, PhD

DaiWai Olson, PhD, RN

Gail Pyne-Geithman

David Seder, MD

Paul Vespa, MD

Christine Wijman, MD

Osama Zaidat, DVM

Wendy Ziai, MD

 

The goal of this committee is the creation, maintenance, and execution of a Neurocritical Care Clinical Trials Network (or Consortium). This is in line with the NIH roadmap effort to reengineer the clinical research enterprise (Zerhouni E. Medicine. The NIH Roadmap.Science 2003; 302:63-72). 

 

Dave Seder MD, Chair

Salvador Cruz-Flores MD

Romergryko Geocadin MD

Carmelo Graffagnino MD

Stephan Mayer MD

Jose I Suarez MD

Christine Wijman MD

 

Cherylee Chang, MD Co-chair

Stephan Mayer, MD Co-chair

William Coplin, MD

Jeffrey Frank, MD

Ed Manno, MD

Guy Rordorf, MD

Jose Suarez, MD

Paul Vespa, MD

Carmen Graffagnino, MD

 

Cherylee Chang, MD

Romergryko Geocadin, MD

Christiana Hall, MD

J. Claude Hemphill, III, MD

Ed Manno, MD

Stephan Mayer, MD

Gene Sung, MD, MPH
Paul Vespa, MD

Eelco Wijdicks, MD (Ex-officio)

Thomas Bleck, MD (Ex-officio)

 

The Executive Committee shall consist of the President, President-elect, Treasurer, Secretary, and up to three other Board members chosen by the President and confirmed by the Board.

 

Paul Vespa, MD Chair

Cherylee Chang, MD

Michael DeGeorgia, MD

Michael Diringer, MD

Martha Eggleston, RN, MS, CCRN, CNS

J. Claude Hemphill, III, MD

Michael L. James, MD

Emanuela Keller, MD

George A. Lopez, MD

Stephan Mayer, MD
Gene Sung, MD

Panayiotis Varelas, MD

 

The Fundraising Committee shall consist of a Chair, appointed by the President from the Board members, two other Board members, and two other members of society, to be confirmed by the Board. The Committee seeks to promote excellence in patient care, education, research, multidisciplinary professional collaboration, and to foster the growth of our specialty by seeking support for the Annual Meeting from vendors.   

International Committee:
Katja E. Wartenberg, Germany (Chair)
Guadalupe Castillo Abrego, Puerto Rico
Med Jafri Malin Abdullah, Malaysia
Marco Brizzi, Sweden
Maxwell Damian, United Kingdom
Edgar Avalos Herrera, Guatemala
Emanuela Keller, Switzerland
Yakup Krespi, Turkey
Michael A. Kuiper, Netherlands
Liping Liu, China
Johnny K. Lokin, Philippines
Marcelo Duarte Magalhães, Brazil
Olga Helena Hernandez Ortiz, Colombia
Konstantin A. Popugaev, Russia
Khalid Shukri, Saudi Arabia
Vera Spatenkova, Czech Republic
Walter Videtta, Argentina

The mission of the International Committee is to spread out the NCS international representation and influence in the period of evolution of neurocritical care by increasing the number of non US members, facilitating the development of individual country’s neurocritical care programs, and making the NCS more accessible worldwide. This includes medical education, membership support, practice guidelines, and participation in NCS activities.

Nominating Committee:
Cherylee Chang, MD Chair
Venkatesh Aiyagari, MD
Mary Kay Bader, MSN, RN, CCRN, CNRN
Neeraj Badjatia, MD
Andrew Kofke, MD

The Nominating Committee shall consist of a chair, selected by the President from among the directors, two other members of the Board, and two society members not on the Board; all to be confirmed by the Board. No member of the Nominating Committee can stand for election while they are a member of the Nominating Committee.

 

Daiwai Olson, PhD, RN, Chair
Anne Alexandrov, PhD, APRN, CCRN, FAAN

Mary Kay Bader, MSN, RN, CCRN, CNRN

Cynthia Bautista, PhD, RN, CNRN
Mark Favors

Stephanie Gillespie

Linda Kovitch, MSN, CRNA, RRT
Sarah Livesay, MSN, RN

Dea Mahanes, MSN, RN

Molly McNett, PhD, RN

Jessica Riddell

Elaine Skalabrin, MD

Angel Sostre

Jon Wheiler

Susan Yeager, RN

 

The Nursing Committee shall consist of a chair, selected by the President, and other society members as nominated and voted on. The committee will represent neurologic nursing perspective to the Neurocritical Care Society by participating in board and annual meetings. 

 

Owen Samuels, MD Chair
Michael Diringer, MD

Sarah Livesay, MSN, RN

Eileen Maloney, MSN, ACNP-BC

Eelco Wijdicks, MD Editor-in-Chief

 

The Publications Committee works directly with Humana/Springer in the development of the Neurocritical Care Journal.

 

Romergryko Geocadin, MD Chair

Ashok Devasenapathy, MD

Jennifer Frontera, MD

Matthew Koenig, MD

Robert Kowalski, MD

Sarah Livesay, MSN, RN

Stephan Mayer, MD

Suzanne Muehlschleger, MD

Denise Rhoney, PharmD, FCCP, FCCM

Lori Shutter, MD

Jose Suarez, MD

Wendy Wright, MD

Susan Yeager, MS, RN, CCRN, ACNP

 

The Website/Newsletter Committee will oversee and maintain the content of the NCS website. Members of this committee will act as section editors of the website and add/revise content as they see appropriate and necessary. The committee is also responsible for the content of the NCS newsletter, which is distributed four times per year and is posted on the website. 

 

(Discussion Forum, Cases Presentation, Protocols Page)

Jennifer Frontera, MD Chair