M-RISE on the Road: Resuscitation Science Symposium Draws Top-of-the-Field Experts

The two-day international stand-alone conference drew in thousands of clinicians and researchers alike to participate in discussions on recent advances related to treating cardiopulmonary arrest and life-threatening traumatic injury.

Michigan Resuscitation Innovation and Science Enterprise (M-RISE), a new Michigan Medicine research program focused on preventing brain damage caused by cardiac arrest, had a strong presence at the conference, with several project leaders participating. It was also an optimal time for M-RISE leadership to mingle and showcase the fresh M-RISE fellowship opportunities and recent advances in research.

“We utilized the conference to network with trainees and to highlight work on new neuroprotective therapies to improve outcomes in cardiac arrest,” said Robert Neumar, MD, PhD, professor and chair of Emergency Medicine at Michigan Medicine and M-RISE director.

Highlights from the conference include:

  • Jennifer Fowler, M-RISE Program Manager, attended a special CPR Training Event at Philadelphia City Hall to welcome CPR science leaders and celebrate public survivors the Friday before ReSS.

  • Tulasi Ram Jinka, DVM, PhD won one of the 2019 Best Abstract Awards in the category of Trauma Resuscitation Science for his presentation “High-Dose Intranasal Insulin During CPR Improves Neurological Outcomes in a Rat Model of Cardiac Arrest,”. Dr. Jinka was also one of six contestants on the American Heart Association Council on Cardiopulmonary, Critical Care, Perioperative and Resuscitation (3CPR) Shark Tank competition where young investigators presented their ideas to win mentorship funding to visit the chosen mentor’s lab to help develop their research.

  • Robert Neumar, MD, PhD presented a Year-In-Review to highlight all the key studies in cardiac arrest last year, and was a shark in the 3CPR Council Shark Tank competition, in which he was a chosen shark by competition winner Alexis Steinberg, MD (one of three winners of mentorship funding to visit their chosen mentor’s lab and a Neurology Critical Care fellow from Pittsburgh).

  • Cindy H. Hsu, MD, PhD presented a poster on “Dose Optimization of Early High-Dose Valproic Acid for Neuroprotection after Cardiac Arrest,” She also moderated the Post Arrest Cardiac Interventions panel, and attended the Women in Resuscitation Networking Meeting and the 3CPR Reception and Networking Event. 

  • Thomas H. Sanderson, PhD and Joseph Wider, PhD presented their project poster,“Noninvasive Mitochondrial Modulation: Neuroprotection in a Translational Model of Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation”.

  • William Meurer, MD, MS and Robert Silbergleit, MD led a meeting focusing on the ICECAP study. The Influence of Cooling Duration on Efficacy In Cardiac Arrest Patients study will enroll comatose adult survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest that have already been rapidly cooled using a definitive temperature control method.  

  • Steven Kronick, MD, MS presented a poster on lidocaine vs amiodarone outcome of in-hospital cardiac arrest from the Get With the Guideline Registry. 

  • Mashid Abir, MD displayed a project poster of “Defining System of Care Best Practices for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival.”

  • Robert A. Swor, MD of Oakland University William Beaumont and M-RISE Collaborator moderated the talk Concurrent A: Measuring Ischemia Reperfusion Injury and Prognostication.

 
 

ReSS is sponsored by the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee and the 3CPR Council. Next year’s ReSS will be in Dallas, Texas November 14-15.

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