8th Annual Acute Stroke Symposium

September 19, 2025

The Eighth Annual Acute Neurovascular Symposium is designed to provide the most recent advances in stroke care for nurses and health care providers including physical, occupational, and speech therapists. This event is held annually to assist with educational requirements of nurses and to provide education to health care professionals who care for stroke patients. The faculty of experts will present stroke research, didactic training, and case presentations on Acute Stroke Care.
 

Target Audience

This one-day symposium is geared toward nurses, physicians, EMS, therapists, and other health care professionals who provide neurology, emergency medicine,
neurosurgery, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and cognitive therapy services to patients from pre- through post-acute stroke.

Learning Objectives

  • The participant will be able to recognize neurosurgical emergencies, use of EVD’s, understand decompressive surgeries and surgical management for ICH. 
  • Explain the pathophysiology, risk factors, and timing of post stroke seizures and describe evidence based strategies for diagnosis and management to optimize patient recovery and quality of life. 
  • Explore emerging evidence that broadens the use of thrombolysis - including IV thrombolytic therapy beyond the traditional 4.5 hour window, treatment considerations for patients on DOAC, and the safety and efficacy of intra-arterial thrombolytics alongside endovascular therapy.
  • General Anesthesia vs conscious sedation and understand M2 occlusions
  • Essential 8 must hit below more; New evidence for glycogen like protein-1 receptor agonist use, risks, changes with d/c; Statin criteria and risks, PSCK9 Inh, new med options
  • Identify and discuss internal and community resources available to support patients across the continuum of care including rehab, hospital services and palliative vs hospice care.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 6.75 AAPA Category I CME
  • 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 6.75 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 6.75 ASWB
  • 6.75 Attendance
Course opens: 
08/04/2025
Course expires: 
12/31/2025
Event starts: 
09/19/2025 - 7:00am EDT
Event ends: 
09/19/2025 - 5:00pm EDT
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UPMC Altoona G Building
2nd floor Multipurpose Room
Altoona, PA
United States

Faculty Disclosure:

No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers, and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education 
activity have relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients to disclose


In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
 

Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is6.75 contact hours.

Physician Assistant (AAPA)
The University of Pittsburgh has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 6.75 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.  

Social Work 
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 6.75 general continuing education credits 

Other Healthcare Professionals: Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity. 

Available Credit

  • 6.75 AAPA Category I CME
  • 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 6.75 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 6.75 ASWB
  • 6.75 Attendance

Thank you to our exhibitors:

Cerenovus
CSL Behring
Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Altoona
Genentech
Penumbra
Pfizer
Select Specialty Hospital _Johnstown
STAT MedEvac
Stryker
UPMC Home Healthcare and Family Hospice

Please login or register to take this course.

Registration includes:
• Free registration
• Continuing education credit
• Light breakfast and lunch
• Virtual registrants will be provided a link for the meeting in September. (This link is specific for YOU. Please do not share the link.)

Cancellation Policy:
All cancellations should be made by Sept. 12, 2025. 
To cancel your registration, please notify Stephanie Warmath [email protected] or Morgan Hershey [email protected]

The UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences reserves the right to cancel this program if sufficient registrations are not received.