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Innovation Trends in Technologies for the Prevention, Treatment, and Management of Traumatic Brain Injury: A Workshop

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The development of new tools and technologies, particularly TBI diagnostics, is a promising area of growing excitement and investment. This one-day workshop will review the landscape of innovative technologies targeted at traumatic brain injury prevention, treatment, and recovery management. The meeting will aim to better understand, at a broader level, significant unaddressed needs, areas of recent research and technical progress, near- and mid- term opportunities, and challenges driving TBI innovation, including implementation barriers. Selected examples will be used to concretely illustrate concepts, help emphasize potential opportunities, and highlight common challenges.

Description

A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize and conduct a one-day public workshop to explore the innovation pipeline for new technologies addressing traumatic brain injury (TBI) prevention, treatment, and management. Invited presentations and discussions may be designed to:

  • Discuss how major unmet needs in TBI prevention, treatment, and management may be addressable through technological innovation, with consideration to patient, family, and provider priorities,
  • Consider how ongoing scientific and technical advances are leading to promising innovation opportunities for some aspects of TBI prevention, treatment, and management, while others remain underdeveloped,
  • Consider how implementation needs should be incorporated into the research and development process, and
  • Identify critical knowledge gaps where technology is needed to transform care, particularly with regard to assessing whether, when, and how prevention, treatment, and management approaches improve outcomes over time, and for which patients.

The planning committee will organize the workshop, develop the agenda, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate or identify moderators for the discussions. A proceedings of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.

Collaborators

Committee

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Katherine Bowman

Staff Officer

Sponsors

Abbott Laboratories

American Academy of Nursing

American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

American Association of Neurological Surgeons

American College of Surgeons-Committee on Trauma

American Physical Therapy Association

Brain Injury Association of America

BrainScope

Concussion Legacy Foundation

Department of Defense

Department of Health and Human Services

Department of Transportation

Department of Veterans Affairs

Emergency Nurses Association

National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians

National Collegiate Athletic Association

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research

National Institutes of Health

NeuroTrauma Sciences, LLC

Staff

Katherine Bowman

Lead

KBowman@nas.edu

Chanel Matney

CMatney@nas.edu

Gayatri Somaiya

GSomaiya@nas.edu

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