Upcoming Events
Join us at one of our upcoming NABI events.
Neurocritical Care Leaders Conference
Date:
April 9 - 11, 2026
Location:
Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX
2nd NABI Conference: NABI-Con 26
Date:
April 8 - 10, 2026
Location:
Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX
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Day 1: Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
Map of the Westin’s 5th Floor Conference Rooms:Day 1: Wednesday, April 8th, 2026 Time Topic Speaker/Facilitator 5:00–6:30 PM Kick-off/Intros/ Welcoming Cocktail hour 6:30–8:30 PM Dinner Service Welcome and Recap Nabi-Con 25 H Alex Choi
Emily Gilmore & Caitlin MorseKeynote Speaker Walter J. Koroshetz Keynote Speaker: Influencing people with your story Nick Demos 8:30 PM Dessert & Drinks The conference will be held in Azure I, and food will be served in the lobby. Verdure is also reserved for our use.
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Day 2 Morning: Thursday, April 9th, 2026
Day 2 Morning: Thursday, April 9th, 2026 Time Topic Speaker/Facilitator 7:30 AM Breakfast 8:20–9:20 AM SAH/ICH Clinical Trials (Gusdon/ Ciryam) 8:20 AM UT FORCE Patrick Ng 8:30 AM Inflammatory Profiling of the CSF in Hemorrhagic Stroke Jessica Magid-Bernstein 8:40 AM A clinical trial for haptoglobin for early cerebral edema in ICH Paul Alan Nyquist 8:50–9:20 AM Discussion (30 min) 9:20–10:20 AM SAH Clinical Trials (Badjatia/Jha) 9:20 AM SAH blood clearance: Flash trial Spiros Blackburn 9:30 AM Magnesium Irrigation and Drainage in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: MIDAS Andrew Carlson 9:40 AM IV Nimodipine for SAH R. Loch Macdonald 9:50–10:20 AM Discussion (30 min) 10:20–10:40 AM Break- Snacks/Refreshments 10:40–11:40 AM SAH/ICH Clinical Trials and Translational (Choi/ Roh) 10:40 AM Auricular Vagal Nerve Stim for SAH Eric Leuthardt 10:50 AM SAH Pharesis Nandan Lad 11:00 AM Glymphatics in ABI and enhancing clearance Eva Sevick 11:10–11:40 AM Discussion (30 min) 11:40–1:10 PM Lunch PES for Aspiration Pneumonia H Alex Choi EMVision Aaron Gusdon -
Day 2 Afternoon: Thursday, April 9th, 2026
Day 2 Afternoon: Thursday, April 9th, 2026 Time Topic Speaker/Facilitator 1:10–2:20 PM Translational/ Spreading Depolarizations (Gilmore/Chung) 1:10 PM TBD Madelaine Paredes 1:20 PM Using SDs as a target mechanism to guide neurocritical care Jed Hartings 1:30 PM cEEG in rodent models SAH John Seymour 1:40 PM Modulation of Spreading Depolarization by Cerebral Acid-Base Status Britta Lindquist 1:50–2:20 PM Discussion (30 min) 2:20–3:40 PM Translational (Gusdon/Pennypacker) 2:20 PM Molecularly Deconstructing Acute Brain Injury Ruchira Jha 2:30 PM Mast Cell Biology Risheng Xu 2:40 PM What is Stress in the Injured Brain? Prajwal Ciryam 2:50 PM Transfusion medicine in intracerebral hemorrhage David Roh 3:00–3:40 PM Discussion (40 min) 3:40–4:00 PM Break- Snacks/Refreshments 4:00–5:20 PM Translational (Lahiri/ Lindquist) 4:00 PM Distinctive single-cell transcriptomic signatures associated with clinical trajectory in LVO stroke Dong-Wan Kang 4:10 PM Gaining Insight into Stroke via Intracranial and Systemic Blood from Thrombectomy Patients Keith Pennypacker 4:20 PM Slim-SAH Aaron Gusdon 4:30 PM Real-time lipid monitoring Juliane Sempionatto 4:40–5:20 PM Discussion (40 min) 5:20–6:30 PM Coma/Cognition (Gilmore/Roh) 5:20 PM How to cure coma David Y Chung 5:30 PM Delirium and Dementia Shouri Lahiri 5:40 PM Beyond Neuroprognostication Sachin Agarwal 5:50 PM Cerebrovascular Morphology and Cognition Pouya Tahsili Fahadan 6:00–6:30 PM Discussion (30 min) 6:30–7:00 PM Cocktails 7:00–9:00 PM Dinner CEO round table Chad Hoskins What is it like working with neurocritical care physicians? Charlie Alvarez -
Day 3: Friday, April 10, 2026
Day 3: Friday, April 10, 2026 Time Topic Speaker/Facilitator 7:30 AM Breakfast 8:30–10:30 AM Wanna starting a company of your own? (Choi) 8:30 AM Device- Aurenar Eric Leuthardt 8:40 AM Device Nandan Lad 8:50 AM Pharmaceutical R. Loch Macdonald 9:00 AM Device and Cellular Therapeutics Charles Cox 9:10 AM Device Caitlin Morse 9:20–10:30 AM Roundtable Discussion 10:30–11:00 AM Additional/Future Directions/Closing Remarks H Alex Choi
Past Events
NABI-Con 25
We successfully hosted NABI-Con 2025 from April 30 to May 2, 2025. Approximately 50 distinguished neurointensivists, scientists, and industry partners from across the United States gathered for in-depth discussions addressing the critical translational gap between basic neuroscience research and clinical neurocritical care. The conference proceedings were published in Translational Stroke Research.
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Day 1: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Day 1: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 Time Topic Speaker/Facilitator 5:00–6:00 PM Kick-off / Intros / Welcoming H Alex Choi, Caitlin Morse NA Cocktail hour, Introduction NA 6:00–7:15 PM Dinner service NA 6:30 PM What is with this conference? And connections with TSR H Alex Choi 6:45 PM Why has translation been so difficult? Jarek Aronowski 7:00 PM Why have we been unsuccessful and what do we need to do differently? R Loch MacDonald 7:15 PM How should we be pursuing novel treatments? James C Grotta 7:30 PM Dessert & Drinks + Q&A interviews with speakers H Alex Choi, Caitlin Morse -
Day 2 Morning: Thursday, May 1st, 2025
Day 2 Morning: Thursday, May 1st, 2025 Time Topic Speaker/Facilitator 7:30 AM Breakfast NA 8:00–9:50 AM AIS / Delirium / Sepsis (Choi / Pouya) 8:00 AM New trial of dual sequential doses of TNK for AIS James C Grotta 8:10 AM Hypothermia for stroke? Neeraj Badjatia 8:20 AM Multi-omic modeling to define therapeutic targets for LVO Keith Pennypacker 8:30–9:00 AM Discussion (30 mins) NA 9:00 AM IL-6 trans- and classical signaling pathways in delirium Shouri Lahiri 9:10 AM Extracorporeal Autocatalytic Hemoperfusion Therapy for Severe Sepsis Han Gil Jeong 9:20 AM Creating Dynamic Maps of the Stroke Microenvironment Neil Nadkarni 9:30–9:50 AM Discussion (20 mins) NA 9:50–10:00 AM Break – Snacks / Refreshments NA 10:00–12:10 AM SAH (Chung / McBride) 10:00 AM scRNAseq for peripheral immune response in acute brain injury Dong-wan Kim 10:10 AM SAH transcriptomics data and the molecular heterogeneity it reveals Boryana Stamova 10:20 AM Lipidomic in SAH Aaron Gusdon 10:30–11:00 AM Discussion (30 mins) NA 11:00 AM Thromboinflammation as a therapeutic target for SAH Devin McBride 11:10 AM Innate inflammation in the meninges in DCI after SAH Javier Provencio 11:20 AM Microglial signaling in SAH Khalid Hanafy 11:30 AM Regulating leukocyte trafficking into the brain to prevent secondary injury Prajwal Ciryam 11:30 AM–12:10 PM Discussion (40 mins) (Cho / Jha) 12:10–1:30 PM Lunch Phagenesis, Serb -
Day 2 Afternoon: Thursday, May 1st, 2025
Day 2 Afternoon: Thursday, May 1st, 2025 Time Topic Speaker/Facilitator 1:30–2:50 PM Novel Devices (Chung / Morse) 1:30 PM Brain-ECMO Interaction / New ECMO system Sung Cho 1:40 PM Intracranial Compliance of the Injured Brain Caitlin Morse 1:50 PM Targeting PSH for Transcutaneous Vagal Nerve Stim after TBI Jamie Podell 2:00 PM Portable Brain Imaging Christian Wight 2:10–2:50 PM Discussion (40 mins) NA 2:50–3:10 PM Break – Snacks / Refreshments NA 3:10–5:00 PM TBI and ICH (Provencio / McBride) 3:10 PM Acid-base status as a risk factor for spreading depolarization in TBI Britta Linquist 3:20 PM Precision Medicine and Host Response in Acute Brain Injuries Ruchira Jha 3:30 PM Targeting ferroptosis in traumatic brain injury Aditya Kumar 3:40–4:10 PM Discussion (30 mins) NA 4:10 PM Laboratory/transfusion medicine approaches in intracerebral hemorrhage David Roh 4:20 PM Anti-NdespR as a target for perihemtomal edema Charlene Ong 4:30–4:50 PM Discussion (20 mins) NA 4:50–5:00 PM Session Close H Alex Choi 6:30 PM Dinner – Sixty Vines (2540 University Blvd, Houston, TX 77005) NA 7:00 PM Successful commercialization of a product into the NeuroICU Bill Worthen 7:30 PM Challenges of bringing new products to market in the NeuroICU Chad Hoskins 8:00 PM Roundtable interview Bill Worthen, Chad Hoskins, Stephan Mayer
Moderated by H Alex Choi, Caitlin Morse, David Chung -
Day 3: Friday, May 2nd, 2025
Day 3: Friday, May 2nd, 2025 Time Topic Speaker/Facilitator 7:30 AM Breakfast NA 8:20–9:50 AM Coma and Neuromonitoring (Morse / Busl) 8:20 AM Neuromonitoring to detect markers of pathology in coma Imad Khan 8:30 AM Dynamic cerebrovascular changes after acute brain injury Pouya Tashli Fahadan 8:40 AM Multiomics reverse translation of medical imaging Paul Nyquist 8:40–9:10 AM Discussion (30 mins) NA 9:10 AM Brain structural connectivity changes after hypoxic ischemic brain injury Ona Wu 9:20 AM How are we going to cure coma? David Chung 9:30–9:50 AM Discussion (20 mins) NA 9:50–10:10 AM Break – Snacks NA 10:10–11:10 AM Clinical Trials (Chung / Badjatia) 10:10 AM Strive On Trial Results H Alex Choi 10:20 AM Practical lessons learned (and continuing to learn) from our SAH trial Katharina Busl 10:30 AM Clazosentan and the Future of Pharmacotherapy for Vasospasm Stephan Mayer 10:40–11:10 AM Discussion (30 mins) NA 11:10–12:00 AM Additional/Future Directions / Closing Remarks H Alex Choi