Postdoc Seminar in Innovative Teaching: Code stroke: a race against the clock

Date: 

Wednesday, January 29, 2020, 7:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge MA.

Every 40 seconds someone has a stroke. 795,000 people will have a stroke this year. 1 in 6 people will suffer a stroke in their lifetime. Each year 55,000 more women will have a stroke than men. However, 80% of strokes are preventable by controlling and treating the risk factors. 

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Could you be able to make the decisions that emergency teams make when they face a stroke patient? Could you identify which are the risk factors that have contributed to its appearance? Would you be able to identify the symptoms if you were suffering a stroke? Could you decide the course of treatment for a patient when the drug is so dangerous that could lead to the death of the patient? Time runs, in neurology time is not money, time is BRAIN.

Teaching methods have evolved throughout last decades. In order to learn the different possibilities that Innovative Teaching offers, this seminar will explore how each field can provide ideas that can be applied in other areas. In this way, both participants and assistants will improve their knowledge concerning to how to teach and how to create a better environment in the class, in which students play a more dynamic role. These activities will be held mainly by predoc and postdoc fellows of RCC. 

Speaker: Violeta Durán Laforet, Fellow at the Neuroprotection Research Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University; PhD candidate at Department of Pharmacoloy at Complutense University of Madrid.

Sponsors: RCC; Postdocs@RCC