Neuropalliative Care Research Webinar Series
The International Neuropalliative Care Society (INPCS) is pleased to announce the continuation of our monthly recurring Neuropalliative Care Research Webinar Series.
Our next event will take place on Tuesday, May 20th at 11am (US-Eastern) where we will be joined by Dr. Alexander Presiutti, who will present a webinar entitled, "Results from a multi-site open pilot trial of a mindfulness-based resilience intervention for caregivers of patients with severe acute brain injury: The Coma Family Program".
Webinar/research description:
Dr. Alexander Presciutti will discuss exciting findings from the Coma Family Program (COMA-F), a multi-site collaboration with Drs. David Hwang (University of North Carolina) and Melissa Motta (University of Maryland). COMA-F is a novel mindfulness-based resilience intervention for caregivers of patients with severe acute brain injury. Caregivers engaged in the 6-week program which taught skills on managing the acute stress, uncertainty, and burn out associated with the caregiving role. In this webinar, Dr. Presciutti will discuss how fostering collaboration between neurocritical care clinical teams and research staff led to successful delivery of the trial. He will also report on feasibility, acceptability, and exit interview data, as well as preliminary effects of the intervention.
Alexander Presciutti, PhD, MSCS, is a clinical psychologist in the Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research at Massachusetts General Hospital and a junior faculty member at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on developing behavioral interventions for neurocritical care patient populations (particularly cardiac arrest and stroke) and their family caregivers. He is an MPI of a Neurocritical Care Foundation INCLINE award which supported development of COMA-F and PI of an NCCIH K23 grant aimed at developing a dyadic intervention for cardiac arrest survivors and their caregivers.
Webinars in the series will consist of a presentation followed by an open Q&A and group discussion, with the webinar lasting an hour in total.
The objective of these one-hour online webinars is to:
- Provide both junior and well-established neuropalliative care investigators an opportunity to obtain feedback on research across varying stages of development, from initial idea to funding applications and publications.
While the primary target audience is researchers and health care providers, interested patients and family caregivers are also welcome to attend.
Additional details are described in Frequently Asked Questions or please email info@inpcs.org.
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Sincerely,
Darin Zahuranec
Co-Chair, INPCS Research Committee
Caroline Crooms
Research Webinar Subcommittee
Andrew Huang
Research Webinar Subcommittee
