Total Credits: 3 CLE, 3 Estate & Trust Law Specialization, 3 Family Law Specialization, 3 Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation Specialization, 3 Workers' Compensation Law Specialization
At long last, a CLE program that explains and demonstrates neurological assessment and neurodiagnostic testing. In-person attendees will even have the opportunity to look at and try out vestibular-ocular and cognitive testing equipment. Sports Neurologist and TBI specialist Dr. Allison Gray, Neurophysiologist and TBI specialist Dr. Adam Di Dio, and Speech Language Pathologist and cognitive therapist Ramya Shyam will explain how neurologists and therapists identify, evaluate, and treat traumatic brain injuries utilizing neurodiagnostic testing. The program will focus on diagnostic measures for analyzing and guiding treatment for traumatic brain injuries. The speakers will review many of the diagnostic methods used for identifying the presence of TBI and explain how they can help to confirm or rule out traumatic brain injury—and where applicable suggest methods for treatment and prognosis. Dr. Gray will cover how traumatic brain injuries are diagnosed, and how various brain imaging modalities can be utilized, including MRI with Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI). Dr. Di Dio will cover various types of vestibular-ocular testing used in the diagnosis of TBI, including oculomotor screening and videonystagmography (VNG), as well as other tests which have been utilized in TBI cases, including qEEG. Ramya Shyam, MS, CCC-SLP will review how different kinds of cognitive testing can be used in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with traumatic brain injuries. Attorney Larry Cohen will serve as mediator and offer suggestions for how to integrate such testing into casework.
You don't want to miss this advanced-level live-only program!
Chair:
Larry J. Cohen, Cohen Law Firm*
Faculty:
Allison R. Gray, MD
Boulder Neurology and Concussion
Broomfield, CO
Adam Di Dio, MD
Infinite Neurology
St. Petersburg, Florida
Ramya Shyam, MS, CCC-SLP
Flatirons Cognitive Therapy
Broomfield, CO
*also faculty
Larry J. Cohen, is a certified specialist in injury and wrongful death litigation who has focused in his more than thirty-three years of law practice on serious medical injury and emotional damages cases, including especially brain injury claims. He received his J.D. from Northwestern University in 1985, and has been admitted to practice in Arizona since 1985. Mr. Cohen also has a Master's degree and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University and has participated in a post-doctoral program in clinical neuropsychology. He continues as a member of the adjunct faculty at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University where he has taught courses in professional responsibility, pretrial practice and professional liability. He taught and did research at the University Michigan School of Law and at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and taught on the adjunct faculties of the Arizona Summit School of Law, the Arizona School of Professional Psychology, thereafter Argosy University, Midwestern University, and Norwich University. Mr. Cohen speaks nationally to groups of lawyers, other professionals, insurance companies, governmental entities, risk managers and other interest groups about litigation and trial practice matters, legal ethics, alternative dispute resolution, and issues in brain damage, law and medicine and law and psychology. He has received awards from the Maricopa County Bar Association, the State Bar of Arizona and the State Bar of New Mexico for excellence in continuing legal education. He also received a President's Award from the State Bar of Arizona for contributions in continuing legal education. He has for many years been listed by Southwest Super Lawyers and Arizona's Finest Lawyers as among the best lawyers in Arizona and has been was recognized by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel as among the top one percent of lawyers in the United States.
Mr. Cohen may be reached at the following addresses:
Larry J. Cohen, Esq.
Cohen's Counsel
P.O. Box 465
Bethel, Vermont 05032
602-405-4022
802-234-6984
ljc@cohenscounsel.com
ljc@ljcohen.com
