Total Credits: 2.75 CLE, 2.75 Estate & Trust Law Specialization, 2.75 Family Law Specialization, 2.75 Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation Specialization, 2.75 Workers' Compensation Law Specialization
At long last, a CLE program that explains and demonstrates neurological assessment and neurodiagnostic testing. 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.
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
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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
Dr. Gray is a Board Certified Neurologist and Brain Injury Specialist, originally from the Boston area. She trained in medicine and Neurology in the Northeast, completing her residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She went on to complete fellowship training in Sports Neurology and Concussion in the Boston area, working with athletes at all levels of play, including professional boxers, MMA fighters, and football players, and NCAA collegiate athletes, as well as high school athletes. She moved to Colorado with her family in 2015. Dr. Gray became a physician to help improve the lives of her patients and their families. She feels very grateful every day to have the privilege to participate in the care of her patients and their families dealing with neurological problems.
Dr. Adam Di Dio earned his medical degree at the SUNY Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, New York, and completed his Neurology residency at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. Following his residency, he completed a fellowship in Neurophysiology and Neuromuscular disease, also at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Di Dio moved to private practice in 2006 and served a two-year stint as the Chief of Medicine at the Bayfront Medical Center, a major level 2 Trauma center. Through the National Football League (NFL), he has evaluated over 150 retired professional athletes for closed head injuries and concussion-related deficits. Dr. Di Dio remains an active member of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and regularly attends national and international meetings on traumatic brain injury.
Ramya Shyam, M.S., CCC-SLP, is the owner of Flatirons Cognitive Therapy. She grew up in Connecticut and completed her undergraduate degree at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. She went on to complete a Master of Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, an affiliate of Mass General Brigham.
Ramya has worked in private practice since 2010, specializing in the assessment and treatment of individuals who have experienced cognitive-linguistic changes due to concussion, mild-moderate traumatic brain injury, stroke, dementia, various neurological diseases (e.g., multiple sclerosis), and chemotherapy. She is also skilled in helping teenagers and adults with ADHD or executive functioning difficulties. She completed several graduate-level courses in Special Education and has a background in teaching students ages 7-18.
Ramya has expertise working with individuals who have had concussive injuries and has collaborated with neurologists, orthopedic physical therapists, physiatrists, vestibular physical therapists, chiropractors, neuro-optometrists, and psychologists over the years to ensure that patients get the best care. Even if she is not the person you need to see, she can typically provide guidance to help you get the care you need.
In her spare time, Ramya enjoys spending time with her family, volunteering in her children’s schools, lifting weights, reading, and traveling to new places. Her favorite trip was to Peru, where she hiked the Inca Trail.
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