The ANA-Persyst IDEAS (Inclusion/Diversity/Equity/Anti-Racism/Social Justice) Professional Development Award is the result of a shared organizational mission between Persyst and the American Neurological Association: to assist people from groups underrepresented in medicine to reach their goals of becoming neuroscience researchers and clinicians.
The ANA-Persyst IDEAS Professional Development Award is meant to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in neurology, for the benefit of the entire field and the patients we serve.
The third award winner for 2024 is Dr. Shawniqua Williams Roberson, M.Eng., M.D.
Dr. Roberson is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University where she works at the intersection of clinical neurophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, engineering and critical care. Her clinical expertise lies in evaluation and management of patients with seizures and epilepsy. Dr. Roberson’s research focus lies in using automated processing of electroencephalography (EEG) signals to probe the neurophysiologic functions supporting consciousness and cognition in humans. Her preliminary studies include analyses of the spatiotemporal dynamics of EEG activity associated with verbal fluency in epilepsy, and those associated with delirium and long-term cognitive impairment among ICU survivors.
The Second Edition of the Atlas of EEG in Critical Care by Dr. Lawrence Hirsch, Dr. Richard Brenner and Dr. Michael Fong is now available.
This Atlas is of particular interest to those in neurology, epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology and for intensivists with an interest in maintaining brain health during critical illness of any etiology and
Over the last 13 years since the First Edition was published in 2010, the volume and variety of patients undergoing continuous EEG (cEEG) monitoring has increased; quantitative EEG (qEEG) has progressed drastically, and its uses in monitoring critically ill patients has expanded.