Aug 7, 2017

Show description/summary:1) Neurology® Clinical Practice: Barriers and Facilitators to ER Physician Use of the Test and Treatment for BPPV2) What’s Trending: New crowd-funding research initiative from ABFIn the first segment, Dr. Jim Siegler talks with Dr. Kevin Kerber and Dr. William Meurer about their Neurology® Clinical Practice article on ER physician use of the test and treatment for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. In the second part of the podcast, Dr. Andy Southerland focuses his interview with Dr. Robert Griggs and Jane Ransom on the new crowd-funding research initiative from the American Brain Foundation. Disclosures can be found at Neurology.org.DISCLOSURES: Dr. Siegler serves on the Resident and Fellow Section Team for Neurology, and has received research support from NIH (U10 StrokeNet grant, 2017-2018).Jane Ransom is Executive Director of the American Brain Foundation.Dr. Kerber received funding for travel from Elsevier Inc. and the American Academy of Neurology; receives royalties from the publication of the book Clinical Neurophysiology of the Vestibular System, 4th edition; is a consultant for the American Academy of Neurology, University of California San Francisco (including work on a project funded by AstraZeneca), and Best Doctors, Inc.; receives research support from the NIH; received speaker honoraria from American Academy of Neurology and University of California San Francisco and loan repayment award from the NIH; reviewed legal records of Phil Pearsons, MD, JD and National Medical Consultants.Dr. Meurer serves as Decision Editor for the Annals of Emergency Medicine; serves as Methodology Statistics Reviewer for Academic Emergency Medicine; and has received research support from the Massey Foundation for TBI research. Dr. Griggs has served on scientific advisory boards for National Hospital Queen Square, Marathon Pharmaceuticals, Taro Pharmaceuticals, and Sarepta Pharmaceuticals; has served on the data monitoring and safety board for PTC Therapeutics, Inc.; serves on the editorial board for NeuroTherapeutics and Current Treatment Opinions in Neurology; serves as Correspondence Editor for Neurology; receives publishing royalties from Andreoli and Carpenter’s Cecil Essentials of Medicine (Eighth Edition, Elsevier), Cecil Textbook of Medicine (multiple editions, Elsevier), and Evaluation and Treatment of Myopathies (2014, Oxford); has consulted for Marathon, PTC Therapeutics, Sarepta, Taro Pharmaceuticals, Idera Pharmaceuticals, and Strongbridge Pharmaceuticals; receives data royalties and research support from Taro Pharmaceuticals and Marathon Pharmaceuticals; has received research support from NINDS (T32 NS07338, 5U01NS061799, 1R13NS084687), the FDA (R01 FD003923), Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, Inc., and the Muscular Dystrophy Association; and is the recent past Chair of Executive Committee of the Muscle Study Group.