Mary Greeley Medical Center Grand Rounds is a multi-disciplinary clinical activity which serves to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships that a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public or the profession.  

Target Audience

Physicians, mid-level providers, nurses and healthcare administrators.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the development of the concept of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), its current status and limitations, and the implications for patient care and prevention.
2. Describe the evolving clinical and neuropathological diagnostic criteria for CTE.
3. Understand the proposed neurobiological mechanisms that link exposure to repeated head injury with the clinical syndrome characterized by progressive changes in behavior, emotion, and cognition.

Speaker(s)

Steven W. Anderson, MA, PhD
Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics

Disclosures

Speaker(s)

• Dr. Anderson has nothing to disclose regarding financial relationships with any commercial entities, commercial companies providing support for this program, or any commercial manufacturers of products and/or the providers of services discussed in this presentation.

CME Committee

• No member of the Mary Greeley Medical Center CME Committee who planned this activity has any financial relationship to disclose relating to the content. 

This program is supported by gifts to the Mary Greeley Medical Center Foundation from Mary Greeley Medical Center, McFarland Clinic, First American Bank, and Green Hills Health Care Center. The content and selection of speaker(s) is the responsibility of the Mary Greeley Medical Center for Continuing Medical Education Committee and not the sponsors of this program.