Integrating, Educating, and Implementing Systems of Care Around Brain Health - Part 1

In part one of this two-part series, recorded at this year's AAN Annual Meeting, Dr. Gregg Day talks with Drs. Joel Salinas and Sarah Song about the evolving landscape of brain health, practical approaches to incorporating brain health assessments into routine care, and the importance of collaboration across specialties.

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Disclosures can be found at Neurology.org.    Show transcript: 

Dr. Jose Merino:
This is Jose Merino, editor-in-chief of the Neurology Family of Journals. The Neurology Podcast provides practical information to neurologists and other clinicians to help them provide better care for their patients. Thanks for listening and have a great week.

Dr. Gregg Day:
Hello, this is Gregg Day from Mayo Clinic, and welcome to this special conversation. Today's episode was recorded live at the Brain Health Hub during this year's AAN Annual Meeting in Chicago. Because it was recorded on site, the audio may sound a little different from our usual episodes, but bear with us because it's absolutely worth it. In this conversation, our panel explores the evolving landscape of brain health, including growing use of wearables, digital tools, direct to consumer tests, and artificial intelligence. We discuss how neurologists can help patients to navigate brain age scores, consumer health data, and emerging technologies while integrating brain health into everyday clinical care. This panel discussion is totally aligned with AAN's mission of bringing brain health to all, and on point with the release of brainhealth.com, AAN's new website, bringing together our resources for clinical practice and for research in this space. We hope you enjoy this panel discussion as much as we enjoyed recording it.
We appreciate people joining this special session on integrating, educating, and implementing systems of care around brain health for the practicing neurologist. I've got a great team of practicing neurologists here as well. We're looking forward to sharing some of this discussion with lots of opportunities for questions as well. And we're going to kick into the contact right away. I'm Gregg Day. I'm a behavioral neurologist at Mayo Clinic in Florida. I'm joined by Joel Salinas and Sarah Song. I'm going to let them introduce themselves and then I'll provide a bit of scope for our discussion.

Dr. Joel Salinas:
Great. Thank you, Gregg. So I'm Joel Salinas. I'm a behavioral neurologist, and then I'm also a clinical associate professor of neurology at NYU Langone Health.

Dr. Sarah Song:
My name is Sarah Song. I'm a stroke neurologist here at Rush University in Chicago, and my favorite job is at the editor-in-chief of Brain and Life, soon to be brainhealth.com.

Dr. Gregg Day:
Over the past few years, the AAN has definitely taken a clear and very intentional position. Brain health is part of the central nervous system of our academy. It is not meant to be on the periphery, and it's going to become increasingly central to what we do in our practice. And so along with that call, we're really seeing this shift in our field being called to move beyond simply episodic disease management towards a launch of a comprehensive brain health platform and a development of a shared definition of brain health, which we want to conceptualize as this continuous state of attaining and maintaining optimal neurological function to meet the needs of our patients. So this vision raises some real questions in clinical practice. What does preventive neurology look like when we integrate it into our clinic visit? How do we integrate health screening into the clinic visit?
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