Minimally Invasive Surgery for Intracerebral Hemorrhage (MIS ICH) Consensus Conference
We would like to welcome you to participate in the Minimally Invasive Surgery Intracranial Hemorrhage Consensus Conference to be held in historic Baltimore, Maryland at Johns Hopkins University in Summer of 2025.
The MIS ICH Consensus Conference will bring together a wide-ranging and comprehensive group of field-leading experts as well as the stroke community at large to define the specific discoveries needed to produce level one evidence regarding the possible value of MIS.
Our internationally recognized key opinion leaders and trialists across the full spectrum of current and past pivotal ICH trials are ready to welcome you to the discussion with the single goal of defining what is needed to promote practice change in utilizing MIS for ICH patients.
Conference participants will help define community equipoise for the entire stroke community and articulate the potential for broadest participation in both the large trial and the platform trial pathways. We envision success if the trial data required for MIS ICH practice change can be accepted by the broadest possible community of stroke physicians and researchers and implemented in the next pivotal trial that enrolls participants to a range of techniques.
Sessions: Date TBD
Baltimore, MD (venue TBD)
Why You Should Attend
Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) is a major public health problem worldwide without a proven treatment. The role of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for treatment of ICH is well studied across many individual trials but lacks a joint community approach.
At the MIS ICH Consensus Conference, you’ll join a diverse group of leaders and trialists from current and past pivotal ICH trials with the goal of defining what is needed to promote practice change in using MIS for ICH patients. Attendees will help define equipoise for the entire stroke community and harmonize strategies for a large, definitive trial to potentially bring MIS into practice by changing guidelines.
Conference Vision
We envision success if the trial data required for MIS ICH practice change can be accepted by the broadest possible community of stroke physicians and if this group is willing to initiate a trial or multiple trials within a platform enrolling from a pool of all eligible participants.
Sessions and Speakers
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Fellow Application
MIS ICH fellowship awards will cover the registration fee for up to 8 young scientists and rising researchers from diverse backgrounds to support their attendance and ensure inclusion of their unique perspectives in this consensus conference.
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Travel, Lodging, Local Transportation
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Getting Here
By air via Baltimore/Washington International Airport
By rail to Baltimore’s Pennsylvania Station on Amtrak’s Northeast corridor
Getting Around
You can hop on the free Charm City Circulator buses, use a ride share app, take advantage of the public bus/metro/light rail network, or even try the water taxi.
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Where to Stay
Locations near venue, TBD
Accessibility
The conference planners are committed to supporting access needs and will provide audio recordings, captioning, sign language interpretation, and dietary accommodations. Please indicate these needs during registration.
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Child and Adult Care
We will provide childcare for the duration of the conference sessions to accommodate attendees who may not otherwise be able to attend scientific conferences due to parental duties.
Additionally, there may be attendees that are caring for their parents and would need adult care services.
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Please indicate these needs during registration.
Conference Leadership
Nichol McBee, MPH, ACRP-CP, MPI
- Research Associate, Department of Neurology
- Executive Director, BIOS Clinical Trials Coordinating Center
- Faculty Program Lead, JHU ICTR Trial Innovation Unit (TIU)
- Director, Johns Hopkins University Trial Innovation Center (JHU TIC)
Andrew Mould, MPH, MPI
- Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
- DCC Director, BIOS Clinical Trials Coordinating Center
- HEAL Director, JHU SSRC HEAL Pain ERN
- Assistant Director, Johns Hopkins University Trial Innovation Center (JHU TIC)
Daniel Hanley, MD, Co-Investigator
- Director, BIOS Clinical Trials Coordinating Center
- PI, Johns Hopkins University Trial Innovation Center
- Deputy Director for Support and Innovation in Multicenter Trials, Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
- Jeffrey and Harriet Legum Professor of Acute Care Neurology
- Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Karen Lane, CMA, CCRP, Co-Investigator
- Assistant Professor of Neurology
- Deputy Director, BIOS Clinical Trials Coordinating Center
- Director, Multicenter Study Operations Training Program, ICTR
- MPI, Johns Hopkins University Trial Innovation Center
Wendy Ziai, MD, MPH, Co-Investigator
- Assistant Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anesthesia/Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Medical Director, Neurovascular Laboratory
- Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Bayview Neurocritical Care Unit
Contact Information
Send questions to: MISICH@jh.edu