2026 Stroke Symposium: Advances in Stroke Care

Friday, May 15, 2026, 7:15 AM - 4:30 PM, LVH-Cedar Crest, Allentown, PA


AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (6.00 hours), ACPE - Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (6.00 hours), Contact Hours (6.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (6.00 hours)

This live event is offered in 2 sessions allowing attendees options to tailor their experience to fit their schedules. Join us for our complimentary 1-hour Sunrise Session, our full day event or both!

Sunrise Session (Complimentary) (1 Credit Hour)

Friday May 15, 2026, 7:15 AM-8:20 AM, LVH-Cedar Crest, 1200 S Cedar Crest Blvd, Allentown, PA. Kasych Pavilion, Education Conference Center Rooms 7 & 8

 Full Day Session (6 Credit Hours)

Friday May 15, 2026, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM, LVH-Cedar Crest, 1200 S Cedar Crest Blvd, Allentown, PA.  Auditorium

If you attend both sessions, you can claim a total of 7 credit hours.

This live event includes content selected based on professional guidelines and practice statements, results of clinical trials and published research, regulatory standards, and from reviewing agendas of regional and national conferences. The target audience encompasses colleagues caring for stroke patients throughout the continuum. This includes providers (emergency medicine, hospital medicine, neurology, physiatry), nurses (emergency medicine, ICU, medsurg, low-level monitoring, rehab, procedural and post procedural, research), therapists (PTPTA, OTOTA, SLP), case managers, EMS providers, and anyone with an interest in stroke.

1. Implement ICH acute care bundle elements within less than 90 minutes of diagnosis.
2. Summarize major stroke treatment milestones across the last 50 years.
3. Synthesize the key revisions in the American Heart Association: acute ischemic stroke management guidelines.
4. Discuss the evidence on glucagon like peptide1 receptor (GLP1 RAs) for stroke risk reduction.
5. Summarize recent advances in stroke rehabilitation interventions and innovations in neuroplasticity based therapies, technology assisted rehabilitation and high intensity training models.
6. Discuss the benefits, risks and clinical decision making when stroke onset time is unknown.
7. Analyze the current evidence, potential benefits and associated risks of targeted temperature management (TTM) as a neuroprotective strategy in acute ischemic stroke care.
8. Describe key advances in surgical and endovascular approaches for treatment of complex stroke patients.
9. Identify system level and interdisciplinary practices that align stroke care with Age Friendly Health System principles (4Ms: what matters, medication, mobility, mentation)

1. 75% of participants will respond that they will be able to apply new knowledge to their clinical role on the post event evaluation.

Lehigh Valley Health Network is accredited by the Pennsylvania Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  Lehigh Valley Health Network designates this live educational activity for a maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the educational activity.

Lehigh Valley Health Network is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Completion Criteria: Registered Nurses attending the entire program will receive 7 Contact Hour(s).

Cancellation Policy

Please send cancellation requests to [email protected]. 

Lehigh Valley Health Network reserves the right to cancel or postpone this program if necessary; in the event of cancellation, course fees will be fully refunded. We are not responsible for other costs incurred such as non-refundable airline tickets or hotel penalties.

Accessibility Statement
 
Lehigh Valley Health Network is committed to ensuring that its programs, services, goods and facilities are accessible to individuals with disabilities as specified under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008.  If you have needs that require special accommodations, including dietary concerns, please contact the CME Conference Coordinator.

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Lehigh Valley Health Network adheres to ACCME Criteria, Standards and Policies regarding industry support of continuing medical education. Disclosure of faculty and their commercial relationships will be made prior to the activity.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Lehigh Valley Health Network part of Jefferson adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Friday, May 15, 2026

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