Coma, Stupor, and Related Disorders of Consciousness

Dr. Peter Kaplan is Professor of Neurology and serves as the Director of Epilepsy and EEG at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He focuses on epilepsy, clinical neurophysiology and nonconvulsive status epilepticus. He has written extensively about these subjects as well as about eclampsia and neurologic disease in women. Dr. Peter Kaplan received his medical training from St. Bartholomews Medical School, University of London. He then obtained membership to the Royal College of Physicians in England. He completed his residency in neurology at Duke University Medical Center. He completed fellowships in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at the same institution. Dr. Romergryko G. Geocadin is a professor of neurology, neurosurgery, and anesthesiology-critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. He also currently serves as Co-Chair of the Johns Hopkins Clinician-Scientist Career Development Award Committee and is the Co-Founder/Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Encephalitis Center. Dr. Geocadin completed his undergraduate education at the University of the Philippines-Diliman Campus, followed by his medical education at UERM School of Medicine in the Philippines, neurology residency at New York University, and neurocritical care clinical and research fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. He was founding Director of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center - Multidisciplinary Neurocritical Care Unit and past Chair of the Johns Hopkins Multidisciplinary Critical Care practice committee. Dr. Geocadin’s research, which focuses on translational studies on acute disorders of consciousness from animal models to clinical trials in brain injury after cardiac arrest resuscitation, is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is one of the Principal Investigators for the ICECAP trial under the SIREN Network. Dr. Geocadin has led or contributed to the development of numerous practice guidelines, scientific statements, and reports from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), American Heart Association, The Joint Commission, and the Institutes of Medicine on resuscitation and disorders of consciousness. Additionally. Dr. Geocadin was the Past President of the Neurocritical Care Society and the Vice President of the American Neurological Association from 2022 to 2024.

1. Definitions, Diagnostic Criteria, and Clinical Assessment Scales in Disorders of Consciousness 2. A Historical Review of Consciousness and Its Disorders 3. Neuroscience of Coma 4. An Evidence-Based Approach to Diagnosis of Disorders of Consciousness 5. Cardiac Arrest and Disorders of Consciousness 6. Traumatic Brain Injury and Disorders of Consciousness 7. Advances in Neuroimaging in Disorders of Consciousness 8. Electrophysiology in disorders of consciousness 9. Evoked potentials in patients with disorders of consciousness 10. Blood and Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Disorders of Consciousness 11. Medical and Surgical Treatments in Disorders of Consciousness 12. Non-pharmacologic interventions in disorders of consciousness 13. Emerging Ethical Issues in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness: A Clinical Guide 14. Neurologic Prognostication in Coma and Disorders of Consciousness 15. The Curing Coma Campaign: A Platform for Advancing Science and Clinical Care Worldwide