EVENTS calendar
Location: Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital 100 Mario Capecchi Drive, 3rd Floor Auditorium, Salt Lake City, UT 84113
Time:
5:15 – 5:30pm – Registration and refreshments
5:30 – 7:00pm – Introductions and Lectures
7:00 – 7:45pm – Peer support
Expert Speakers and Topics:
Mindee Kunkel, FNP – A patient’s journey
Dr. Douglas Brockmeyer – Overview of the Chiari landscape
Dr. Vijay Ravindra – What lies ahead
Mindee Kunkel, FNP, is the Nurse Practitioner for the Spine Program at Primary Children’s Hospital. She is involved with Pediatric Neurosurgery and Pediatric Orthopedics treating patients with scoliosis and spine pain. She provides support to the providers in these departments as well as practices independently. Mindee is the lead provider for the Pediatric Spine Pain Clinic at Primary Children’s Hospital which includes Physical Therapy and Integrative Medicine.
Dr. Douglas Brockmeyer is currently Professor of Neurosurgery and the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He has a clinical interest in the management of all Chiari patients, but specialized in managing complex Chiari malformations in the adult and population. His research interests include investigating the genetic and biomechanical foundations of craniocervical junction disorders, particularly Chiari.
He is an investigator in the Park-Reeves Syringomyelia Research Consortium, a multi-institutional North American research effort, founded to improve the medical and surgical care of children with syringomyelia realted to Chiari I malformation. He is the Scientific Chair of the newly-formed Chiari Clinical Research Network, a multi-center prospective observational study created to identify clinical and radiographic variable that predict success in Chiari surgery.
Dr. Vijay Ravindra is a board certified pediatric neurosurgeon currently practicing at the University of Utah. He completed his neurosurgery training at the University of Utah and pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at Texas Children’s Hospital. His clinical interests include disorders of the craniocervical junction, pediatric brain tumors, and scoliosis. His main areas of research interest include clinical outcomes research in children and tissue properties of the craniocervical junction.
