Abstract

Abstsract: There has been a paradigm shift in the understanding of mild TBI over the past few years. This talk will discuss insights into prognostication, trajectory and outcomes of patients who have sustained a mild traumatic brain injury focusing on results from CENTER -TBI , a large European cohort study.

Biography: Virginia Newcombe is a consultant in Neurosciences and Trauma Critical Care Medicine, and Emergency Medicine at Addenbrooke’s. Originally from Australia she came to Cambridge to complete a MPhil in Epidemiology and stayed to undertake a PhD and clinical training. She is a Royal College of Emergency Medicine Associate Professor and holds an NIHR Advanced Fellowship. Her main research interests focus on prognostication, neuroimaging and the use of biomarkers after traumatic brain injury as well as long-term outcomes after critical illness. For more information about Dr Newcombe, please visit: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?vfjn2