24th Annual Rural Health Conference
“Stroke and Vascular Disease in Rural America
Bryant Conference Center | Rast Room
| 7:30 – 8:00 | Exhibitor Set-Up – Rast Hallway |
| 7:30 – 8:00 | Registration and Breakfast – Rast Room |
| 8:00 – 8:15 | Welcome – Rast Room James Geyer, MD, FAASM, FAES Professor and Medical Director Interim Director, Institute for Rural Health Research The University of Alabama |
| 8:15 – 9:00 | Stroke: Better Left Unseen Thomas Patton, MD Alabama Neurology & Sleep Medicine |
| 9:00 – 9:45 | Neuroendovascular Rescue 2025: Trends in Stroke Endovascular Therapy Camilo R. Gomez, MD, MBA Professor of Neurology Vascular & Interventional Neurologist University of Missouri School of Medicine |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | Break and Visit Exhibitors – Rast Hallway |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | AI for Rural Health: Transforming Care & Education Together Jiaqi Gong, PhD Founding Director, Alabama Center for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Associate Professor of Computer Science Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering Adjunct Professor of Community Health Sciences The University of Alabama |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Severity-Based Stroke Triage (SBST) and EMSA routing in Alabama Glenn Davis, BS, NRP Region 4 EMS Director Executive Director, EMPACT of West Alabama Director of EMS Training, The University of Alabama |
| 12:00 | Adjourn – See you next year! 25th Annual Rural Health Conference See https://rhc.ua.edu for updates |