IPSO Blog

Summer Camp for Pediatric Stroke Survivors

By Tricia PlumbHow can physicians, medical providers, children, and families come together for a few days of education and fun for everyone? Enter Morgan’s Wonderland in San Antonio, Texas, an accessible camp for children with disabilities. Last summer, I went to this...

Reflections on the 2023 IPSO Meeting

By Jenny WilsonIPSO had its 3rd conference virtually, April 28-29th, 2023. The goal of the conference was to “unify the global community of professionals engaged in research and clinical care for children with cerebrovascular diseases, and chart a path forward for...

I-ACQUIRE Trial Presentation During IPSO Meeting

By Warren Lo. On July 21st, 2021, at the IPSO Virtual Conference, I shared a brief presentation on the I-ACQUIRE Trial, funded by the National Institutes of Health in the US. This is a multi-site trial comparing 2 dosages of a form of intensive pediatric...

Reflections on the first IPSO Virtual Conference

By Grégoire Boulouis, Peter Sporns and Jenny Wilson. IPSO had its first conference July 19-21, 2021 after COVID-19 obliterated plans for an in-person conference in 2020 in Vienna, Austria. While there was a feeling of disappointment in not being able to meet in...

IPSO’s International Perspective

By Heather Fullerton. When we first conceived of IPSO a few years ago, one explicit goal was to obtain a global perspective on cerebrovascular disease in children.  The factors that lead to pediatric stroke are heterogenous and complex, some poorly understood mix of...

Kids have strokes, too?

By Ratika Srivastava. I am a pediatric stroke fellow at the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary, Canada. Whenever I tell people what I do, they invariably say, “OH! I didn’t know kids have strokes. That’s so sad.” And it is sad – but it is not without hope....

Teamwork in Pediatric Stroke

By Jenny Wilson and Peter Sporns. Many pediatric hospitals have developed systems to respond to an acute pediatric stroke. These systems involve collaboration between physicians, nurses, and other experts hospital-wide from a diverse set of backgrounds and training,...

Back to school for physicians

By Bethany Johnson-Kerner. Parents, teachers and even some physicians are shocked when they learn that children can have strokes. Although rare, children who have had strokes may experience significant adverse outcomes, including impaired cognitive skills, diminished...