2026 Neurocritical Care Reading List

Reading List

Please click below to access the 2026 Neurocritical Care reading list.

C-cert Activity Description

The Continuous Certification (C-cert) activities provide subspecialty learning and knowledge assessment to ensure that diplomates are staying up to date on the latest science, treatments, and therapeutics relating to their subspecialty. The annual activities include: 1) reading the subspecialty  journal articles, and 2) taking and passing the 25-question online post-reading quiz to assess knowledge gained from the journal article content. 

Learning Objectives

• Apply best practices for identifying, managing, and monitoring cardiogenic shock
• Explain optimal transfusion practices for critically ill patients, identify when transfusions should be considered when procedures are indicated, and understand when liberal transfusion practices should be considered for patients with acute brain injuries
• Implement optimal duration of antibiotics for bloodstream infections while acknowledging benefits and risks
• Manage patients with medium vessel occlusions using the best data available
• Perform neuroprognostication for patients with intracerebral hemorrhage and traumatic spinal cord injury using best evidence-based practices

Core Competencies

• Medical Knowledge
• Patient Care
• Practice-Based Learning and Improvement

Disclosures

The UCNS complies with all standards and policies of the ACCME, including identification and resolution of all conflicts of interest prior to the educational activity being delivered to learners. Accordingly, UCNS  planners, authors, and staff comply with the UCNS’s Conflicts of Interest Policy. 

2026 C-cert Activity Planner (Certification Council) Disclosures
All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

Neurocritical Care Certification Examination Committee Contributors

Lauren Koffman, DO, Chair, Lewis Katz School of Medicine  
Disclosures: Received compensation as expert witness for providing report on personal injury case. Provided report on resident dismissal from program case.  

Sarah Nelson, MD, Vice Chair, Tufts Medical Center  
Disclosures: Received compensation as Assistant Editor of Neurology Journal. Received publishing royalties for neurocritical care textbook.  

Navaz Karanjia, MD, University of California San Diego 
Disclosures: Received compensation from Quattro Consulting—one-time call regarding development of a new product. Received compensation from Elite Medical experts – did medicolegal case review and report for one case.  

Shivani Ghoshal, MD, Columbia University Irving Medical Center 
Disclosures: Nothing to disclose.  

Christa O’Hana San Luis Nobleza, MD, Baptist Medical Group  
Disclosures: Served on the SCCM NCC Board review committee (declared last year) and has recused herself from the committee this year. 

Abhay Kumar, MD, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston  
Disclosures: Nothing to disclose.  

Panayiotis N. Varelas, MD, Albany Medical College  
Disclosures: Received advisory meeting honorarium from Annexon. Received advisory board honorarium from AstraZeneca. Received compensation from University of Michigan for serving as expert witness in two cases and from Giarmarco, Mullins & Horton, PC, for serving as expert witness in one case. Spouse received compensation from RUC meeting representing AAN.  

Ali Seifi, MD, University of Texas HSC at San Antonio 
Disclosures: Received compensation as the inventor and shareholder of "HiccAway" (a hiccup-stopping straw), as seen on the Shark Tank TV show, funded by Mark Cuban. Received compensation as a speaker for Chiesi, a pharmaceutical company. Serves as the Editor of the Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM), Neurocritical Care issue, with no compensation. Holds several patents relating to healthcare.  

Michel T. Torbey, MD, MPH, University of Oklahoma  
Disclosures: Nothing to disclose.  

Atul Kalanuria, MD, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals  
Disclosures: Receives compensation as a full-time employee at Johnson & Johnson in the area of pharmacovigilance. Received compensation from serving on the board of directors for the Society of Healthcare Innovation. Received compensation for performing medical review for medico-legal cases for Expert Opinion, LLC. Received a research sub-grant from the Department of Defense for my research. I no longer possess this grant funding. Currently on the SCCM committee that prepares questions for the critical care boards.  

Wan Tsu Wendy Chang, MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine  
Disclosures: Participated on the American Academy of Emergency Medicine - Oral Board Review Course Faculty.  

Marc-Alain Babi, MD, Cleveland Clinic – Florida  
Disclosures: Nothing to disclose. 

Staff Contact

Bryan Hagerla, Continuous Certification Manager
Disclosures: Nothing to disclose.
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