Dr. Deepak Nair is the Director of Inpatient Neuroscience Services for OSF HealthCare. In his role he serves as the Business Director for the inpatient division of the Neuroscience Service Line and the Physician Manager of the Inpatient Neurology team at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. Dr. Nair is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria. He completed his Fellowship in Stroke and Cerebral Vascular disease in 2011, and he is board certified in both Neurology and Neurocritical Care. Dr. Nair is a physician champion at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center who has served as the chair of the Critical Care Advisory Group for Physicians for the Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network Donation Service Area since 2015, has hosted and led five brain death simulation workshops, and is a member of the OSF Saint Francis Medical Center Donation Steering Committee.
2023 AAN Brain Death Updates: Collaborative Approaches in Aligning Hospital & OPO Policies
In this webinar, we will explore how hospital partners and Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) have addressed the recent (2023) updates to AAN guidelines for determination of death by neurological criteria/brain death. We will explore the impact of variation in BD/DNC policies on hospital partners and OPOs alike – and review the importance of having standardized up-to-date brain death/death by neurological criteria policies to support hospital providers, institutions, patients and families. Participants will be encouraged to evaluate and recognize the ways OPO and hospital partners can establish respectful collaboration to promote and adhere to professionally accepted standards of BD/DNC.