As a brief summary, our club will be divided up into three committees: the research committee, outreach committee, and communications committee.
The research committee will:
- Invite researchers who focus on brain injuries to present their research/engage in critical discussions with them
- Investigate the current state of the field by reading current literature and engaging in biweekly journal clubs
- Promote critical thinking about science
- Serve as a bridge to communicate science to the general population by passing on data-based information to the communications committee
- Build up undergrad research projects that can lead to poster presentations and hosting undergrad symposiums
The outreach committee will:
- Create a buddy program in which Duke students engage with people in the Durham community who have brain injuries and form long-lasting relationships with them
- Hold brain injury support groups both for people who have TBIs and for caretakers
- Invite patients, survivors, and caregivers to speak about their experience with brain injury and engage in discussions with them
- Raise money for extraneous costs people face due to brain injuries that aren’t covered by insurance
- Advocate for brain injury-related legislation at the local/state level
- Team up with healthcare organizations to host events about insurance and brain injuries
The communications committee will:
- Write blogs/articles that spread data-based awareness about brain injuries and provide information/support to people who have brain injuries
- The research committee will provide the communications committee with evidence to back up their articles
- Write about patient and caretaker stories through photoblogs
- Create a podcast interviewing neurosurgeons, neurologists, and researchers
- Invite neurosurgeons and neurologists to speak about their experience with brain injury and engage in discussions with them
- Promote events of all the committees/spread evidence-based awareness through social media outreach
If you are interested in joining BrainIAC, please fill out the forms below:
Interest form: https://forms.gle/cPyKsBtE78W6Bg1r7
If you haven’t already, please join our slack!
Slack link: https://dukebrainiac.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-ntl49ajr-dO4VW8FdS5XySZ9j4lnMdw#/
Feel free to contact email us at brainiac.duke@gmail.com if you have any questions/concerns.