Speakers

Mona Jacobson, MSN, CPNP

Mona Jacobson has practiced as a pediatric nurse practitioner since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. She spent 22 years in pediatric primary care working in a variety of outpatient clinics and transitioned to pediatric neurology in 2010. Currently, she is a CPNP in the department of neurology at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She practices in the general outpatient neurology clinic seeing a variety of patients with neurologic diagnosis. Along with being a provider in general neurology, Ms. Jacobson attends in a multidisciplinary stroke clinic, NF vascular clinic and new onset seizure clinic. She has lectured at national conferences on perinatal stroke, seizures, seizure medications and dizziness in neurologic patients. Along with her clinical duties, Ms. Jacobson is the lead education advance practice provider for neurology. Her work promoting advanced practice education led Ms. Jacobson to receive the Children’s Hospital medical staff outstanding service award in the adjunct category.
 

Sessions

Strokes in Newborns; Early Recognition Improves Outcomes