September Recap
The Neurocritical Care Society 23rd Annual Meeting
Montreal, Canada | September 18–21, 2025
Wow. What an incredible week at the NCS 2025 Annual Meeting. We’re grateful to the Neurocritical Care Society organizing committee for welcoming us as an exhibitor and for supporting The 2025 Informatics, Big Data, and AI Workshop. Nearly 50 attendees joined us for the workshop—thank you for your energy, questions, and feedback that made it such a highlight. Special thanks to Dr. Brandon Foreman, Dr. Jeanette Tas, Dr. Raimund Helbok, and Dr. DaiWai Olson for their outstanding talks. We also want to recognize all the session and poster presenters who shared their science and inspired new conversations throughout the meeting.
The 2025 Informatics, Big Data, and AI Workshop
This is the first year that we chose to organize a workshop at NCS. This workshop was an extension of a long-running webinar series called “Case Studies in Neurocritical Care AI.” We designed a schedule with talks from esteemed researchers in the field to supplement hands-on workshop exercises using the TRACK-TBI ICU data set hosted on our cloud platform. This gave attendees relevant background into data science theory with practical experience in working with messy, real-world data. Thank you to everyone who attended. We are looking forward to submitting a workshop for NCS next year and other related conferences.
Ethan Moyer introduces the Moberg Clinical Platform and its ability to accelerate research and discovery with its data science tools.
Dr. Brandon Foreman (University of Cincinnati) provides a comprehensive overview of where ICU data comes from and how to organize it.
Dr. DaiWai Olson (University of Texas Southwestern) presents the reality of data regulatory, compliance, and cleaning for ICU research at a hospital.
Dr. Raimund Helbok (Kepler University Hospital) walks the audience through cerebral autoregulation and the optimal cerebral perfusion pressure (CPPOpt) algorithm.
Poster Presentations
We had a great opportunity to present our work during the poster sessions of NCS.
Justin Moore presented his work with Dr. Matt Kirschen from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on the “Comparison of NIRS-derived MAPopt Between ICM+ and Moberg Analytics in Pediatric Post-Cardiac Arrest Patients”.
Ethan Moyer presented work led by our lead AI engineer, Tony Okeke, working in conjunction with the PRECICECAP team on “Transfer Learning for Artifact Detection in ICU-Collected Arterial Blood Pressure Waveforms”. This poster was one of 20 posters selected for presentation during the “Distinguished Professor Rounds”.
Dr. Matt Kirschen (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia), Justin Moore, Ethan Moyer with intact autoregulation smile for the camera.
Ethan Moyer and Dr. Soojin Park discuss artifact detection in ICU data during the Distinguished Professor Rounds.
Farah Kamar (Western University, friend of company) presents her work on non-invasive cerebral blood flow, oxygenation, and metabolism monitoring in the ICU.
Moberg Analytics Booth & The AI Lounge
Preparing for a successful trade show requires months of coordination between a diligent team. Even with all of our planning, details can change at the last minute (especially at a start up). Days before traveling to Montreal, Dick Moberg decided to double the size of our booth to make room for an AI Lounge where our emerging integration partners could demo their new research. NeuroSentry presented their latest work on monitoring cerebral ischemia and infarct using EEG to detect strokes in the ICU. Precision Neuroscopics highlighted their software for non-invasively detecting spreading depolarization. These partners tied to the release of our Moberg Clinical Platform (MCP) generated a lot of attention, which kept us all on our feet for much of the show.
Ethan Moyer, Tobias Hamann (Neuroviso, European distributor of MCP), Craig Maddux, and Dick Moberg manning the booth.
Dr. Jeanette Tas (Kepler University Hospital) and Ethan Moyer eyeing up the coffee bar.
Farah Kamar (Western University, friend of company) presents her work on non-invasive cerebral blood flow, oxygenation, and metabolism monitoring in the ICU.
NCS Networking Event
NCS goes to great lengths to host themed networking events. This year, we caught ourselves mingling amongst a live circus act with live music, dancing trapeze artists, and more. You had to be there. Looking back, many of us forgot to take pictures. Below are the few snapshots we were able to capture.
Ethan Moyer, Farah Kamar (Western University), and Stefan Bogli (University Hospital Zürich) enjoying the circus.
Dr. Jeanette Tas (Kepler University Hospital) and Ethan Moyer eyeing up the coffee bar.
SOPRANI Meeting
Cambridge, UK | 24-26 September 2025
SOPRANI is a European Training Network dedicated to developing Smart neurOmonitoring to support PRecision medicine in Acute central Nervous system Injuries. It comprises seven European research institutions and one non-academic partner, Moberg Analytics. Recently, it was awarded a European MSCA Doctoral Training Network grant to train and mentor ten PhD candidates across ten individual research projects. These projects aim to significantly advance the field of neuromonitoring for patients with acute brain injuries in neuro-intensive care.
Though European in focus, Moberg was added due to its unique focus in this area. Selected PhD students will rotate through the Moberg headquarters learning the industry side of neuromonitoring while also contributing features to our product based on their work. Ethan Moyer and Dick Moberg attended their biannual meeting last week in Cambridge, UK.
Dr. Peter Smielewski (University of Cambridge) gives his two-day crash course on everything there is to know about digital signal processing.
Dr. Jeanette Tas (Kepler University Hospital) and Ethan Moyer eyeing up the coffee bar.
A celebratory round of drinks at the Eagle bar in Cambridge, the place where Francis Crick and James Watson announced on 28 February 1953 that they had “discovered the secret of life” after they had come up with their proposal for the structure of DNA.
SOPRANI students and Moberg Analytics crashing the Bath House in Cambridge.
A snapshot from the SOPRANI PI Dinner hosted by none other than Dr. Peter Smielewski. Thank you for your hospitality and generosity.
