Pittsburgh, August 12, 2024 -- PGY-7 resident Hussam Abou-Al-Shaar, MD, has been awarded the Columbia Softball Skull Base Award by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons for his abstract “Vestibular Schwannoma Koos Grade I International Study of Active Surveillance Versus Stereotactic Radiosurgery: the VISAS-K1 Study." Dr. Abou-Al-Shaar will present his abstract, Monday, September 30, at 7:00 a.m. at the Sunrise Science and Late Breaking Abstract Tumor Session during the 2024 CNS Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas.
The Columbia Softball Skull Base Award is given to a high-ranking abstract related to skull base surgery by a resident or medical student.