University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery faculty and residents will participate in a number of lectures, presentations and symposiums at the 2024 Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting scheduled for September 28 through October 2 in Houston, Texas. In addition, Kalil Abdullah, MD, adult brain tumor specialist and director of the department's Translational Neuro-Oncology Laboratory at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, is scientific co-chair for the Tumor Section this year.
Saturday, September 28
Epilepsy Surgery Symposium: Integrating Practical Approaches for All Ages
Symposium
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Course Directors: Kurtis Auguste, Jason Hauptman, John Rolston
Faculty: Taylor Abel, Allyson Alexander, Sarah Bick, Nicole Bentley, Kelly Collins, Daniel Curry, Andrew Ko, Kai Miller, Carrie Muh, Scellig Stone, Chengyuan Wu
Maximizing Your Neurosurgical Employment Opportunities
Symposium
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Course Directors: Erica Bisson, Kristin Weaver
Faculty: Anthony Asher, John A. Braca, Andrew R. Conger, Anand Germanwala, Gerald Grant, Timothy H. Lucas, Joseph S. Neimat, Judith Rosman, Justin A. Singer, Alan Scarrow, Anand Veeravagu, Matthew Vuckovich
Microvascular Decompression, Lesioning, and Neuromodulation Approaches to Facial Pain
Symposium
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Course Directors: Andrew W. Grande, Hamid Borghei-Razavi
Faculty: Varun Ranjan Kshettry, Alexander Kwong-Tak Yu, Ashwin Viswanathan, James K. Liu, Shervin Rahimpour, Jonathan Andrew Forbes, Ajay Niranjan, Risheng Xu, Raymond F. Sekula, Zaman Mirzadeh, Omar Arnaout, Rushna Ali, John M. Tew
3D Surgical Neuroanatomy
Symposium
12:45 – 5:00 p.m.
Course Directors: Maria Peris-Celda, Joao Paulo Almeida
Faculty: Linda Bi, Paul A. Gardner, Claire Karekezi, Juan Fernando-Miranda, Pablo A. Rubino, Jeffrey M. Sorenson, Necmettin Tanriover, Ugur Ture, A. Samy Youssef
Neurosurgeon Scientist CNS Symposium
Symposium
12:45 – 4:15 p.m.
Course Directors: Costas Hadjipanayis, Linda Liau, Gregory Zipfel
Faculty: Manish Aghi, Nduka Amankulor, Sepideh Amin-Hanjani, Robert Carter, Clark Chen, Antonio Chiocca, Emad Eskandar, Robert Gross, Brian Hoh, Albert Kim, David Limbrick
Sunday, September 29
Swimming with the Sharks
Symposium
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Course Directors: Nitin Agarwal, D. Kojo Hamilton
Faculty: Sepideh Amin-Hanjani, Richard W. Byrne, Lola Chambless, Paul J. Camarata, Joseph S. Cheng, E. Sander Connolly, Dornbos, Robert Friedlander, Ramesh Grandhi, Kimberly Hamilton, Michael Ivan, Douglas Kondziolka, David Limbrick, Jodi Leonardo, Elad Levy, James Markert, Michael McDowell, Jeffrey Mullin, Gregory Murad, Akash Patel, Ganesh Rao, Francisco Ponce, Renee Reynolds, Charles Sansur, Nathan Selden, Ashwini Sharan, Laura Snyder, Martina Stippler, Ajith Thomas, Jamie Toms, Krystal Tomei, Daniel Tonetti, Nathan Zwagerman
Brain Tumor Update - Management of Malignant Brain Tumors
Symposium
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Course Directors: Costas Hadjipanayis, Pascal Zinn
Faculty: Kalil Abdullah, Wajd Al-Holou, Nduka Amankulor, Bryan Choi, Mahua Dey, Linton Evans, Yoshua Esquenazi, Arnold Etame, Shawn Hervey-Jumper, Ricardo Komotar, Daniel Orringer, Pier Paolo Peruzzi, Dimitris Placatonakis, Maryam Rahman, Ganesh Rao, Adam Robin, Marie Roguski, Ashish Shah, Jonathan Sherman, Michael Vogelbaum, Dominque Wiggins, Mateo Ziu
Comprehensive Management of Spinal Trauma
Symposium
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Course Directors: David Okonkwo, Charles Sansur
Faculty: Paul Arnold, Ken Crandall, Sanjay Dhall, Asdrubal Falavigna, Diana Jho, Miki Katzir, Kee Kim, Dimiriy Petrov, Rajiv Saigal, Thomas Wilson
360 Degrees Around the Greatest Surgical Challenges in the Cerebellopontine Angle, Petrous Apex and Petroclival Fissure, A High Yield CNS/NASBS Symposium
Special Symposium 05
8:00 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Course Directors: Siviero Agazzi, Maria Peris-Celda
Faculty: Garni Barkhoudarian, William Couldwell, Amir Dehdashti, Jacob Dey, Juan Carlos Fernandez Miranda, Sebastien Froelich, Paul Gardner, Paul Gidley, Walter Jean, Claudia Kirsch, Douglas Kondziolka, Michael Link, James Liu, Erin McKean, Madison Michael, Jacques Morcos, Carlos Pinheiro Neto, Jack Phan, Daniel Prevedello, Shaan Raza, Marc Schwartz, Jason Sheehan, Jamie Van Gompel, Richard Wiet, A. Samy Youssef, Georgios Zenonos
Transforming Neurosurgery Through Technology: The Innovation Symposium
Special Symposium 06
8:00 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Course Director: Mohamad Bydon, Anand Veeravagu
Faculty: Nicholas Theodore, Ashwini Dayal Sharan, Costas Hadjipanayis, Mohamad Bydon, Aaron Cohen-Gadol, Carlos, Pena, Christoph Meithke, Brian Nahed, Adel Malek, Kimberly Bojanowski Hoang, Martin Pham, John Adler, Rupa Juthani, Alejandro Spiotta
Brain Tumor Update - Management of Benign Brain Tumors
Symposium
12:45 – 4:15 p.m.
Course Directors: Linda Bi, Tomas Garson-Muvdi
Faculty: Andre Beer-Furlan, Carolina Benjamin, Jonathan Breshears, Sunit Das, Michael Ivan, John Lee, Farshad Nassiri, Ajay Niranjan, Akash Patel, Pablo Recinos, Matthew Tate, Gelareh Zadeh, Georgios Zenonos
Monday, September 30
Vestibular Schwannoma Koos Grade I International Study of Active Surveillance Versus Stereotactic Radiosurgery: the VISAS-K1 Study.
Columbia Softball Skull Base Surgery Award
Sunrise Science and Late Breaking Abstract Session: Tumor
7:00 – 7:06 a.m.
Presenter: Hassam Abou-Al-Shaar
Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery for Pediatric Meningoencephalocele: a Single-Center Case Series
Abstract Presentation
Sunrise Science and Late Breaking Abstract Session: Pediatric
7:30 - 7: 36 a.m.
Presenter: William Shuman
Endoscopic Endonasal and Transmaxillary Resection of Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma: A Modern Treatment Paradigm
Abstract Presentation
Sunrise Science and Late Breaking Abstract Session: Pediatric
7:42 - 7:48 a.m.
Presenter: Ali Alattar
Impact of Lateral Plate and Screw Fixation on Long Term Radiographic Subsidence in Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion
Abstract Presentation
Sunrise Science and Late Breaking Abstract Session: Spine
8:18 – 8:24 a.m.
Presenter: Joseph Hudson
Founder’s Laurel Award
General Scientific Session II
8:40 a.m. – 12:10 p.m
Recipient: L. Dade Lunsford
Presenter: Elad I. Levy
Neurosurgeons Role in Sports Medicine
Luncheon Seminar
12:20 – 1:50 p.m.
Moderator: David Okonkwo
Faculty: Maya Babu, David Gimbel, Joseph Maroon, Tara Nail, Scott Zuckerman
Surgery for Generalized Epilepsy Surgery
Luncheon Seminar
12:20 – 1:50 p.m.
Moderators: Dario Englot, Robert Gross
Faculty: Taylor Abel, Mark Richardson, Derek Southwell
When is the Right Time to Withdraw Care in Severe TBI
Crossfire Debates in Neurotrauma
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Moderators: Odette Harris, Christian Ricks
Presenters: Anthony DiGiorgio, David Okonkwo
Pushing the Envelope in Spinal Cord Injury: MAPS vs. Spinal Cord Perfusion
Crossfire Debates in Neurotrauma
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Moderators: Odette Harris, Christian Ricks
Presenters: Nitin Agarwal, Paul Arnold
Multimodal Therapy for Brain Metastasis
General Scientific Session I
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Moderators: Kalil Abdullah, Veronica Chiang
Presenters: Rohan Ramakrishna, Sherise Ferguson, Christopher Cifarelli
Pushing the Envelope in Spinal Cord Injury: MAPS vs. Spinal Cord Perfusion
Crossfire Debates in Neurotrauma
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Moderators: Odette Harris, Christian Ricks
Presenters: Nitin Agarwal, Paul Arnold
Novel Hypothesis-Driven Classification of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Explorations
Abstract Presentation
Mini Oral Podium Presentations: Stereotactic and Functional
4:36 - 4:39 p.m.
Presenter: Arka Mallela
Number of Fused Levels is Inversely Associated with Long Term Radiographic Subsidence in Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion Without Posterior Instrumentation
Abstract Presentation
Mini Oral Podium Presentations 2: Spine
6:27 – 6:30 p.m.
Presenter: Joseph Hudson
Tuesday, October 1
Sellar and Suprasellar Tumors: A High-Yield CNS Collaboration with the NASBS
Luncheon Seminar
12:20 – 1:50 p.m.
Moderator: Nelson Oyesiku, Phillip Theodosopulos
Faculty: Hanna Algattas, Garni Barkhoudarian, Paul Gardner, Todd Hollon, Christina Jackson, Erin McKean, James Liu, Viviane Tabar, Jamie Van Gompel
Aneurysms: Tools and Tricks of the Trade
Luncheon Seminar
12:20 – 1:50 p.m.
Moderator: Nohra Chalouhi, Sheila Eshraghi
Faculty: Nicholas Bambakidis, Rohan Chitale, Amir Dehdashti, Kimberly Kicielinski, Michael Lang, Michael Lawton, Erez Nossek, Erol Veznedaroglu, Henry Woo
Optimizing Neurosurgical Excellence: Strategies for Peak Performance
Luncheon Seminar
12:20 – 1:50 p.m.
Moderator: Kristen Jones, Ricardo Komotar
Faculty: John Boockvar, Joseph Maroon, Maryam Rahman, Steve Roper, Renee Reynolds, Martina Stippler
Wednesday, October 2
Medical Education Training
Sunrise Science and Late Breaking Abstract Session
7:00 – 8:30 a.m.
Moderators: Nitin Agarwal, Chris Neal
Motor Strength Following Stereotactic Radiosurgery of Metastases in the Primary Motor Cortex
Abstract Presentation
Sunrise Science and Late Breaking Abstract Session: Tumor 3
7:24 - 7:30 a.m.
Presenter: Hansen Deng