Neurosurgery Grand Rounds

A patient-centered approach to glioblastoma

Seema Nagpal, MD
Neuro-Oncology Fellow, Department of Neurology, Stanford University

Impaired myelination in a mouse model of the free sialic acid storage disorders

Laura Prolo, PhD
MSTP, Stanford University

Navigation of developing ES/iPS-derived midbrain dopamine neurons

Branden Cord, PhD
MSTP, Stanford University

The current state of translational optogenetics

Paul Kalanithi, MD
Senior Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University

New insight into hedgehog signal transduction

Melanie Hayden, MD
Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University

Cochlear implantation and the potential of inner ear surgery

Nikolas H. Blevins, MD, Assoc. Prof., Chief, Div. of Otology/ Neurotology, Stanford

Anterior craniofacial resection: Evolution in ENT and neurosurgical treatment

Jayakar Nayak, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University

Use of the Rhomboid Construct in approaches to sellar, supra-sellar lesions with postero-inferior extent

Michael Levy, MD, PhD Professor
Children’s Hospital of San Diego, Division of Pediatric Neurological Surgery, UCSD

Visualization of cerebrospinal fluid movement with spin labeling at MR imaging: Preliminary results in normal and pathophysiologic conditions

J. Gordon McComb, MD, Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, USC

Management of cranial dural arteriovenous fistulas

Judy Huang, MD, Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University

Single stage lateral extracavitary approaches for discectomy and vertebrectomy: Clinical experience in open and minimally invasive approaches in the thoracolumbar spine

Larry Khoo, MD, Director
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Los Angeles Spine Clinic

Intracerebral hemorrhage management: An update

Chitra Venkat, MD, Asst. Professor
Department of Neurology, Stanford University

Recent advances in flow diversion

David Kallmes, MD, Professor
Division of Neuroradiology, Mayo Clinic

Endonasal endoscopic and supraorbital approaches for pituitary & parasellar tumors

Daniel Kelly, MD, Director
Director, Brain Tumor Center, John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John's Health Center

Surgical Epilepsy for Los Angeles County: Challenges and Opportunities

Charles Liu, MD, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, USC

What's new in the management of benign peripheral nerve tumors?

Robert Spinner, MD, Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic

Staged surgery for large acoustic neuromas and complex fusiform cerebral aneurysms

Johnny Delashaw, MD, Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University

Outcomes assessment in spine surgery: What is innovation?

John Ratliff, MD, Assoc. Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University

Chiari’s I have known

Jerry Oakes, MD, Professor, Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Univ. of Alabama

Accessing deep brain targets using real time interventional MRI: A new technical approach for placement of devices or biologics

Philip Starr, MD, PhD, Professor, Co-Director, Functional Neurosurgery Program, UCSF

Evolving Perspectives on Brain AVMs

Michael Lawton, MD, Professor, Chief, Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery, UCSF

Pediatric intracranial aneurysms:  Current neurosurgical trends

Omar Choudhri, MD
Senior Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University

Medulloblastoma: Treatment with oncolytic measles virus

Corey Raffel, MD, Professor, Vice-Chair
Department of Neurological Surgery, OSU

Comprehensive management of acoustic neuromas

Steven Giannotta, MD, Professor & Chair
Department of Neurosurgery, USC

Curative embolization of brain AVMs and AVFs: Ready for prime time?

Mahesh Jayaraman, MD, Assistant Professor
Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Brown University

Energizing, understanding, and broadening the neurosurgical literature

Douglas Kondziolka, MD, Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh

Navigating in the final frontier

Albert Rhoton, Jr., MD, Professor Emeritus
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Florida

Management of cerebrovascular disease: does flow matter?

Sepi Amin-Hanjani, MD, Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago

Changes in neurosurgery training and practice: Observations over a 45-year career in neurosurgery

R. Michael Scott, MD, Professor
Christopher R. Fellows Chair in Pediatric Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital Boston

Overview of Polytrauma System of Care (National and Palo Alto) & Update on Stanford Neurotrauma

Odette Harris, MD, MPH, Assoc. Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University

Development of the UW Medicine Neurosciences Institute and the comparisons to commercial fishing

Anthony Avellino, MD, Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington

High-field imaging and functional neurosurgery

Aviva Abosch, MD, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Univ. of Minnesota

Optogenetic neuromodulation in primate motor cortex

Paul Kalanithi, MD, Senior Resident
Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University

Diffusion imaging of pediatric brain tumors

Robert Lober, MD, PhD, Senior Resident
Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University

CyberKnife radiosurgery for the management of skull base and spinal chondrosarcomas

Bowen Jiang MS IV, Stanford

Neural stem cells in the treatment of ischemic stroke: Optimizing delivery and improving outcomes

Jay Nathan, MS IV, Stanford

The use of the intraoperative MRI in pediatric neurosurgery: What have 500 cases taught us?

Lilly Goumnerova, MD, Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Children’s Hospital Boston

Treatment of Wide-necked intracranial aneurysms using a dual catheter technique

Katherine Kunigelis, MS IV, Univ of Virginia

Short stay protocol after endoscopic transsphenoidal resection of pituitary adenomas

Nisha Gadgil, MS IV, Baylor Coll of Med 

Stereotactic radiosurgery for intracranial chondrosarcomas

Aditya Iyer, MS IV, Univ of Pittsburgh

CyberKnife radiosurgery for the management of skull base and spinal chondrosarcomas

Bowen Jiang MS IV, Stanford

Neural stem cells in the treatment of ischemic stroke: Optimizing delivery and improving outcomes

Jay Nathan, MS IV, Stanford

The use of the intraoperative MRI in pediatric neurosurgery: What have 500 cases taught us?

Lilly Goumnerova, MD, Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Children’s Hospital Boston

Treatment of Wide-necked intracranial aneurysms using a dual catheter technique

Katherine Kunigelis, MS IV, Univ of Virginia

Short stay protocol after endoscopic transsphenoidal resection of pituitary adenomas

Nisha Gadgil, MS IV, Baylor Coll of Med 

Stereotactic radiosurgery for intracranial chondrosarcomas

Aditya Iyer, MS IV, Univ of Pittsburgh

MR Neuroimaging Cagematch

Michael Moseley, PhD
Professor of Radiology, Stanford University

Potential gene therapy targets for addiction

Yaroslav Gelfand, MS IV, Cornell

The intrinsic apoptotic pathway:  New targets in cancer therapy and neuroprotection

Derek Yecies, MS IV, Boston University

Use of ERG in Neuromonitoring

Vladyslav Melnyk, MS IV, SUNY Upstate

Inhibitory neuron transplantation: Insights into the developmental cell death and ocular dominance plasticity of the cerebral cortex

Derek Southwell, MD, PhD
Junior Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford Univ.

Medulloblastomics

Yoon-Jae Cho, MD, Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology, Stanford University

The future role of board certification

Daniel Barrow, MD, Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, Emory University

Dendrimer drug delivery & Rabbit spinal fusion model

Lee Hwang, MS IV, UT Southwestern

P-Comm aneurysms: A microcosm in the clip-coil debate

Jonathan Pace, MS IV, Medical College of Wisconsin

Chiari malformation type I and the Chicago chiari outcome scale

Leonardo Aliaga, MS IV, Univ. of Chicago

Leadership development in the age of restricted work hours

Karin Muraszko, MD, Professor and Chair
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan

Calcium-activated chloride channels in hippocampal pyramidal neurons

Wendy Huang, MS IV, Brown Univ.

The role of flow diverting stents in the treatment of internal carotid artery aneurysms

Daniel Donoho, MS IV, SUNY Stony Brook

New brain tumors, update 2012: What can your neuroradiologist really tell you?

Anne Osborn, MD, Professor
Department of Radiology, University of Utah

Biomarkers in academic neurosurgery: EGFRvIII, extracellular RNA, and developing the expert neurosurgeons of the future

Bob Carter, MD, PhD, Professor and Chief
Division of Neurosurgery, UCSD

Estrogen mediated microglial activation and its effect on functional outcomes in a murine model of mild traumatic brain injury

Odera Umeano, MS IV, Duke University

Engineering implantable systems for brain machine interfaces

Farah Laiwalla, MS IV, Brown University

Faster than the blink of an eye: Using electrocorticography to reveal widespread brain activity at the speed of cognition

Kai Miller, MD, PhD
Junior Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford Univ.

Complex chiari malformations:  Recognition and management strategies

Douglas Brockmeyer, MD, Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Utah

Translational neuro-oncology: Turning knowledge into money

John H. Sampson, MD, PhD, Professor
Division of Neurosurgery, Duke University

Interictal spikes in human epilepsy: Investigations of associated single neuron activity

Paul House, MD, Asst. Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Utah

Acute spinal cord injury – new concepts in diagnosis and treatment

Allan Levi, MD, PhD, Professor & Chief
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Miami

Ablative techniques in the management of cancer pain

Ashwin Viswanathan, MD, Asst. Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine

Cerebrospinal fluid movement using a time-spatial labeling inversion pulse technique

J. Gordon McComb, MD, Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Southern California

Identifying the lineage hierarchy in human fetal brain development and high grade glioma

Siddhartha Mitra, PhD, Senior Research Scientist
Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University

Brain metastases

Daniel Silbergeld, MD, Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington Medical Center

Molecular and cellular therapy for ALS

Nicholas Boulis, MD, Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Emory University

Project Shunt – University of Michigan Goes to Guatemala

Karin Muraszko, MD, Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, Univ. of Michigan

New insights into the pathophysiology and treatment of brain and spinal cord injury

W. Dalton Dietrich, PhD, Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, Univ. of Miami

Surgical transplantation of purified human neural stem cells for neurodegenerative disorders: Clinical and anatomical results of a Phase I trial

Nathan Selden, MD, PhD, Professor & Vice Chair
Department of Neurosurgery, Oregon Health & Science University

Three decades of surgery for pediatric craniopharyngioma

Jeffrey Wisoff, MD, Assoc. Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, NYU

Endoscopic management of craniosynostosis: Surgical techniques and long term outcomes

David Jimenez, MD, Professor & Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio

Minimally invasive endoscopic brain and spine surgery

Hae-Dong Jho, MD, PhD, Professor & Chairman
Department of Neuroendoscopy, Allegheny General Hospital

The electric brain: Lessons learned from a decade devoted to DBS

Kelly D. Foote, MD, Assoc. Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Univ. of Florida

Multi-scale data fusion in glioblastoma

Olivier Gevaert, PhD, Research Associate
Department of Radiology, Stanford Univ.

Awake craniotomy – Isn't it time to put it to sleep?

Frederick Boop, MD, Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, Univ. of Tennessee

Frontiers in functional neurosurgery

Roy Bakay, MD, Professor & Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery, Rush University Med. Ctr

Discovering mechanisms that contribute to absence epilepsy: A genetic and a pharmacologic approach

Allyson Alexander, MD, PhD, Senior Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford

A primer on Neuro-Ophthalmology for neurosurgeons

Joyce Liao, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University

An evidence-based approach to multi-modality neuromonitoring

Karen Hirsch, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Stanford Univ.

A primer on Neuro-Ophthalmology for neurosurgeons

Joyce Liao, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University

An evidence-based approach to multi-modality neuromonitoring

Karen Hirsch, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Stanford Univ.

Beyond the Black Bag: Update on Stanford Intraoperative Neuromonitoring

Scheherazade Le, MD, Clinical Instructor, Department of Neurology, Stanford Univ.

Neurosurgery in Uganda

Ramin Eskandari, MD, Clinical Instructor, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford Univ

Postoperative visual loss following prone cases

Karl Zheng, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Stanford Univ.

Minimally invasive approaches to the correction of adult spinal deformity

Richard G. Fessler, MD, PhD, Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Rush University Medical Center

Global neurosurgery: Building capacity through twinning, training and technology in East Africa

Michael Haglund, MD, PhD, Professor
Division of Neurosurgery, Duke University

Controversies in the management of Chiari malformation and tethered spinal cord

Timothy B. Mapstone MD, Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Oklahoma

Lessons from the Neurosurgical Theater: Operation Iraqi Freedom

Gerald Grant, MD, Assoc. Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University Medical Center

Endonasal skull base and pituitary surgery – Where are we now?

Theodore Schwartz, MD, Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medical College

Management of cervical spondylosis and cervical spine deformity

Edward Benzel, MD, Professor & Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic

Fetal surgery for myelomeningocele – The MOMS trial and beyond

Leslie Sutton, MD, Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Paraclinoid aneurysms and related issues

Christopher S. Ogilvy, MD, Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital

Neurosurgical Innovation:  The Vanderbilt Initiative for Surgery and Engineering ~ ViSE ~ a model of collaboration

Reid C. Thompson, MD, Professor & Chairman
Department of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

The utility of the endoscope in neurosurgery

Carl Heilman, MD, Professor & Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, Tufts University School of Medicine

The death of evidence-based neurosurgery?

Stephen J. Haines, MD, Professor & Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota

Decoding the mind at the speed of visual perception

Kai Miller, MD, PhD
Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford Univ.

Neurosurgical outcomes, the advantages and disadvantages of longitudinal database studies

Anand Veeravagu, MD
Senior Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford Univ.

Convection-enhanced delivery for pharmacologic neurosurgery

Russell R. Lonser, MD, Professor & Chairman
Department of Neurological Surgery, Ohio State University

Beyond fusion: Thoughts on spinal fixation

Dennis Maiman, MD, PhD, Professor & Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin

The evolution of epilepsy surgery

Dennis Spencer, MD, Professor & Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine

Degenerative cervical deformity

Vincent Traynelis, MD, Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Rush University Medical Center

Neuroscience centers of excellence: Challenges and opportunities for transformation in a changing healthcare environment

Marc Mayberg, MD, Executive Director
Swedish Neuroscience Institute, Swedish Medical Center

Cerebellopontine angle tumors

Robert Jackler, MD, Professor & Chairman
Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Stanford University

Viruses: a cause and a therapy for tumors

E. Antonio Chiocca, MD, PhD, Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard University

Principles of intradural spine surgery

Paul McCormick, MD, MPH
Professor of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University

The challenge of translation in acute spinal cord injury

Brian Kwon, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia

Post-operative spinal infections

Alexander R. Vaccaro, MD, PhD, Professor
Department of Orthopedics and Neurosurgery, Thomas Jefferson University

Updates in peri-operative medicine:  Should we change our practice?

Sarita Khemani, MD, Asst. Prof, Dept. of Medicine Stanford

Neurosurgical volunteerism in the developing world

Jack P. Rock, MD, Henry Ford Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery, Henry Ford Hospital

The promise of oncolytic viral therapy

James Markert, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair
Director, Division of Neurosurgery, UAB

New frontiers in cerebrovascular and skull base surgery

Saleem I. Abdulrauf, MD, Professor & Chairman
Department of Neurological Surgery, St. Louis University Hospital

The life and times of the Editor-in-Chief

Nelson M. Oyesiku, MD, PhD, Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, Emory University

Changing paradigms of care in neurosurgery

L. Dade Lunsford, MD
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh

Outcomes research and patient access to spine care

John Ratliff, MD, Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University

Lineage-Specific Splicing of a Brain-Enriched Alternative Exon Promotes Glioblastoma Progression

Markus Bredel, MD, PhD, Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology, Neurosurgery, University of Alabama

Outcomes research and patient access to spine care

John Ratliff, MD, Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University

Lineage-Specific Splicing of a Brain-Enriched Alternative Exon Promotes Glioblastoma Progression

Markus Bredel, MD, PhD, Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology, Neurosurgery, University of Alabama

DEPARTMENTALCONFERENCE for July 2014

(Hospital and Professional Staff Only)

Hanbery Meeting

Peer Reviewed Publishing In the Age of the Internet

John R. Adler MD, Dorothy & TK Chan Professor Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University

Sub-Intern Research Presentations 

Moving Towards Anti-Invasive Therapy for Glloblastoma: Studies ofTumor Migration In Living Tumor Tissue
Jonathon J. Parker, PhD
Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Colorado School of Medicine 

Microenvlronmental regulation of Glioblastoma Invasion and Proliferation
Dominique Higgins, MS
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine 

TBA
Bornall Kundu, PhD
University of Wisconsin, Madison

TBA

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for July 2014 

(Hospital and professional staff only)

Update In Grading and Molecular Diagnosis of Brain Tumors  

Dr. Hannes Vogel, Professor of Pathology
Stanford University School of Medicine

CT Perfusion Imaging In Neurosurgery & Its Applications

Max Wintermark, MD, Professor of Radiology, Section Chief of Neuroradiology Department ofNeuroradiology, Stanford University

Dural Fistulas: Diagnosis and Endovascular Treatment

Van Halbach, MD Clinical Professor of Radiology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery
University of California, San Francisco Medical Center

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for August 2014

(Hospital and professional staff only)

Neuroregernadon In Spinal Cord Injury

Dr. Raphael Guzman, Professor of Neurosurgery and Vice Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Basel and the University Children's Hospital of Basel

Current Approaches to Management of lntracranial AVMs  

Office of Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD, Chairman and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
Department of Neurological Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College

Evidence-based solutions for Concussion to Coma

Jamshid Ghajar MD, PhD, FACS, Director of the Stanford Concussion and Brain Health Center
Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine

Glioblastoma in Mice and Man

Eric C. Holland, MD, PhD, Senior Vice President
Director: Division of Human Biology, Solid Tumor Translational Research, Nancy and Buster Alvord Brain Tumor Center
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for August 2014 

(Hospital and professional staff only)

The Case for Asleep DBS (aDBS)

Dr. Kim Burchiel, Professor, Dept of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine Department of Neurological Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University

The Mathematics and the Biophysics of Aneurysm Formation and Rupture

Dr. Charles Prestigiacomo, Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurological Surgery 

Professor, Departments of Radiology and Neurology and Neurosciences Program Director, Residency in Neurological Surgery Director of Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Surgery Department of Neurological Surgery Rutgers New Jersey Medical

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for October 2014 

(Hospital and professional staff only)

HOLIDAY

“Surgical Treatment of Meningiomas: Summary Results form a 20 Year Experience

Dr. Michael McDermott, Vice Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF
Professor in Residence of Neurological Surgery, Halperin Endowed Chair
Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF

TBA

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for November 2014 

(Hospital and professional staff only)

HOLIDAY

HOLIDAY

The Impact of Comprehensive Brain Tumor Centers and Operative Decision Making on Patients with Malignant Brain Tumors

Mark Rosenblum, MD

Mobile Stroke Treatment Units: A new system of cerebrovascular care delivery

Peter A Rasmussen, MD, Director of the Cerebrovascular Center, Cleveland Clinic Cleveland Medical Director of Distance Health

TBA

Howard Yonas, MD Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, University of New Mexico

Departmental Conference for February 2015

(Hospital and Professional staff only)

TBA

Brain Tumors: From Vaccines to Intra-Operative Imaging

Keith Black, MD, Chair
Department of Neurosurgery, Cedar Sinai Medical Center

Next Generation Treabnent for Intra Cerebral Hemorrhage

Neil Martin, MD, Chair
Department of Neurosurgery, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Departmental Conference for January 2015

(Hospital and Professional staff only)

TBA

Anna Joy, Ph.D, Profesor
Barrow Brain Tumor Research Center, Barrow Neurological Institute

TBA

Cutting Edge: Chasing Migratory Cancer Cells

Alfredo-Quinones, MD

Departmental Conference for January 2015 

(Hospital and Professional staff only)

The Neurobiology of Human Language, Recent Memory and Learning: A perspective from Awake Neurosurgery

George Ojemann, MD, Professor-emeritus of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington

Endonasal Endoscopic techniques for skull based lesions: Where are we on Scotts Parabola?

Jacques J. Marcos, MD, Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery and Otolaryngology Co-Director, Microsurgery Training Center,Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery Director of Skull Base and Endoscopic Surgery, Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery and Otolaryngology University of Miami

TBA

Art Day, MD Professor and Vice Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Houston Health Science Center in Houston

Developing New Treatments for Brain Tumors

Henry Brem, MD, Professor and Director
Department of Neurosurgery, John Hopkins University School of Medicine

Departmental Conference for March 2015 

(Hospital and Professional staff only)

TBA

Multicolor Skull Base Surgery

Robert Friedlander, MD, Chairman, Walter E. Dandy Professor of Neurological Surgery Head of Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Neurological Surgery

lmmunotherapy for Brain Tumors

Michael Lim, MD, Director of Brain Tumor lmmunotherapy
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
The John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Oncology and Radiation Oncology

2015 Neuroscience Research Forum

Departmental Conference for April 2015 

(Hospital and Professional staff only)

Brain Power: Wearable Technologies to Reinvent and Re-engage the World of People with Autism

Ned Sahin, postdoctoral fellow
Harvard's Psychology Department and UCSD's Radiology Department

Functional Micro Dissection of Human Speech Cortex

Edwards F. Chang, MD
Associate Professor in Residence of Neurological Surgery and Physiology Co-Director, Center for Neural Engineering at UC Berkeley and San Francisco

Departmental Conference for May 2015 

(Hospital and Professional staff only)

HOLIDAY

Unlearning Abnormal Neuronal Synchrony by Coordinated Reset Neuromodulation

Peter Tass, PhD, Consulting Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Sub-Intern Presentations

Departmental Conference for May 2015

(Hospital and Professional staff only)

A Cellular Dissection and Reconstruction of the Human Cortex

Steven Sloan

HOLIDAY

Unlearning Abnormal Neuronal Synchrony by Coordinated Reset Neuromodulation

Peter Tass, PhD, Consulting Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Sub-Intern Presentations

Departmental Conference for May 2015

(Hospital and Professional staff only)

A Cellular Dissection and Reconstruction of the Human Cortex

Steven Sloan

TBA

Human Astrocyte Progenitor Cell Transplantation into Athymic Rats after Spinal Cord Contusion

Cambia Green 

Network Analysis of Seizure Initiation

Jason Hsieh 

Pial Synangiosis for the Treatment of MoyaMoya Syndrome in Children with Sickle Cell Anemia

Peter Yang 

Gila in Neurodevelopment and Autism

Catherine Edmonson 

Investigation of Neuronal Manganese Regulation on Physiology and Disease

Kevin Kumar

TBA

Jeremy Heit, MD, PhD Clinical Instructor Radiology-Diagnostic Radiology, Stanford University

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for July 2015

(Hospital and professional staff only)

Sub-Intern Presentations 

Treating Failed-Back Surgery Syndrome: a simplistic term for a complex problem
Scoco, Aleka, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 

Investigating the Role of Intraoperative Electrocorticography in Resection of Epileptogenic Gliomas
Theiss, Peter, Columbia University Medical Center 

Utilization of endovascular and Intravenous treatments of acute ischemic stroke in North Carolina
Fatemi, Parastou. Duke Universltiy School of Medicine 

Advances In Peripheral Nerve Repair
Scoville, Jonathon, University of Cincinnati 

A novel, fully-implantable, wirelessly-powered epidural stimulator for reversible optogenetic manipulation of spinal cord circuitry
Morgan, Clinton, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Organization and control of hlppocampal circuits in epilepsy

Ivan Soltesz, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery
Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University

Personalized Medicine in Neurosurgical Oncology

Achal Achrol, MD, Neurosurgery Research Fellow
Stanford University School of Medicine

TBA

(Stanford Neuro-recovery mlnisymposium keynote speaker)

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for August 2015

(Hospital and professional staff only)

lmmunotherapy Platforms for Brain Tumors

Linda Llau MD, Professor and Director of the UCLA Brain Tumor Program
Department of Neurosurgery, UCLA School of Medicine

Skull base course;Microsurglcal Managemen of Cranlopharyngiomas: 3 Decades Experience with 280 cases

Takanori Fukashima, Consulting Professor of Surgery Director, Skull Base Surgery Center
Carolina Neuroscience Institute, PC, Duke University Medical Center

Developing Pediatric Neurosurgery In a Developing Country

Leland Albright, Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for September 2015

(Hospital and professional staff only)

Recent Advances In Surgical Treatment of Spinal Neoplasms

Ziya Gokaslan, chair and chief
Department of Neurosurgery, Brown University

The Aging Spine: Understanding Costs and Outcomes in the United States

Joseph Cheng, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery
Director, Neurosurgery Spine Program, Vanderbilt University

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for October 2015

(Hospital and professional staff only)

HOLIDAY

Current and Future Trends In the Management of Brain Metastases

Raymond Sawaya M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Neurosurgery for Acoustic Neuromas: How Treatments are Evolving

Isaac Yang M.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for November 2015

(Hospital and professional staff only)

HOLIDAY

HOLIDAY

Functional Hierarchies in Brain Tumors: Determinants of Self Renewal vs Differentiation

Peter Dirks, MD, PhD, FRCSC, Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery, University of Toronto

Reinventing Yourself as a Neurosurgeon

Gavin Britz, MD, Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurological Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital

The Future of Cerebrovascular Surgery

Gary Steinberg, MD, PhD, Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for December 2015 

(Hospital and professional staff only)

Exploiting Viruses and Stem Cells to Treat Brain Tumors

Frederick Lang, MD Professor and Director of Clinical Research
Department of Neurosurgery, MD Anderson, University of Texas

Surgical treatment of Post-Traumatic Syringomyelia

Aruna Ganju, MD, Associate Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University

Pituitary Tumors: Modern Surgical Morbidity, Functional Outcomes, and Scientific Approaches

Manish Aghi, Associate Professor in Residence of the Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for January 2016

(Hospital and professional staff only)

Next Generation Immune Therapeutics for Gliomas

Amy Heimberger, MD, Professor
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery,The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

No Grand Rounds 

(ABNS Primary Exam)

Through the Looking Glass: Endoscopic Neurosurgery in 2016

Gabriel Zada, M.D., M.S., Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Southern California

Treatment of Complex Cerebral Aneurysms: Are Bypasses Still Needed?

Laligam N. Sekhar M.D., Professor and vice-chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for February 2016 

(Hospital and professional staff only)

Advancements in the Treatment of Cerebrovascular Disease: Challenges, Opportunities and the UCSD Experience

Alexander A. Khalessi, MD, vice chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, San Diego

TBA

Chirag Patil, MD, Program Director
Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

A New Algorithm for Evidence Based Medicine in Neurosurgery

Robert Harbaugh, MD, University Distinguished Professor and Chair
Department of Neurosurgery, Penn State University

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for March 2016 

(Hospital and professional staff only)

Heterogeneity Through Space and Time Drives the Behaviour of Childhood Medulloblastoma

Michael Taylor, MD, PhD, Associate Professor
Departments of Surgery and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto

Revisiting the Treatment of Adult Craniopharyngioma: A changing Landscape

Kevin O. Lillehei, M.D., Professor and Ogsbury-Kindt Chair Director of Neuro-Oncology Program
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Colorado Hospital

TBA 

Nandan Lad, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for April 2016 

(Hospital and professional staff only)

Neurosurgery & Neurology Grand Rounds Cancelled

Subintern Presentations 

TBA
Meg Riordan, Skull Based Fellow 

Neuronal Activity Promotes Oligodendrogenesis and Adaptive Myelination in the Mammalian Brain
David Purger, MD/PhD student 

TBA
Rogelio Esparza, Medical Student

Correlative Approach to Cerebrovascular Science: Present and the Future

Omar Choudhri MD
Cerebrovascular Fellow, UCSF

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for May 2016 

(Hospital and professional staff only)

High-Grade Glioma Surgery in Utrecht, Netherlands

Kai J Miller, Resident PGY-4
Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University

Intracranial Atherosclerosis: Challenges and Outside the Box Strategies for Management

Nestor Gonzalez, Assistant Professor Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars Sinai-UCLA

Subintern Presentations 

Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy without Static Spinal Cord Compression: A Recipe for Unnecessary Spinal Cord Biopsy
Ryan Planchard 

Surgical management of cervical disc disease
Jordan Xu 

GABA A Receptor Membrane Insertion Rates are Specified by Their Subunit Composition
Adeel Ilyas MS4 

Subgaleal Shunt Cases
Roohi Vinauk, MS4

High-Grade Glioma Surgery in Utrecht, Netherlands

Kai J Miller, Resident PGY-4
Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University

Intracranial Atherosclerosis: Challenges and Outside the Box Strategies for Management

Nestor Gonzalez, Assistant Professor Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars Sinai-UCLA

Subintern Presentations 

Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy without Static Spinal Cord Compression: A Recipe for Unnecessary Spinal Cord Biopsy
Ryan Planchard 

Surgical management of cervical disc disease
Jordan Xu 

GABA A Receptor Membrane Insertion Rates are Specified by Their Subunit Composition
Adeel Ilyas MS4 

Subgaleal Shunt Cases
Roohi Vinauk, MS4

The Evolution of Open Skull Base Surgery 

William Couldwell MD, PhD, FACS, Professor and Chair
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Utah

Understanding Skull Base Tumors:  Discovery and Translation

Ian F. Dunn, Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School

Surgical Correction of Scoliosis in Children with Syrinx without Prior Neurosurgical Decompression

Marc Prablek

 Spreading Depolarization in Response to Injury

Anja I. Srienc, PhD

Reverse Engineering Neural Codes in a Tiny Brain

Joe Bell, MS4

Volume-Outcome Effect of Spinal Cord Stimulators

Kelly Ryan Murphy, MD candidate

Treatment of Basal Arteriovenous Malformations Multi-staged Operations & Barbiturate Anesthesia

Hoi Sang U, Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSD School of Medicine

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for JULY 2016

(Hospital and professional staff only)

How Understanding Thoracolumbar Deformity Principles Improves Treatment of Degenerative Cases

Christopher Shaffrey, MD, Professor and Chair
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia

Subintern presentations

Why are shunts failing my patients?
Mark Kraemer, University of Wisconsin

The role of the PAS domain of Phosphodiesterase A in CpDR mediated degradation by ClpXP
Nathan Colon, Drexel University College of Medicine

Convection Enhanced Delivery for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG): Moving Beyond Feasibility

Mark Souweidane, MD, Vice Chairman and Professor Department of  Neurological Surgery
Director of Pediatric Neurological Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for August 2016

(Hospital and professional staff only)

Spinal Cord Injury Treatment at Shock Trauma

Bizhan Aarabi, MD, Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland

Subintern presentation

Can Better Communication Prevent Suffering? Lessons from Emergency General Surgery, Neuro-Oncology, and Neurosurgery

Stephen Miranda

Sagittal Spinal Alignment

Robert Heary, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Learning from Tumor to Treat Stroke

Edward Smith, MD, Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for September 2016

(Hospital and professional staff only)

Combination Immunotherapy for Malignant Glioma

William T. Curry, MD, Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital

Separation Surgery and Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Spine Tumors: Why less really is more?

Mark H. Bilsky, MD, Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, Cornell University-Weill Medical College

Evidence towards Guidance: Evidence-based Medicine and Neurological Surgery

Mark Hadley, MD, Endowed Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

Thanksgiving Holiday

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for October  2016

(Hospital and professional staff only)

The History of Neurosurgical Treatment of Vestibular Schwannomas (Acoustic Neuromas) and Current Management Strategies

Rafael Jesus Tamargo, M.D, Professor and Vice Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, John Hopkins University School of Medicine

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for November 2016

(Hospital and professional staff only)

Christmas Holiday

New Year's Holiday

Interneuronal Complicity in Ictogenesis

Taufik A. Valiant, MD, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Surgery, University of Toronto

Brain Tumors

Albert H. Kim, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, Washington University

Primary Spinal Column Tumors: Evaluation and Management

Laurence Rhines, MD, Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for December 2016

(Hospital and professional staff only)

Phase 0 Clinical Trial Paradigms for Brain Tumors

Nader Sanai, MD, FAANS, FACS, Associate Professor

Department of Neurological Surgery, Barrow Neurological Institute

SCI at UCSF- Acute Care and Research

Sanjay Dhall MD, Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, UCSF

Director, Spinal Neurotrauma, San Francisco General Hospital

American Healthcare:  Can it be fixed?

William A. Friedman, MD, Chairman and Professor

 Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for January 2017

(Hospital and professional staff only)

Surgical Options for Gliomas

Pierre A. Robe, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of Neurosurgery

Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center of Utrecht

Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery in Children

James “Andy” Stadler, III MD, Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellow

Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University

No Grand Rounds

Intracranial Recording During DBS Surgery: Subthalamic and Cortical-subthalamic Coding of Speech Production

R. Mark Richardson, MD, PhD, FAANS, Assistant Professor and director
Department of Epilepsy and Movement Disorders Surgery, UPMC Presbyterian

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for March 2016

(Hospital and professional staff only)

Dissecting the Patient Experience of Lumbar Surgery

Michael Steinemetz, MD, Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Strategies for sensory reanimation of paralyzed limb

Timothy H. Lucas, Jr, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania

No Grand Rounds

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for March 2017

(Hospital and professional staff only)

Importance of Enovascular Training for Residents

Elad Levy, MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Buffalo

Management of Skull Base Malignancy

Franco DeMonte, MD
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas MD Anderson

Rapid-Sequence Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Evaluation and Surveillance in Chiari I Malformation

James Pan, Medical Student

Optimizing Targeting of the Nucleus Accumbens in Deep Brain Stimulation

Sam Cartmell, Medical Student

Endothelial cell therapy, waveguide nanofabrication, and single molecule studies of protein synthesis

Ryan Jamiolkowski, Medical Student

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for April 2017

(Hospital and professional staff only)

Vertebral Column Resection for Severe spinal Deformity

Lawrence Lenke, MD
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Columbia Medical School

2017 Neuroscience Research Forum

Odette Harris, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford

June 16, 2017 •• LKSC-120

Human iPSC derived corticospinal neuron transplants for acute and chronic cervical spinal cord injury

Giles Plant, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford

The How When Where Why of Blood Loss During Spine Surgery

Karl Zheng, Assistant Professor and Director

Department of Epilepsy and Movement Disorders Surgery, Stanford

DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE for May 2017

(Hospital and professional staff only)