8 AM

AOBS Clinical Examination

8-10

Pay for Performance

10-11:30

ACOS Members Meeting

12:30-1:30

NSD Business Meeting

2-2:30

Malpractice protection a physician’s view

Jeffrey Segal, MD

2:30-4:30

Total lawsuit and asset protection

Larry Oxenham

4:30-4:40

Break

4:40-5:00

Witness Protection- the neurosurgeon as Expert and Defendant

Michael Moncman, DO

5:00-5:20

The Role of the 

Neurosurgeon in the Management of

Cerebral Concussions

Jamie Macnutt, DO

TRAUMA/ICU/SHI

5:20-5:40

Discogenic Back pain

Rob Dickerman, DO

5:40-6:00

Risks and benefits of acutely lowering SBP in ICH

Brian Miller, DO

6:00-6:20

Timing of operation for spontaneous hypertensive ICH

Boyd Richards, DO

TRAUMA/ICU/SHI

800-820

SNRB: Diagnostic and therapeutic

Roland Chalifoux, DO

820-840

How to repair the skull base with tape and dung- lessons from the war

Brett Schifka, DO

840-910

Galen: Modern neurosurgeon in ancient times

Dawn Tartaglione, DO

Guest Lecturers

910-1040

From MINT to Global Skull Base Resection:  Importance of keyhole concept and

super-micron neurosurgery

Takanori Fukushima, MD

1040-1050

Break

1050-1120

The Neurosurgeons livelihood in sports medicine, on the field, helping return the athlete to competition, and what the athlete should not do before playing.

Julian Bailes, MD

1120-1150

Is the hassle of setting up and using Telemedicine worth the return?

Julian Bailes, MD

1150-1230

Having Long-term results with complex aneurysms- What do I do now?

Julian Bailes, MD

October 20, 2007

Saturday 8:00 am-12:30

1:30-6:00 PM

TRAUMA/ICU/SHI

800-820

Cranial Spinal Applications Robotic Image Guided Neurosurgery

Raul Rodas, DO

820-840

Hypertonic saline use in children

Stephen Fletcher, DO

TUMOR

840-900

Round Table Discussion: Work-up & treatment for metastatic disease, case presentation

Johnathan Bussey, DO

900-920

Risks and benefits of focused beam radiation in acoustic neuroma (P)

Frank Hux, DO

920-940

Considerations to Minimize Complications in Tumors Around the Brainstem in Children

Stephen Fletcher, DO

940-1000

Craniopharyngioma: Pathology, treatment, prognosis (P)

Ngyeun Do, DO

1000-1010

Break

1010-1020

Medical versus surgical treatment for giant pituitary prolactinomas & for prolactin levels greater than 500

Akram Mamoud, DO

1020-1040

Results of image guided robotic radiosurgery treatment of post resection metastatic tumor bed

Jason Seibley, DO

1040-1100

Surgical approaches, anatomy and techniques to acoustic neuroma in patients with marginal hearing: retrosigmoid, translabrynthine, middle fossa (S)

Mohammad Rahman, DO

1100-1120

Benefits of brain metabolism monitoring (Licox/Neurotrend): What’s the Protocol?

Dan Miulli, DO

1120-1140

Endoscopic anterior skull base surgery

Dan Pieper, MD

VASCULAR

1140-1200

What Do You Want to do When you finish residency?

Darryl Warner, DO

1200-1230

Outcomes related to intravascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms in the community hospital setting

Mohammed Rohmen, DO

12:30-1:15

Lunch

1:15-1:25

Resident Award Paper 1^ST Prize

Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion and Pedicle Screw Fixation: An Excellent Technique for Treatment of Chronic Lower Back Pain Secondary to Spondylolisthesis or Degenerative Disc Disease With or Without Associated Stenosis

Boyd Richards, DO

1:25-1:35

Resident Award Paper 2^nd Prize

Postoperative CyberKnife Radiosurgery for Single Brain Metastases

Will Beringer, DO

1:35-1:45

150-2:20

Is there success with intracranial bypass?

John Cantando, DO

220-250

Neurosurgical neuroanatomy: localizing cerebral lesions of stroke & tumor

Darryl Warner, DO

250-320

Surgical management of dissecting vertebral artery aneurysm

Keith Kattner, DO

320-330

Break

FUNCTIONAL

330-350

Anatomical localization of movement disorders

Alon Mogilner, MD

350-410

Brain Death

Dan Miulli, DO

410-430

Intraoperative monitoring: BSAER, SSEP, audiogram reading

Greg Mick, DO

430-450

Implantation of subthalamic electrodes (S)

Alon Mogilner, MD

SPINE/PAIN

4:50-5:10

The Use of Moderate Hypothermia in Acute Spinal Cord Injury

Chris Mickler, DO

800-820

Graft complications

David MacDougal, DO

820-840

Treatment of syringomyelia (P)

David MacDougal, DO

840-900

Treatment for lumbar spondylosis: review of cases

Wayne Waterman, DO

900-920

Thoracic surgery: laminectomy, transpedicular, costotransverse, transthoracic

Brad Hall, DO

920-940

Thoracic surgery: endoscopic

Larry Armstrong, DO

940-1000

Minimally invasive fusion technique

Joe Queeney, DO

1000-1020

Spinal cord repair: state of the art

Richardo Estrada, DO

1020-1040

Eggshell Corpectomy: for complex Thoraco-lumbar lesions

Qualls Stevens, DO

1040-1100

Lumbar disk regeneration

Dan Laich, DO

1100-1120

Discogram benefits and new concerns

Nicholas Qandah, DO