Pittsburgh, August 28, 2025 -- A University of Pittsburgh abstract by lead author and Pitt med student Suchet Taori—a participant in Pitt’s Physician Scientist Training Program—has been awarded the prestigious Lunsford and Leksell Radiosurgery Award from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
Taori will present the abstract, 'Leveraging Machine Learning to Develop a Novel, Intuitive, and Interpretable Risk Assessment Score for Predicting Local Tumor Progression After Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Spinal Metastases,' at the CNS annual meeting Monday, October 13, in Los Angeles at the Sunrise Science Section at 10:00 a.m.
The Lunsford and Leksell Radiosurgery Award is presented by the CNS for a high-scoring scientific abstract on stereotactic radiosurgery. The award honors L. Dade Lunsford, MD, University of Pittsburgh pioneer in SRS, and Lars Leksell, the inventor of the Leksell Gamma Knife.
Co-authors on the abstract include Sam Adida; Shovan Bhatia; Michael Kann; James Cushing Bayley, MD; Pascal Zinn, MD, PhD; Steven Burton, MD; John Flickinger, PhD; Roberta Sefcik, MD, and Peter Gerszten, MD.