University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery faculty and residents participated in a number of lectures, presentations and symposiums at the 2023 Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting held September 9-13 in Washington, D.C. The theme for this year’s meeting was "Imagine, Innovative, Inspire."
Saturday, September 9
3D Surgical Neuroanatomy (SYM01B)
Symposium
12:45 - 4:15 p.m.
Course Director: Juan Carlos Fernandez-Miranda
Faculty: Sumit Sinha, Pablo Augusto Rubino, Mustafa Kemal Baskaya, Paul A. Gardner, Samy K. Youssef, Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol, Necmettin Tanriover, Ugur Ture
Endoscopic Applications in Pediatric Neurosurgery (SYM04)
Symposium
8:00 a.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Course Directors: Carolina Sandoval-Garcia, Catherine Faith McClung Smith
Faculty: Neena Ishwari Marupudi, Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez, Erin Nicole Kiehna, Sergio Cavalheiro, Samer K. Elbabaa, Hal S. Meltzer, Caitlin E. Hoffman
Transforming Neurosurgery through Technology: The Innovation Symposium
Special Symposium
8:00 a.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Course Director: Nicole Bentley
Faculty: Analiz Rodriguez, Nicholas Theodore, Anna Turetsky, Eric C. Leuthardt, Carl B. Heilman, Kevin T. Foley, Juan S. Uribe, Constantinos Hadjipanayis, Martin Dieck, Leo Petrossian, J D. Mocco, Carlos Pena, David D. Gonda, Adel M. Malek, Adnan Hussain Siddiqui, Vijay Agarwal, Eric C. Peterson, Martin H Pham, Elad I. Levy, Raymond D. Turner, IV, Rupa Gopalan Juthani, Michael Edward Sughrue
2023 CNS Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery for Residents (SYM10)
Symposium
8:00 a.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Course Directors: Stacey Q. Wolfe, Christopher P. Kellner
Speakers: Mandy Jo Binning, Justin Robert Mascitelli, Christopher S. Ogilvy, Michael J. Lang, Dimitri Sigounas, Nina Z. Moore, Jeremiah N. Johnson, Daniel Hoit, Erol Veznedaroglu, Aditya S. Pandey, Jan-Karl Burkhardt, Phil Taussky
Cutting-Edge Treatments in Neurotrauma (SYM02B)
Symposium
12:45 - 4:15 p.m.
Course Directors: James Monroe Wright, III, Patricia B. Raksin
Faculty: Bizhan Aarabi, Berje Haroutuon Shammassian, Rajiv Saigal, Ann Margaret Parr, David O. Okonkwo, Jack Jallo, Shelly D. Timmons, Randy Scott Bell
Sunday, September 10
Swimming with the Sharks: Thriving in the Neurosurgery Match and Residency (SYM19A)
Symposium
8:00 a.m. - noon
Course Directors: Nitin Agarwal, D. Kojo Hamilton
Faculty: Mark N. Hadley, Francisco A. Ponce, Ezequiel Goldschmidt, Joseph C. Maroon, Ashwini Dayal Sharan, Jeffrey Paul Mullin, Melissa L. Lukehart, Michael M. Haglund, Michael E. Ivan, E. Sander Connolly, Jr., Akash J. Patel, Daniel Tonetti, Krystal Lynne Tomei, Nathan Zwagerman, Renee M. Reynolds, James M. Markert, Jr., Douglas S. Kondziolka, David L Dornbos III, III, Martina Stippler, Randy L. Jensen, Ramesh Grandhi, Sepideh Amin-Hanjani, Vikram Chakravarthy, Robert Friedlander, Stacey Q. Wolfe, Bryan Lieber, Lola Blackwell Chambless, Greg J. Murad
Sellar and Suprasellar Tumors Outside the Box A high-yield CNS collaboration with the North American Skull Base Society
Special Symposium
8:00 a.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Course Directors: Siviero Agazzi, Maria Peris-Celda, Timothy DeKlotz
Faculty: Claudia Kirsch, Susmeeta Sharma, Manish Kumar Aghi, Marla Sevilla Alsina, Viviane S. Tabar, Sajeel Chowdhary, Juan Carlos Fernandez-Miranda, Jamie Joseph Van Gompel, James K. Liu, Jason P. Sheehan, Prashant Chittiboina, Brian Collins, Nithin Adappa, Nyall London, Garni Barkhoudarian, Amir Dehdashti, Carlos Pinheiro Neto, Arjun Parasher, Frederick George Barker, II, Daniel M. Prevedello, Michael J. Link, Elizabeth C. Tyler-Kabara, Paul A. Gardner, Joshua Palmer, Jonathan Morris, James J. Evans
Monday, September 11
Risk factors associated with baclofen pump infection in children translated into health-care costs: A retrospective analysis from The Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh experience from 2009-2020 (#267)
Sunrise Science Session: Pediatric
7:36 - 7:42 a.m.
Presenting Abstract Author: Ricardo Fernández-de Thomas
Exoscope Fluorescence-Guided Live Surgery Video Demonstration
2:05 - 3:05 p.m.
Surgeon: Costas G. Hadjipanayis
Moderator: Paul Gardner
Spinal Cord Injury in Athletes (#SP1A)
Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves 1: Latest Advances in Spine Surgery
2:50 - 3:00 p.m.
Speaker: David O. Okonkwo
Time to Follow Commands in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Survivors With Favorable Recovery at 2 Years (#TR1E)
2023 Top Neurotrauma and Critical Care Paper of the Year
Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care 1: Management of TBI: From Bench to Bedside
3:40 - 3:46 p.m.
Speaker: Hansen Deng
Tuesday, September 12
Introduction of Honored Guest: Douglas Kondziolka (#GSS3I)
General Scientific Session III
10:55 - 11:00 a.m.
Speaker: L. Dade Lunsford
My Worst Spinal Complications: Lessons Learned (T23)
Luncheon Seminar
12:20 - 1:50 p.m.
Moderators: Jason E. McGowan, Praveen V. Mummaneni
Faculty: Joseph S. Cheng, Nitin Agarwal, Christopher E. Wolfla, Daniel K. Resnick, Andrew James Grossbach, Gerald ("Rusty") E. Rodts, Jr., Michael P. Steinmetz
Complex Skull Base Approaches (T15)
Luncheon Seminar
12:20 - 1:50 p.m.
Moderators: Olabisi Sanusi, Vijay Agarwal
Faculty: Laligam N. Sekhar, Georgios Zenonos, Mario Zuccarello, Shaan Mohammed Raza
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery to Treat Neurofibromatosis Type 2-associated Meningiomas: A 35 Year Experience and Paradigm for Future Treatment (#199)
Section on Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 2: Functional Neurooncology: Approaches to Cancer and Cancer Pain
4:12 - 4:18 p.m.
Abstract Presenter: Ajay Niranjan
Challenges of Writing an Educational Neurosurgery Textbook
Special Session: Neurosurgeons as Authors
5:35 - 5:55 p.m.
Speaker: Nitin Agarwal
Debate: ACDF Implant Material: Allograft Versus Peek Versus Titanium (OT11D)
Special Session: Case Based Debates: Cervical
5:36 - 5:56 p.m.
Speakers: Kevin T. Foley, Anand Veeravagu, David O. Okonkwo
Interactive Poster Presentations
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Faculty: Jason Dean Stacy, Nitin Agarwal, Anthony Michael DiGiorgio, Cara L. Sedney, Laura Stone Stone McGuire
Zoom 45 and 55 aspiration catheters for medium and distal vessel mechanical thrombectomy
Interactive Poster Presentation #667
Presenting Abstract Author: Gautam M. Nayar
Associating T2-weighted MRI Radiomic Signatures with Preoperative Symptom Severity in Patients with Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
Interactive Poster Presentation #747
Presenting Abstract Author: Sharath Anand
Cerebellum Chloride Transport Protein Expression Plasticity in Response to Experimental Ischemic Stroke
Interactive Poster Presentation #665
Presenting Abstract Author: Daryl Fields II
Early Surgery is Associated with Reduced Opioid Prescription Use in Patients with TLICS 4 Spine Fractures
Interactive Poster Presentation #885
Presenting Abstract Author: Daryl Fields II
Preoperative Prealbumin as a Risk Factor for Pseudoasthrosis Following Lumnar Spine Surgery
Interactive Poster Presentation #1080
Presenting Abstract Authors: Ricardo Fernández-de Thomas, Eric Nturibi
Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Vestibular Schwannomas in Octogenarians: A Retrospective Analysis of Outcomes and Complications
Interactive Poster Presentation #1191
Presenting Abstract Author: Jeffrey Head
Classification of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Anatomo-Clinico-Electrical Hypotheses: A Stereo EEG Study
Interactive Poster Presentation #1135
Presenting Abstract Author: Arka Mallela
Wednesday, September 13
Sunrise Science Session: Medical Education Training
7:00 - 8:30 a.m.
Moderators: Nitin Agarwal, David Delmar Limbrick, Jr.
Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Vestibular Schwannoma in Neurofibromatosis Type 2: An International Multicenter Case Series of Response and Malignant Transformation Risk (#GSS4R)
General Scientific Session IV
11:52 - 11:58 p.m.
Speaker: Hussam Abou-Al-Shaar