Scientific Program

RMNS 2004 Squaw Creek, California

 

Sunday, June 13th
7:00-7:55 am Breakfast

8:00-8:10 am Introductory Remarks and Welcome
Vance MacDonald M.D.

8:15-8:25 am An Initial Review of Posterior Lateral Lumbar Fusion Using Autogeneic Rib and Morselized Local Bone Grafts, Jeffery J. Drees, Howard Morgan

8:30-8:40 am Pathologic Excrescences as an Etiology of Lumbar Stenosis, Matthew Y. Chang, Glenn Kindt, Chun I Sze, William Huffer, Bette Kleinschmidt-Demasters.

8:45-8:55 am Unilateral Pedicle Screw Fixation with Posterolateral Bone Graft Fusion for Treatment of Lumbar Spondylosis and Spondylolithesis, Robert Beatty.

9:00-9:10 am C1-2 Vertical Distraction: Radiological Assessment and Treatment, Luis Gonzalez, David Fiorella, Neil R Crawford, Iman Feiz-Erfan, Denise Drumm, Stephen M Papadopoulos, Volker Sonntag.

9:15-9:25 am Total Disc Arthroplasty: Current Update, Pat Johnson.

9:30-9:40 am Spinal Deformity and the Neurosurgeon, Pat Johnson

9:45-9:55 Preliminary experience in spondylolithesis reduction using the SOCON system. Wayne Gluf, Joel MacDonald

10:00-10:30 am Break

10:30-10:55 am SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE, Kevin Foley, Lumbar Disc
Arthroplasty: Current Status

11:00-11:10 am Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment of Tremor and Parkinson's Disease-Transition from a Frame-based Leksell System to a Frameless Fiducial Based System. Paul C Francel

11:15-11:25 am Radioisotope Shuntograms at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Michael Vassilydi

11:30-11:45 am Factors leading to success and failure of neurosurgeons in the marketplace. James I. Ausman M.D., Ph.D.

NOON ADJOURN

MONDAY, June 14th
7:00-7:55 am Breakfast

8:00-8:10 am Neurogenic Pulmonary Edema Following Subarachnoid Hemorrhage-Presence of a Cardiogenic Component. Nancy McLauglin and Michel Bojanowski.

8:15-8:25 am Early Surgical Complications After Aneursym Clipping-Analysis of Etiologies and Patient Outcomes. . Nancy McLauglin and Michel Bojanowski.

8:30-8:40 am Incidence and Pattern of Neurovascular Injury Associated with Trauma to the Skull Base. Iman Feiz-Erfan, Eric M Horn, Joseph M Zambramski, Nicholas Theodore.

8:45-8:55 am Craniotomy for Occulomotor Palsy Secondary to Endovascular Treatment of Posterior Communicating Artery Aneursym. Talmadge Trammell, Jonathan White, and Duke Samson.

9:00-9:10 am A Reproducible Endovascular Canine Stroke Model. Eric Deshaies, Celso Agner, John Popp, Alan S Boulos.

9:15-9:25 am The Transzygomatic Extended Middle Fossa Approach for Petrous-to-Supraclinoid Carotid Artery Bypass. James K Liu, Takanori Fukushima, Ossama Al-Mefty, William Couldwell.

9:30-9:40 am A Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating The Effectiveness Of A Lumbar Drain In Reducing Clinical Vasospasm After Aneurismal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Paul Klimo and Richard Schmidt

9:45-9:55 am The Use Of Artifical Intelligence Models In Predicting Clinical Vasospasm. Paul Klimo, Richard Schmidt, and Joel MacDonald.

10:00-10:30 am Break

10:30-10:55 am SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE, Arthur Day, Treatment of Unruptured Aneurysms-surgical, endovascular, or neither.

11:00-11:10 am Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm Encased in a Pilocytic Astrocytoma in a Female Withoug History of Previous Radiation Therapy. Debra L.Steele.

11:15-11:25 am Thrombotic Intracranial Aneurysm: Classification Scheme and Management Strategies in Sity-eight Patients. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa M.D., Edward Chang M.D., and Michael Lawton M.D.

11:30-11:55 am Firing line

12:00 NOON ADJOURN

GOLF

TUESDAY, June 15th
7:00-7:55 am Breakfast

8:00-8:10 am Occipitoatlantal and atantoaxial Fixation with Transarticular Screws, Luis F. Gonzales, Curtis Dickman

8:15-8:25 am C1-2 Transarticular Screw Fixation: Experience in 260 patients Wayne Gluf, Douglas Brockmeyer, Meic H Schmidt, Ronald Apfelbaum.

8:30-8:40 am Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy and Depression: A Cohort of 89 Patients. Paul C Francel

8:45-8:55 am Multilevel Anterior Cervical Decompression And Fusion-A 15-Year Experience With Long-Term Follow-Up. Paul Klimo and Ronald Apfelbaum.

9:00-9:10 am A Comparison Using Fibular Allograft And Iliac Crest Allograft When Using The ABC Dynamic Cervical Plate In Anterior Cervical Discectomy With Fusions Wayne Gluf, Meic Schmidt, Andrew T Dailey, Ronald Apfelbaum.

9:15-9:25 am Synthetic Hydrogel Guidance Channels Facilitate Regeneration of Adult Rat Brainstem Motor Axons After Complete Spinal Cord Transection. Eve C. Tsai, Paul D Dalton, Molly S Shoichet, Charles H Tator.

9:30-9:40 am Small Transverse Wrist Incision to Treat Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Robert M. Beatty

9:45-9:55 am Percutaneous Posterior Exposure for Non-degenerative Spinal Pathology, E. Thomas Chappell, Laura Pare, Mohammed Salepour.

10:00-10:30 am Break

10:30-10:55 am SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE, Kevin Foley, "Minimally Invasive Lumbar Fusion and Fixation

11:00-11:10 am Seatbelt Transient Brachial Plexopathy. Albert Capanna.

11:15-11:25 am Use Of Wide, Unilateral Decompressive Craniectomy And Duraplasty To Treat Elevated Intracranial Pressure From Traumatic Brain Injury. Daniel Fassett, Paul Klimo, and Richard Schmidt.

11:30-11:40 am Isocentric 3-D Fluoroscopic Navigation for Spinal Surgery. Alan Villavicenico, Sigita Burneikience, Jeffery Thramann

11:45-12:00 CNS Speakers Bureau, Richard Ello

12:00 NOON ADJOURN

TENNIS

WEDNESDAY, June 14th
7:00-7:55 am Breakfast

8:00-8:10 am Growth Inhibition By Chemotherapy for Meningiomas is Potentiated by Calcium Channel Antagonists, Randy Jensen, Vitaly Kushnir, Brian Ragel, David Gillespie.

8:15-8:25 am NSAIDS as a Possible Treatment for Meningiomas, Brian Ragel, James K Liu, David Gillespie, Kum Whang, Randy L Jensen, William T Couldwell.

8:30-8:40 am Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1 Inhibition by Short-Interfering RNA Techniques for Treatment of Malignant Gliomas, Randy Jensen David Gillespie

8:45-8:55 am Endoscopic Resection of Hypothalamic Hamartomas, Luis F. Gonzalez, Gregory P Lekovic, Harold Rekate, Yu Tze Ng, Steven Chung.

9:00-9:10 am fMRI for Neurosurgical Mapping: Integration and Correlation with Intraoperative Mapping Techniques. Samuel Browd, James Tucker, Randy Jensen, James Lee.

9:15-9:25 am Middle Fossa Approach in Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery: Postoperative Hearing and Facial Nerve Outcomes. Zeena Dorai, and Caetano Coimbra.

9:30-9:40 am Prospective Phase I-II Trial of Up-Front Gamma Knife Boost
Following Gliadel Implant In Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma Multiforme. Kris Smith, David Brachman, Thomas Terry.

9:45-9:55 am New experimental Protocols for Gliomas, Kevin Lillehei

10:00-10:30 am Break

10:30-10:55 am SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE, Arthur Day, Maintenance of certification.

11:00-11:10 Results of a Prospective, Multi-center Study of a New Dural Substitute (Durasis). Joseph Zabramski.

11:15-11:30 SANS. Joel MacDonald

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