SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

June 16-20, 2007
Rocky Mountain Neurosurgical Society
Jackson Hole, Wyoming


Sunday, June 17, 2007

 

MODERATOR: Mary K. Gumerlock


07:00-07:55 Breakfast

 

08:00-08:15 Introductory Remarks and Welcome
President Mary K. Gumerlock, M.D.


08:00-12:00 SCIENTIFIC SESSION I


08:15-08:35 A Sheep Study Comparing Two Different Preparations of rhBMP-2 to Autograft in an Instrumented Lumbar Corpectomy and Spinal Reconstruction Model
David G. Schwartz; Amisha Patel; Jean-Pierre Mobasser; Eric Potts; Joseph Williams; Carl Graf; Joseph Riina; Matthew Paddack; Jeffrey Toth; Shane Rose


08:35-08:55 Stereotactic Radiosurgery as Primary Treatment for Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma and Melanoma
Dennis Shrieve and Randy L. Jensen

 

08:55-09:15 Blast Injury to the Spinal Cord Causing Syringomyelia: a Case Report and Literature Review
Oscar Szentirmai; Glenn Kindt

 

09:15-09:35 Efficacy of Magnesium in a Rodent Model of Spinal Cord Injury
Andrew T. Dailey

 

09:35-09:55 C 2-3 Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion: A Special Case?
Michael Finn and Joel MacDonald

 

09:55-10:15 A Sheep Study Evaluating Fusion Rates Using rhBMP-2 in a Morselized Absorbable Collagen Sponge (ACS) Carrier Combined with Resorbable Ceramic Granules in an Instrumented Lumbar Corpectomy Spinal Reconstruction Model
David G. Schwartz; Amisha Patel; Jean-Pierre Mobasser; Eric Potts; Joseph Williams; Carl Graf; Joseph Riina; Matthew Paddack; Jeffrey Toth; Shane Rose

 

10:15-10:30 Break

 

10:30-11:00 SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE:
Medical Evidence-Based Guidelines on the Management of Acute Cervical Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries

Mark Hadley

 

11:00-12:00 Firing Line: Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury- Please Bring Interesting Cases

 

NOON ADJOURN

 

MONDAY, June 18, 2007

 

MODERATOR: Randy L. Jensen

 

07:00-07:55 Breakfast

 

08:00-12:00 SCIENTIFIC SESSION II

 

08:00-08:20 Carotid Endarterectomy: Experience in the Endovascular Age
Larry D. Tice

 

08:20-08:40 Early Stent Assisted Coiling on Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysms
Young-Joon Kim

 

08:40-09:00 Surgical Anatomy of the Relationship Between the Frontal Sinus and the Supraorbital Notch
William B. Schueler; Eric H. Sincoff

 

09:00-09:20 MEG Enhances Lesion Detection of MRI in Patients with Epilepsy
Paul A. House

 

09:20-09:40 A Sheep Study Evaluating Fusion Rates Using rhBMP-2 in a Compression Resistant Matrix (CRM) carrier in an Instrumented Lumbar Corpectomy Spinal Reconstruction Model
David G. Schwartz; Amisha Patel; Jean-Pierre Mobasser; Eric Potts; Joseph Williams; Carl Graf; Joseph Riina; Matthew Paddack; Jeffrey Toth; Shane Rose

 

09:40-10:00 A Sheep Study Evaluating Fusion Rates Using Autograft in an Instrumented Lumbar Corpectomy Spinal Reconstruction Model
David G. Schwartz; Amisha Patel; Jean-Pierre Mobasser; Eric Potts; Joseph Williams; Carl Graf; Joseph Riina; Matthew Paddack; Jeffrey Toth; Shane Rose

 

10:00-10:30 Break

 

10:30-11:00 SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE:
Harvey Cushing and the Birth of Neurosurgery

Michael Bliss

11:00-11:30 Local Naturalist/Geologist

 

11:30-12:00 Firing Line: Management of Vascular Disorders - Please Bring Interesting Cases

 

NOON ADJOURN

 

TUESDAY, June 19, 2007

 

MODERATOR: Mike Brown

 

07:00-07:55 Breakfast

 

07:30-07:55 ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING FOR RMNS MEMBERS

 

08:00-12:00 SCIENTIFIC SESSION III

 

08:00-08:20 Development of A Novel Intracranial Meningioma Mouse Model Using Luciferase Expressing Meningioma Cells And Preliminary Results of Tumor Growth Inhibition by Combination Chemotherapy and Calcium Channel Antagonists
Randy L Jensen; Brian T Ragel; David L Gillespie

 

08:20-08:40 Do Trauma Patients with GCS of 15 and Minimal CT Findings Require Neurosurgical Consultation?
Basheer A. Shakir and Mary Kay Gumerlock

 

08:40-09:00 Decompressive Hemicraniectomy for the Treatment of Intracranial Hypertension: An Institutional Experience
Brad Duhon; Richard Schmidt; Ramin Eskandari

 

09:00-09:20 Neurosurgeon to the Gladiators
Albert Capanna

 

09:20-09:40 All Terrain Vehicles; A Public Health Concern
Michael A. Finn and Joel D. MacDonald


09:40-10:00 Degenerative Pannus of the Elderly
Michael A. Finn and Ronald I. Apfelbaum

 

10:00-10:30 Break

 

10:30-11:00 SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE: Perfusion Pressure Management in the Perioperative Treatment of Spinal Cord Pathology
Mark Hadley

 

11:00-11:30 Firing Lines: General Neurosurgery Cases


NOON AJOURN


WEDNESDAY, June 20

 

07:00-07:55 Breakfast

 

08:00-12:00 SCIENTIFIC SESSION IV

 

MODERATOR: Joel D. MacDonald

 

08:00-08:20 Gemcitabine Neurotoxicity in Rats Following Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption
Pal Randahawa, Paul Tompkins, Lilly Wong, and Mary K. Gumerlock

 

08:20-08:40 The Use of Bone Morphogenetic Protein for High Risk Cervical Fusions
Stewart Levy

 

09:00-09:20 Incorporation of Functional MRI Data into Neuro-Navigational Guidance for Optimization of Tumor Resection Near Eloquent Cortex
Kris Smith

 

09:20-10:00 SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE:
The Cushing-Dandy Controversy

Michael Bliss

 

10:00-10:30 Break

 

10:30-11:05 Use of an Endovascular Stent to Repair Iliac Artery Injury during Lumbar Microdiscectomy
Mike Brown

 

11:05-11:25 Overexpression of Dimethylarginine Dimethylaminohydrolast Inhibits ADMA-Induced Endothelial Dysfunction in Cerebral Circulation
Hayan Dayoub, Roman Rodionov, Cynthia Lynch, John P. Cooke, Steven R. Lentz, Frank M. Faraci

 

11:25 Closing Remarks
Mark K. Gumerlock

NOON MEETING ADJOURN