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Full Schedule

  • Saturday, April 26, 2025
  • 6:30 AM - 4:30 PM EDT
    AANS Registration at the BCEC
  • 7:00 AM - 7:45 AM EDT
    Breakfast Bites: The Expanding Role of MR-Guided Laser Ablation in Brain Tumor Care
    Industry Sponsored
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM EDT
    Beverage Break in the AANS Exhibit Hall
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM EDT
    Big Ten Executive Committee Meeting
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM EDT
    Practice Management Committee Meeting
  • 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM EDT
    AANS/CNS Section on Women in Neurosurgery (WINS) Breakfast
    TicketedSocial Event
  • 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    Badge Pick-up Medical Attendees
  • 7:00 AM - 3:45 PM EDT
    AANS Exhibit Hall
  • 7:15 AM - 3:30 PM EDT
    Neuro Spotlight: Sinai BioDesign: Academic Device Development in Neurosurgery
    Industry Sponsored
  • 7:40 AM - 8:00 AM EDT
    Neuro Spotlight: Clinical Applications of CSF Tumor DNA Testing for CNS Cancers
    Industry Sponsored
  • 7:55 AM - 9:30 AM EDT
    PLENARY I
    A MUST-SEE SESSION
  • 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM EDT
    Guest/Spouse Lounge
  • 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM EDT
    NREF Cushing Circle VIP Lounge
  • 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM EDT
    Beverage Break in the AANS Exhibit Hall
  • 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM EDT
    Book Signing with Dr. David Sandberg
  • 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    Neuro Spotlight: Integration of a Surgical Exoscope in General Neurosurgical Practices: Experience with Over 150 Cases
    Industry Sponsored
  • 10:15 AM - 12:06 PM EDT
    PLENARY II
    A MUST-SEE SESSION
  • 11:30 AM - 3:45 PM EDT
    AANS Networking Hub
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
    ASSFN Secretary/ Treasurer Meeting
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
    Lunch in the AANS Exhibit Hall for Medical Attendees
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
    Pediatric Section Executive Committee Meeting
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
    WINS Executive Committee Meeting
  • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
    Past Presidents Luncheon (Invitation Only)
  • 12:01 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
    AANS In-Person Career Fair
  • 12:15 PM - 12:35 PM EDT
    Neuro Spotlight: Integrated Multimodal Resection of Eloquent Brain Tumors with Augmented and Mixed Reality
    Industry Sponsored
  • 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
    Lunch-n-Learn: 75 years of innovation: Shaping the future of Neuroscience
    Industry Sponsored
  • 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
    Lunch-n-Learn: Enhancing Clinical Outcomes in High-Risk Patients: An Evidence-Based Approach for the Selection of Bone Grafts
    Industry Sponsored
  • 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
    Lunch-n-Learn: Highlighting the Role of Robotics and Navigation in Surgery: Featuring Cranial Solutions with ExcelsiusGPS™
    Industry Sponsored
  • 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
    Lunch-n-Learn: The Evolution of Lateral: PTP’s Expanding Role in Deformity & Corpectomy
    Industry Sponsored
  • 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
    CV Oral Paper Posters
    Moderator: David Dornbos, III, MD, FAANS – University of Kentucky
    Moderator: Brian M. Howard, MD – Emory University School of Medicine
    Moderator: Vincent N. Nguyen, MD – University of Rochester
    Cerebrovascular
  • 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
    Education Oral Paper Posters
    Moderator: Nitin Agarwal, MD – University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurosurgery
    Moderator: Deborah L. Benzil, MD, FACS, FAANS – Cleveland Clinic
    Moderator: Nicholas Sader, MD MSc FRCSC FAANS – The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
    Education
  • 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
    Pain Oral Paper Posters
    Moderator: David Darrow, MD MPH – University of Minnesota
    Moderator: Andrew W. Grande, MD – Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
    Moderator: Sanjeet Singh Grewal, MD – Mayo Clinic
    Pain
  • 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
    Peripheral Nerve Oral Paper Posters
    Moderator: Justin M. Brown, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital
    Moderator: Jennifer Hong, MD – Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
    Moderator: Line G. Jacques, MD, MSc – University of California, San Francisco
    Peripheral Nerve
  • 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
    Stereotactic Functional Oral Paper Posters
    Moderator: Michael D. Staudt, MD, MSc, FAANS, FCNS – UH Cleveland Medical Center
    Moderator: Kai Miller, Ph.D, MD, PhD – Mayo Clinic
    Moderator: Vishad Sukul, MD – Westchester Medical Center
    Stereotactic and Functional
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
    Neurotrauma Section Executive Committee Meeting
  • 12:40 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
    Neuro Spotlight: Perioperative Safety and Clinical Update on GammaTile for Brain Metastases
    Industry Sponsored
  • 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
    Neuro Spotlight: Innovating Neurosurgery: Expert Perspectives on MyVeo Surgical Visualization Headset
    Industry Sponsored
  • 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM EDT
    Spine Rapid Fire Abstracts
    Moderator: Victor Chang, MD – Henry Ford Health
    Moderator: Taemin Oh, MD – Columbia Univeresity
    Spine
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
    Advances in Care Beyond the Scalpel
    Moderator: Brian J.A Gill, MD – Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    Moderator: Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD, FAANS – University of California San Francisco
    Tumor
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
    Annual Horsley Lecture and Dr. Nick Hopkins Roundtable Discussion
    Moderator: Jonathan H. Sherman, MD – Rutgers Cancer Institute / Rutgers RWJ Medical School
    History
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
    Beyond Borders: The Ripple Effect of Global Neurosurgery / Aneurysms, AVMs, and Bypass Surgery
    Moderator: Michael T. Lawton, MD – Department of Neurosurgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, 85013, Arizona, USA
    Moderator: Peter Vajkoczy, MD – University Clinic Berlin
    Global
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
    Cervical Spine Debates
    Moderator: Andrew K. Chan, MD – Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    Moderator: Asdrubal Falavigna, MD – University of Caxias do Sul
    Moderator: Oren Gottfried, MD – Duke University
    Spine
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
    Emerging Technology and Techniques (CV) - Part 1
    Moderator: Christopher Kellner, MD – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    Moderator: Stavropoula Tjoumakaris, MD MBA FAANS FACS FAHA – Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
    Cerebrovascular
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
    Late Breaking Rapid Fire Abstract Session
    Moderator: Wenya Linda Bi, MD, PhD, FAANS – Mass General Brigham
    Moderator: Carlos David, MD, FAANS – UNC School of Medicine
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
    Matson Lecture: Dr. Alan Cohen and Top-Rated Pediatric Abstracts
    Moderator: Hal S. Meltzer, MD, FAANS – West Virginia University, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute
    Moderator: Jesse Winer, MD, FAANS – OHSU
    Pediatric
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
    Neuromodulation for Novel Indications
    Moderator: Andre Machado, MD PhD – Cleveland Clinic
    Moderator: Julie G. Pilitsis, MD, PhD, MBA – University of Arizona
    Stereotactic and Functional
  • 1:30 PM - 3:06 PM EDT
    Randall Smith Keynote Address and The Power of Optum Health in American Health Care
    Moderator: Nitin Agarwal, MD – University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurosurgery
    Moderator: Sarah K. Bick, MD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Socioeconomic
  • 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
    Trauma Rapid Fire Abstracts
    Moderator: D. Roxanne Todor, MD, MBA, FAANS, FACS – NYC Health+Hospitals Jacobi/ Harlem
    Moderator: Eve Tsai, MD, PhD – University of Ottawa
    Trauma and Critical Care
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT
    Beverage Break in the AANS Exhibit Hall
  • 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM EDT
    Neuro Spotlight: The Advantages of AMNIOFIX® Placental Allografts in Neurosurgery
    Industry Sponsored
  • 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM EDT
    CV Rapid Fire Abstracts
    Moderator: Spiros Blackburn, MD, FAANS – University of Texas Houston Health Science Center
    Moderator: Martin Sames, MD, PhD – Masaryk Hospital, Usti Nad Labem, Czech Republic
    Cerebrovascular
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
    AI/Machine Learning in Pediatric Neurosurgery
    Moderator: Sandi K. Lam, MD, MBA, FAANS – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital
    Pediatric
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
    Beyond Borders: The Ripple Effect of Global Neurosurgery / International Debates in Neurosurgery: Cerebrovascular and Skull Base - Aneurysms, AVMs/Cavernomas/Cerebral Ischemia, Skull Base Surgery
    Global
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
    Does Everyone with Adult Scoliosis Need T10 to the Pelvis? Update on Modern Adult Scoliosis Management
    Moderator: Victor Chang, MD – Henry Ford Health
    Moderator: Dean Chou, MD – Columbia University
    Moderator: Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD, MBA – Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
    Moderator: Taemin Oh, MD – Columbia Univeresity
    Spine
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
    Emerging Technology and Techniques (CV) - Part 2
    Moderator: Ketan Bulsara, MBA, MD – UConn School of Medicine
    Moderator: Joshua Osbun, MD, MS – Washington University in St. Louis Department of Neurosurgery
    Cerebrovascular
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
    Incorporating Accurate and Ethical Coding into Neurosurgical Residency and Organized Labor in Neurosurgery
    Moderator: Laura Ngwenya, MD, PhD, FAANS – University of Cincinnati
    Moderator: Sarah Woodrow, MD – Cleveland Clinic Akron General
    Socioeconomic
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
    Metastatic Disease: Team Based Care Delivery
    Moderator: Melanie Hayden Gephart, MD, MAS – Stanford University
    Moderator: Ashish H. Shah, MD – University of Miami
    Tumor
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
    Neurosurgery Essentials for Early-Career APPs: Building a Strong Foundation in the First Three Years
    Moderator: Angela M. Henderlong, DNP-AGACNP – Stormont Vail Health
    Moderator: Michael Johnson, PA-C – The George Washington University
    APP
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
    Surgical Advances for Management of Pain Disorders
    Moderator: Parag G. Patil, MD, PhD – University of Michigan
    Pain
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
    Which Spinal Procedures Really Work: Insights from Long-Term Outcome Powered by QOD Data
    Moderator: John Knightly, MD, FAANS – Maxim Spine
    Moderator: Cheerag Upadhyaya, MD, MBA – University of North Carolina
    Spine
  • 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
    Tumor Rapid Fire Abstracts
    Moderator: Bryan Choi, MD
    Moderator: Benjamin Himes, MD, PhD – Montefiore-Einstein
    Tumor
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM EDT
    Advanced Practitioners Reception: Connect and Collaborate
    TicketedSocial Event
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM EDT
    Women in Neurosurgery (WINS) Reception
  • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
    Matson Reception Honoring Dr. Alan Cohen
    Social Event
  • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
    NREF Donor Reception
  • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
    University of Maryland School of Medicine Neurosurgery Alumni & Friends Reception
  • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM EDT
    Penn State Neurosurgery Alumni Event
  • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM EDT
    Stanford University School of Medicine Neurosurgery Reception
  • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM EDT
    University of Miami Alumni and Friends Reception
  • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM EDT
    WVU Alumni Reception
  • 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
    VCU Neurosurgery Alumni and Friends
  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
    Mass General Brigham Alumni Reception
  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
    Mayo Clinic Alumni Reception
  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
    Thomas Jefferson University Alumni Reception
  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
    University of Minnesota Alumni Reception
  • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
    Zucker School of Medicine Alumni Reception
  • 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM EDT
    CU Neurosurgery Alumni Reception
  • 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM EDT
    Dr. Jacques Morcos Honor Your Mentor Fund Dinner - SOLD OUT
    TicketedSocial Event