Special Lecture: Dr. Joseph Gleeson - Breakthroughs in Understanding the Molecular Etiology of Neurosurgical Disease, Neural Tube Defects and Focal Cortical Dysplasias and Pediatric Rapid-fire Abstracts

Moderator(s)

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  Lissa Baird, MD, FAANS

  Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
  Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
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  Annie Drapeau, MD, FAANS

  Assistant Professor, Neurosurgeon
  University of Manitoba

Dr. Joseph Gleeson will lead us through the remarkable advances made by his international collaborative team on the specific genetic etiologies of open neural tube defects and refractory epilepsy. We will then continue with rapid fire pediatric abstract presentations with an emphasis on international scientific submissions.

Presentations:

• 3:30 PM – 3:32 PM EDT

  Welcome and Introductions
  

  Speaker: Hal S. Meltzer, MD, FAANS – West Virginia University, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute
• 3:33 PM – 4:13 PM EDT

  Special Lecture: Breakthroughs in Understanding the Molecular Etiology of Neurosurgical Disease, Neural Tube Defects and Focal Cortical Dysplasias
  

  Speaker: Joseph G. Gleeson, MD – Rady Children's Hospital
• 4:14 PM – 4:15 PM EDT

  Introduction of Pediatric Rapid Fire Abstracts
  

  Speaker: Annie Drapeau, MD, FAANS – University of Manitoba
• 4:16 PM – 4:19 PM EDT

  The Burden of Epilepsy in Children with Myelomeningocele
  

  Presenting Author: Omar M. Hussain, MD – Medical College of Wisconsin Neurosurgical Residency
• 4:20 PM – 4:23 PM EDT

  Whole Genome Sequencing of 1,030 Ugandan Infants Characterizes the Distribution of the MTHFR Gene C677T Mutation and Associations with Ancestral Admixture Genetics and Neural Tube Defects
  

  Presenting Author: Nana Adenu-Mensah – Yale School of Medicine
• 4:24 PM – 4:27 PM EDT

  Individualized Predictive Nomograms for Overall Survival and Cancer-Specific Survival in Pediatric Medulloblastoma Patients: A Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Database Analysis
  

  Presenting Author: Sami S. Al-Horani, Doctor of Medicine – King Abdullah University Hospital
• 4:28 PM – 4:31 PM EDT

  Multiomic Analyses Identifies Novel Risk Genes and Spatiotemporal Pathogenic Gene Clusters for Congenital Ventriculomegaly
  

  Presenting Author: Evan Dennis, BS – Harvard Medical School
• 4:32 PM – 4:35 PM EDT

  Presurgical EEG Network Analysis Predicts Seizure Outcomes after Corpus Callosotomy in Children with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
  

  Presenting Author: Vitor L. Pimenta – Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• 4:36 PM – 4:39 PM EDT

  Combined Genomic and Epigenomic Analysis Improves Classification of Hemispheric Pediatric High-grade Gliomas
  

  Presenting Author: Karthik Ravi, BS, MPhil – Stanford University
• 4:40 PM – 4:43 PM EDT

  Asymptomatic Ventriculomegaly in Myelomeningocele: A Matched Cohort Study of Neuropsychological Outcomes Across Institutions with Varying Shunt Rates
  

  Presenting Author: Rya Muller, BA – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
• 4:44 PM – 4:47 PM EDT

  Successful Avoidance of Blood Transfusion in Craniofacial Surgery: The West Virginia University Bloodless Surgery Protocol
  

  Presenting Author: Denisse D. Arteaga Icaza, MD – West Virginia University
• 4:48 PM – 4:51 PM EDT

  Age-Related Trends in Cervical Spinal Cord Injury Outcomes: An Analysis of AIS Grade Transitions and Motor Score Improvements in Pediatric Versus Adult Patients
  

  Presenting Author: Ritvik R. Jillala, BSE – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• 4:52 PM – 4:55 PM EDT

  The impact of Duraplasty on Syrinx Size in Chiari type-1 Malformation Patients: A Post-hoc Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial
  

  Presenting Author: Marie Michenkova, MS – VCU Neurosurgery
• 4:56 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

  Q&A/Wrap Up