GNS Scientific Assembly - November 21, 2009

7:00 – 8:00AM                        GNS BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

                                                Green Room                                            

7:00 – 8:00AM                        Registration, Continental Breakfast & Exhibit Visitation

                                                Oceans Ballroom - Indian

8:00AM – 4:40PM                  SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

                                                Oceans Ballroom - Arctic

8:00 – 8:10AM                        Welcome & Pre-Test                                      

Steve Wray, MD

                                                GNS President

                                                Daniel Suh, MD

                                                GNS 2008 Fall Meeting Program Chair

8:10 – 9:10AM                        RESIDENT PAPER FORUM – PART I

            8:10 – 8:18AM            Convection Enhanced Delivery Of Paclitaxel Nanoparticles As A Novel Approach To Glioblastoma Treatment
Edjah Nduom, MD

8:18 – 8:26AM            Current Treatments And Strategies For Cerebral Vein Thrombosis

                                    J. Nicole Bentley

8:26 – 8:34AM            PTEN Loss Increases Downstream Protein Synthesis And Decreases Cell Migration In Novel Cell Lines With A Conditional Pten Deletion.
Carrie Muh, MD

            8:34 – 8:42AM            Curcumin Reduces Neurological Injury Following Intracerebral Hemorrhage In Mice*

                                                Jay McCracken              

8:42 – 8:50AM            Disseminated Pineoblastoma In Unusual Location: Case Report

                                    Tomoko Tanaka, MD

8:50 – 9:00AM            Questions & Answers

9:00 – 9:40AM                        HONORED GUEST PRESENTATION:

                                                Edward C. Benzel, MD

9:40 – 9:50AM                        Questions & Answers

9:50 – 10:00AM                      Stretch Break

10:00 – 11:00AM                    SPECIAL PRESENTATION        

Georgia Neurosurgical Society & Georgia Society of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery

Welcome

United States Congressman Dr. Tom Price

Healthcare Reform

11:00 – 11:30AM                    BREAK & EXHIBIT VISITATION

                                                Oceans Ballroom - Pacific

11:30 – 12:00AM                    GNS GENERAL BUSINESS MEETING

                                                Oceans Ballroom - Arctic

12:00PM – 12:40PM               SPECIAL GUEST

                                                Legendary College & NFL Player & Coach

                                                Coach Bill Curry

                                                Life Lessons from an NFL Carrier  

12:40 – 12:50PM                    Questions & Answers

12:50 – 1:50PM                      Lunch & Exhibit Visitation

1:50 – 2:10PM                        Spinal Deformity Cases:

Use of O-Arm Imaging in the Upper Thoracic and Cervical Spine

                                                Thomas J. Morrison, III, MD

2:10 – 2:15PM                        Questions & Answers

2:15 – 2:55PM                        HONORED GUEST PRESENTATION: 

                                                Edward C. Benzel, MD

2:55 – 3:00PM                        Questions & Answers

3:00 – 3:20PM                        Desktop Neurosurgical Planning: Creation of Customized

Three-Dimensional Images Using Standard Graphics Software

                                                Cole A. Giller, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.S.

3:20 – 3:25PM                        Questions & Answers

3:25 – 3:55PM                        BREAK & EXHIBIT VISITATION

                                                Oceans Ballroom - Pacific

3:55 – 3:50PM                        RESIDENT PAPER FORUM – PART II

            3:55 – 4:03PM            Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1): a novel therapeutic target for the treatment of

                                                glioblastoma?

                                                Quaovi Sodji, MD

4:03 – 4:11PM            Are They Really Dead?  Cerebral Computed Tomographic Angiography to Confirm

Brain Death
Christina M. Berenguer, MD

4:11 – 4:19PM            Occipitocervical fusion in pediatric patients utilizing the inside-outside fixation technique, series of 18 patients.

Vladimir Y. Dadashev, MD

            4:19 – 4:27PM            Novel case of Sinonasal Epitheliod Schwannoma

with benign histopathologic features*
Kenneth Hill, Jr., MD

            4:27 – 4:35PM            Questions & Answers

4:35 PM                                  Presentation of Resident Paper Award

4:40PM                                   Wrap-up & Post-Test

4:45PM                                   ADJOURN

*Not included in resident paper award competition