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