Minnesota Neurosurgical Society

Friday, September 16, 2011

7:00 – 10:00 PM          Opening Reception at the St. James Hotel, Redwing, MN

Saturday, September 17^, 2011____________________________________________________________

   Scientific Session I:   Moderator-Anthony Bottini

7:30 – 7:35                  Chyatte, Douglas: Welcoming remarks

7:35 – 8:05                  Abosch, Avivia: Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is an Effective and Safe Treatment for Movement Disorders, Including Parkinson’s Disease, Essential Tremor, and Dystonia.

8:05 – 8:35                  Reddy, Chandan: Working Toward a Human Brain-Machine Interface: Decoding Arm Kinematics from ECoG.

8:35 – 9:05                  Link, Michael: Hemifacial Spasm.

9:05 – 9:35                  Clarke, Michelle: Primary and Metastatic Tumors of the Spinal Column

9:35 – 10:05                Daniels, David: Design, Sy7nthesis and Evaluation of Novel STAT3 Inhibitors for the Treatment of Malignant Gliomas.

10:05 – 10:15                  Break

Scientific Session II:  Moderator-Giuseppe Lanzino

10:15 – 10:45               Chyatte, Douglas: Injection Therapy for Spinal Problems.

10:45 – 11:15               Beck, Jeff: EMG and Spinal Radiculopathy.

11:15 – 11:45              Bottini, Anthony: Reducing Complications and Costs in Decompressive Surgery for Spinal Stenosis.

11:45 – 1:00                Lunch

Scientific Session III: Moderator-Douglas Chyatte

1:00 – 1:30                  Siddiq, Farhan: Factors Associated with Early Treatment of Ruptured Cerebral Aneurysms in United States.

1:30 – 2:00                  Puffer, Ross: Fate of the Ophthalmic Artery (OA) after Flow-Division for Paraclinoid Aneurysms.

2:00 – 2:30                  Lanzino, Giuseppe: Pipeline Embolization of Complex Intracranial Aneurysms: Hype or Reality?

2:30 – 3:00                  Hassan, Ameer: Rate and Prognosis of Patients Failing Local Anesthesia and Requiring Emergent Intra-Procedural Intubation in Neuro-Endovascular Procedures.

3:00 – 3:10                  Break

Scientific Session IV:            Moderator-Giuseppe Lanzino  

3:10 – 3:40                  Vasquez, Ciro: A Case of Obstructive Hydrocephalus following Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s disease.

3:40 – 4:10                  Kainth, Daraspreet: Epidemiological and Clinical Features of Moyamoya Disease in the United States.

4:10 – 4:40                  Siddiq Farhan: Occurrence and Prognostic Significance of Pseudodissection Phenomenon Associated with Acute Distal Internal Carotid Artery Occlusion.

4:40 – 5:10                  Knight, Emily: fMRI BOLD Signal Changes by Nucleus Accumbens Deep Brain Stimulation in the Pig.

5:10 – 5:40                  Lee, Kendall: Neuromodulation Surgery for Pain and Psychiatric Indications.

   Reception and dinner                                                                       

   7:00-10:00 PM            Keynote speaker Dr. James Bean: Tides of Change: The Economic Evolution of Neurosurgical Practice.

Sunday September 18, 2011

Business Session

8:30 – 10:00

1. Presentation of Resident’s award
2. Secretary-treasurer report – Dr. Lanzino
3. Secretary-Treasurer Election – Dr. Chyatte
4. 2012 Meeting – Dr. Lanzino
5. Other business