Last updated: 5/18/2022
All Meetings via Zoom 7:00 - 8:15 AM
Meeting ID: 954 9659 9600
Password: 518128
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May 2022
May 5, 2022
Speaker: George Jallo, MD
Vice Dean and Physician-in-Chief, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
Professor of Neurosurgery, Oncology and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Chiari Malformations: Revisited with Controversy
May 12, 2022
Speaker: Gustavo Pradilla, MD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Emory University
Talk Title: Evolution of Approaches to the Cavernous Sinus: Expanding the Limits of Skull Base Surgery
May 19, 2022
Speaker: Graeme Woodworth, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland
Talk Title: Maryland Brain Tumor Research: Updates and New Directions
May 26, 2022
Speakers: Jennifer Kim MD, Ann Liu MD Dimitris Mathios MD, Amanda Sacino MD PhD
Neurosurgery Residents, Johns Hopkins University
Outgoing Chiefs Presentations
April 2022
April 7, 2022
Speaker: Charles Teo, MD
Director of Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Autrtalia
Talk Title: The Networks: Making Onco-Functional Balance Even More Difficult
April 14, 2022
Speaker: Jon Weingart, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Updates in Neuro-Oncology
April 21, 2022
Speaker: Kristin Redmond, MD
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: New Considerations in Radiation Treatment Planning for Brain Tumors: Neural Progenitor Cells and Cognitive Sequelae of Brain Radiation
April 28, 2022
Speaker: Pablo Recinos, MD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic
Talk Title: From Cornea to Chiasm: A Skull Base Surgeon's Perspective on the Orbit
March 2022
March 3, 2022
Speaker: Kaisorn Chaichana, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic - Jacksonville, FL
Talk Title: Applying Minimally Invasive Techniques to Intracranial Tumors
March 10, 2022
Speaker: Rory Goodwin, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Duke University
Talk Title: Landscape of Spinal Oncology
March 17, 2022
Speaker: William "Stan" Anderson, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Computational Modeling of Applied Cortical Stimulation
March 24, 2022
Speaker: Raphael Tamargo, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: The History of Intracranial Aneurysm Surgery
March 31, 2022
Speaker: Shaan M. Raza, MD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Head & Neck Surgery, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Talk Title: Defining Salvage Strategies for Recurrent Skull Base Malignancies
February 2022
February 24, 2022
Speaker: Geoffrey Colby, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles
Talk Title: Investigations into Sympathetic-Mediated Cerebral Vasospasm and a Novel Approach for Modulation
February 17, 2022
Speaker: Mark Bilsky, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medical College
Talk Title: Multi-modality Treatment for Metastatic and Primary Spine Tumors: Searching for the Perfect Balance
February 10, 2022
Speaker: Michael Safaee, MD
Orthopedic Surgery Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: From Tethers to Telomeres: Innovations in Spine Surgery
February 3, 2022
Speaker: Laurence Rhines, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Talk Title: Primary Spinal Column Tumors: Evaluation and Management
January 2022
January 27, 2022
Speaker: Syed Hassan Abbas Akbari, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Pennsylvania State University
Talk Title: Chiari I Malformations with Syringomyelia: A Review of the Park-Reeves Syringomyelia Research Consortium
January 20, 2022
Speaker: Judy Huang, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: The Pterional Craniotomy: Why and How
January 13, 2022
Speaker: Risheng Xu, MD
Neurosurgery Resident, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Trigeminal Neuralgia (Part II) - Molecular Mechanisms and Pathophysiology
January 6, 2022
Speaker: Chetan Bettegowda, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Management of Trigeminal Neuralgia
December 2021
December 23 & 30, 2021 HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! NO GRAND ROUNDS
December 16, 2021
Speaker: Shin-Shan Chen, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania
Talk Title: Non-invasive Neurophysiology in Intracranial Hypertension
December 9, 2021
Speaker: Wesley Hsu, MD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Wake Forest University
Talk Title: Therapeutic in vivo Gene Editing with a Novel Cas9/single guide RNA Ribonucleoprotein Conjugate to Treat Canter
December 2, 2021
Speaker: Ali Bydon, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Cervical Myelopathy: Natural History and Surgical Management
November 2021
November 25, 2021 NO GRAND ROUNDS
November 13, 202
Speaker: Daniel Lubelski, MD
Neurosurgery Resident, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Predictive Analytics in Spine Oncology
November 11, 2022
Speaker: Shenandoah Robinson, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: New Directions in Post-hemorrhagic Hydrocephalus of Prematurity
November 4, 2021
Speaker: Tomas Garzon-Muvdi, MD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Texas, Southwestern
Talk Title: Immunotherapy Approaches for Skull Base Malignancy
October 2021
October 28, 2021
Speaker: Gary Gallia, MD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Skull Base Jeopardy
October 21, 2021
Speaker: Christopher Jackson, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Metabolic Dysfunction as a Final Common Pathway of T Cell Exhaustion in Cancer
October 14, 2021
Speaker: Matthew Bender, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester
Talk Title: Contemporary EC-IC Bypass: Cases, Controversies, Technique
October 7, 2021
Speaker: Matthew Smyth, MD
Professor (PAR) and Chief of Neurosurgery, All Children's Hospital
Talk Title: Corpus Callosotomy for Pediatric Epilepsy in the 21st Century: Robots and Lasers
September 2021
September 30, 2021
Speaker: Benjamin Kennedy, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania
Talk Title: Pediatric Epilepsy and Functional Neurosurgery: Not Just Little Adults
September 23, 2021
Speaker: Eric Jackson, MD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Blockchain in Healthcare: A Primer for Neurosurgeons
September 16, 2021
Speaker: Mark Luciano, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: The Long Road Towards an iNPH Clinical Trial, PENS
September 9, 2021
Speakers: Mari Groves, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Understanding the Landscape of Global Neurosurgery and its Implications for Academic Neurosurgery
September 2, 2021
Speaker: Rajiv Iyer, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Utah
Talk Title: Pediatric Spine Topics
August 2021
August 26, 2021
Speaker: Timothy Witham, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Updates from the Spinal Fusion Laboratory
August 19, 2021
Speaker: L. Fernando Gonzalez, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Is Cooling Getting Hot Again?
August 12, 2021
Speakers: Alan Cohen, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Surgery of the Brain Stem
August 5, 2021
Speaker: Allan Belzberg, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: From OR to the Lab Bench and Back Again
July 2021
July 29, 2021
Speaker: Judy Huang, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Extracranial Carotid Occlusive Disease
July 22, 2021
Speaker: Shenandoah Robinson, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: A Thin Silver Lining: Neuroimmunomodulation for Post-Acute COVID-19 Sequelae
July 15, 2021
Speakers: Dr. Jon Weingart, Professor of Neurosurgery
and Dr. Charles Eberhart, Professor of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Glioma Pathological Classification: The Final Chapter
July 8, 2021
Speaker: Amanda Sacino, MD, PhD
Neurosurgery Resident, The Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Evolution of Spine Hardware