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Neurosurgery Grand Rounds

Last updated: 5/10/2023
All Meetings via Zoom 7:00 - 8:15 AM
Meeting ID:  954 9659 9600
Password:  518128
https://livejohnshopkins.sharepoint.com/sites/NUSGrandRounds

View last year's grand rounds.

May 2023

May 4, 2023
Speaker: Eric M. Jackson, MD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Chiari I Malformations: Current Guidelines and How We are Moving Forward

May 11, 2023
Speaker: Mari Groves, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title:  Updates in Treatment for Achondroplasia

May 18, 2023
Speaker: TBA
Talk Title: TBA

May 25, 2023
Speakers: Ryan, Lee, MD, Jordina Rincon-Toroella, MD, and Wuyang Yang, MD
Graduating Neurosurgery Residents, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Outgoing Chief Talks

 

April 2023

April 6, 2023
Speaker: John "Jay" Wellons, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Vanderbilt University
Talk Title: The Fetal Surgery Train has Left the Station: Is Pediatric Neurosurgery Waving it on, or on it Waving?

April 13, 2023
Speaker: Shih-Chun 'David' Lin, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title:  Neurosurgery Issues in the Elderly Population

April 20, 2023
Speaker: Allen Belzberg, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Pediatric Plexus Injury....Perplexing

April 27, 2023
Speakers: Michael Miller, PhD / Sri Sarma, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University / Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: The Nexus of NeuroTech Translation and Inclusive Innovation: Neuroengineering and Biomedical Data Science Solutions to Neurological Disorders

 

March 2023

March 2, 2023
Speaker: Nara, Sobreira, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Investigation of Tarlov Cyst's Genetic Etiology

March 9, 2023
Speaker: Dean Chou, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Columbia University
Talk Title:  Does Every Patient with Scoliosis Need T10 to the Pelvis?

March 16, 2023
Speaker: Christopher Jackson MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Immunotherapy for Brain Tumors:  What are We Missing?

March 23, 2023
Speaker: Youssef Comair, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, PAR, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: The Neuroanatomy and Surgery of Speech Related Areas: An Update

March 30, 2023
Speaker: Justin Caplan, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Clip or Coil?

 

February 2023

February 2, 2023
Speaker: Yousef Salimpour, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Exceptional Role of Functional Neurosurgery in Advancing Human Neuroscience

February 9, 2023
Speaker: Nitish V. Thakor, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering an Neurology, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title:  Neuroengineering - Transformative Technologies

February 16, 2023
Speaker: Nicholas Theodore, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Concussion Update:  Tales from the NFL

February 23, 2023
Speaker: Jacob Schwarz, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Vanderbilt University
Talk Title: What I Didn't Know: 5 Lessons from Starting a Practice

 

January 2023

January 5, 2023
Speaker: Theodore H. Schwartz, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medicine
Talk Title: Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery: Lessons Learned Over 20 Years

January 12, 2023
Speaker: Amir Manbachi, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title:  Exploring the Various Applications of Sound in Medicine

January 19, 2023
Speaker: Rafael Tamargo, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Epidemiology and Treatment for Arteriovenous Malformations

January 26, 2023
Speaker: Analiz Rodriguez, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Arkansas
Talk Title: Future Directions in the Management of Recurrent Glioblastoma

 

December 2022

December 1, 2022
Speaker:  Stacey Q. Wolfe, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Talk Title: What We Know About Aneurysm Development: Novel Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets

December 8, 2022
Speaker: Kevin Judy, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Thomas Jefferson University
Talk Title:  Phase 1B Clinical Trial of IGV-001 for Patients with Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma

December 15, 2022
Speaker: Ali Bydon, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Free-hand Thoracolumbar Instrumental Placement: The Hopkins Neurosurgery Experience (2016-2021)

December 22, 2022 and December 29, 2022
Happy Holidays

 

November 2022

November 3, 2022
Speaker:  Amer Samdani, MD
Director of Pediatric Spine Surgery, Shriners Children's Hospital
Talk Title: Update on Pediatric Spine Deformity

November 10, 2022
Speaker: J. Ranjan Perera, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title:  The Limitless Future of RNA Therapeutics and Their Potential Use in Brain Tumors

November 17, 2022
Speaker: Phillip Jay Storm, MD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania
Talk Title: Building Cathedrals: The Story of the Center for Data Driven Discovery in BioMedicine (D3b)

November 24, 2022
Happy Thanksgiving

 

October 2022

October 6, 2022
Speaker:  L Fernando Gonzalez, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas

October 13, 2022
Speaker: Alan Cohen, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title:  Brain Tumors in Children - What's New?

October 20, 2022     
Speaker: Martjin Malessy, MD
Founder of the Nerve Center at Leiden University
Talk Title: Nerve Surgery: Challenges of Improving Outcome

October 27, 2022
Speaker: Michael Dorsi, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles
Talk Title: Spinal Cord Stimulation:  Bringing it Back to Neurosurgery

 

September 2022

September 1, 2022
Speaker: Kevin Walter, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester
Talk Title: Neurosurgery 20-years Out

September 8, 2022
Speaker: Chetan Bettegowda, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title:  Updates in Tumor Derived DNA for the Management of CNS Tumors

September 15, 2022     
Speaker: Karisa Schreck, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Targeted Therapy in Brain Cancer - Recent Updates and Future Directions

September 22, 2022
Speaker: Judy Huang, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Perioperative Anticoagulation in Neurosurgical Patients

September 29, 2022
Speaker Timothy Witham, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Augmented Reality in Spinal Surgery

 

August 2022

August 4, 2022
Speaker: Benjamin elder, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Talk Title: Bone Health Optimization for the Neurosurgeon:  A Primer and Future Directions

August 11, 2022
Speaker: Daniel Sciubba, MD, MBA
Professor & Chair of Neurosurgery, Hofstra University
Talk Title:  Providing Value in Neurosurgery: Combining Clinical Skill, Innovation and Humanity

August 18, 2022     
Speaker: Nicholas Theodore, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: NFL Concussion Update and Future Directions

August 25, 2022
Speaker: Mark Luciano, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Shunt Valves:  Why, What, and How?

 

July 2022

July 7, 2022
Speaker: Mohamad Bydon, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Talk Title: ;Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery

July 14, 2022
Speaker: William S. Anderson, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Development of Phase-Dependent Neuromodulation Techniques

July 21, 2022     
Speaker: Allan Belzberg, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Exploring Competitive Behavior in Neurosurgery

July 28, 2022
Speaker: Matthew McGirt, MD
Chief or Spine, Atrium University
Talk Title: Integrated Outcomes Data Capture, Predictive Modeling, and Decision Support to Drive Quality Improvement and Value in Neurosurgical Practice

 

June 2022

June 2, 2022
Speaker: Ryan P. Lee MD
Incoming Neurosurgery Chief Resident, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: End of PGY5

June 9, 2022 - Awards Ceremony

June 16, 2022     
Speaker: Jordina Rincon-Torroella, MD
Incoming Neurosurgery Chief Resident, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: Learning the Neurosurgeon-Scientist Pathway

June 23, 2022
Speaker: Wuyang Yang, MD
Incoming Neurosurgery Chief Resident, Johns Hopkins University
Talk Title: From Tiantan to Hopkins:  Progression and Evolution

June 30, 2022   No Conference   Happy 4th of July!

 

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

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