Dear Colleagues, The 2022 AANS meeting is finally upon us. The scientific program for the 2022 AANS Annual meeting was designed by Drs. Nelson Moss, Georgios Zenonos, and Randy D’Amico. They have done an outstanding job of organizing t...

Randy S. D’Amico, MD, Georgios Zenonos, MD, Nelson Moss, MD, and Isaac Yang, MD   The AANS Annual Scientific Meeting, happening from April 29th to May 2nd , 2022 in Philadelphia, PA marks the return of the conference to in-person and features a...

Costas G. Hadjipanayis, M.D., Ph.D., Walavan Sivakumar, MD., Wenya Linda Bi, M.D., Ph.D., Christopher P. Cifarelli, M.D., Ph.D., Gautam Mehta, M.D., Brian Williams, M.D.   The Tumor Section Awards Committee is happy to report 17 awards will...

Michael Vogelbaum, Ian Dunn, Michael Ivan Thank you to all of the members who attended and supported our 15th Biennial Tumor Section Satellite Symposium, held last October 15–16, 2021, in Austin, Texas. The meeting was a tremendous success and was o...

Jon Sherman, Maryam Rahman, Brad Zacharia, Michael Ivan   The Tumor Section provided a dynamic educational program for the CNS Annual Meeting in Austin, TX Oct 16-20, 2021. The weekend symposia included topics covering malignant and benign...

  The Journal of Neuro-Oncology (JNO) is the official journal of the AANS and CNS Tumor Section.  Several other prominent organizations also help to sponsor the journal.  These include the Radiosurgery Society (RSS), the Indian Society o...

On Monday, March 7th , Martín Andrés Merenzon of Buenos Aires, Argentina (pictured far right) began his three-month observership at the University of Miami in the division of surgical neurooncology.   He joins the Miami Brain Tumor team led by Ricardo Kom...

Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology: The clinical trial highlighted in this report is entitled “Phase III trial of post-surgical single fraction stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) compared with Fractionated SRS for Resected metastatic brain disease.” SRS...

Andrew Sloan, MD, & Ian Lee MD   There are currently 5 Studies of LITT for Adults with Brain Tumors with primary and recurrent gliomas as well as brain metastasis as indicated in the Table below.  Below, we highlight 2 of them (for Brain ...

Skull base surgery is making a bold return in 2022.  The 31st annual meeting of the North American Skull Base Society (NASBS) was held at The Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass, in Phoenix, Arizona, February 18-20, 2022.  As usual, there was a very p...

The Society for Neuro-Oncology Sub-Saharan Africa will hold its fifth annual meeting and its first in person meeting since the COVID-19 pandemic in Accra, Ghana, from July 22nd -July 24th , 2022. Many tumor section members are scheduled to participate,...

Randy S. D’Amico, MD, Walavan Sivakumar, MD   Moving into 2022, the AANS Young Neurosurgeon’s Committee (YNC), under new chair Dr. Walavan Sivakumar, has continued to position itself for success in a post-pandemic academic environment.  Lean...