Isabelle M. Germano, MD, MBA, FAANS, FACS August 2022     Dear Colleagues, It is truly an honor to serve as chair of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)/Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) section...

Garni Barkhoudarian, MD, FAANS - Newsletter Editor Kristin Huntoon, PhD DO - Newsletter Assistant Editor     We are happy to share the Fall 2022 edition of the AANS/CNS Section on Tumors Newsletter.  As we exit the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Chairs: Will Curry, MD, FAANS, and Jennifer Moliterno, MD, FAANS Members: Frank Attenello, MD, FAANS, Jason Heth, MD, FAANS, and Pascal Zinn, MD, PhD   The AANS/CNS section on Tumors once again received a record number of exceptional abstracts...

Chair : Edjah Nduom, MD, FAANS Co-Chair : Uzma Samadani, MD, PhD, FAANS Members : Fred Barker, MD, FAANS, FACS, Walavan Sivakumar, MD, FAANS, and Jeff Weinberg, MD, FAANS, FACS   In alignment with rules followed by our section’s guidelines w...

Chair:  Brad Elder, MD   Co-Chair: Gavin Dunn, MD, PhD, FAANS Members: Dan Cahill, MD, PhD, FAANS, Melanie Hayden Gephart, MD, FAANS, Mark Linskey, MD, FAANS, Timothy Smith, MD, PhD, FAANs, Andrew Sloan, MD, FAANS, and Michael Vogelbaum MD, PhD, FA...

Chair : Linda Liau, MD, PhD, MBA, FAANS Members : Ian Dunn, MD, FAANS, Isabelle Germano, MD, FAANS, FACS, Fred Lang, MD, FAANS, Michael Link, MD, FAANS, Jennifer Moliterno-Gunel, MD, FAANS, Jeff Olson, MD, FAANS, and Gabriel Zada, MD, FAANS The Committee...

Chair : Kimberly Hoang, MD Co-Chair: Claire Karekezi, MD Members : Maria Huda, MD and Aaron Cohen-Gadol, MD, MSc, MBA, FAANS   The Communications Committee is now chaired by Kimberly Hoang, MD and Claire Karekezi, MD, with significant help...

Chair: Brian V. Nahed, MD, FAANS Co-Chair: Susan C. Pannullo, MD, FAANS Members : Lilyana Angelov, MD, FAANS, FACS, Kairson Chaichana, MD, John Lee, MD, FAANS, Amankulor Nduka, MD, FAANS, and Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, MD, FAANS, FACS To foster...

Formerly Young Neurosurgeons (YNS) Chair: Randy D’Amico, MD, FAANS Co-Chair : Raj Mukherjee, MD, MPH, FAANS   Please join us!

Chair: Gelareh Zadeh, MD, PhD, FAANS, FRCS Co-Chair: Analiz Rodriguez, MD, PhD, FAANS Members: Michael Lim, MD, FAANS, Recinos Pablo, MD, FAANS, Vivian Tabar, MD, FAANS, and Brad Zacharia, MD, FAANS I am delighted to be the chair of the Education...

Formerly International Neurosurgery Chair Ekkehard Kasper, MD, PhD, FAANS Co-Chair: Kate Drummond, MD, MBBS, IFAANS, FRACS Members:   Anandh Balasubramanian, MD, James Balogun, MD, MBBS, Dominik Cordier, MD, Ather Enam, MD, Sameh Elmorsy Hassan, ...

Chair: Jeff Olson, MD, FAANS Co-Chair: Ryan Ormond, MD, PhD, FAANS Members: Garni Barkhoudarian, MD, FAANS, Emanuela Binello, MD, PhD, ScD, FAANS, Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD, FAANs, Rohan Ramakrishna, MD, FAANS, Matthew Shepard, MD and Gabe Zada,...

Formerly Radiosurgery, LITT Chair: Chris Cifarelli, MD, PhD, FAANS Co-Chair : Lola Chambless, MD, FAANS Members : Clark Chen, MD, PhD, FAANS, Pamela Jones, MD, MS, MPH, FAANS, Claire Karekezi, MD, Alexandra Golbi, MD, FAANS, Pablo Recinos, MD,...

Editor: Jason Sheehan, MD, PhD, FAANS       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...

Chair: Randy Jensen, MD, PhD, FAANS Co-Chair: Isaac Yang, MD, FAANS Members: Ian Lee, MD, FAANS, and Wajd Al-Holou, MD, FAANS The newly reorganized membership committee has been very busy. We have settled on four areas to concentrate our efforts...

Chair : Lissa Baird, MD, FAANS Co-Chair: Anthony Wang, MD     The field of pediatric neuro-oncology continues to expand at a rapid pace even relative to neuro-oncology in general, and multi-disciplinary pediatric neuro-oncology teams...

Chair: Maryam Rahman, MD, FAANS Co-Chair: Chetan Bettegowda, MD, PhD, FAANS Members : Orin Bloch, MD, FAANS, Desmond Brown, MD, PhD, Mahua Dey, MD, FAANS, Peter Fecci, MD, PhD, FAANS, James Market, MD, FAANS, Gautam Mehta, MD, Dan Orringer, MD, FAANS,...

Save the Date! AANS/CNS Section on Tumors Biennial Satellite Symposium Friday – Saturday September 8-9, 2023 Washington DC Preceding the 2023 CNS Annual meeting

Chair: Analiz Rodriguez, MD, PhD, FAANS Co-Chairs: Tiffany R. Hodges, MD and Michael Lim, MD, FAANS   The 2022 CNS Tumor Sessions were designed to provide an update on two rapidly growing areas of neurosurgical oncology. On Monday, October...

Chair : Wenya Linda Bi, MD, PhD, FAANS Co-Chair: Daniel M. Prevedello, MD Members : Vincent Dinapoli, MD, FAANS, Ian Dunn, MD, FAANS, Michael Ivan, MD, FAANS, Michael Link, MD, FAANS, and Gordon Li, MD, FAANS Despite the global pandemic and challenges...

Chair : Nicholas Szerlip, MD, FAANS Co-Chair: Nam D. Tran, MD, PhD, FAANS Member: John Shin, MD, FAANS   Within the past decade, we have seen significant progress made in the treatment of systemic tumors. These incremental gains were made...

Liaison : Tiffany R. Hodges, MD     One of the top legislative priorities for neurosurgeons involves reforming utilization review practices such as prior authorization, step-therapy, and Medicare’s appropriate use criteria program f...

Advisory Board Chair, Co-Chair : Steven Kalkanis, Najia El Abbadi Members: Manish Aghi, Gene Barnett, Jeff Bruce, Ennio Chiocca, Susan Chang, William Couldwell, Mitchel Berger, Roberta Glick, Mark Rosenblum, Barbara Nettel, Raymond Sawaya, Ron Warnick Bylaws...