Dear Section on Tumors Members and Colleagues, I am excited to take over as the new chair of our incredible group alongside Brian Nahed and Gabriel Zada , our new treasurer and secretary. As we have transitioned with new leadership in the Tumor Section...

Chairs: Jennifer Moliterno, MD, and Wenya Linda Bi, MD, PhD Committee Members: Stephanie K Cheok, MD, Frank Attenello, MD, Desmond Brown MD, PhD, and Todd Hollon, MD For the AANS/CNS Section on Tumors, we are happy to report the highest scoring...

Chairs : Walavan Sivakumar, MD, and Desmond Brown, MD Members : Fred Barker, MD, Nduka Amankulor, MD and Uzma Samadani, MD After significant changes were made to the rules and regulations of the Tumor Section for the AANS/CNS last year, including...

Chairs: Jeff Weinberg, MD, and Jason Sheehan, MD, PhD Members: Costas Hadjipanayis, MD, PhD, Kimberly Hoang, MD, Michael Link, MD, Jennifer Moliterno-Gunel, MD, Ryan Ormond, MD, PhD, and Vivian Tabar, MD The Committee on Advanced Subspecialty...

Chairs: Brad Elder, MD, and Debraj “Raj” Mukherjee, MD, MPH Members: Gavin Dunn, MD, Dan Cahill, MD, Melanie Hayden Gephart, MD, Mark Linskey, MD, Timothy Smith, MD, Andrew Sloan, MD, and Michael Vogelbaum, MD From the Clinical Trials and Reg...

Important Dates: EORTC Brain Cancer Group: Glasgow, UK; October 16, 2024 Alliance Fall Meeting (Hybrid): Chicago, IL; October 30-November 1, 2024 NRG Winter Meeting: Phoenix, AZ; January 16-18, 2025 Alliance Spring Meeting (Hybrid): Chicago,...

Chairs: Randy D'Amico, MD, and Kristin Huntoon, DO, PhD Members: Charuta Furey, MD, Claire Karekezi, MD, Maria Noor-ul-Huda, MBBS, Danielle Terrell, MD, and Isaac Yang, MD The Communications Subcommittee, now chaired by Randy D'Amico, MD, and...

Chairs: Chris Cifarelli, MD, PhD, MMM, and Garni Barkhoudarian, MD Members: Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, MD, Lilyana Angelov, MD, Lola Chambless, MD, Aaron Cohen-Gadol, MD, MSc, MBA, Susan Pannullo, MD, and Jason Sheehan, MD, PhD With the ever-increasing...

Chairs: Yoshua Esquenazi, MD, and Ashish Shah, MD Members: Randy D’Amico, MD, Chibawanye Ene, MD, PhD, Saniya Godil, MD, Benjamin Himes, MD, and Kristin Huntoon, PhD, DO Dr. Esquenazi and Dr. Shah are honored to serve as co-chairs for the Early C...

Chairs: Isaac Yang, MD, and Analiz Rodriguez, MD Members: Aaron Cohen-Gadol, MD, MSc, MBA, Akash Patel, MD, Martina Stippler, MD, Brian Williams, MD, and Brad Zacharia, MD, MS As we prepare for this year’s CNS Annual Meeting, we are excited t...

Chairs: Kate Drummond, MD, and Walter Stummer, MD Members: Anandh Balasubramanian, MD, James Balogun, MD, MBBS, Dominik Cordier, MD, Ather Enam, MD, PhD, Kostas Fountas, MD, PhD, Sameh Elmorsy Hassan, MD, PhD, Lindy Jeffree, BMedSci, MBBS, MSc, ...

Co-Chairs:  D. Ryan Ormond, MD, PhD, and Kristin Huntoon, MD Members:  Hussam Abou-Al-Shaar, MD, Garni Barkhoudarian, MD, Rohan Ramakrishna, MD, Matthew Shepard, MD, Jeff Olson, MD, Zel Zhang, MD, and Georgios Zenonos, MD Current members of t...

Chairs: Jonathan H. Sherman, MD, and Ian Parney, MD The committee looks to support not only tumor-related topics in history but also neurosurgical history in general. In this vein, the AANS Section of the History of Neurological Surgery, chaired ...

Chairs: Kimberly Hoang MD, and Michael Ivan, MD Members: Vijay Agarwal, MD, Clark Chen, MD, PhD, Alexandra Golby, MD, Simon Hanft, MD, Claire Karekezi, MD, David Jason McCracken, MD, Matthew Pease, MD, Pablo Recinos, MD, Michael Sughrue, MD, Todd...

Chair: Jason Sheehan, MD Recently, JNO reached its 40-year milestone of continuous publications. The JNO maintains the support of 12 organizations (see below) of which the AANS and CNS Tumor Section was its founding organization. The other organizations...

Chairs: Soma Sengupta, MD, PhD, MBA, and Jan Drappatz, MD Dr. Sengupta (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, professor of neurology and neurosurgery, division chief of adult neuro-oncology) and Dr. Drappatz (University of Pittsburgh Medical...

Chairs: Garni Barkhoudarian, MD, and Randy Jensen, MD, PhD Members: Wajd Al-Holou, MD, Ian Lee, MD, Jason Heth, MD, and Gautam Mehta, MD The Membership Committee continues to work to add value to Tumor Section membership. We personally contacted...

Chairs: Melanie Gephardt-Hayden, MD, and Adam Robin, MD Members: Kalil Abdullah, MD, Ajay Niranjan, MD, MBA, Maryam Rahman, MD, MS, and Gelareh Zadeh, MD, PhD Objective To integrate the neurosurgery leadership community with groups advancing...

Chairs: Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD, and Mahua Dey, MD Members: Costas Hadjipanayis, MD, PhD, Edjah Nduom, MD, and Nader Sanai, MD The Non-Profit Subcommittee is a new subcommittee started this year with the goal of building bridges with non-profit...

Chairs: Amy Lee, MD, and Anthony C. Wang, MD Members: Lissa Baird, MD, Winson Ho, MD, and Peter Morganstern, MD The field of pediatric neuro-oncology continues to advance and expand with focused work on targeted molecular therapies, immunotherapies,...

Chairs: Serah Choi, MD, and Daniel Trifiletti, MD Recent advancements in central nervous system (CNS) radiation oncology have introduced promising therapies and biomarkers alongside challenges in clinical trial enrollment. A significant milestone...

Chairs: Dan Cahill, MD, and Gelareh Zadeh, MD Members: Kalil Abdullah, MD, Frank Attenello, MD, Chetan Bettegowda, MD, PhD, Thomas Beaumont, MD, Orin Bloch, MD, Desmond Brown, MD, Bryan Choi, MD, PhD, Sunit Das, MD, PhD, Mahua Dey, MD, Peter Fecci,...

Chairs: Kalil Abdullah, MD, and Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD CNS 2024 Meeting Highlights The 2024 CNS Annual Meeting will be held in Houston, Texas, on September 28 – October 2, 2024. The scientific program of the Tumor Section will feature the f...

Chairs: Paul Gardner, MD, and Danny Prevedello, MD Members: Linda Bi, MD, Vincent DiNapoli, MD, PhD, Eze Goldschmidt, MD, Jamie Van Gompel, MD, Michael Ivan, MD, Christina Jackson, MD, Pamela Jones, MD, John Lee, MD, Michael Link, MD, Juan Fernandez-Miranda,...

Chairs: Daphne Haas-Kogan, MD, and Michael Lim, MD SNO is pleased to share that a record number of abstracts were submitted for its 29th Annual Scientific Meeting and Education Day which will be held in Houston this year, with 1329 submissions...

Chairs: W. Christopher Newman, MD, and Pascal Zinn, MD, PhD Members: James Bayley, MD, Christopher Alvarez-Breckenridge, MD, PhD, Justiss Kallos, MD, John Shin, MD, Nam Tram, MD, Phd, and Nicholas Szerlip, MD Spine oncology is growing as its own...

Chairs: Tiffany R. Hodges, MD, and Andrew Sloan, MD A major update for the Washington Committee is the addition of Charlotte Pineda as the new head of the AANS/CNS Washington Office, which was effective July 1, 2024. As Katie Orrico, JD, is transitioning...