AANS/CNS Section on Tumors Spring 2023 Newsletter Dear Colleagues, Within the neurosurgical oncology subspecialty, besides performing technically challenging surgeries, we regularly help our patients to make difficult health decisions including...

Newsletter Editor: Garni Barkhoudarian, MD Newsletter Assistant Editor: Kristin Huntoon, PhD, DO We are happy to share the Spring 2023 edition of the AANS/CNS Section on Tumors Newsletter. This year's AANS Annual Scientific Meeting theme is "Neurosurgeons...

Chair : Maryam Rahman, MD Co-Chairs : Chris Newman, MD, and Desmond Brown, MD, PhD   Saturday April 22, 2023 1:30-5 pm Section on Tumor Session 1 Aligned with the meeting theme Neurosurgeons as Advocates , the first session entitled:...

16th AANS/CNS Section on Tumors Biennial Symposium Biennial Symposium September 8-9, 2023, immediately before the 2023 CNS Washington, DC   Scientific Chair : Gelareh Zadeh, MD Scientific Co-Chairs : Chetan Bettegowda, MD, PhD, and...

Chairs : Jennifer Moliterno, MD, and Will Curry, MD Members: Frank Attenello, MD, Jason Heth, MD, and Pascal Zinn, MD, PhD We are excited for the upcoming 2023 AANS Section on Tumors scientific program! We again received exceptional abstracts...

Chair : Edjah Nduom, MD Members : Fred Barker, MD, Uzma Samadani, MD, Walavan Sivakumar, MD, and Jeff Weinberg, MD   The sub-committee revised the Section Rules and regulations (“Bylaws”) to expand its leadership roles. These changes, sup...

Chair, Co-Chair : Brad Elder, MD, and Gavin Dunn, MD Members: 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 Registries” sub-committee, we a...

Chair, Co-Chair : Kimberly Hoang, MD, and Claire Karekezi, MD  Members : Maria Huda, MD, and Aaron Cohen-Gadol, MD The Communications Committee continues its work of promoting the events, guidelines and publications of the Joint Section and amplifying ...

Chair, Co-Chair : Brian V. Nahed, MD, and Susan C. Pannullo, MD Members : Lilyana Angelov, MD, Kairson Chaichana, MD, John Lee, MD, Amankulor Nduka, MD, and  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, MD The Development and Partnerships Committee has leveraged the ...

(Formerly Young Neurosurgeon -YNS) Chair, Co-Chair: Randy D’Amico, MD, and Raj Mukherjee, MD Moving into 2023, the AANS Young Neurosurgeon’s Committee (YNC) has transitioned to the Early Career Neurosurgeons Committee (ECNC), chaired by Dr. Wal...

Chair, Co-Chair: Gelareh Zadeh, MD, and Analiz Rodriguez, MD, PhD Members: Michael Lim, MD, Pablo Recinos, MD, Vivian Tabar, MD, and Brad Zacharia, MD The Education sub-committee is planning to start a webinar series which will include career...

(Formerly International Neurosurgery) Chair, Co-Chair : Ekkehard Kasper, MD and Kate Drummond, MD Members:   Anandh Balasubramanian, MD, James Balogun, MD,  Dominik Cordier, MD, Ather Enam, MD, Sameh Elmorsy Hassan, MD, Lindy Jeffree, MD, Francesco D...

Chair, Co-Chair: Jeff Olson, MD and  Ryan Ormond, MD Members: Garni Barkhoudarian, MD, Emanuela Binello, MD,  Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD, Rohan Ramakrishna, MD, Matthew Shepard, MD and Gabe Zada, MD The current Congress of Neurologic Surgery guidelines d...

(Formerly Radiosurgery, LITT) Chair, Co-Chair : Chris Cifarelli, MD, and Lola Chambless, MD Members : Clark Chen, MD, Pamela Jones, MD, Claire Karekezi, MD, Alexandra Golbi, MD, Pablo Recinos, MD, Michael Sughrue, MD, and Brian William MD The Innovation...

Editor: Jason Sheehan, MD   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 Glioblastoma Research Organization...

Chair, Co-Chair: Randy Jensen, MD, and Isaac Yang, MD Members: Ian Lee, MD, and Wajd Al-Holou, MD The membership committee has focused on a couple of areas over the past six months. First, we personally contacted all tumor section members that had...

Chair, Co-Chair : Lissa Baird, MD, and Anthony Wang, MD The field of pediatric neuro-oncology continues to advance and expand with focused work on targeted molecular therapies, immunotherapies, local therapies, toxicity limitations for our young patients,...

Chair, Co-Chair : Maryam Rahman, MD, and Chetan  Bettegowda, MD, PhD Members : Orin Bloch, MD, Desmond Brown, MD, PhD, Mahua Dey, MD, Peter Fecci, MD, James Market, MD, Gautam Mehta, MD, Dan Orringer, MD, Jonathan Sherman, MD, and  Matthew Tate, M...

Chair, Co-Chair : Wenya Linda Bi, MD, PhD, and Daniel M. Prevedello, MD Members : Vincent Dinapoli, MD, Ian Dunn, MD, Michael Ivan, MD, Michael Link, MD, and Gordon Li, MD The skull base community opens the year with the 32nd annual meeting of the...

Chair, Co-Chair : Nicholas Szerlip, MD, and Nam D. Tran, MD Member: John Shin, MD Our major goal is to advocate for greater interest in spinal oncology and advancement in the treatment and prevention through research. To achieve these goals, we seek...

Liaison : Tiffany R. Hodges, MD Congressional leaders have reached a deal on a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, which includes several provisions affecting the neurosurgical community. Although the bill provides a two-year postponement of the 4%...

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...