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 development opportunities and review new practice paradigms. Career development webinars will include sessions on how to choose a neuro-oncology and/or skull base fellowship and contract negotiation for a new job. The new practice paradigms webinar series will include various topics to keep the neurosurgical practitioner up to date such as the following: Updates on the molecular characterization of tumors, novel minimally invasive approaches, radiation oncology protocols and immunotherapy. This series will be geared towards trainees, as well as faculty.

The Education sub-committee will also be partnering with the CNS Nexus initiative to develop a comprehensive video atlas of neurosurgical oncology procedures. Currently, Dr. Jonathan Sherman and Dr. Brad Elder are in charge of the CNS Nexus tumor section. The CNS education committee has reached out to them on this initiative, which they have approved.  Dr. Dani Terrell, neurosurgery resident, and Andrew Ajisebutu, medical student, have started to catalogue the current cases in the Nexus repository. The most common tumor pathology currently featured in the repository is meningioma. We have identified critical gaps in certain areas such as endoscopic approaches (both trans-nasal and intraventricular), glioma surgery, spine oncology and pediatric oncology. In the spring of 2023, the Education Committee will contact executive committee members to be video reviewers for each tumor subspecialty. Our members will develop a list of videos critical for oncology education.