New England Neurosurgical Society
Fall Meeting
September 28, 2007
New York Yacht Club-Harbour Court
Program
9:00 – 11:00 am Continental Breakfast and Board Meeting
11:00 - 11:30 am Coffee break with exhibitors
11:30 – 12:30 pm
Whitcomb Lecture: Dr. Clarence Watridge “Neurosurgical Practice Paradigms for the 21st Century”
12:30 – 1:15 pm Buffet Lunch with exhibitors
1:15 – 3:00 pm Scientific session
3:15 – 3:45 pm Coffee break with exhibitors
3:45 – 5:00 pm Scientific session
5:00 – 5:30 pm Annual Business Meeting
5:30 – 6:30 pm Cocktails
6:30 – 9:00 pm Dinner
Jun 6th 2007 June 2007 Meeting Accepted Abstracts
Clinical Program
1.00pm Follow-up of local control of vestibular schwannomas with SRS – Goodrich.
1.15pm Stent-graft treatment of cerebrovascular wall defects:
Intermediate-term clinical and angiographic results – Hoit, Schirmer,
Malek.
1.30pm Gene expression profiling of medulloblastomas reveals m-tor as a
target for low-risk aggressive disease – Ferreira, Pomeroy.
1.45pm The thoracic cord syndrome – Radwan, Ball.
2.00pm Post-operative MRI and functional aspects of normal residual pituitary gland in macroadenomas and suprasellar lesions – Biswas, Mohr, et al.
2.15pm The Other Cushing Syndrome - Schmidek.
2.45pm COFFEE BREAK
3.00pm Investigation of myotomal innervation, stimulation physiology
and decompressive threshold effect in healthy and pathologic spinal
nerve roots – Shils, Martin, et al.
3.15pm Neurogenic pulmonary edema – Chenoweth.
3.30pm Collaborative online case studies: The AANS case studies project – Carter.
3.45pm Combination oncolytic herpes simplex virus-1 and dendritic cell immunotherapy – Farrell, Zaupa, et al.
4.00pm Strategy for selective sensitization of glioma cells to ionizing radiation (IR) – Chen, Kennedy, et al.
4.15pm Athroplasty versus arthrodesis of the cervical spine – Bisson.
4.30pm Prediction of complex flow patterns in intracranial
atherosclerotic disease using computational fluid dynamics – Schirmer.
Malek.
