Welcome. We hope that you will join us for the 2008 Annual meeting of the New England Neurosurgical Society June 19-21, 2008 at the Chatham Bars Inn in Chatham, MA.

This year's meeting represents a significant change over past years. By moving to a once in a year meeting format, we hope to bring together more neurosurgeons for both learning and holiday in a relaxing environment.

The Chatham Bars Inn has been rated as one of New England's best hotels. Chatham itself is delightful seaside Cape village with shopping, restaurants, golf, ocean fishing, and beach. It will be a great venure whether you are alone or with spouse/family.

Please browse the FAQ for all the details about registration, housing, and sign-ups for courses/activities.

We look forward to seeing you for a great program this year.

Carl Heilman MD and Bob Carter MD. Meeting Co-chairs.

Presidents Message:

New England Neurosurgical Society

Annual Meeting

Chatham Bars Inn, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Dear Fellow Members,

I am pleased to announce the New England Neurosurgical Society will be having its Annual Meeting, on June 19-21 at the Chatham Bars Inn, Cape Cod, MA. The NENS Executive Committee has decided to change the format of our membership meetings. We have chosen to go to a once a year annual meeting, which will be held over three days instead of the past custom of having three meetings per year. The Officers and Board Members decided to make this change because we became aware of increasing costs and diminishing attendance at these meetings. We benchmarked solutions from other Regional societies and decided to emulate the Southern Neurosurgical Society’s solution. Thus, we invite you to the NENS Annual Meeting at the Chatham Bars Inn. The meeting will be incorporating CME credits, recreation, guest speakers, two scientific neurosurgical programs, a cocktail party and banquet. We will also ethically incorporate vendor support to keep costs reasonable and to help aid resident participation. We have also invited several of the spine instrumentation vendors to hold an afternoon educational session involving spinal instrumentation.

Please plan on saving the designated dates and plan on attending what promises to be an outstanding event. The annual meeting program is as follows:

June 19th 7-9 p.m. Cocktail Party

June 20^th 8a-12 p.m. Scientific program

1-5 p.m. Recreation (Golf, Fishing, etc.) / Spine Course

6 p.m. Banquet

June 21^st 8a-12 p.m. Scientific program

Rooms have been reserved at Chatham Bars Inn from June 19-22, 2008. Deadlines for registrations and abstract submission will be forthcoming in further communications.

Sincerely,

Gary M. Bloomgarden

President, New England Neurosurgical Society