Symposia and Lectures

Our faculty and staff are committed to the highest levels of excellence in the clinical, educational, and research realms. As a premier academic medical center, we are committed to improving the status quo and the sharing of information through pioneers with world class expertise. Our lecture series and conferences are consistent with that fundamental mission as we strive to improve the status quo for all our neurosurgery (cranial/spine) patients.

This is a sample of some of our recent educational events.

Advanced Practice Providers Lecture

Sponsored by The Brain and Spine Institute.

First Annual

  • Date: April 14, 2021, 7 to 8 a.m.
  • Title: Keep ’Em Talking - Tips and Techniques During Awake Craniotomies
  • Honored Guest: James H. Carter Jr., MHS, PA-C, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University School of Medicine
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Second Annual

  • Date: April 13, 2022
  • Title: Evaluating Neurosurgical Evidence - Probability, Possibility, and ... Perhaps This Will Work
  • Honored Guest: DaiWai Olson, Ph.D., R.N., Professor of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, University of Texas Southwestern
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Third Annual

  • Date: April 5, 2023
  • Title: Part 1 - My Journey in Academics: A Discussion
  • Honored Guest: R. Shane Tubbs, Ph.D., M.S., PA-C, Professor of Neurosurgery and Structural and Cellular Biology, Tulane School of Medicine
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Carolyn M. Beaudin and Koichi Hamada Honored Guest Lecture

Sponsored by The Brain and Spine Institute.

Inaugural Lecture

  • Date: June 30, 2021
  • Title: The Immune Landscape of CNS Tumors - Implications for Immunotherapy
  • Honored Guest: Amy Heimberger, M.D., Ph.D.
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Second Annual

  • Date: June 8, 2022
  • Title: Skull Base Radiosurgery for Complex Clinical Challenges
  • Honored Guest: Douglas Kondziolka, M.D., M.Sc., FRCSC, FACS, New York University
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Third Annual

  • Date: June 21, 2023
  • Title: Craniopharyngiomas: The Case for the Endonasal Corridor
  • Honored Guest: Nelson M. Oyesiku, M.D., M.Sc. (Lond), Ph.D., FACS, Van L. Wetherspoon Jr. Eminent Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Fourth Annual

  • Date: May 29, 2024
  • Title: Advances in Cerebrovascular Surgery
  • Honored Guest: J. Mocco, M.D., M.S., Kalmon D. Post Professor and Senior Vice Chair, Cerebrovascular Center Director, Department of Neurological Surgery, Mount Sinai, NY
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Cutting Edge in Clinical Neuroscience Symposium

First Annual

  • Date: November 16, 2019
  • Title: Surgical Management of Supratentorial Giants Meningiomas
  • Honored Guest: Arturo Ayala Arcipreste, M.D., Hospital Juárez de México
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Second Annual

  • Date: November 7, 2020
  • Title: COVID-19 and Stroke: Causality or Coincidence?
  • Honored Guests: Pascal M. Jabbour, M.D., Jefferson University; Dennis Spencer, M.D., Yale University; and Henry Friedman, M.D., Duke University
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Third Annual

Sponsored by The Brain and Spine Institute.

  • Date: November 6, 2021
  • Honored Guests: Ossama Al-Mefty, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Shekar Kurpad, M.D., Ph.D., Medical College of Wisconsin; Gary Steinberg, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University, and Louise McCullough, M.D., Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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Fourth Annual

  • Date: November 12, 2022
  • Honored Guests: Ciarán J. Powers, M.D., Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center; Ian T. McNiell, M.D., M.S., UConn Health; Shane Burch, M.D., M.Sc., FRCSC, University of California San Francisco; Feliks (Ephraim) Trakhtenberg, Ph.D., UConn Health; Robert J. Dowsett, M.D., UConn Health; Kevin P. Becker, M.D., Ph.D., UConn Health
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Fifth Annual

  • Date: November 4, 2023
  • Honored Guests: John de Groot, M.D., University of California; Christopher Kellner, M.D., Mount Sinai Health System; Douglas H. Smith, M.D., University of Pennsylvania; Doris Wang, M.D., Ph.D., Weill Institute for Neurosciences
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Takanori Fukushima Technical Excellence in Neurosurgery Lecture

First Annual

  • Date: September 25, 2019
  • Title: Evolution of Modern Skull Base Surgery From MINT to Hemicapitectomy
  • Honored Guest: Takanori Fukushima, M.D., Raleigh Neurosurgical Clinic and Duke University
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Second Annual

  • Date: September 16, 2020
  • Title: Clinical and Technical Pearls in the Surgical Treatment of Gliomas
  • Honored Guest: Allan H. Friedman, M.D., The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center, Duke University
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Third Annual

Sponsored by The Brain and Spine Institute.

  • Date: September 15, 2021
  • Title: Bypass Surgery for Ischemia - Lessons Learned From Intraoperative Flow Measurements
  • Honored Guest: Jacques Morcos, M.D., University of Miami
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Fourth Annual

  • Date: September 28, 2022
  • Title: Orbital Surgery for the Neurosurgeon
  • Honored Guest: William T. Couldwell, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, University of Utah
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Fifth Annual

  • Date: September 14, 2023
  • Title: Rethinking Acoustic Neuroma
  • Honored Guest: Steven L. Giannotta, M.D., Chair and Professor of Neurological Surgery, Dr. Martin Weiss Chair in Neurological Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
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Sixth Annual

  • Date: September 11, 2024
  • Title: Seven Cavernomas: A New Framework
  • Honored Guest: Michael T. Lawton, M.D., President and CEO, Professor and Chair, Neurosurgery, Chief, Neurovascular Surgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona
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Advances and Innovations in the Management of Spine Disorders Symposium

First Annual

  • Date: May 8, 2020 (virtual symposium due to COVID-19 pandemic)
  • Title: Innovations and Advances in Spine Surgery
  • Honored Guest: Ziya L. Gokaslan, M.D., Brown University
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Second Annual

Sponsored by The Brain and Spine Institute.

  • Date: May 19, 2021
  • Title: Spine Research Update 2021 - Fresh Challenges and New Horizons
  • Honored Guest: Praveen Mummanemi, M.D.
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and

  • Date: May 26, 2021
  • Title: Innovation and Spine Care?
  • Honored Guest: Frank Phillips, M.D.
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Third Annual

  • Date: May 18, 2022
  • Title: Clinical Application of Biomechanics in Spinal Surgery
  • Honored Guest: Joseph S. Cheng, M.D., M.S.
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and

  • Date: May 25, 2022
  • Title: Operative Treatment of Cervical Kyphosis
  • Honored Guest: John G. Heller, M.D.
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Fourth Annual

  • Date: May 24, 2023
  • Title: Advances in the Management of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy
  • Honored Guest: Michael G. Fehlings, M.D., Ph.D., FRCSC, FACS, FCAHS, FRSC
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Fifth Annual

  • Date: June 19, 2024
  • Title: Acceleration
  • Honored Guest: Mark N. Hadley, M.D., Charles A. and Patsy W. Collat Endowed Professor of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurological Surgery, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Special Lectures

Treatment Strategies for Glioblastoma

  • Date: May 17, 2018
  • Honored Guest: Henry S. Friedman, M.D., The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center, Duke University
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Neurosurgery - Surgical Autonomy Program

  • Date: February 26, 2021
  • Honored Guest: Michael M. Haglund, M.D., Ph.D., MACM, FAANS, Distinguished Duke Professor of Neurosurgery, Global Health, and Orthopaedic Surgery; Vice Chair of Education, Duke Department of Neurosurgery; Division Chief, Duke Global Neurosurgery and Neurology; Program and Training Director, Duke Department of Neurosurgery; Professor, SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute; Program Director, Uganda Neurosurgery Training Program
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Getting to Networks in Focal Epilepsy

  • Date: March 31, 2022
  • Honored Guest: Dennis Spencer, M.D., Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist of Neurosurgery; Director of Epilepsy Research, Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine
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Advances in Cerebrovascular Surgery

  • Date: June 8, 2023
  • Honored Guest: Brian M. Howard, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine
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Hartford Hospital, UConn Health, Connecticut Children’s Neurosurgery Didactic Conference

  • Date: March 8, 2024
  • Honored Guest: Dennis Spencer, M.D., Ma (hon), FACS, FAES; Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor Emeritus; Chairman Emeritus, Department of Neurosurgery; Senior Research Scientist; Co-Director, Yale Clinical Neuroscience Neuroanalytics; Yale University School of Medicine
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Neurocritical Care Lectures and Emergency Stroke Conferences