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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Complication Avoidance, Recognition and Management of Complex Tumor Cases
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Moderator: Jacques Morcos, MD, FRCS, FAANS – University of Texas Health Houston
    Moderator: Mitchel S. Berger, MD – UCSF
    Moderator: Maryam Rahman, MD, FAANS – University of Florida
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    2:00 PM - 2:03 PM CT
    Welcome and Introduction 
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    2:04 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    AVOIDANCE - Preoperative Practices to Minimize Complication Risk
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Georgios A. Zenonos, MD – UPMC Neurosurgery
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    2:16 PM - 2:27 PM CT
    RECOGNITION - Recognizing Subtleties That May Belie Serious Complications
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Simon J. Hanft, MD – Westchester Medical Center
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    2:40 PM - 2:51 PM CT
    MANAGEMENT - Management of Complications in Skull Base Neurosurgery
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Gabriel Zada, MD – University of Southern California
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    2:52 PM - 3:00 PM CT
    POSTOPERATIVE- Role of Enhanced Recovery in Postoperative Complication Prevention
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Walavan Sivakumar, MD – Pacific Neuroscience Institute
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    3:01 PM - 3:07 PM CT
    Characterization of Long-Term Endocrine Morbidity Following Endoscopic Endonasal Resection of Rathke's Cleft Cysts in a Large Single-Institutional Cohort
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Kaasinath Balagurunath, BA – Boston University School of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    3:08 PM - 3:14 PM CT
    The NXDC-MEN-301 Study on 5-ALA for Meningiomas Surgery for the Assessing the Benefit of Intra-Operative Fluorescence Imaging (Zap Surgical Award)
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Walter Stummer, MD – Department of Neurosurgery, University of Münster
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    3:15 PM - 3:21 PM CT
    Surgeon Experience and Outcomes in Cushing’s Disease: A Multicenter Study
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Alexander Greven, MD MBA – Barrow neurological Institute
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    3:22 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Discussion & Closing Comments
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Paper Posters Tumor
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    3 Month Post-Operative MRI as a Prognostic Indicator for Glioblastomas
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC - Poster Board 54
    Presenting Author: Maria Morkas, BA – UT Health
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Clinical Predictors of Overall Survival in Very Elderly Patients With Intracranial Low-Grade Gliomas: An Analysis of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Database
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC - Poster Board 55
    Presenting Author: Saud K. Zaidan, BS – Oregon Health and Science University
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Differential Risk and Survival of Primary Brain Tumors in Persons With Parkinson Disease: A Global TriNetX Cohort
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC - Poster Board 44
    Presenting Author: Mackenzie Hagood, M.S. – The University of Toledo College of Medicine
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Digital Twin-Driven Virtual Clinical Trials Identify Patient-Specific Predictors of Response to BMP4 Differentiation Therapy in Glioblastoma
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC - Poster Board 50
    Presenting Author: Loizos Michaelides, MD – Mayo Clinic Florida
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    DNA Methylation-Driven Classification of Glioma and Discovery of Noninvasive Liquid Biopsy Biomarkers via Interpretable Deep Learning
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC - Poster Board 56
    Presenting Author: Aierpati Maimaiti, MD, PhD – Xinjiang Medical University Affiliated the First Hospital
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Efficacy and Safety of Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy for Posterior Fossa Lesions: A Systematic Review and Single-Arm Meta-Analysis
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC - Poster Board 51
    Presenting Author: Jose Eduardo Trejo Elias, MS – Universidad Panamericana, Department of Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Glioblastoma Outcomes by Prior Malignancy Status: A Single-Center Study
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC - Poster Board 47
    Presenting Author: Ahmed Elbayomy, MD – Department of Neurological Surgery, UW Madison school of medicine and public health
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Initial Management of Asymptomatic Meningioma: A Propensity-Matched Survival Analysis of Surgical and Observational Treatment Pathways
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC - Poster Board 43
    Presenting Author: Rahim Abo Kasem, MD – University of Louisville
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Multi-Omic Profiling of Pan-Cancer Brain Metastases Reveals a Prognostic Epigenetic Signature of Immune Activation
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC - Poster Board 48
    Presenting Author: Andrew Ajisebutu, MD – University of Toronto
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Perilesional Cerebrospinal Fluid Cytology During Craniotomy as a Predictor of Intracranial and Leptomeningeal Progression  in Brain Metastases
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC - Poster Board 52
    Presenting Author: Richard Song, BS – Northwestern Medicine
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Personalized Anti-Glioma Immunotherapy Demonstrates Immune Activity in Canine Patients
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC - Poster Board 41
    Presenting Author: Maryam Rahman, MD, FAANS – University of Florida
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Procarbazine, Lomustine and Vincristine Versus Temozolomide in WHO Grade III IDH-Mutant Diffuse Gliomas: A Meta-Analysis
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC - Poster Board 45
    Presenting Author: Dilmareth E. NAtera-Rodriguez, MD – University of Minnesota
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Signatures of Cognitive Loss in Glioma
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC - Poster Board 53
    Presenting Author: Gray Umbach, MD – University of California San Francisco
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Spinal Drop Metastases From Intracranial Glioblastoma: A Systematic Review of 78 Cases
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC - Poster Board 46
    Presenting Author: Gabrielle Dituri, BS – Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Stem Cell-Delivered BMP4 Radiosensitizes Glioblastoma by Reprogramming the RB-p53 Axis
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC - Poster Board 49
    Presenting Author: Loizos Michaelides, MD – Mayo Clinic Florida
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Surfaceome Analysis Identifies DLL3 as a Novel Immunotherapeutic Target for Diffuse Midline Glioma
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC - Poster Board 42
    Presenting Author: Rakesh Murugesan, BS – Perelman School of Medicine
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Surgical Resection Plus SRS Versus SRS Alone and Control of Brain Metastasis-Induced Seizures
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, HBGCC - Poster Board 57
    Presenting Author: Seamus Y. Wang, BA – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center & Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    The Next Frontier of Surgical Neuro-oncology: Biologics and Beyond
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Moderator: Bryan Choi, MD
    Moderator: Ashish H. Shah, MD – University of Miami
    Moderator: Randy S. D'Amico, MD – Lenox Hill Department of Neurosurgery
    Moderator: Michael Ivan, MD, MBS – University of Miami
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:00 PM - 4:03 PM CT
    Welcome and Introduction 
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:04 PM - 4:09 PM CT
    Cells, Vaccines and Viruses Debate: Intro
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Frederick F. Lang, MD – Department of Neurosurgery, MD Anderson Cancer Center
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:10 PM - 4:17 PM CT
    Cells, Vaccines and Viruses Debate: Oncolytics Intro
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: E. Chiocca, MD, PhD, FAANS – Mass General Brigham
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:18 PM - 4:25 PM CT
    Cells, Vaccines and Viruses Debate: CAR-T
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Hideho Okada, MD, PhD – University of California, San Francisco
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:26 PM - 4:33 PM CT
    Cells, Vaccines and Viruses Debate: Vaccine
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Linda M. Liau, MD, PhD, MBA – UCLA Department of Neurosurgery
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:34 PM - 4:44 PM CT
    Debate and Discussion
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Ashish H. Shah, MD – University of Miami
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:45 PM - 4:52 PM CT
    BBB Strategies: Ultrasound
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Randy S. D'Amico, MD – Lenox Hill Department of Neurosurgery
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    4:53 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    BBB Strategies: LITT
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Albert H. Kim, MD, PhD – WashU Medicine
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    5:01 PM - 5:08 PM CT
    BBB Strategies: CED
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Mark Souweidane, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    5:09 PM - 5:17 PM CT
    Debate and Discussion
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    5:18 PM - 5:23 PM CT
    Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells Engineered with Bispecific Engagers without Antigen Requirements (CARE BEAR)
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Peter Fecci, MD PhD – University of Colorado Anschutz
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    5:24 PM - 5:29 PM CT
    B7H3-BCLxL Inhibitor Antibody-Drug Conjugate for Treatment of Meningioma (Columbia Softball Skull Base Award)
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Maya Harary, MD – University of California Los Angeles
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  • Saturday, May 2nd
    5:30 PM CT
    Closing Comments 
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    At the Intersection of Extent of Resection and Functional Preservation in Skull Base Surgery
    Location: 304AB, Level 3, HBGCC
    Moderator: Jamie J. Van Gompel, MD, FAANS – Mayo Clinic
    Moderator: Stephanie K. Cheok, MD – Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Neurosurgical Role in Multiply Recurrent Tumors
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Moderator: Michael R. Chicoine, MD – University of Missouri
    Moderator: Rupen Desai, MD – Medical College of Wisconsin
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    2:00 PM - 2:02 PM CT
    Welcome and Introduction 
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    2:00 PM - 2:04 PM CT
    Welcome and Introduction 
    Location: 304AB, Level 3, HBGCC
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    2:03 PM - 2:13 PM CT
    Surgical and Adjuvant Strategies for Recurrent Diffuse Gliomas
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Isabelle Germano, MD, MBA – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    2:05 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Timing of Surgery in Large and Multicompartmental Tumors: Staging Versus Combined Approaches
    Location: 304AB, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Christina Jackson, MD – University of Pennsylvania
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    2:14 PM - 2:24 PM CT
    Early vs. Delayed Radiation for Atypical Meningiomas
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Jason Sheehan, MD, PhD – University of Virginia
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    2:16 PM - 2:26 PM CT
    Prolactinomas: Shift to a Surgical Disease?
    Location: 304AB, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Joao Paulo Almeida, MD PhD – Department of Neurosurgery, Indiana University
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    2:25 PM - 2:45 PM CT
    Bittner Lecture
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Michael Vogelbaum, MD, PhD – Cerinfuse Technologies, Inc.
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    2:27 PM - 2:37 PM CT
    Preoperative Embolization, Vessel Sacrifice and Revascularization in Skull Base Tumors
    Location: 304AB, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Mustafa K. Baskaya, MD – Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    2:38 PM - 2:48 PM CT
    Utility and Limitations of the Transorbital Approach to the Skull Base and Middle Fossa
    Location: 304AB, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Nathan T. Zwagerman, MD – Medical College of Wisconsin
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    2:47 PM - 2:52 PM CT
    Glioma Cells Induce Increased Neuronal Activity in a Human iPSC-Based In Vitro Model of the Peritumoral Microenvironment (Raymond Sawaya Neuro-Oncology Trainee Award)
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Hannah S. Haile, AB – Columbia University Department of Neurosurgery
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    2:49 PM - 2:59 PM CT
    Cavernous Sinus Meningiomas: Biopsy, Resect or Radiate?
    Location: 304AB, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: A. Samy Youssef, MD, PhD, FAANS – University of Colorado SOM
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    2:53 PM - 3:00 PM CT
    Evaluating the Real-World Applicability of Eligibility Criteria in Grade 4 Glioma Clinical Trials (American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) Young Investigator Award)
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Franciska Otaner, MDCM Candidate – McGill University
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    3:00 PM - 3:05 PM CT
    Interactive Discussion
    Location: 304AB, Level 3, HBGCC
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    3:06 PM - 3:11 PM CT
    SHH Pathway Alterations Drive Aggressive Behavior and Early Recurrence in Tuberculum Sellae and Planum Sphenoidale Meningiomas: An International Multi-Institutional Cohort Study (Brainlab Neurosurgery Award)
    Presenting Author: Tareq Juratli, MD – University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    3:07 PM - 3:12 PM CT
    Radiation Reshapes the Immune Landscape of High-Grade Meningiomas, Activating Both Cytotoxic and Suppressive Programs (Journal of Neuro-Oncology Award)
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Ishav Y. Shukla, BS – UT Southwestern Medical Center
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    3:11 PM - 3:16 PM CT
    Anatomical Origin Influences the Network Topology of Chromosomal Alterations in Meningiomas (Preuss Brain Tumor Research Award)
    Location: 304AB, Level 3, HBGCC
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    3:13 PM - 3:18 PM CT
    Survival Following GammaTile for Recurrent High-Grade Meningioma: Report from a Multicenter Study (KLS Martin Award)
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Elad Mashiach, MD – Westchester Medical Center
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    3:16 PM - 3:21 PM CT
    Clinical and Molecular Features of Intraventricular Meningiomas (Integra Foundation Award)
    Location: 304AB, Level 3, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Harrshavasan TS Congivaram, BS – Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    3:21 PM - 3:26 PM CT
    Methylation Profiling Reveals Subgroups of Intracranial Schwannoma with Distinct Biological and Clinical Features
    Location: 304AB, Level 3, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Alexander Landry, MD – University of Toronto
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    3:25 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Intraoperative Radiotherapy and Spinal Instrumentation for Spinal Metastases: A Prospective Observational Study (Zeiss Brain Tumor Research Award)
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Ehab Shiban, MD, Prof. , MHBA, M.Sc. – Medical University Lausitz
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    3:26 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Closing Comments 
    Location: 304AB, Level 3, HBGCC
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    A Synergistic Approach to Innovation in Neurosurgery
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Moderator: Charuta Furey, MD – Barrow Neurological Institute
    Moderator: Samir Sur, MD – Medstar Franklin Square Medical Center / Georgetown University School of Medicine
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    Tumor Rapid Fire Abstracts
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Moderator: Christina Jackson, MD – University of Pennsylvania
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:00 PM - 4:02 PM CT
    Predictors of Biopsy in Glioblastoma: A SEER-Based Epidemiologic Study
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Alyssa M. Persano, BS – Tufts University School of Medicine
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:00 PM - 4:03 PM CT
    Welcome and Introduction
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Charuta Furey, MD – Barrow Neurological Institute
    Speaker: Samir Sur, MD – Medstar Franklin Square Medical Center / Georgetown University School of Medicine
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:03 PM - 4:05 PM CT
    Intracranial Tumors Elicit Systemic Sympathetic Hyperactivity That Limits Immunotherapeutic Responses
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Peter Fecci, MD PhD – University of Colorado Anschutz
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:03 PM - 4:05 PM CT
    Wave Events in Neoplastic Meningitis: A Common Phenomenon Cured with Ventriculoperitoneal Shunting (Rosenblum-Mahaley Clinical Research Award)
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Aarav Badani, n/a – Department of Neurosurgery, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:04 PM - 4:12 PM CT
    Advanced Imaging for "MRI-negative" Cushing Disease
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Jamie J. Van Gompel, MD, FAANS – Mayo Clinic
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:06 PM - 4:08 PM CT
    Are All Bilsky 3 Lesions the Same? Redefining High-Grade Epidural Spinal Cord Compression with a Novel Classification System
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Harsh Jain, MBBS – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:09 PM - 4:11 PM CT
    Modeling Tumor-Induced Sarcopenia and Ambulatory Dysfunction in Spinal Metastases
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Ramzy Ahmed, B.S. – Eastern Virginia Medical School
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:12 PM - 4:14 PM CT
    Patterns of Care and Outcomes of Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Radiation-Induced Meningiomas: A Single-Institution Cohort Analysis (Lunsford & Leksell Radiosurgery Award)
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Saachi Jhandi, MS – Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:13 PM - 4:21 PM CT
    Augmented Reality in Neurosurgery and Education
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Joshua Olexa, MD – University of Maryland Medical Center
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:15 PM - 4:17 PM CT
    Multi-omic Analysis Predicts Response to Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Jay Chandar, MD – Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:18 PM - 4:20 PM CT
    Establishing the Utility of Deep Learning for H&E-Based Meningioma Molecular Classification and Outcome Prediction
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Alexander Landry, MD – University of Toronto
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:21 PM - 4:23 PM CT
    Exportin-1 Inhibition with Selinexor Enhances Temozolomide Efficacy in Meningioma Cells
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: timuçin avsar, PhD – Bahcesehir University
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:22 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    Real-time Intraoperative Diagnostics in Brain Tumor Surgery
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Todd Hollon, MD – University of Michigan
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:24 PM - 4:26 PM CT
    Extracellular Vesicle–Based Drug Delivery as a Potential Therapeutic Strategy Against Gliomas
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Prishita Banerji, M.D – University of NiÅ¡ Faculty of Medicine
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:27 PM - 4:29 PM CT
    Postoperative Infection in Patients with Glioblastoma and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Tara Elizabeth Dalton, MD – Duke University School of Medicine
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:30 PM - 4:32 PM CT
    Single Cell Sequencing Identifies Sox2+ Folliculostellate Cells as Master Orchestrators of Tumor Microenvironment Signaling in SF-1 Lineage PitNETs
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Michelle A. Wedemeyer, MD, PhD – Nationwide Childrens Hospital and The Ohio State College of Medicine
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:31 PM - 4:39 PM CT
    Updates in Drug-delivery for Treatment of Diffuse Brain Tumors
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Russell Lonser, MD, FAANS – The Ohio State University
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:33 PM - 4:35 PM CT
    Stromal Cell-Driven Immunosuppression as a Novel Target in Glioma Therapy
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Brandon H. Bergsneider, MS – Stanford University School of Medicine
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:39 PM - 4:41 PM CT
    A Prospective Study of Inflammatory Mediators in Cerebrospinal Fluid After Intraoperative Radiotherapy of Brain Tumors
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Ehab Shiban, MD, Prof. , MHBA, M.Sc. – Medical University Lausitz
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:40 PM - 4:48 PM CT
    Understanding and Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Neurosurgical Practice and Research
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Daniel M. Aaronson, MD – Medical College of Wisconsin
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:42 PM - 4:44 PM CT
    Cas9 Mouse Model of Skull Base Meningioma Driven by Combinational Gene Inactivation
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Hailiang Tang, MD, PHD – Huashan Hospital, Fudan University
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:48 PM - 4:50 PM CT
    Intraoperatively Differentiation of Brain Tumors by Optical Spectroscopy Measurements
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Fernando S. Chiwo, PhD – The University of Texas Medical Branch
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:49 PM - 4:57 PM CT
    Cerebrospinal Fluid Proteomics Identifies an Leptomeningeal Disease Signature and Enables Earlier LMD Detection and Surveillance in CNS Metastases (Ronald L. Bittner Award on Brain Tumor Research)
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Nicholas Mikolajewicz, MD PhD – University of Toronto
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:51 PM - 4:53 PM CT
    Leveraging Non-Linear Color Space Transformations To Enhance Categorization of Glioblastoma Cell Density at Experimental Margin by 5-ALA induced Protoporphyrin IX Fluorescence
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Jhair Colan, BS – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:54 PM - 4:56 PM CT
    Nanocarrier-Mediated Intra-Arterial Delivery Strategies for Blood–Brain Barrier Modulation in Glioblastoma: A Technical Note
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Jeremiah H. Wijaya, MD, MPH, FRSPH – Monash University
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:57 PM - 4:59 PM CT
    Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Primary Cancer-Specific Gene Expression Patterns in Brain Metastases
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Anthony G. Chesebro, PhD – Stony Brook University
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    4:58 PM - 5:06 PM CT
    Safely Integrating Social Media in Neurosurgery and Neuro-oncology
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Allan D. Levi, MD PhD – University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    5:00 PM - 5:02 PM CT
    Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma: A multi-institutional study
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Trenton Kite, BS – Allegheny Health Network
    Tumor
  • Sunday, May 3rd
    5:03 PM - 5:05 PM CT
    Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte Therapy from Melanoma Brain Metastasis: Proof-of-Concept for CNS-Derived Cellular Immunotherapy
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Bryan Choi, MD
    Tumor
  • Sunday, May 3rd
    5:06 PM - 5:08 PM CT
    Brain Metastasis Prediction from Lung Adenocarcinoma Tissue and Detection with Liquid Biopsy
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Jeffrey A. Zuccato, MD, PhD – University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    5:07 PM - 5:15 PM CT
    Interactive Discussion and Questions
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Charuta Furey, MD – Barrow Neurological Institute
    Speaker: Samir Sur, MD – Medstar Franklin Square Medical Center / Georgetown University School of Medicine
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    5:12 PM - 5:14 PM CT
    Comprehensive Ex Vivo Drug Sensitivity Mapping Across 666 Clinical Glioblastoma Samples Identified Distinct Response Networks Linked To Patient Survival
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Hsien-Chung Chen, MD – Department of Neurosurgery, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
    Tumor
  • Sunday, May 3rd
    5:15 PM - 5:17 PM CT
    Developing Novel Meningioma Patient-derived Organotypic Tumor Spheroids and Xenograft Models to Evaluate Efficacy of Mesothelin CAR T-cells and Synergy with Radiation Therapy
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Rishab Ramapriyan, MD – Resident
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    5:15 PM - 5:20 PM CT
    Liquid Biopsy Immune Profile Characterization in Diffuse Midline Glioma (James T. Rutka Pediatric Brain Tumor Award)
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Kacie Wheeler, BS – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia/ Drexel University College of Medicine
    Tumor
  • Sunday, May 3rd
    5:18 PM - 5:20 PM CT
    Electrocorticographic Detection of Speech Networks in Glioma-infiltrated Cortex
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Vardhaan S. Ambati, M.S. – UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    5:20 PM - 5:25 PM CT
    Integration of Liquid Biopsy with Tumor Genomic Profiling in Gliomas: Concordance, Predictive Value, and Clinical Implications (Gladiator Project Award)
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Mokshal Porwal, MD – Allegheny Health Network
    Tumor
  • Sunday, May 3rd
    5:25 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    Q&A and Conclusion
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Tumor
  • Sunday, May 3rd
    5:27 PM - 5:29 PM CT
    Neuron-Glioma Interactions Driven by (R)-2-hydroxyglutarate Promote Growth at the Infiltrative Margin of IDH-Mutant Gliomas
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 1, HBGCC
    Presenting Author: Brian Hsueh, MD, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    5:45 PM - 6:45 PM CT
    Tumor Wars II: Neuro-Onc Jeopardy-The Encore
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Moderator: Ankush Chandra, MD – UT Houston Department of Neurological Surgery
    Moderator: Yosef Ellenbogen, MD – University of Toronto
    Moderator: Constantinos G. Hadjipanayis, MD, PhD – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
    Co-Host: Arman Jahangiri, MD, PhD – University of Miami
    Co-Host: Daniel Kreatsoulas, MD – Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
    Team Leader: Kimberly Hoang, MD – Emory University School of Medicine
    Team Leader: Chibawanye Ene, MD, PhD – MD Anderson
    Team Leader: Manish Aghi, MD, PhD – UCSF
    Team Leader: Yoshua Esquenazi-Levy, MD – University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
    Team Leader: Ashish H. Shah, MD – University of Miami
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    5:45 PM - 6:45 PM CT
    Team Aghi
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Panelist: Sricharan Gopakumar, MD – Baylor College of Medicine
    Panelist: Anthony Patrizz, MD, PhD – UTHealth
    Panelist: Georgios Skandalakis, MD, PhD – UTHealth Houston
    Panelist: Oscar E. Camacho Hernandez, Medical Student – Departamento de Medicina y Nutrición, División de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Guanajuato, Campus León, León, Guanajuato, México
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    5:45 PM - 6:45 PM CT
    Team Ene
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Panelist: Kyle J. Tuohy, MD, MS – Penn State Hershey Medical Center
    Panelist: Chanju Fritch
    Panelist: Kimberly Kray, MD – Penn state university Milton s Hershey medical center
    Panelist: Abhiram Reddy
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    5:45 PM - 6:45 PM CT
    Team Hoang
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Panelist: Rebecca Calafiore, MD – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
    Panelist: S. Farzad Maroufi, MD MPH MPHE – Johns Hopkins University
    Panelist: Katherine Belanger, MD – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
    Panelist: Richard S. Um
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    5:45 PM - 6:45 PM CT
    Team Shah
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Panelist: Allison C. Medina, MD – Wake Forest University
    Panelist: Omar Ashraf, MD – Wake Forest School of Medicine
    Panelist: Aria Sabbagh, MD – UT Houston, Department of Neurosurgery
    Panelist: Ruchit Jain, MBBS – Miami Cancer Institute
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  • Sunday, May 3rd
    5:45 PM - 6:45 PM CT
    Team Yoshua
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Panelist: Pavel Pichardo Rojas, MD – Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine
    Panelist: VIshal Garg, MBBS, MS – AIIMS DELHI
    Panelist: Antonio Dono Ostorga, MD – University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
    Panelist: Diego A. Gudino Alvarez – Universidad Anáhuac México
    Panelist: Juan S. Solis Mata – Anahuac University
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  • Monday, May 4th
    8:00 AM - 9:30 AM CT
    Refining Brain Tumor Surgery Through Intra-operative Molecular Testing
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Moderator: Daniel Orringer, MD – NYU Langone Health
    Moderator: Chetan Bettegowda, MD PhD – Department of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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  • Monday, May 4th
    8:00 AM - 8:05 AM CT
    Introduction to Program
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Daniel Orringer, MD – NYU Langone Health
    Speaker: Chetan Bettegowda, MD PhD – Department of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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  • Monday, May 4th
    8:05 AM - 8:20 AM CT
    How: AI Based molecular Forecasting
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Todd Hollon, MD – University of Michigan
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  • Monday, May 4th
    8:20 AM - 8:35 AM CT
    How: Intraoperative Nanopore Sequencing
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
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  • Monday, May 4th
    8:35 AM - 8:50 AM CT
    How: Liquid Biopsy in Brain Tumors
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Chetan Bettegowda, MD PhD – Department of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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  • Monday, May 4th
    8:50 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Why: Contrasting Outcomes in Glioma Molecular Subtypes
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Jacob S. Young, MD – UCSF
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  • Monday, May 4th
    9:00 AM - 9:10 AM CT
    Why: Redefining Glioma Surgery with Rapid Diagnostics
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Daniel Orringer, MD – NYU Langone Health
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  • Monday, May 4th
    9:10 AM - 9:20 AM CT
    Why: Rapid Diagnostics in Craniopharyngioma
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Donato Pacione, MD – New York University
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  • Monday, May 4th
    9:20 AM - 9:30 AM CT
    Why: Rapid Diagnostics in Meningioma
    Location: Stars at Night Ballroom 1, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Gelareh Zadeh, MD PhD – Mayo Clinic
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  • Monday, May 4th
    9:45 AM - 11:15 AM CT
    Minimally Invasive Cranial Tumor Surgery: Endoscopic and Parafascicular Approaches
    Location: 303BC, Level 3, HBGCC
    Moderator: Ankush Chandra, MD – UT Houston Department of Neurological Surgery
    Moderator: Hussam Abou-Al-Shaar, MD – The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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  • Monday, May 4th
    9:45 AM - 9:48 AM CT
    Welcome & Course Overview
    Location: 303BC, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Yoshua Esquenazi-Levy, MD – University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
    Speaker: Daniel M. Prevedello, MD – The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center Department of Neurological Surgery
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  • Monday, May 4th
    9:48 AM - 9:58 AM CT
    Fascicular Anatomy and Principles of MIS Parafascicular Surgery for Brain Tumors
    Location: 303BC, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Georgios A. Zenonos, MD – UPMC Neurosurgery
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  • Monday, May 4th
    9:58 AM - 10:08 AM CT
    Parafascicular Access for Deep Brain Tumors: Tubular and Tract-sparing Techniques
    Location: 303BC, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Gabriel Zada, MD – University of Southern California
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  • Monday, May 4th
    10:08 AM - 10:18 AM CT
    Endoscopic Surgery in Comprehensive Management of Brain Tumors
    Location: 303BC, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Yoshua Esquenazi-Levy, MD – University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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  • Monday, May 4th
    10:18 AM - 10:28 AM CT
    Endoscopic Resection of Colloid Cysts and Intra-axial Tumors: Techniques and Outcomes
    Location: 303BC, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Constantinos G. Hadjipanayis, MD, PhD – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
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  • Monday, May 4th
    10:28 AM - 10:38 AM CT
    Endoscopic Skull Base Tumor Resection: Corridor Design, Expanded and Extended Approaches
    Location: 303BC, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Daniel M. Prevedello, MD – The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center Department of Neurological Surgery
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  • Monday, May 4th
    10:38 AM - 10:48 AM CT
    Blending Endoscopy and Microsurgery for Complex Skull Base Tumors
    Location: 303BC, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Matei A. Banu, MD – Stanford University
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  • Monday, May 4th
    10:48 AM - 11:13 AM CT
    Interactive Panel: Pearls, Pitfalls and Case- Based Discussion
    Location: 303BC, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Christina Jackson, MD – University of Pennsylvania
    Speaker: Stephanie K. Cheok, MD – Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
    Speaker: Hussam Abou-Al-Shaar, MD – The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
    Speaker: Thomas L. Beaumont, MD, PhD, FAANS – University of California, San Diego
    Speaker: Manish Aghi, MD, PhD – UCSF
    Speaker: Bhuvic Patel, MD – Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
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  • Monday, May 4th
    11:13 AM - 11:15 AM CT
    Closing Remarks
    Location: 303BC, Level 3, HBGCC
    Speaker: Yoshua Esquenazi-Levy, MD – University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
    Speaker: Daniel M. Prevedello, MD – The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center Department of Neurological Surgery
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