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Full Schedule

  • Saturday, May 2, 2026
  • 6:00 AM - 4:30 PM CT
    Concessions
  • 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM CT
    AANS/CNS Section on Women in Neurosurgery (WINS) Breakfast
    Social EventTicketed
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    AANS Registration
  • 7:30 AM - 8:15 AM CT
    Breakfast Bites: On the Front Edge of LITT Science
  • 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM CT
    NIH-funded MINUTE Trial Investigator Meeting
  • 7:30 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Badge Pick Up | Medical Attendees Only | San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter on the River Walk
  • 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 8:00 AM - 8:25 AM CT
    Neuro Spotlight: Avoiding Long-Term Complications and Unnecessary Surgeries: A Review of Current Shunt / Hydrocephalus Literature & Recommendations
    NeuroSpotlight
  • 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM CT
    Beverage Break in the AANS Exhibit Hall
  • 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    CNS Finance and Officers Meeting
  • 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CT
    AANS Exhibit Hall
  • 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CT
    NREF Cushing Circle VIP Lounge
    NREF
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CT
    Plenary I (Non-CME)
    Non-CMEA Must-See Session
  • 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM CT
    Neuro Spotlight: BAGUERA® vs Mobi C: Interim results on a 1 and 2 level IDE study
    NeuroSpotlight
  • 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM CT
    Beverage Break in the AANS Exhibit Hall
  • 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM CT
    Plenary II
    A Must-See Session
  • 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM CT
    Lunch-n-Learn: Early Clinical Experience with the Stealth AXiS™ Surgical System: Insights from Early Adopters
  • 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM CT
    Lunch-n-Learn: Empowering Surgical Innovation Through Robotic Navigation: Featuring Cranial Solutions with ExcelsiusGPS (TM)
  • 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM CT
    Lunch-n-Learn: Hungry for better outcomes? Optimizing biologics to accelerate fusion
  • 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM CT
    Lunch-n-Learn: Navigation Purpose Built for PTP
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM CT
    AANS/CNS Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care Meeting
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM CT
    AANS/CNS Section on Tumors Executive Committee Meeting
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM CT
    CONDOR Principal Investigators Hybrid Scientific Session Meeting
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM CT
    DSPN Executive Committee Meeting
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM CT
    Lunch Break
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM CT
    San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter on the River Walk
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM CT
    WINS Executive Committee Meeting
  • 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM CT
    Neuro Spotlight: Clinical Case Review: Fluorescence-Guided Resection of High-Grade Gliomas using Gleolan®(5-ALA)
    NeuroSpotlight
  • 12:45 PM - 1:05 PM CT
    Neuro Spotlight: SEE with clarity: An improved filter technology for 5-ALA-guided resection of high-grade gliomas
    NeuroSpotlight
  • 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM CT
    Neuro Spotlight: Redefining Digital Visualization with MyVeo
    NeuroSpotlight
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM CT
    Stereotactic & Functional Paper Posters
    Stereotactic and Functional
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Annual Horsley Lecture and Roundtable Discussion
    Moderator: Ali Tayebi-Meybodi, MD – Rutgers University
    Moderator: Mark C. Preul, MD – Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
    History
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Complication Avoidance, Recognition and Management of Complex Tumor Cases
    Moderator: Jacques Morcos, MD, FRCS, FAANS – American Association of Neurological Surgeons
    Moderator: Mitchel S. Berger, MD – UCSF
    Moderator: Maryam Rahman, MD, FAANS – University of Florida
    Tumor
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    CV Rapid Fire Abstracts
    Cerebrovascular
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Latest International Spine Techniques Updates and Top Scoring Abstracts from the AANS/CNS Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves
    Moderator: Cheerag Upadhyaya, MD, MBA – University of North Carolina
    Moderator: Dongwuk Son – Pusan national university yangsan hospital
    Spine
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Matson Lecture and Top Rated Pediatric Abstracts
    Moderator: Jason S. Hauptman, MD, PhD, FAANS – Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital
    Moderator: Scott Wait, MD, FAANS – Atrium Health, Levine Children's Hospital
    Pediatric
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Microsurgery: Crafting the Future
    Moderator: Jonathan Russin, MD – University of Vermont
    Moderator: Nima Etminan, MD – Dept. of Neurosurgery, Medical Faculty Mannheim
    Moderator: Miguel Angel Lopez-Gonzalez, MD, FAANS – Loma Linda University
    Cerebrovascular
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Modern Approaches to Spinal Deformity: The MIS Paradigm and Top Scoring Abstracts from QOD SpineCORe™
    Moderator: Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD, MBA – Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
    Moderator: Paul Park, MD – Semmes Murphey Clinic
    Spine
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Neuromodulation for Novel Indications
    Moderator: Dorian M. Kusyk, MD – Allegheny Health Network
    Moderator: Jennifer Sweet, MD – Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
    Stereotactic and Functional
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Ownership and Employment in Neurosurgery: Evolving Practice Models
    Moderator: Brian R. Gantwerker, MD, FAANS, FACS, FCNS – Craniospinal Center of Los Angeles
    Moderator: Laila M. Mohammad, MD, FAANS – Medical City Children's Hospital/Medical City Dallas
    Socioeconomic
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Pain Rapid Fire Abstracts
    Moderator: Kevin Hines, MD
    Pain
  • 2:45 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Trauma Paper Posters
    Trauma and Critical Care
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    Beverage Break in the AANS Exhibit Hall
  • 3:35 PM - 3:55 PM CT
    Neuro Spotlight: Advancing Brain Tumor Care with GammaTile: ROADS Interim Data
    NeuroSpotlight
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Tumor Paper Posters
    Tumor
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    AANS/ASBN The Translational Future of Artificial Intelligence in Neurosurgery
    Moderator: Sonia Eden, MD – Semmes Murphey Clinic
    Moderator: Nnenna S. Mbabuike, MD, FAANS – Self- Employed
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    Adult Deformity Surgery: Principles, Practice, and Advances and the Top Scoring Abstracts from QOD SpineCORe™
    Moderator: Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD, MBA – Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
    Moderator: John Chi, MD MPH – Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Spine
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies to Optimize Patient Outcomes in Spinal Surgery
    Moderator: Jacob Greenberg, MD, MSCI – Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
    Moderator: Tiffany G. Perry, MD, MPH – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
    Spine
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    Pediatric Functional Neurosurgery: Pain, Movement Disorders and Epilepsy
    Moderator: Jeffrey S. Raskin, MD – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital
    Moderator: Taylor Abel, MD – University of Pittsburgh
    Pediatric
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    Quality, Confidentiality and Liability in Modern Practice: Legal, Ethical and Data-Driven Perspectives
    Moderator: Owoicho Adogwa, MD, MPH, MBA – Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine
    Moderator: Laura S. McGuire, MD – University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Socioeconomic
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    Revisiting Craniofacial Stimulation
    Moderator: Marshall T. Holland, MD, MS, FAANS – University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Moderator: Kevin Chen, MD, FAANS – Michigan Medicine
    Pain
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    Spine Rapid Fire Abstracts
    Moderator: Nima Alan, MD – UCSF
    Moderator: Yi Lu, MD PhD – Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Spine
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    The Hybrid Neurosurgeon: Symbiosis of Microsurgery and Endovascular
    Moderator: Adam S. Arthur, MD, MPH – UTHSC, Semmes-Murphey Clinic
    Moderator: J Mocco, MD, MS – NYP/ Weill Cornell
    Cerebrovascular
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    The Next Frontier of Surgical Neuro-Oncology: Biologics and Beyond
    Moderator: Bryan Choi, MD
    Moderator: Randy S. D'Amico, MD – Lenox Hill Department of Neurosurgery
    Moderator: Michael Ivan, MD, MBS – University of Miami
    Tumor
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    Trauma Rapid Fire Abstracts
    Moderator: Timothy Beutler, MD – SUNY Upstate Medical University
    Trauma and Critical Care
  • 4:45 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    Education Paper Posters
    Education
  • 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CT
    Frazier Club Reception
  • 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CT
    Advanced Practitioners Reception: Connect and Collaborate
    Social EventTicketed
  • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CT
    Matson Reception
    Social Event
  • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CT
    NREF Donor Reception - Invitation Only
    Social EventNREF
  • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CT
    University of Minnesota Alumni Reception
  • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM CT
    AHN Neurosurgery Alumni Reception
  • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM CT
    Alumni Reception Hosted By: The Department of Neurological Surgery Case Western Reserve University SOM/ University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
  • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM CT
    Department of Neurosurgery NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM CT
    Penn State Neurosurgery
  • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM CT
    WVU Alumni Reception
  • 5:30 PM - 10:00 PM CT
    McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston Department of Neurosurgery Alumni Reception
  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT
    Cleveland Clinic Alumni Reception
  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT
    Mass General Brigham Alumni Reception
  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT
    University of Oklahoma Alumni Cocktail Hour
  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT
    UT Southwestern Medical Center Neurological Surgery Alumni Reception
  • 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM CT
    Columbia Neurosurgery Alumni Dinner
  • 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM CT
    Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Neurosurgery
  • 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM CT
    A Tumor Soirée 2.0: Complications, Innovations and Case Lessons
    Moderator: Yoshua Esquenazi-Levy, MD – University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
    Moderator: Ankush Chandra, MD – UT Houston Department of Neurological Surgery
    Social EventTicketed
  • 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM CT
    AANS/CNS Section on Women in Neurosurgery (WINS) Reception
    Social Event