Complication Avoidance, Recognition and Management of Complex Tumor Cases

Moderator(s)

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  Jacques Morcos, MD, FRCS, FAANS

  Professor and Chairman of Neurosurgery
  University of Texas Health Houston
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  Mitchel Berger, MD

  Professor of Neurosurgery, Director UCSF Brain Tumor Center
  UCSF
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  Maryam Rahman, MD, FAANS

  Professor
  University of Florida

Presentations:

• 2:00 PM - 2:03 PM CT

  Welcome and Introduction 
• 2:04 PM - 2:15 PM CT

  AVOIDANCE - Preoperative Practices to Minimize Complication Risk
  

  Speaker: Georgios A. Zenonos, MD – UPMC Neurosurgery
• 2:16 PM - 2:27 PM CT

  RECOGNITION - Recognizing Subtleties That May Belie Serious Complications
  

  Speaker: Simon J. Hanft, MD – Westchester Medical Center
• 2:40 PM - 2:51 PM CT

  MANAGEMENT - Management of Complications in Skull Base Neurosurgery
  

  Speaker: Gabriel Zada, MD – University of Southern California
• 2:52 PM - 3:00 PM CT

  POSTOPERATIVE- Role of Enhanced Recovery in Postoperative Complication Prevention
  

  Speaker: Walavan Sivakumar, MD – Pacific Neuroscience Institute
• 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
  

  Presenting Author: Kaasinath Balagurunath, BA – Boston University School of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
• 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)
  

  Presenting Author: Walter Stummer, MD – Department of Neurosurgery, University of Münster
• 3:15 PM - 3:21 PM CT

  Surgeon Experience and Outcomes in Cushing’s Disease: A Multicenter Study
  

  Presenting Author: Alexander Greven, MD MBA – Barrow neurological Institute
• 3:22 PM - 3:30 PM CT

  Discussion & Closing Comments