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    Education Rapid Fire Abstracts

    Sunday, May 3, 2026
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    Location:Stars at Night Ballroom 2-3, Level 3, Stage 2, HBGCC

    Presentations:

    • 4:03 PM - 4:05 PM CT
      A Collaborative, Student-Led Research Group Significantly Enhances Academic Productivity and Medical Student Involvement in Clinical Neurosurgery

      Presenting Author: Pranav Ayyappan, n/a – UNC Chapel Hill

    • 4:15 PM - 4:17 PM CT
      Debate-Style Learning Is A Valuable Adjunct to Consolidate Knowledge for Advanced Neurosurgical Learners

      Presenting Author: Benjamin Loke, MD, MSc – National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore

    • 4:36 PM - 4:38 PM CT
      A Simplified Quantifiable Turn Test for Clinic and Home Use to Safely Measure Rotational Stability and Fall Risk

      Presenting Author: Kevin J. Gibbons, MD – UB, UBNS

    • 4:39 PM - 4:41 PM CT
      Left Out of the Operating Room: Barriers to Neurosurgical Exposure in Osteopathic Training

      Presenting Author: Crystal E. Peraza, BS – Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine

    • 4:45 PM - 4:47 PM CT
      Impact of Graduate Training and Research Pathways on Neurosurgery Match Outcomes

      Presenting Author: Rommi Kashlan, BS – Emory University school of Medicine

    • 4:48 PM - 4:50 PM CT
      Benchmarking the Surgical Procedure Performance Score (SPPS) Against Legacy Quality Systems: Advancing Timeliness, Fairness and Neurosurgical Specificity

      Presenting Author: Neil Martin, MD – Pacific Neuroscience Institute, Providence Saint John's Cancer Institute

    • 4:51 PM - 4:53 PM CT
      Beyond the Black Box: Implementing Explainable AI in Neurosurgical Diagnosis and Decision-Making

      Presenting Author: Sandya Venugopal, BSc., MBBS, MRCS – Venugopals Consulting Services

    • 4:54 PM - 4:56 PM CT
      Bibliometric Analysis Utilizing the Arms Race Control Score Provides Superior Characterization of Neurological Surgeon Academic Productivity

      Presenting Author: Ari Istanboulli, HBSc – Bowers Neurosurgical Frailty and Outcomes Data Science Lab

    • 4:57 PM - 4:59 PM CT
      Bridging Ancient Wisdom and Modern Neurosurgery: Insights from the Vedas and Upanishads Into Modern Neurosurgical Practice

      Presenting Author: BINOY KUMAR SINGH

    • 5:00 PM - 5:02 PM CT
      Bridging the Research Gap: A Two-Year Online Neurosurgery Research Initiative in 16 Low and Middle-Income Countries

      Presenting Author: Pavel Pichardo Rojas, MD – Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine

    • 5:03 PM - 5:05 PM CT
      Building Neurosurgical Awareness: A 5-Year Single-Center Experience With an AANS Medical Student Chapter's Community Outreach Initiatives

      Presenting Author: Jesus C. Herrera – Hospital Universitario "Dr. José Eleutero González" Servicio de Neurocirugía y Terapia Endovascular

    • 5:06 PM - 5:08 PM CT
      Can AI Think Like a Neurosurgeon? Multimodal Evaluation of Large Language Models on Oral Board-Style Questions

      Presenting Author: Rommi Kashlan, BS – Emory University school of Medicine

    • 5:09 PM - 5:11 PM CT
      When Healing Hurts: 95% of Surgeons Report Physical Discomfort and 92% Fear Long-Term Injury — The Case for Ergonomic Education in Neurosurgery

      Presenting Author: Maria JOSE Cavagnaro, MD – Stanford University School of Medicine

    • 5:12 PM - 5:14 PM CT
      Cerebral Blood Volume Images Synthesis From Arterial Spin Labeling and Non-contrast Standard MRI Using Deep Learning Network

      Presenting Author: Yingchao LIU, Ph.D ; M.D – Shandong Provincial Hospital of Shandong First Medical University

    • 5:15 PM - 5:17 PM CT
      Challenges of Neurosurgical Mentorship

      Presenting Author: Menaka Fry, BMBCH MA MHPE FRCS – Cleveland Clinic

    • 5:18 PM - 5:20 PM CT
      ChatGPT-4o's Potential Use for Medical Billing: Current Limitations and Strategic Opportunities in Neurosurgical Spine CPT Code Generation

      Presenting Author: Eashwar Kantemneni, B.S. – The Ohio State University College of Medicine

    • 5:24 PM - 5:26 PM CT
      Computer Vision-Based Automated Multiclass Instrument Detection in Cranial Microsurgery

      Presenting Author: Anthony M. Asher, Jr., MD – Barrow Neurological Institute, Department of Neurosurgery

    • 5:27 PM - 5:29 PM CT
      Current Landscape of the United States Global Neurosurgery Engagement

      Presenting Author: Tirone E. A Young, II, BS – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai