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    Socioeconomic

    Ownership and Employment in Neurosurgery: Evolving Practice Models

    Saturday, May 2, 2026
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Location:304AB, Level 3, HBGCC

    This session reviews current trends in neurosurgical practice, including hospital ownership, ambulatory surgery centers, hospital employment, and locum tenens models. It includes presentation of the Cone Pevehouse Young Neurosurgeon Award and rapid-fire abstracts.

    Presentations:

    • 2:00 PM - 2:01 PM CT
      Welcome and Introduction
    • 2:01 PM - 2:11 PM CT
      Update on CMS 2.5% Cut on Procedures

      Speaker: Charlotte E. Pineda, MPP – AANS/CNS Washington Committee for Neurological Surgery

    • 2:12 PM - 2:21 PM CT
      Ownership and Employment in Neurosurgery: Ambulatory Surgery Center

      Speaker: Ernest E. Braxton, Jr., MD, MBA – Vail Summit Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery

    • 2:22 PM - 2:31 PM CT
      Ownership and Employment in Neurosurgery: Hospital Employment

      Speaker: N. Nicole Moayeri, MD, FAANS

    • 2:32 PM - 2:41 PM CT
      Ownership and Employment in Neurosurgery: Locums

      Speaker: Laila M. Mohammad, MD, FAANS – Medical City Children's Hospital/Medical City Dallas

    • 2:42 PM - 2:48 PM CT
      From Detection to Reduction: A Randomized, Clustered Implementation Trial of a Care-Navigation + Teleconsult Program to Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities in Post-Craniotomy Outcomes (Byron Cone Pevehouse Young Neurosurgeon Award)

      Presenting Author: Mahmoud M Elsayed, MD – Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)

    • 2:49 PM - 2:51 PM CT
      Does Extending Fusion From Two to Three Levels Affect the Cost-Effectiveness of Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy?: A 5-Year QOD Spine CORe Study

      Presenting Author: Abraham Dada, BA – University of California, San Francisco

    • 2:52 PM - 2:54 PM CT
      Global Burden of Neurosurgical Disease: Project Update

      Presenting Author: Christopher Carr, MD, MPH – Medical College of Georgia

    • 2:55 PM - 2:57 PM CT
      Machine Learning Clustering Reveals Insights to Frailty and Socioeconomic Phenotypes in Lumbar Spinal Fusion: A Single Institution Experience

      Presenting Author: Yifei Sun, BS – University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

    • 2:58 PM - 3:00 PM CT
      Ethical Hemostasis- Navigating Belief and Biology in Neurosurgical Bleeding

      Presenting Author: Helen Hansel, BA – USF Morsani College of Medicine

    • 3:01 PM - 3:03 PM CT
      Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Outcomes of Large Vessel Occlusion Stroke

      Presenting Author: Siddhartha Maharjan, BS – Albany Medical College

    • 3:04 PM - 3:06 PM CT
      Machine Learning Clustering Identifies Health Literacy Phenotypes That Predict Pain, Function and Quality of Life After Cervical Spine Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Analysis

      Presenting Author: Yifei Sun, BS – University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

    • 3:07 PM - 3:09 PM CT
      Treatment Selection for Asymptomatic Meningioma: A Multi-Center Database Study on the Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on Clinical Decision-Making

      Presenting Author: Rahim Abo Kasem, MD – University of Louisville

    • 3:10 PM - 3:12 PM CT
      Assessing the Equity Impact of Cesium-131 Tile-Based Radiation Therapy: Disparities in Access and Enrollment in a Prospective, Multi-Institutional Phase 4 Non-Interventional Registry Study

      Presenting Author: Aarti K. Jain, BS – New York Medical College

    • 3:13 PM - 3:15 PM CT
      Association of Safety Net Hospitals on Inpatient Outcomes in Patients With Cervical Spinal Cord Injuries

      Presenting Author: Katherine M. Bunch, MD – University of Wisconsin

    • 3:15 PM - 3:17 PM CT
      Gender Differences in Practice Patterns and Reimbursement Among U.S. Neurosurgeons

      Presenting Author: Sohail Daulat, BS – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center