San Francisco Neurological Society-Meetings

Final Program

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Friday February 26, 2010
7:00 - 8:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 8:05 am Welcome and Overview, Kern H. Guppy, MD, PhD, President, San Francisco Neurological Society

Brain Tumor Mini-Symposium
Moderator: Michael W. McDermott, MD, UCSF

8:05 - 8:35 am Malignant Meningiomas:
Subtotal vs Total Resection vs Radiation, Michael McDermott, MD, UCSF

8:35 - 9:05 am Pituitary Tumors: Diagnosis, Drugs, Surgery, Endoscopic Surgery and Radiosurgery, Manish K. Aghi, MD, PhD, UCSF

9:05 - 9:35 am Targeting Angiogenesis in GBM, Michael Prados, MD, UCSF

9:35 - 10:00 am COFFEE BREAK / VISIT THE EXHIBITS

10:00 - 10:30 am Minimal Access Neurosurgery for Brain Tumors, Jeremy Ciporen, MD, Kaiser Permanente

10:30 - 11:00 am High Grade Gliomas: Current Status of Vaccine Trials, Isaac Yang MD, UCSF

11:00 - 11:30 am Q&A and Case Presentations, Michael McDermott, MD, UCSF

11:30 - 1:00 pm LUNCH BREAK - on your own

Spine Care Mini-Symposium
Moderator: Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD, UCSF

1:00 - 1:30 pm Surgery for Neckpain - Deformity, Instability, Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD, UCSF

1:30 - 2:00 pm Cervical Disc Arthroplasty (CDA), Phillip R. Weinstein, MD, UCSF

2:00 - 2:30 pm Cervical Spine Injections for Pain, Mark Tyburski, MD, Kaiser Permanente

2:30 - 3:00 pm COFFEE BREAK / VISIT THE EXHIBITS

3:00 - 3:30 pm New Frontier for Neurosurgeons: Adult Scoliosis, Dean Chou, MD, UCSF

3:30 - 4:00 pm Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery - Indications and Outcomes, Stefan A. Mindea, MD, Stanford

4:00 - 4:25 pm Q&A and Case Presentations, Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD, UCSF

SFNS President's Lecture

4:25 - 5:15 pm The Cherokee Neurosurgeon: The life of Dr. Charlie Wilson,
Brian Andrews, MD, California Pacific Medical Center

President's Reception (with special guest Dr. Charlie Wilson)

6:00 - 8:00 pm Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres

Saturday February 27, 2010

7:00 - 8:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast

Stroke Mini-Symposium
Moderator: Kern H. Guppy, MD, PhD., Kaiser Permanente

8:00 - 8:40 am 2010 Annual Boldrey Lecture: Carotid Endarterectomy, Fredric B. Meyer, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

8:40 - 9:05 am Endovascular Treatment for Acute Stroke, Jeffrey Thomas, MD, California Pacific Medical Center

9:05 - 9:30 am Is EC-IC Bypass Surgery Back? Advances in Choosing the Right Patient,
Gary Steinberg, MD, PhD, Stanford

9:30 - 10:00 am Q&A and Case Presentations, Paul Akins, MD, PhD, Kaiser Permanente

10:00 - 10:30 am COFFEE BREAK / VISIT THE EXHIBITS

Multiple Sclerosis Mini-Symposium

Moderator: Steven J. Holtz, MD, John Muir Healthcare System

10:30 - 10:55 am Pathophysiology and Epidemiology of Multiple Sclerosis,
Bruce Cree, MD, PhD, UCSF

10:55 - 11:20 am MRI of Multiple Sclerosis: The Past, Present and Future,
Murray Solomon, MD, Los Gatos MRI/Redwood City MRI

11:20 - 11:45 am New Targets & New Therapies for Treatment of
Multiple Sclerosis, Jeffrey Dunn, MD, Stanford

11:45 - 12:15 pm Q&A and Case Presentations,
Steven J. Holtz, MD, John Muir Healthcare System

12:15 - 1:15 pm What Do You Know About Dr. Babinski?
Oscar Abeliuk, MD, Concord

2nd SFNS Neuro Cinema Festival

Moderator: Oscar Abeliuk, MD

2:30 - 4:30 pm My Left Foot (1989)

2:30 - 4:30 pm A Beautiful Mind (2001)

2:30 - 4:30 pm Adam (2009)

4:30 - 5:00 pm Discussion with Panel

1:20 5:30 pm Annual SFNS Golf Tournament, Donald Kitt, MD

3:30 - 5:30 pm Wine Tasting (Moon Mountain Vineyard)

Annual Society Dinner (Additional Registration Required)

6:30 - 7:00 pm Reception

7:00 - 9:15 pm Dinner

7:45 - 8:00 pm President's Address

8:00 - 8:30 pm The Wine SELLA, Dick Maher, Maher & Associates

8:30 - 9:15 pm Art and Neurology, Bruce Miller, MD, UCSF

Sunday February 28, 2010

7:00 - 8:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 8:25 am Newman Award (for clinical neurological research) Emergent Categorical Representation of Phonetic Objects in the Human Superior Temporal Gyrus, Edwards F. Chang, MD, UCSF & UC Berkeley

8:25 - 8:50 am Boldrey Award (for research in the neurosciences) Gamma Interferon Medicated Superinduction of B7-H1 in PTEN-deficient glioblastoma, Isaac Yang, MD, UCSF

8:50 - 9:15 am Kaiser Award (for clinical or research project) Surgical Repositioning of Misplaced Subthalamic Electrodes in Parkinson's Disease: Location of Effective and Ineffective Leads, R. Mark Richardson, MD, UCSF

9:15 - 9:45 am Treatment for Brain Swelling after Stroke - Decompressive Craniectomy/Hypothermia, Christine Wijman, MD, Stanford

9:45 - 10:15 am The Emergence of Neurohospitalists: Controversies and Challenges, S. Andrew Josephson, MD, UCSF

10:15 -10:30 am COFFEE BREAK / VISIT THE EXHIBITS

Movement Disorder Mini-Symposium
Moderator: Eric Collins, MD, Oakland

10:30 - 10:55 am Indications for Deep Brain Stimulators (DBS) and the Future,
Conrad Pappas, MD, Kaiser Permanente

10:55 - 11:20 am The Role of the Neurologist in Pre-Op Care of the DBS Patient,
Vicki Wheelock, MD, UC Davis

11:20 - 11:45 am Deep Brain Stimulation for Dystonia, Jill L. Ostrem, MD, UCSF

11:45 -12:10 pm Q&A and Case Presentations, Eric Collins, MD, Oakland

12:10 - 12:15 pm Closing Remarks & Invitation to 2011 Annual Meeting

Michael Gibbs, MD, Kaiser Permanente

12:15 Adjourn