Final Program 63rd Annual Meeting of the San Francisco Neurological Society

February 25-27, 2011, Monterey, California

Friday February 25, 2011

7:00 - 8:10 am Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:10 - 8:15 am Welcome and Overview, Michael Gibbs, MD, President, San Francisco Neurological Society NeuroOncology
Moderator: Praveen Mummaneni, MD, Dept of Neurological Surgery, UCSF

8:15 - 8:50 am Mini Open Surgery for Thoracolumbar Tumors, Praveen Mummaneni, MD, Dept of Neurological Surgery, UCSF

8:50 - 9:25 am Primary Brain Tumors,
Mitchel S. Berger, MD, Chairman,  Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF and Susan Chang, MD, Chief of Neuro-Oncology, UCSF

9:25 - 10:00 am Pediatric Primary Brain Tumors,
Anuradha Banerjee, MD, Pediatric Neuro-oncology, Department of Neurological Surgery,  UCSF

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

10:30 am Metastatic Spinal Tumors, Christopher Ames, MD, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF

11:05 am Metastatic Brain Tumors, Michael McDermott, MD, Vice-Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery   UCSF  

11:40 am Q&A and Case Presentations

12  - 1 pm LUNCH BREAK - on your own

Miscellaneous Topics I
Moderator: Jack Rozance, MD, Department of Neurology, Kaiser Permanente Sacramento Medical Center

1:00 - 1:35 pm Mitochondrial Deletion Disorders: How to Diagnose, How to Manage, Kamer Tezcan, MD, Department of Genetics, Kaiser Permanente, Sacramento

1:35 - 2:15 pm Endovascular Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms,
Jonathan Hartman, MD, Department of Neurosurgery,
Kaiser Permanente Sacramento Medical Center

2:15 pm Q&A

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

3:00 - 3:45 pm What If Multiple Sclerosis is Not One Disease, but Several?, Jeffrey Dunn, MD, FAAN, Associate Professor of Neurology, Stanford MS Center, Stanford

3:45 - 4:30 pm Neuropsychology of Cognitive Complaints in Mild to Moderate TBI, Richard Delmonico, PhD, Kaiser Center Rehabilitation Center, Vallejo

4:30 pm Q&A

5:00 pm President's Reception

Saturday February 26, 2011

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

Boldrey Lecture and Peripheral Nerve Section
Moderator: Murray Solomon, MD, Los Gatos MRI

8:00 - 8:40 am 2011 Annual Boldrey Lecture: Advertising IN MEDICINE: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly, Nelson M. Oyesiku, MD, PhD, FACS, Al Lerner Chair and Vice-Chairman, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Professor, Neurosurgery and Medicine (Endocrinology), Emory University School of Medicine, Director, Neurosurgery Residency Program, Editor-in-Chief, NEUROSURGERY

8:40 - 9:10 am MRI the Brachial Plexus, Murray Solomon, MD, Los Gatos MRI

9:10 - 9:40 am Peripheral Nerve Tumors, Nicholas Barbaro, MD, UCSF, Dept. of Neurosurgery, San Francisco

9:40 - 10:10 am COFFEE BREAK / VISIT THE EXHIBITS

10:10 - 10:40 am Peripheral Nerve Injury, Nicholas Barbaro, MD, UCSF, Dept. of Neurosurgery, San Francisco

10:40 - 11:20 am  Immune Disease of Plexus and Peripheral Nerve, Jonathan Katz, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco

11:20 - 12:00 pm Q&A

12:00pm   Lunch Conference, Oscar Abeliuk,MD, The Case of Phineas Gage: A Remarkable Neurological Workers-Compensation Injury of the Nineteenth-Century
"An American railroad construction foreman now remembered for his incredible survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior-effects so profound that friends saw him as "no longer Gage". Thank you to our generous lunch sponsor San Francisco Functional Restoration - Bay Area Pain & Wellness Center

1:00pm    ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT ,  Pacific Grove Golf Links
2:00pm  3rd Annual Neuro Cinema Festival, Moderator: Oscar Abeliuk, Thank you to our Neuro Cinema Festival Sponsor: SpineOne

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 - 900 pm  Our Brains Perspective on Distraction and Multitasking, Adam Gazzaley, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry,  Director, Neuroscience Imaging Center,  University of California, San Francisco

Sunday February 27, 2011

7:00 - 8:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast
Miscellaneous Topics II & Young Investigator                             Awards, Moderator: Bruce Cree, MD, PhD, Multiple Sclerosis Center, UCSF

8:00 - 8:20 am Newman Award (for clinical neurological research), Vitamin D in African-Americans with MS, Jeffrey Gelfand, MD, Department of Neurology, UCSF Multiple Sclerosis Center

8:20 - 8:40 am Boldrey Award (for research in the neurosciences), Interventional MRI-Guided Putaminal Delivery of AAV2- GDNF for a Planned Clinical Trial in Parkinson's Disease, Mark Richardson, MD, Department of Neurosurgery, UCSF

8:40 - 9:00 am Kaiser Award (for clinical or research project), Rehospitalization and Emergency Department Use Rates Before and After Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Epilepsy, Paul Kalinithi, MD, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine

9:00 - 9:20 am Rosegay Award (clinical paper covering topics in neurosurgical anatomy, history and clinical practice), Necrosis Stimulates Glioblastoma Proliferation through Complement Activation, Michael Sughrue, MD, Department of Neurosurgery, UCSF

9:20 - 9:40 am John Hanbery Award (clinical neurosurgery topic), A Swine Model of Traumatic Brain Injury and a Novel Method to Reduce Cytotoxic Edema, Sandya Venugopal, B.Sc., MBBS, MRCS (Ed), Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF

9:40 - 10:10 am COFFEE BREAK / VISIT THE EXHIBITS

10:10 am Automated Brain Volume Measurement in Clinical Practice, Murray Solomon, MD, Los Gatos MRI

10:40 am Neurogenetics and Genomics, Leslie C. Manace, MD, Medical Geneticist, Department of Genetics, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland

11:25 am Use of Telemedicine in Acute Stroke Management, David Tong, MD, Medical Director, CPMC Comprehensive Stroke Care Center, Director, CPMC Center for Stroke Research (CCSR)

11:45 am Q&A

11:50 am Closing Remarks & Invitation to 2012 Annual Meeting,
Eric Collins, MD, Oakland (SFNS President-Elect)

12:10 12:25 pm Annual SFNS Members General Business Meeting Election of Board

12:25 Adjourn