Due to COVID-19 developments and travel advisories, the Advances and Innovations in Neurosurgery Symposium has been cancelled.
Track Description
MRI guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) is a novel technology with rapidly advancing applications in the field of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. The Focused Ultrasound Track is meant to bring together experts in the field of MRgFUS to share their experience, exchange ideas, discuss novel applications and emerging concepts of this exciting technology.
Program Director
G. Rees Cosgrove, MD, FRCSC
Director, Neurosurgical Residency Program
Department of Neurosurgery
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Agenda
6:30 AM - 7:15 AM
Registration and Breakfast
7:15 AM - 7:30 AM
Welcome and Introduction
7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Session 1: Current Applications
• ET Outcomes and Predictors
• Tremor Dominant PD
• Pallidotomy for PD
• CL Thalamotomy for Pain
• Panel Discussion
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Coffee Break
9:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Session 2: Current Applications II
• Human Thalamic Anatomy
• Anatomical Targeting and Lesion Volume
• Targeting and Lesioning Technique
• Anatomical Targeting Above AC-PC
• CTT Targeting and Lesioning Technique
• PTT Targeting and Lesioning Technique
• Panel Discussion
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Working Lunch - Treatment Failures and Pitfalls: “My Worst Case”
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Session 3: Emerging Concepts
• Is Staged Bilateral Thalamotomy Feasible?
• STN Lesions for PD
• Novel Targets for Dystonia
• FUS for Psychiatric Disease (OCD, Major Depression)
• BBB Opening
• Alzheimers Disease
• Nano-particle Mediated US Drug
• Panel Discussion
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Coffee Break
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Session 4: Emerging Concepts II
• Impact of Skull Characteristics and SDR
• Tractography Based Targeting and Thermal Dose
• Intraoperative Imaging Feedback – Diffusion MRI or Functional MRI or 3D Thermography – Autofocusing for talamotomy
• Technological Advancements
• Economics and Cost Effectiveness of FUS
• Panel Discussion
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Closing Remarks
5:00 PM
Reception
Track Faculty
Raag Airan, MD, PhD
Department of Radiology
Stanford University Medical Center
G. Rees Cosgrove, MD, FRCSC
Department of Neurosurgery
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Howard Eisenberg, MD
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Maryland Medical System
Marc Gallay, MD
SoniModul
Casey Halpern, MD
Department of Neurosurgery
Stanford University Medical Center
Shiro Horisawa, MD
Department of Neurosurgery
Tokyo Women’s Medical University
Daniel Jeanmonod, MD
SoniModul
Vibhor Krishna, MBBS
Department of Neurosurgery
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Kendall Lee, MD
Department of Neurosurgery
Mayo Clinic
Nir Lipsman, MD, PhD
Sunnybrook Research Institute
Sean Nagel, MD
Department of Neurosurgery
Cleveland Clinic
Ali Rezai, MD
Department of Neurosurgery
West Virginia University Medicine
Abbas Sadikot, MD, PhD
Montreal Neurological Institue and Hospital
Michael Schwartz, MD, MSc
Department of Surgery, Divison of Neurosurgery
Sunnybrook Research Institute
Takaomi Taira, MD, PhD
Department of Neurosurgery
Tokyo Women’s Medical University