View 2018 WSANS Annual Meeting Agenda here

Invited Speakers:

7:00-9:00 Friday evening 2 hour presentation:
Chad Brummett, MD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
University of Michigan, MI
“The Role of Acute Care Prescribing in the Opioid Epidemic”

Saturday morning/evening presentations:

Abhineet Chowdhary, MD
Neurosurgeon
Director, Overlake Hospital Neurosciences Institute
“Sacroiliac joint Surgery Updates”

Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD
Neurosurgeon
University of California San Francisco, CA
“An update in Glioma Management”

Daniel Lessler, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer
Health Care Authority, Washington State
“HCA Updates”

William Miele, MD
Neurosurgeon
Kaiser Permanente Neurosurgery, Seattle, WA
“Pelvic Fixation Techniques in Lumbar and Thoracolumbar Spine Surgery”

Stephen Monteith, MD
Neurosurgeon
Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA
“Current and future techniques for the treatment of intracranial aneurysms”

Daniel O’Connell, PhD
Clinical Psychologist
Seattle, WA
“Talking with Patients about Adverse Medical Events and Outcomes”

Anoop Patel, MD
Neurosurgeon
UW Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
“Modeling glioblastoma using human brain organoids”

Ali Ravanpay, MD, PhD
Neurosurgeon
UW Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
“Hemorrhagic Complication after Stereotactic Brain Biopsy”

UW Neurosurgery Resident Presentations
UW Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

• Josh Abecassis, MD: “A Cost Effectiveness Analysis for the Treatment of Basilar Tip Aneurysms; Clip or Coil?
• Arianna Barkley, MD: “Exploring the Intersection between Global Health and Neursurgery”
• Michael Meyer, MD: “Long term Outcomes Penetrating Brain Injury in Afghanistan”
• Rajeev Sen, MD: “Past, Present and Future of Neuroendoscopy”