1:00 PM – 4:30 PM CT
Craniotomy Psychomotor Skills
Location: S403ab
Faculty:
Michael Lim, MD

5:00 PM – 6:35 PM CT (5:07 PM – 5:12 PM)
OPENING SESSION
Location: Enter through AANS Exhibit Hall
Presenting Officer: 
John Ratliff, MD, FACS

7:00AM CT
NREF - AANS/CNS Section on Women In Neurosurgery Karin M. Muraszko Award
Location: Great Lakes Ballroom AB, Level 2 at Marriott Marquis Chicago
Recipient: Gaby Ruiz Colon


1:55 PM – 1:57 PM CT
Cell-Free mRNA Sequencing of Human CSF for Molecular Characterization of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Location: S405a
Presenting Author(s):
Daniel Herrick, MD, PhD
Odette Harris, MD, MPH
Melanie Hayden Gephart, MD, PhD
Karen Hirsch, MD
Seunghyun Lee, BS
Rukayat Taiwo, MD
Thy Trinh, BS
Maxine Umeh, PhD

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM 
ATLAS 3D Session - Operative Nuances I: Difficult Cases, What Have We Learned?Location: S404abcd
Faculty:
Juan Fernandez-Miranda, MD

2:32 PM – 3:00 PM CT
Ronald L. Bittner Lecture
Location:  S401ab
Speaker:
Michael Lim, MD


2:30 PM – 2:36 PM CT
Mummaneni Award: Intraoperative Microscope-Integrated ICG- FLOW 800 Data Analysis to Predict Surgical Outcomes in patients with Moyamoya Disease
Location: S403ab
Co-authors:
Jacob Bagley, MD
Gary K. Steinberg, MD, PhD


2:44 PM – 2:50 PM CT
First-in-human Phase 1/2a Study of Intracerebral Transplantation using Embryonic-derived Neural Stem Cells (NR1) for Chronic Ischemic Stroke
Location: S403ab
Presenting author / Co-authors:
Gary K. Steinberg, MD, PhD
Summer Han, PhD


2:15 PM – 3:00 PM CT
Peripheral Nerve Rapid Fire Abstract Session
Location: S405a
Moderator:
Thomas Wilson, MD, MPH


3:34 PM – 3:44 PM CT
BRAF Craniopharyngioma: Resection
Location:  N427bc
Speaker:
Juan C. Fernandez-Miranda, MD


3:35 PM – 3:37 PM CT
Advanced models for pre-operative risk stratification in adult spinal deformity surgery: evaluating computer vision, large language, and genome-wide association approaches in a limited sized cohort
Location: S403ab
Author/co-author:
Aaradhya Pant
Dhiraj Pangal, MD
Ethan Schonfeld, MS
Aaryan Shah
Anand Veeravagu, MD
Kelly H. Yoo, MD, PhD


4:44 PM – 5:00 PM CT
Clinical Quandries: Controversial Truncal Pain: Dorsal Scapular Entrapment, Cluneal Entrapments, ACNES
Location: S405a
Speaker:
Thomas J. Wilson, MD, MPH

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CT
ATLAS 3D Session - Operative Nuances II: Challenging Operative Moments During Microsurgery
Location: S404abcd
Course Director:
Juan Fernandez-Miranda, MD


1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CT (1:51 - 1:53 CT)
Tumor Rapid Fire Abstract Session: Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells, an Unexplored Antigen-Presenting Myeloid Cell Type in Glioblastoma
Location: S405a
Presenting Author(s)/Co-Authors:
Janet Y. Wu, BA, BM
Kwang Bog Cho, PhD
John Choi, MD
Si Yeon Lee, BS
Gordon Li, MD
Michael Lim, MD
Ryan Nitta, PhD
Alexander Ren, MPhil
Caren Y. Wu, PhD

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CT
Cutting Edge and Controversial Topics in Peripheral Nerve Surgery
Location: S405b
Moderator:
Thomas Wilson, MD, MPH


3:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT (4:13PM - 4:17PM CT)
Pediatric Rapid Fire Abstract: Astrocyte priming promotes enhanced cortical synchrony and increased network bursting in response to perinatal cytokine exposure
Location: S405b
Presenting Author/Co-Authors:
Marc Carmichael, PhD
Theo Palmer, PhD
Jacob Umans

4:27 PM - 4:29 PM CT
Zero echo-time magnetic resonance imaging (ZTE-MRI) for pediatric spine pathology: a novel radiation free approach
Location: S405b
Presenting author:
Kevin K. Kumar, MD, PhD

7:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
Neural Interfaces and BCI Community
Location: S504abcd
Moderator:
Jaimie Henderson, MD


7:00 AM – 7:15 AM CT
The Evolution of Palliative Care and Its Relevance to Neurosurgical Practice
Location: S505ab
Speaker:
Adela Wu, MD


7:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
Comprehensive Brain Tumor Care in the Era of Targeted Therapies and Novel Imaging Techniques
Location: S503ab
Moderator:
Michael Lim, MD