SPINE, PERIPHERAL NERVE, PEDS, NEUROTRAUMA, STEM CELLS

• Neurosurgical Management of Peripheral
  Nerve Tumors
  Nicholas Barbaro, MD

• Management of Metastatic Spine Tumors
  Dean Chou, MD

• Why Understanding Spine Deformity Principles
  will Improve Outcome for Even Simpler
  Spine Procedures
• Optimal Treatment of Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: How to Choose the Right Operation?
  Christopher I. Shaffrey, MD

• Adult Spinal Deformity, When is "Smaller"
  Less Invasive Surgery Acceptable?
  Praveen Mummaneni, MD

• Adult Deformity Surgery: Advanced Treatment
  Techniques and Complication Avoidance
  Christopher P. Ames, MD

• A Prospective Randomized Trial Evaluating
  Fetal Repair for Myelomeningocele
  Nalin Gupta, MD

• Current Surgical Management for
  Pediatric Spasticity
  Kurtis Auguste, MD

• Pediatric Posterior Fossa Brain Tumors:
  How to Avoid Complications and Shunts
  Peter Sun, MD

• Decompressive Craniectomy:
  Indications, Techniques, Complications
  Shirley Stiver, MD, PhD

• Concussions: An Update
  Geoffrey Manley, MD, PhD

• Building a Better Mousetrap: Development
  of New Devices for Cell Transplantation
  to the Human Brain
  Daniel A. Lim, MD, PhD

EPILEPSY, FUNCTIONAL, PAIN, PITUITARY, SKULL BASE

• Deep Brain Stimulation and Treatment of
  Refractory Tinnitus
  Paul S. Larson, MD

• Innovations in Intraoperative Cortical Mapping
  for Epilepsy and Brain Tumor Surgery
  Edward F. Chang, MD

• Complications Following Intrinsic Brain
  Tumor Resections
  Raymond Sawaya, MD

• Management of Complex Midline Skull
  Base Tumors
  Jon H. Robertson, MD, BA

• An International Comparison of Health Systems,
  Payment, and Cost Control
  James R. Bean, MD

• Endoscopic Endonasal Approaches to the Skull Base
  Manish K. Aghi, MD, PhD

• Imaging of Sellar and Parasellar Lesions,
  Avoiding the Unexpected
  Sandeep Kunwar, MD

• Diabetes Insipidus
  Lewis S. Blevins, Jr., MD

• Medicare Payment and the Federal Budget
  James R. Bean, MD

TUMORS, ANATOMY, VASCULAR

• Jeopardy: How Much Microsurgical Anatomy
  Do You Know?
  Albert L. Rhoton, Jr., MD

• Management of Tumors of the Jugular
  Foramen-Carotid Space-Infratemporal Fossa
  Jon H. Robertson, MD, BA

• Update in AVM Surgery
  Michael T. Lawton, MD

• Management of Brain Metastases
  Raymond Sawaya, MD

• Update on Radiosurgery for Benign Tumors
  Michael W. McDermott, MD

• Approaches to and through the Temporal Lobe
  Dr. Albert L. Rhoton, Jr., MD

• Contemporary Management of Vestibular
  Schwannoma Patients: Treatment Decision
  Making Algorithms to Optimize Outcomes
  and Patient Satisfaction
  Andrew T. Parsa, MD, PhD

• Update in Neuro-oncology
  Susan Chang, MD

• Outcome and Morbidity Profile of Parietal
  and Cingulate Glioma Resection
  Mitchel S. Berger, MD

COURSE CHAIRS

Mitchel S. Berger, MD
Professor and Chairman,
Department of Neurological Surgery;
Kathleen M. Plant Distinguished
Professor, University of California,
San Francisco

SPECIAL GUEST FACULTY

James R. Bean, MD
Neurological Associates,
PSC- Lexington, KY

Albert L. Rhoton, Jr., MD
RD Keene Family Professor and
Chairman Emeritus, Department of
Neurosurgery, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL

Jon H. Robertson, MD, BA
Professor and Chairman of
Neurosurgery, University of
Tennessee, Memphis, TN;
Board of Directors Semmes-
Murphey Clinic, Memphis, TN

Raymond Sawaya, MD
Professor and Chairman,
Department of Neurosurgery, The
University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center, Houston, TX;
Professor and Chairman,
Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor
College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Christopher I. Shaffrey, MD
Professor, Department of
Neurological Surgery, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

COURSE FACULTY

(University of California, San Francisco unless indicated)

Manish K. Aghi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery

Kurtis Auguste, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery

Christopher P. Ames, MD
Associate Professor of Neurological
Surgery; Co-director, Spinal Surgery
and UCSF Spine Center; Codirector,
Neurospinal Disorders
Program; Director of Spinal Tumor
and Deformity Surgery

Nicholas Barbaro, MD
Professor of Neurological Surgery

Lewis S. Blevins, Jr., MD
Professor of Medicine and
Neurological Surgery; Medical
Director, California Center for
Pituitary Disorders at UCSF

Edward F. Chang, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurological
Surgery and Physiology;
Co-Director, Center for Neural
Engineering at UC Berkeley and
San Francisco

Susan Chang, MD
Professor and Vice Chair,
Department of Neurological Surgery;
Lai Wan Kan Endowed Chair;
Director, Division of Neuro-
Oncology; Neuro-Oncology Program
of the Brain Tumor Research Center

Nalin Gupta, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurological
Surgery and Pediatrics;
Dennis Bruce Dettmer Endowed
Chair in Pediatric Neurosurgery;
Chief, Division of Pediatric
Neurosurgery; Principal Investigator,
Brain Tumor Research Center

Sandeep Kunwar, MD
Associate Professor of Neurological
Surgery; Surgical Director, California
Center for Pituitary Disorders at UCSF

Paul S. Larson, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurological
Surgery; Chief of Neurosurgery and
Attending Surgeon, Neurosurgery
and Parkinson's Disease Research
Education and Clinical Center,
San Francisco VA Medical Center

Michael T. Lawton, MD
Professor of Neurological Surgery;
Tong Po Kan Endowed Chair; Chief,
Cerebrovascular and Skull Base
Surgery Programs; Director,
Cerebrovascular Disorders Program

Daniel A. Lim, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurological
Surgery; Director of Restorative
Neurosurgery

Geoffrey Manley, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurological Surgery;
Co-Director, Brain and Spinal Injury
Center; Chief of Neurotrauma,
San Francisco General Hospital and
Medical Center

Michael W. McDermott, MD
Professor of Neurological Surgery;
Halperin Endowed Chair; Vice
Chairman, Department of
Neurological Surgery; Neurosurgical
Director, UCSF Gamma Knife®
Radiosurgery Program; University of
California, San Francisco

Praveen Mummaneni, MD
Associate Professor of Neurological
Surgery; Director of Minimally
Invasive Spine Surgery; Director of
Cervical Spine Surgery, Co-Director,
UCSF Spine Center

Andrew T. Parsa, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurological
Surgery, Khatib Endowed Chair for
Skull Base Tumor Surgery,
Co-Director Skull Base Tumor Program

Shirley Stiver, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurological
Surgery, San Francisco General
Hospital and Medical Center

Peter Sun, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery