44th Annual Scientific Meeting
June 25-26, 2021 – InterContinental Airport Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Due to the long standing relationship with the United States Section of the International College of Surgeons (ICSUS) the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons (the Academy) has once again designated the ICSUS Annual Surgical Update as the Academy Annual Scientific Meeting. Working closely with members of the Academy’s Scientific Organizing Committee to determine professional practice gaps and educational need, ICSUS planners are developing two days of programming that will provide a minimum of 8 hours of category 1 credit specifically related to our major surgical specialties. A total of approximately 20 credits will be available for the entire meeting, including practice management and ethics sessions.
Reservations at the InterContinental Airport Hotel can be made by calling 888-424-6835 and mentioning group code Z33. To reserve your room through the InterContinental website, you may also Click here.
Registration is now available through the ICS website. Visit www.ficsonline.org/asu21 to register and learn more about the entire program. To download a PDF copy of the ICS Registration Brochure, click here
Currently the following Sessions are planned for the Academy…
Friday 6/25/2021 8am-12pm
Surgical Therapies for Glioblastoma
Clark Chen, MD, Minneapolis, MN
Chair, Dept. of Neurosurgery – University of Minnesota
Novel Direct Oral Anticoagulants: A Review of Specific and Nonspecific Means of Reversal
Craig Clark, MD, PhD, Carrollton, MS
Neurosurgeon, AANOS Past Chair of the Board
New Trends in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery, 2021
Mark N. Perlmutter, MD, Rocky Mount, NC
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Carolinas Regional Orthopedics
Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH) and Acute Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: Is There a Need for Surgical Intervention?
Gazanfar Rahmathulla, MBBS (MD), Jacksonville, FL
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Medical Director of Neurosurgery Trauma, University of
Wide Awake Hand Surgery in 2021
Robert Van Demark, Jr., MD, Sioux Falls, SD
Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery/Section Head University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine Sanford Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Hydrocephalus
Shawn Vuong, MD, Sioux Falls, SD
Neurosurgeon, Sanford Health
Use of MIS Expandable Interbody Cages to Optimize TLIF Outcomes and Segmental Corrections
Lucia Zamorano, MD, Birmingham, MI
Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
Saturday 6/26/2021 8am-12pm
Laboratory Surgical Training Utilizing the Human Anatomy Under Life-Like Conditions
Emad Aboud, MD, Sherwood, AR
Clinical Instructor Creighton University School of Medicine, Surgery Department; Director, Micro-Neurosurgery Lab, Arkansas Neuroscience Institute, Little Rock
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery and Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy for the Treatment of AIDS-Related Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
Andres Alvarez Pinzon, MD, PhD, MHA, San Mateo, CA
Sr. Research Program Manager, University California, San Francisco Fellow, Vascular Neurosurgery and Skull Base Lan, UCSF Consultant Director, Health Sciences Research, Miami Neurosciences Center at Larkin
Integrating Pain Related Interventional Procedures in a Spine Practice
Amit Bhandarkar, MD, Herrin, IL
Orthopedic Spine Surgeon, St. Mary’s Hospital Centralia
Know your Plastic (Orthopedics)
Naga Suresh Cheppalli, MD, Albuequrque, NM
Asst. Professor of UNM, Albuequrque; Staff Orthopedic Surgeon VA Hospital
Primary Optic Nerve Sheath Meningiomas
Craig Clark, MD, PhD, Carrollton, MS
Neurosurgeon, AANOS Past Chair of the Board
Management of Soft Tissue Edema in the Lower Extremity using Circumferential Negative Pressure Wound
Therapy: A Case Report
Anthony N. Dardano, Jr., MD, Boca Raton, FL
Associate Professor of Surgery, Florida Atlantic University, Chief of Plastic Surgery Trauma, Delray Medical
Cerebellar Arteriovenous Malformations: Treatment Strategy
Muhammad Janjua, MD, Poplar Grove, IL
Clinical Instructor Neurosurgery, University of Illinois Chicago
Update On Aging Knees
Robert Mathews, MD, Millersville, PA
Penn Surgery Institute, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health
Update on Current Utilization of Nutraceuticals
Marc Stevens, MD, State Road, SC
Orthopaedic Surgeon
Treatment of Tarlov Cysts
William C. Welch, MD, Philadelphia, PA
Professor of Neurosurgery and Orthopaedic Surgery, Penn Medicine; Chair, Department of Neurosurgery at Pennsylvania Hospital
Check back often as additional presentations are added.