DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY
REPORT OF COURSE FOR 2003-2004
GRAND ROUNDS COURSE NUMBER 2116
· 7/3/04 -- Volume and outcome in neurosurgery -- Frederick G. Barker, M.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery – Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
· 7/10/2003 - Mood Stabilizers and Trophic Factors - Husseini Manji, M.D., Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Pathophysiology, National Institute of Mental Health
· 7/17/2003 - Neuromodulation: Clinical and Research Frontiers - Emad S. Eskandar, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
· 7/24/2003 Design and Implementation of a Clinical Database for MGH Neurosurgery - Michael D. Medlock, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
· August –No Grand Rounds
· 9/4/2003-Cytokines promote pattern recognition by immune cells -- Michael Lotze, M.D., Professor of Surgery, Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh; Director of Translational Research, Molecular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh
· 9/11/2003-- Three Neurosurgical Case Studies - Joseph Neimat, MD, Manish Aghi, MD, Clark Chen, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
· 9/18/2003 -Challenges in the Management of Cushing's Disease - Brooke Swearingen, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery), Harvard Medical School and Beverly M.K Biller, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine. Harvard Medical School
· 9/25/2003 -- The Outlook Toward Better Invasive Monitoring in the Neuro ICU William E. Butler, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School:
· 10/2/2003-NEUROSCIENCE GRAND ROUNDS 8:30 A.M. Markell-Balkin Lecture in Neuro-Oncology - Defective Receptor Signaling in Gliomas Drives Tumor Heterogeneity - Webster K. Cavenee, PhD; Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego
· 10/9/2003--William H. Sweet Lecture - Pain: Its Mechanisms and Neurosurgical Control - Donlin M. Long, M.D., Ph..D., Distinguished Service Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
· 10/16/2003-Abstract Preview for congress of Neurological Surgeons-- William T. Curry, Brian L. Hoh and Joseph Neimat (attendings Frederick G. Barker, Robert L. Martuza, Emad N. Eskandar)
· 10/23/2003 --Congress of Neurosurgeons--No Rounds
· 10/30/2003 --Academy of Neurological Surgeons – No Rounds
· 11/6/2003--NEUROSCIENCE GRAND ROUNDS 8:30 A.M. Imaging the Inner Workings of Solid Tumors: A 25 Year Odyssey Rakesh K. Jain, PH.D., A. Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology (Tumor Biology). Harvard Medical School; Director of Steele Laboratories - Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital
· 11/13/2003--Case Study: Recurrent meningioma in a 70-year-old male -- William T. Curry, Jr., M.D., Chief Resident in Neurosurgery
· 11/20/2003 --Interleukin 13 System in Brain Tumors Diagnosis and Treatment, Waldemar Debinski, M.D., Ph.D, Vice-Chair for Neurosurgical Research; Department of Neurosurgery Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
· 11/27/2003-Thanksgiving Holiday--No Rounds
· 12/4/2003--NEUROSCIENCE GRAND ROUNDS 8:00 -10 a.m.
8:00 amAnnual James H. White Lecture, Genetics and biology of malignant gliomas, Ronald A DePinho, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine, Harvard medical School
9:00 am Annual BrianSilber Lecture, New approaches to treatment of malignant gliomas, DarrellBigner, M.D., Ph.D. Edwin L. Jones, Jr., and Lucille Finch Jones Cancer Research Professor, Chairman for investigator pathology and Director pro tempore , Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
· 12/11/2003 -- The Making of a Neurosurgeon: Ultimate Triple-H Therapy - Steven N. Kalkanis, M.D., Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
· 12/18/2003 -- Neuroradiology of Brain Tumor Therapy-- John Henson, M.D., Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
· 12/25/2003 -- Christmas
· 01/01/2004 -- New Year
· 01/08/2004 – NEUROSCIENCE GRAND ROUNDS 8:30 A.M. The Neurobiology of Schizotypal Personality Disorder -- Martha Elizabeth Shenton, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Clinical Neuroscience Division. Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, VA Boston Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School; Professor of Radiology and Director of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Imaging, Surgical Planning Laboratory, MRI Division, Department of Radiology Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
· 01/15/2004 -- Sundaram Lecture with Anesthesia. Dr. Geoff Manley, Chief of Neurotrauma, San Francisco General Hospital.
· 01/22/2004 --Venous Occlusive Problems in Neurosurgery -- Paul Chapman, M.D., MGH, Nicholas T. Zervas Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
· 01/29/2004 -- The Neurosurgeon's Role in the Management of Athletic Injuries - Arthur Day, MD; Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
· 02/05/2004 – NEUROSCIENCE GRAND ROUNDS - Transcranial magnetic stimulation, Disrupting the Brain to Improve Behavior -- Alvaro Pascual-Leone, PhD. M.D., Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Department of Neurology, Beth Israel-Deaconess medical Center
· 02/12/2004 -- Using New Imaging Technology to Better Understand Persistent Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States -- Nicholas D. Schiff, M.D.. Director, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuromodulation; Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Assistant Attending Neurologist, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center
· 02/19/2004 -- Nerve tumors, nerve stimulators, brain tumors and research -- E. A. Chiocca M.D., PhD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School)
· 02/26/2004 – Vasospasm – Johnny C. Pryor, Instructor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Co-Director, Interventional Neuroradiology/Endovascular Neurosurgery, MGH
· 03/04/2004 -- NEUROSCIENCE GRAND ROUNDS - A Neurotrophic Hypothesis of Depression - Ronald S. Duman, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Director, Abraham Ribicoff Research Facilities Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine
· 03/11/2004 -- Mechanism of Pacemaking in Subthalamic Neurons: Relevance to Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease -- Michael Tri Hoang Do, PhD., Harvard Medical School
· 03/18/2004 -- SV Amplicon Vectors for Gene Therapy and Functional Genomics -- Yoshinaga Saeki, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
· 03/25/2004 -- Intracranial Dural AVM's --Christopher S. Ogilvy, M.D., Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, Johnny C. Pryor, M.D., Instructor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, Brian L. Hoh, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
· 04/01/2004 -- NEUROSCIENCE GRAND ROUNDS --Advances in the Neurobiology of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: From Neuroimaging to Neurotherapeutics -- Scott L. Rauch, M.D., Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Chief of Psychiatry for Neuroscience Research; Director of the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program and the Division of Psychiatric Neuroscience and Neurotherapeutics; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
· 04/08/2004, Mechanisms of Secondary Injury in Brain Trauma -- Donald W. Marion, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine
· 04/15/2004-- Superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome-- Michael J. McKenna, M.D., Associate Professor of Otology and Laryngology, Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary
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· 04/22/2004 -- JOINT GRAND ROUNDS SYMPOSIUM WITH NEUROLOGY 8:30 A.M; Stroke and the Neurovisual System, Dr. Robert Daroff and Dr. David Zee. Organized to celebrate Dr. Shirley H Wray's 30th anniversary on the C. Miller Fisher Stroke Service
· 04/29/2004 -- AANS Abstracts
· 05/06/2004– NEUROSCIENCE GRAND ROUNDS Neural Systems Involved in Fear, Anxiety and Extinction -- Michael Davis, M.D., Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences and Psychology, Emory University School of Medicine –
· 05/13/2004 -- Imaging and epilepsy: A neurosurgeon's perspective -- G. Rees Cosgrove, M.D., Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
· 05/20/2004 – The Boston Symphony Oorchestra-- Nicholas Zervas, M.D., Distinguised Higgins Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, Member Board of Trustees, Boston Symphony Orchestra)
· 05/27/2004 -- Thoracic and Lumbar Instability -- Jean Valery Coumans, M.D., Instructor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
· 06/03/2004 -- Neuroscience Grand Rounds - Genes, Cognition and emotion -- Daniel R. Weinberger, Chief, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, IRP, NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
· 06/10/2004-- North Service Chief Rounds -- Neurosurgery Report- Dr. William T. Curry, Jr., M.D., Instructor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
· 06/17/2004 – Imaging Advances in Pediatric Brain Disorders -- Ellen Grant, M.D., Assistant Professor Pediatric Neuroradiology, Harvard Medical School
· 06/24/2004 – Significance and therapeutic targeting of the pleiotrophin / ALK tyrosine kinase receptor -- Anton Wellstein, MD PhD, Professor Oncology & Pharmacology, Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University
DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY
REPORT OF COURSE FOR 2003-2004
GRAND ROUNDS COURSE NUMBER 2116