Conferences: Neurological Surgery Grand Rounds & Residents’ Education Hour (REH)

Neurological Surgery Grand Rounds

Weekly Grand Rounds include a series of active ties into laboratories, the Friday Faculty Lecture Series, and clinical observations. Grand Rounds include case studies by residents, Mortality and Morbidity conferences, and presentations of research and clinical innovations reports from faculty and guest lecturers. Attendance at these weekly all-department meetings gives students a clear view of the dynamic interactions that are part of contemporary medicine as practiced in the UW Department of Neurological Surgery, the UW Medicine Neurosciences Institute, and elsewhere nationally or internationally. 

In addition to improving their basic or clinical neuroscience knowledge base, students have the opportunity to observe clinician and research scientist interactions in real-time scientific exploration and problem-solving across disciplines; modeling of learning interactions for undergraduates, residents, fellows and faculty; and methods of presentation and discussion that form the basis for both student and future career presentations. Students have the opportunity to ask questions during these sessions and speak with presenters afterward to further their understanding.

The following are examples of Grand Round presentations alumni have attended:

• Andrew L. Ko, MD 
  “Closed-Loop DBS for Essential Tremor”
• Sara Chrisman, MD, MPH
  “New approaches for the management of youth with persistent post-concussive symptoms”
• Thomas J. Grabowski, MD
  “Reframing Alzheimer’s”
• Chet Moritz, PhD
  “Neural devices to promote plasticity and recovery following spinal cord injury”
• Gerald Grant, MD, FACS
  “Breaking down the blood-tumor barrier one block at a time”
• Andrew T. Dailey, MD
  “Odontoid Fractures in the Elderly”
• Evan Eichler, PhD
  “Understanding the genetic architecture of autism”
• Nathaniel Watson, MD, MPH
  “Sleep: What, Why, Where, When, & How”
• Chibawanye Ene, MD
  “Anti-PD-L1 antibody enhances radiation induced abscopal response in brain tumors”
• Theo Vos, MD, MSc, PhD
  “What does the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) tell us about diseases and injuries that neurosurgeons treat?”
• P.J. Cimino, MD, PhD
  “Classification of Adult Diffuse Gliomas: Past, Present, and Future”
• Gary W. Mathern, MD
  “Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery; Treating the epileptic encephalopathy”
• Michael W. McDermott, MD
  “Meningioma Surgery: Technical Nuances and Surgical Results”
• Josh Abecassis, MD
  “Modulating Respiratory and Bladder Function using Spine- and Nerve-Computer Interface” & “Basilar tip aneurysms, a cost-effectiveness analysis”
• Jose M. Garcia, MD, PhD
  “Pituitary Dysfunction in TBI”
• Mark D. Johnson, MD, PhD
  “Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH)”
• Kathryn P. Scherpelz, MD, PhD
  “Neuropathology Recent Updates in Glioma Diagnosis”
• Randall M. Chesnut, MD
  “The POLAR Trial”
• Fangyi Zhang, MD
  “Neurosurgery in China and the UW residents visiting program”
• Michael D. Weiss, MD
  “Hyperexcitability of Motor Neurons in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis”
• Mark M. Souweidane, MD
  “Direct Drug Delivery as a Therapeutic Platform in Neurooncology”
• Aviva Abosch, MD, PhD
  “Sleep in Parkinson's Disease”
• Robert Bonow, MD
  “Guidelines for reversal of anticoagulation in intracranial hemorrhage”
• Linda M. Liau, MD, PhD, MBA
  “Perspectives on Glioblastoma (1994-2019)”
• James M. Olson, MD, PhD
  “From Scorpions to Sunflowers: How Blueprints from Nature Guide New Therapies for Brain Diseases and Disorders”
• Jessica E. Young, PhD
  “Modeling Alzheimer’s Disease with Stem Cells”
• Thomas Grabowski, MD
  “Alzheimer’s Disease Update”
• Patrick J. Cimino, MD, PhD
  “Moving Towards Molecular Grading of Adult Gliomas”
• Suman Jayadev, MD
  “The spectrum of genetic drivers in neurodegeneration”
• Ghayda Mirzaa, MD
  “The genomic landscape of malformations of cortical development: The path towards precision medicine”
• C. Dirk Keene, MD, PhD
  “The UW Bio-Repository & Integrated Neuropath Lab: Combining Traditional Methods with Quantitative Approaches to Advance Brain Science”

Visit the department YouTube Channel for videos of previous Grand Rounds