Schedule

Day 1

1 May

Thursday

5:30 PM

Introduction / Cocktail Reception

Trellis at Ponte Vedra Lodge & Club
(Coctail or Business Casual Attire)

6:00 PM

Spouses Reception

Hosted by Dr. Laura Grand

9:00 PM

Questions - Discussion

Day 2

2 May

Friday

7:30 AM

Continental Breakfast & Welcome

Ocean 2, Ponte Vedra Lodge and Club

Cranial Sessions

8:00 AM

"Multimodal Surgical Strategies for Deep Seated and Insular Lesions"

Jan Hachmann, MD, MS
Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL

9:30 AM

"Machine Learning-driven Prediction of Aneurysm Occlusion after Woven EndoBridge”

Shrinit Babel, MS2;
USF Health, Tampa, FL

GENERAL NEUROSURGERY SESSION

10:30 AM

Special Guest Lecture:
"Neurosurgical Future Frontiers "

Walter Jean, MD
Lehigh Valley Health Network, Lehigh Valley, PA

11:00 AM

"Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Volume and Expedited Resolution"

Saif Salman, MD
Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL

12:30 PM

Discussion, Summation & Close

Ocean 2, Ponte Vedra Lodge and Club

6:00 PM

Friday Family Fun Night

West Lawn and Stockton Room, Ponte Vedra Inn and Club
(Casual Attire, shorts flip flops welcome)

Relaxing sunset farm to table dinner overlooking the lagoon and golf course including the first ever 'Ponte Vedra Olympics' with Children's games and Activities!

Sponsored by Stryker

Day 3

3 May

Saturday

7:30 AM

Continental Breakfast & Welcome

Ocean 2, Ponte Vedra Lodge and Club

SPINAL SESSION

8:00 AM

"Falling Thru the Cracks – An Update on Osteoporosis in Spine Surgery"

Lara Massie, MD;
Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA

8:30 AM

"Neuromodulation for Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation"

Rushna Ali, MD
Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN

9:00 AM

"The Past, Present, and Future of Interbody Fusion Implants"

Steve Pirris, MD;
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL

9:30 AM

"Development and Validation of a Nomogram for Prediction of Survival in Adolescent Spinal Cord Injury"

Cole Sloboda, DO;
Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, VA

GENERAL NEUROSURGERY SESSION

12:30 PM

"Failure to Launch: Why Techies & Engineers Fail in Medicine"

Shahed Elhamdani, MD (PGY-7)
Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA (Mentors – Alexander Yu, MD, Jody Leonardo, MD)

1:00 PM

Discussion, Summation & Close

Ocean 2, Ponte Vedra Lodge and Club

6:00 PM

Laura's Beach Bash!

Trellis and Beach, Ponte Vedra Lodge and Club


(Beach Attire)

Please join us for a fun filled Floridian evening with beach volleyball, ladder ball, bocce ball, and more, followed by a festive dinner and an evening bonfire on the beach:

6:00 -- Cocktails, appetizers, beach games and bike races
7:00 -- Beach barbecue buffet dinner
8:00 -- Bonfire on the Beach (with S'mores)