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CNS Announces Poster Winners from 2019 Annual Meeting!
The CNS Scientific Program Committee announces the poster winners in the following categories: Best Basic Science, Best Clinical Research, and Best Operative Technique for each Section. Congratulations to all of the winners, and we appreciate the work submitted by all participants!
CEREBROVASCULAR
Best Basic Science Award
Joshua Osbun, MD: Somatic PDGFRB Activating Variants in Fusiform Cerebral Aneurysms.
Best Clinical Research Award
Dominic Nistal: FMS-like Tyrosine Kinase 3 Ligand (FLT3L) Downregulation in Peripheral Blood Serves as a Biomarker for the Presence of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms.
Best Operative Technique Award
Christopher Pasarikovski, MD: Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Preliminary Animal and Human Results.
NEUROTRAUMA AND NEUROCRITICAL CARE
Best Basic Science Award
Nicholas Dietz: Correlation of Inflammatory Biomarkers with Neurogenic Bowel Dysfunction and Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis in Patients with Chronic Spinal Cord Injury.
Best Clinical Research Award
Aladine Elsamadicy, MD: Thirty- and 90-day Readmission Rates after Treatment of Traumatic Subdural Hematoma: A National Trend Analysis.
Best Operative Technique Award
Muhibullah Tora: Late Cranioplasty is associated with Decreased Complications in Traumatic Brain Injury – A 274 Patient Case Series.
PAIN
Best Basic Science Award
Jorge Alvernia, MD: Systematic Anatomical Study of the Adamkiewicz artery and the accesory Thoracic and Lumbar Hairpin turn spinal cord branches.
Best Clinical Research Award
Elisabetta Mezzalira: 20 Years of Opioids Prescriptions in Spine Patients: The Experience of two Academic Hospitals in Massachusetts.
PEDIATRIC
Best Basic Science Award
Duy Phan: Trim71 links an ancient microRNA pathway to neural stem cell development and human congenital hydrocephalus.
Best Clinical Research Award
Hepzibha Alexander: Global and intertuberal epileptic networks in tuberous sclerosis based on stereoelectroencephalographic (sEEG) findings: a quantitative EEG analysis in pediatric subjects and surgical implications.
Best Operative Technique Award
Ramin Morshed, MD: Clinical and imaging outcomes after combined direct and indirect bypass for pediatric Moyamoya disease: a single center retrospective series.
PERIPHERAL NERVE
Best Clinical Research Award
Pavlos Texakalidis, MD: Combined Radial to Axillary and Spinal Accessory (SA) to Suprascapular Nerve (SSN) Transfers Confer Superior Shoulder Abduction Compared to Single SA to SSN Transfer.
SOCIOECONOMIC/CSNS
Best Clinical Research Award
Risheng Xu, MD, PhD: Potential Healthcare Cost Savings in Patients with Traumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.
SPINE
Best Clinical Research Award
David Cavanaugh, MD: Radiographic and Clinical Adjacent Segment Pathology Following Cervical Total Disc Replacement or Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion Through 7-Year Follow-Up.
Best Operative Technique Award
Andrew Gardeck: Effect of Simulation Training on Resident Proficiency in Spinal Instrumentation Placement of Thoracolumbar Pedicle Screws Using Computer-Assisted Navigation.
STEREOTACTIC AND FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY
Best Basic Science Award
Abhijeet Gummadavelli, MD: Ictal and Post-ictal Impairments in Consciousness in an Awake-Behaving Limbic Seizure Model.
Best Clinical Research Award
Anil Mahavadi: Structural Connectivity Analysis of the Human Claustrum in Epilepsy Using Machine Learning.
Best Operative Technique Award
Islam Fayed, MD, MS: Combination Targeting of Subthalamic Nucleus and Ventral Intermediate Thalamic Nucleus in Deep Brain Stimulation for Tremor-dominant Parkinson's Disease: Experience and Outcomes.
TUMOR
Best Basic Science Award
John Choi: Sustained Localized Delivery of Immunotherapy to Lymph Nodes Reverses Immunosuppression and Increases Long-term Survival in Glioblastoma.
Best Clinical Research Award
Akshay Save: Stimulated Raman Microscopy and Multiplexed RNA-Sequencing in Post-Treatment Recurrent High-Grade Gliomas.
Best Operative Technique Award
Steve Cho: Near-Infrared Imaging with Second-Window Indocyanine-Green in Newly Diagnosed High-Grade Gliomas Predicts Gadolinium Enhancement on Postoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging.