RESEARCH UPDATE IN NEUROSCIENCE FOR NEUROSURGEONS
DIRECTORS AND FACULTY
October 28th - November 4th, 2012
DIRECTORS:
Allan H. Friedman, M.D.
Guy L. Odom Professor of Neurological Surgery
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
Deputy Director, The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center
Duke University Medical Center
Division of Neurosurgery
Box 3807
Durham, NC 27710
E-mail: fried010@mc.duke.edu
Robert M. Friedlander, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Department of Neurological Surgery
UPMC Presbyterian, Suite B400
200 Lothrop Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2582
Phone: 412-647-6358
Fax: 412-864-3284
E-mail: friedlanderr@upmc.edu
Lecture Title: “Mechanisms of Cell Death in Neurologic Diseases”
CO-DIRECTORS:
Bruce Andersen, Ph.D.,M.D.
Neurosurgeon
Idaho Neurological Institute
6140 Curtisian Ave Ste 400
Boise, ID 83704
E-mail: andersen8@mindspring.com
Laboratory Experience: “Squid Lab”
Issam A. Awad, M.D., MSc, FACS
University of Chicago
5841 S. Maryland
Ave/MC3026
Chicago, IL 60637-0000
United States
Email: iawad@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu
Lecture Title: “Philosophy of Science and Neurosurgery” and “Translational and Integrational
Research: Cavernous Angioma as a Paradigm”
Henry Brem, M.D.
Chairman of Neurosurgery
Harvey Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery
Professor of Oncology and Ophthalmology
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery
Sheikh Zayed Tower
1800 Orleans Street
Zayed 6115
Baltimore, MD 21287
E-mail: hbrem@jhmi.edu
Lecture Title: “Brain Tumor Therapy”
Robert Dempsey, M.D.
Manucher J. Javid Professor & Chairman
Director of Multidisciplinary Stroke Program
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
600 Highland Avenue, K4/866
Madison, Wisconsin 53792
E-mail: dempsey@neurosurgery.wisc.edu
Lecture Title: “Inspiration and Neurosurgical Research – How to Start a Project, Grant or
Paper”
FACULTY
Larry Benowitz, Ph.D.
Professor of Surgery and Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Director, Laboratories for Neuroscience Research in Neurosurgery F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center,
Children's Hospital
Harvard University
Office: Center for Life Sciences 13071, 3 Blackfan Circle
Mail: Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave., Boston MA 02115
Tel: 617.919.2278 (internal: ext 42278)
email: larry.benowitz@childrens.harvard.edu
Lecture Title: “Rewiring the Injured CNS”
Edward Benzel, M.D.
Department Chairman
Neurological Surgery
Cleveland Clinic
Mail Code S40
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195
E-mail: BENZELE@ccf.org
Lecture Title: “Spine, Biomechanics, Clinical Practice, and the Quest of Academic Excellence.”
Kerry Bernstein
Program Manager
Microsystems Technology Office
Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)
Dept of Defense, Arlington, VA
(802) 343-4193 (cell)
E-mail: kerry.bernstein@darpa.mil (after 9/4/2012)
Lecture Title: “On The Evolution of an Electronic Species”
Mark Bevan, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology
Tarry 5-701, 5-751, 5-754, 5-756, 5-757, 5-758
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
303 E. Chicago Avenue
Chicago IL 60611
Email: m-bevan@northwestern.edu
Lecture Title: “ Mechanisms Underlying Motor Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease and the
Therapeutic Efficacy of DBS”
John Bookvar, M.D.
Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery
Weill Cornell Medical College
Cornell University
Phone (212) 746-1996
Fax (212) 746-8416
525 East 68th Street
Starr Pavilion, 651
New York, NY 10065
Email: jab2029@nyp.org
Lecture Title: “Intra-arterial Chemotherapy to Target the Glioma Stem Cell Niche in Malignant Brain
Tumors”
Mark P. Burns, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Georgetown University Medical Center,
Department of Neuroscience,
Research Building WP22a,
3970 Reservoir Rd, NW
Washington DC 20007
E-mail:mpb37@georgetown.edu
Lecture Title: “Acute CNS Injury and Chronic Neurodegenerative Disease: Common Pathways and
Therapeutic Targets”
E. Antonio Chiocca, M.D., Ph.D.
Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery
Co-Director, Institute for the Neurosciences at the Brigham
Brigham and Women's/ Faulkner Hospital
Surgical Director, Center for Neuro-oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: 617-732-7496
Fax: 617-734-8342
Email: EACHIOCCA@PARTNERS.ORG
Lecture Title: “Translational Therapeutics for Brain Tumors: From the Lab to the Clinic & Back”
V. Reggie Edgerton, Ph.D.
Director of the Neuromuscular Research Laboratory within the Department of Physiological Science and
the Brain Research Institute.
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1761
E-mail: vre@ucla.edu
Lecture Title: “Activity Dependent Mechanisms that Enhance Sensorimotor Function Following
Spinal Cord Injury”
Emad N. Eskandar. M.D.
Director Residency Training Program
Director Functional Neurosurgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School
55 Fruit Street, White 502
Boston, MA 02114
617-724-6590 (phone)
617-726-2424 (fax)
Lecture: “Neurophysiology of learning, motivation, and impulsivity”
Thomas Freeman, M.D.
Professor, Dept of Neurosurgery
Medical Director, Center for Aging and Brain Repair
University of South Florida College of Medicine
12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd
Tampa, FL 33612
Tel: 813-259-0889
Fax: 813-974-3078
email: tfreeman@hsc.usf.edu
Lecture Title: “Neural Transplantation for the Treatment of Parkinson’s and Huntington’s
Diseases: What We Have Learned and Implications for Future Therapies”
James Galbraith, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Laboratory Experience: “Squid Lab”
Email: galbraij@ninds.nih.go
Murat Gunel, M.D.
Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurobiology
Chief, Section of Neurovascular Surgery
Co-Director, Yale Program for Neurogenetics
Yale University School of Medicine
Department of Neurosurgery
PO BOX 208082
New Haven, CT 06520
E-mail: murat.gunel@yale.edu
Lecture Title: “Molecular Genetics and Biology of Intracranial Aneurysms and Cavernous
Malformations”
Michael M. Haglund, Ph.D., M.D.
Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurobiology, and Global Health,
Program Director, Duke Neurosurgery Training Program,
Co-Director Uganda and Rwanda Neurosurgery Training Programs,
Surgical Director, Duke Epilepsy Center,
Duke University Medical Center
Phone: (919) 684-6936
Fax: (919) 681-6566
E-mail: haglu001@mc.duke.edu
Lecture Title:“Optical Imaging of Epileptiform Activity: From Brain Slices to the Operating
Room”
Robert E. Harbaugh, MD, FACS, FAHA
Director, Penn State Institute of the Neurosciences
University Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery
Professor, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics
Department of Neurosurgery, 30 Hope Drive
Hershey, PA 17033-0850
E-mail: rharbaugh@psu.edu
Lecture Title: “Issues in Neurosurgical Clinical Research”
Jeff W. Lichtman, M.D., Ph.D.
Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University
Room 347
52 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: Jeff@mcb.harvard.edu
Lecture Title: “Connectomics”
Andres M. Lozano, M.D., Ph.D., FRCSC, FRSC
Senior Scientist
Division of Brain Imaging & Behaviour systems – Neuroscience
Toronto Western Research Institute
RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery, UHN
Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience (Tier 1)
Dan Family Chair in Neurosurgery
University of Toronto
Toronto Western Hospital
West Wing
4th Floor Rm. 4-431
399 Bathurst St.
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5T 2S8
E-mail: lozano@uhnresearch.ca
Lecture Title:“Adjusting the Activity in Human Brain Circuits”
L. Dade Lunsford, M.D.
Lars Leksell Professor and Distinguished Professor
Professor of Neurological Surgery
Director, Center for Image-Guided Neurosurgery
Director, Residency Training Program
University of Pittsburgh
Phone: (412) 647-6781
E-mail: lunsfordld@upmc.edu
Lecture: “Clinical Research as Part of Career”
Joseph R. Madsen, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery), Harvard Medical School
Director, Neurosurgical Clinic, Children's Hospital
Director, Neurodynamics Laboratory, Children's Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery
Children's Hospital
300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 617.355.6005
Fax: 617.730.0906
E-mail: joseph.madsen@tch.harvard.edu
Lecture Title: “Signals and Systems in the Human Brain: Water and Electricity”
Michel Modo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Radiology &
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
3025 East Carson Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
Phone: 412-383-7200
Email: modomm@upmc.edu
Lecture: “The Use of Stem Cells in Neurosurgical and Neurological Applications”
Louis J. Ptáček, M.D.
John C. Coleman Distinguished Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology \
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
548F Rock Hall
1550 4th Street MC-2922
San Francisco, CA 94158
Tele: (415)-502-5614
FAX: (415)-502-5641
Email: LJP@ucsf.edu
Lecture: “Human Neurogenetics: Using Human Families to Find Genes, Understand Basic
Biology, and Move Toward Better Treatments for Patients”
Walter Schneider, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology University of Pittsburgh
Senior Scientist LRDC Faculty Cognitive Program CNBC MRRC, BIRC, WPIC
629 Learning Research and Development Center
939 O’Hara St.
Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA
Email: wws@pitt.edu
http://www.ebc.pitt.edu/index.htm
http//schneider.lrdc.pitt.edu
Lecture Title: “Clinically Actionable Fiber Tracking in Neurosurgery & Traumatic Brain Injury:
MRI Tract Visualizations with Quality Exceeding Microdissection”
Andrew B. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology
University of Pittsburgh, 245 MCGOWN
3025 East Carson Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203-2155
Phone: 412-383-7021
Email: abs21@pitt.edu
Website: http://schwartzlab.neurobio.pitt.edu
Lecture Title: “Advances in High Performance Brain-Controlled Prosthetics”
Marc Simard, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland
Professor of Pathology, University of Maryland
Professor of Physiology, University of Maryland
Chief of Neurological Service, Baltimore V.A. Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
E-mail: msimard@smail.umaryland.edu
Lecture Title: “The SUR1-Regulated NC(Ca-ATP) Channel – a New Player in
CNS Ischemia and Trauma”
Michael Taylor. M.D., Ph.D., FRCS(C)
University of Toronto
Associate Professor, Departments of Surgery and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Research Institute
Principal Investigator
The Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre
Scientist
Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Phone: 416-813-7564
Fax: 416-813-4975
e-mail: mdtaylor@sickkids.ca
Lecture: “Clinical Implications of Paediatric Brain Tumor Molecular Genetics”