Distinguished Panel Throws Down the Concussion Gauntlet: AANS Opening Ceremonies

Guest post from Brent R. O’Neill, MD Pediatric Neurosurgeon University of Colorado, Children’s Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO A retired pro-linebacker, an army general, a cable news personality, and a neurosurgeon walk into a bar . . . Actually, on May 1, 2016, they walked into Chicago’s McCormick Place for the Opening Ceremonies of the 84th […]

A Real Pediatric Health Crisis

Guest post from Robert E. Harbaugh, MD, FAANS, FACS AANS Past President President, Society of Neurological Surgeons Director, Institute of the Neurosciences Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery Professor, Department of Engineering Science & Mechanics The Pennsylvania State University Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Hershey, PA There seems to be an insatiable public interest […]

Sports-Related Brain Injury: Lessons from the NFL

H. Hunt Batjer, MD (right) President, American Association of Neurological Surgeons Lois C. A. and Darwin E. Smith Distinguished Chair in Neurological Surgery UT Southwestern Neurosurgery Department Dallas, TX Shelly D. Timmons, MD, PhD (left) Chair-elect, AANS/CNS Washington Committee Past-chair, AANS/CNS Joint Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care Geisinger Medical Center Danville, PA Editor’s Note:  […]