Virtual Reality in Neurosurgery
Bryan Ladd, MD (left) Neurosurgical Resident, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN Ann M. Parr, MD, PhD, FAANS, FRCSC (middle) Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery and Director, Spinal Neurosurgery University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN Andrew W. Grande, MD, FAANS (right) Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery and Co-director, Earl Grande Stroke and Stem Cell Laboratory University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN According […]
The Wonderful World of Woz
Christopher J. Winfree, MD, FAANS Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University New York, NY Neurosurgeons devote their careers to hours of patient care, much cocooned in the operating room. During national neurosurgical annual meetings, speakers are invited from outside the field to stimulate thought and discussion among the audience. So when it was announced that […]
CNS Spotlight – The Information Age: How Technology and Big Data are Changing Neurosurgery
How will the unprecedented expansion of data and technology affect neurosurgery? At the CNS Annual Meeting in San Diego, 2016 CNS president Russell R. Lonser, MD, FAANS, delivered a compelling address on the future of neurosurgery in the Information Age. Using the Annual Meeting theme of Advance, Adapt, Achieve as a springboard, he laid out […]
Telemedicine and the Neurosurgeon
Guest post from Elyne N. Kahn, M.D., M.P.H. Neurosurgery Resident, University of Michigan Health System Dr. McCoy could employ medical holograms to treat complex medical ailments in his Star Trek co-travelers. While we have not realized this technological breakthrough, we have moved in that direction in the form of telemedicine. Telemedicine, defined as the remote […]
Philip Glass and Healthcare Reform (Part 1)
Guest Post from Deborah L. Benzil, MD, FACS, FAANS (left) Member, AANS Board of Directors Chair, AANS/CNS Communications and Public Relations Committee MKMG Columbia University Medical Center Mt Kisco, New York and Daniel K. Resnick, MD (right) Past President, Congress of Neurological Surgeons Professor, Vice Chairman and Program Director Department of Neurosurgery University of Wisconsin […]