QUICK FACTS

Provider: The Oakstone Institute

Course Director:
Ian F. Dunn, MD, FAANS
Department of Neurosurgery
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Credits: Earn a maximum of 35 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™

Vascular

• Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke – Henrikas Vaitkevicius, MD

• Intracranial Aneurysms – Rose Du, MD, PhD

• Vascular Malformations and Moyamoya Disease – Gary K. Steinberg, MD, PhD

• Extracranial Carotid Artery Disease – Christopher M. Loftus, MD, Dr.h.c. (Hon), FAANS

Head Injury/Craniocerebral Trauma

• Closed Head Injury/Concussion and Head Injury in Sports – Ian F. Dunn, MD, FAANS

• Skull and Facial Fractures/Paranasal Sinus and Skull Base Trauma – Col. Rocco A. Armonda, MD

• Subdural Hematoma – Col. Rocco A. Armonda, MD

• Decompressive Craniectomy – Jamie S. Ullman, MD

Spinal Surgery

• Cervical Spine Trauma – John H. Chi, MD, MPH

• Thoraco-Lumbar Fractures – Charles A. Sansur, MD, MHSc

• Disc Herniations: Cervical, Lumbar and Thoracic – Charles A. Sansur, MD, MHSc

• Lateral Access to the Spine – Adam S. Kanter, MD

• Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery – Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD

• Hydromyelia/Syringomyelia – Charles A. Sansur, MD, MHSc

Peripheral Nerves

• Acute Nerve Injury and Repair – Susan E. Mackinnon, MD

• Peripheral Nerve Tumors – Robert J. Spinner, MD

• Brachial Plexus Lesions – Susan E. Mackinnon, MD

• Compression Neuropathy – Susan E. Mackinnon, MD

• Nerve Transfers for Shoulder and Elbow – Susan E. Mackinnon, MD

• Nerve Transfers for the Hand – Susan E. Mackinnon, MD

Brain Tumors

• Metastatic Brain Tumors – Charles S. Cobbs, MD

• Malignant Gliomas – Charles S. Cobbs, MD

• Meningiomas – Ossama Al-Mefty, MD, FACS

• Low Grade Gliomas – Nader Sanai, MD, FAANS, FACS

• Pineal Region Tumors – Jeffrey N. Bruce, MD, FACS

• Posterior Fossa Tumors of Childhood – Tord D. Alden, MD

• Vestibular Schwannomas and Other Cerebello-Pontine Angle Tumors – Kalmon D. Post, MD

• Radiosurgery for Brain Tumors, Arteriovenous Malformations, and Trigeminal Neuralgia – Jason Sheehan, MD, PhD, FACS

Spine and Spinal Cord Tumors

• Metastatic Tumors of the Spine – Michael W. Groff, MD

• Spinal Cord Tumor Management – Paul C. McCormick, MD, MPH

Skull Base Lesion

• Meningiomas of the Skull Base and Other Skull Base Lesions – Ian F. Dunn, MD, FAANS

Pituitary Tumors and Craniopharyngiomas

• Non-Functioning and Functioning Pituitary Tumors – Nelson M. Oyesiku, MD, PhD, FACS

• Transsphenoidal Endoscopy – Edward R. Laws, MD

• Craniopharyngiomas – R. Michael Scott, MD

Hydrocephalus/Cysts/Infection

• Hydrocephalus and Congenital Cysts – Tord D. Alden, MD

Functional Neurosurgery

• Functional Neurosurgery – Garth Rees Cosgrove, MD

Special Topics

• Neurofibromatosis and von Hippel-Lindau Disease – Ashok R. Asthagiri, MD

• Coma and Brain Death – Allan H. Ropper, MD

• Anticoagulation, Reversal, and Hemostasis in Neurosurgery – Christopher M. Loftus, MD, Drhc, FAANS