The Joint Council of State Neurosurgical Societies (JCSNS) is a joint committee of the AANS and CNS that deals with socioeconomic issues as they affect all neurosurgeons. The JCSNS is a representative assembly with delegates from state neurosurgical societies as well as appointees from the AANS and CNS. The JCSNS is comprised of physicians that practice both in community hospital settings as well as academic centers. The JCSNS will be meeting in Montréal on Friday, September 27, and Saturday, September 28. All neurosurgeons are asked to attend and participate.
Any neurosurgeon working through their state neurosurgical society may propose a resolution dealing with a socioeconomic issue and have it debated by the entire representative assembly. This allows grass-root membership direct input and say in how organized neurosurgery responds to the needs of their patients and their profession. We encourage all neurosurgeons to participate in their state neurosurgical societies as well as to attend as guests, visitors, and observers of the JCSNS meeting in Montréal. Along with the debate of important and serious resolutions dealing with socioeconomic issues will be an informational transfer session where experts in neurosurgery present to grass-root neurosurgeons all the new and up-coming changes occurring in areas such as reimbursement, managed care, Medicare, work force, medical-legal, etc.
Please attend, please get involved, please get active — you can make a difference. It is time that all neurosurgeons participate with leadership in responding to the daily challenges that are deleteriously affecting patient care in our profession. Apathy no longer has a place. This is a chance to be heard and to get involved.
For further information, please contact me at my office in Oklahoma City or in care of the AANS National Office.