The 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons is set for New Orleans April 16-21. The insight of seven exceptional speakers will complement an excellent scientific program. Frequently updated meeting information is available at www.AANS.org.
Cushing Oration Celebrated biographer Edmund Morris is the author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1980. As President Ronald Reagan’s official biographer he wrote, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, published in 1999. In 2001, he published Theodore Rex, the second volume of a projected trilogy on the life of the 23rd president. It became an immediate bestseller and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography. The Times Literary Supplement called it “one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adams’s volumes on Jefferson and Madison.” He lectures across the United States at top universities and Fortune 500 companies. He has appeared extensively on national television, and in 1999 was the subject of a two-part profile on CBS 60 Minutes. CBS retained him as a commentator for the state funeral of President Reagan. Born and educated in Kenya, Edmund Morris currently lives in New York City and Washington, D.C. |
Richard C. Schneider Lecture
Monday, April 18
Julian T. Hoff, MD, is the Richard C. Schneider Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Michigan. He received his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in 1958 and his medical degree from Cornell University in 1962. He has had a long interest in cerebral circulation and metabolism, focusing on intracerebral hemorrhage in recent years. Dr. Hoff was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1999. He was AANS president from 1993 to 1994, and he received the Cushing medal from the AANS in 2001.
Ronald L. Bittner Lecture
Monday, April 18
Darell D. Bigner, MD, PhD, is director of the NINDS Specialized Research Center on Primary and Metastatic Tumors of the Central Nervous System. He earned both his degrees at Duke University and in 1972 joined the Duke faculty. He helped establish the neuro-oncology program at the Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Bigner is one of the few scientists in the nation to have held three consecutive MERIT awards from the National Cancer Institute.
Van Wagenen Lecture
Tuesday, April 19
Charles Warlow, MD, is a clinical researcher specializing in stroke and functional symptoms, with a secondary interest in motor neuron disease and multiple sclerosis. He was the principal investigator for the European Carotid Surgery Trial and he initiated the Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project. He studied at Cambridge University and St. George’s Hospital Medical School in London, earning his medical degree in 1968, and he currently works as a general neurologist in Edinburgh and Falkirk. He is editor of the journal Practical Neurology.
Theodore Kurze Lecture
Wednesday, April 20
Martin H. Weiss, MD, is professor of neurosurgery and chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Southern California. He has served as editor in chief of the journal Clinical Neurosurgery and was a member of the original editorial board of the journal Neurosurgery. A member of the editorial board of the AANS Journal of Neurosurgery since 1987, he is currently associate editor. He served as AANS president from 1999 to 2000.
Rhoton Family Lecture
Wednesday, April 20
Robert G. Grossman, MD, is professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine and chief of the neurosurgical service at The Methodist Hospital and St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston. He received his medical degree in 1957 from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Grossman is the co-principal investigator of the NINDS-supported head injury clinical research center at Baylor College of Medicine. He was one of two neurosurgeons at Parkland Hospital in Dallas who examined President Kennedy in trauma room 1.
Hunt-Wilson Lecture
Wednesday, April 20
Henry J. (Peter) Ralston, MD, is professor of anatomy and a member of the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his clinical education in San Francisco and in New York and his research training in London. He is engaged in research on changes in the brain after nerve and spinal cord injury, and in the development of new therapies to treat chronic pain.