The AANS is gearing up for an educational experience that is not to be missed. The 2008 AANS Annual Meeting will take place in the heart of the United States, Chicago, a city rich in architecture, museums, cultural activities, sporting events, shopping and nightlife.
The Annual Meeting Planning Committee, chaired by Timothy B. Mapstone, MD, has developed a memorable program that taps into the cultural wealth that Chicago has to offer. The Grand Ballroom at historical Navy Pier, the most visited attraction in Illinois, provides a dramatic backdrop for the opening reception. In addition, the Chicago Historical Museum and the Metropolitan Club on the 67th floor of the Sears Tower are among the sites that meeting attendees will have the opportunity to enjoy.
The Scientific Program Committee and its chair, E. Sander Connolly, MD, have worked diligently to energize this year’s program with new offerings, and will introduce all poster presentations in electronic format. As an added benefit, any meeting attendee who registers for a practical clinic or breakfast seminar will receive a CD-ROM of all handouts for all of the practical clinics and breakfast seminars. While the special lecturers are being finalized, the committee has selected several new topics to be offered during the convention week.
New Breakfast Seminars
- 101 Quality and Efficiency Measures in an Action Plan
- 106 Epilepsy: New Surgical Treatment and Management Approaches
- 204 History of Neurosurgery and Neurosciences in Chicago
- 308 A History of Pre-Cushing Era Neurosurgery in North America
New Practical Clinics
- 028 Decision Making and the Spine Patient for Nurses, APRNs and PAs
- 035 Medical Certainty and the Medical Expert Witness
- 040 Transfacet Technology: An Alternative to Pedicle Screw Fixation With Interbody Techniques
2008 Cushing Orator
Douglas Brinkley, PhD, the 2008 Cushing orator, is director of the Theodore
Roosevelt Center for American Civilization and professor of history at Tulane
University. He received his bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University, followed
by his doctorate in U.S. diplomatic history from Georgetown University in 1989.
He then spent a year teaching history at the U.S. Naval Academy and Princeton
University.
Four of Dr. Brinkley’s recent publications have become New York Times best sellers: The Great Deluge (2006), The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion (2005), Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War (2004) and Voices of Valor: D-Day: June 6, 1944 with Ronald J. Drez (2004). Most recently, Dr. Brinkley edited and compiled into one volume The Reagan Diaries, which provides striking insight into one of the nationâs most important presidencies and sheds new light on the character of a true American leader.
Before coming to Tulane, Dr. Brinkley served as Stephen E. Ambrose Professor of History and director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans. During his tenure there he wrote two books with the late Professor Ambrose: Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 (1997) and The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisiana Purchase to Today (2002). On the literary front, Dr. Brinkley has edited Jack Kerouac’s diaries, Hunter S. Thompson’s letters and Theodore Dreiser’s travelogue. His work on civil rights includes Rosa Parks (2000) and the forthcoming Portable Civil Rights Reader.
He won the Benjamin Franklin Award for The American Heritage History of the United States (1998) and the Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt Naval History Prize for Driven Patriot (1993). He was honored with the Business Week Book of the Year Award for Wheels for the World and was also named 2004 Humanist of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
Dr. Brinkley is contributing editor for Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times Book Review and American Heritage, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly.
Patty L. Anderson is AANS director of meetings.
IMPORTANT DATES
|