The Joint Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery has had a very active year and has great pans for the future. We need an active membership and Issam A. Awad, MD, has provided stellar leadership with regard to increasing the number of members who participate in the group’s activities. Since initiating his membership drive, we have added 162 new members.
The Section has also formed an Outcomes and Guidelines Committee headed by Robert Harbaugh, MD. It will have three subcommittees focusing on intracranial aneurysms, ischemic cerebrovascular disease, and vascular malfor mations, respectfully. In addition, the size and complexity of the Executive Commit tee has grown and the activities of the Section, as a whole, have grown.
Annual Meeting
The Section’s first Annual Meeting was held in San Antonio, Texas, January 2325, 1996. Dr. Awad coordinated the meeting and we are happy to report it was a complete success. The number of participants far exceeded our expectations and the feedback from those attending the meeting was also very gratifying.
Next year’s meeting will be held February 46, 1997, at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California. Linda Sternau, MD, will coordinate the meeting.
AANS/CNS Meeting Section Programs
The Joint Section has also been actively involved in the Annual Meetings of the AANS and CNS. The Section meeting in Minneapolis focused on skull base ap proaches to vascular disease and featured Robert Spetzler, MD, as the Donaghy Lecture and Laligam Sekhar, MD. The meeting, which was organized by Julian Bailes, MD, was a great success.
Looking to the future, the Section program at the 1996 CNS Meeting in Montréal will focus on carotid occlusive disease and is being coordinated by Joshua Bederson, MD.
Professional Outreach
Discussions between neurosurgeons and endovascular neuroradiologists have also been occurring at an ever increasing rate. L.N. Hopkins, MD, Immediate Past -Chairman of the Joint Section, has greatly facilitated this dialogue and has participated in organizing the training program for internventional radiology.
In addition, meetings have been arranged in conjunction with the American Heart Association International Stroke Meeting as a means to facilitate our interactions.
New Leadership
New officers of the Section have recently been elected. They are Steven Gianotta, MD, Chairman; Christopher Loftus, MD, Chairman-Elect; and Issam A. Awad, MD, Secretary.
We would like to express our appreciation to the Past-Chairman and Secretary L.N. Hopkins, MD, and Christopher Loftus, MD, respectively. We are indebted to their calm and steady leadership. It has been a delight working with them. If you have any questions regarding this report, please feel free to contact me.