Education and Innovation – Make for New Orleans and the 2005 Annual Meeting April 16-21

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons is already tuning up for a festive and informative annual meeting in the jazz and Mardi Gras capital city, New Orleans.

AANS President Robert A. Ratcheson, MD, has selected the meeting theme, Education and Innovation in Neurosurgery, which will set the tone for the entire event.

Romney Caruso New Orleans CVB

The Annual Meeting Committee, chaired by Richard G. Fessler, MD, has been hard at work crafting an enjoyable event that will play up all the advantages this culturally rich, gracious Southern city has to offer. Mardi Gras World, the City Park Botanical Gardens and the D-Day Museum are among the “Crescent City” sites meeting attendees will have the opportunity to enjoy. A jewel in the neurosurgical event calendar, this 73rd annual meeting is sure to live up to the lofty standards AANS members have come to expect.

Chair James T. Rutka, MD, and the Scientific Program Committee have taken the lead in planning a top-notch slate of science in tune with topics AANS members have said they are interested in learning about.

Many program decisions are influenced by the previous meeting’s detailed evaluations. Attendees who completed and returned evaluations for the 2004 AANS Annual Meeting not only gave themselves a say in this year’s annual meeting, but also became eligible to win five prizes, drawn daily, that ranged from AANS gift certificates in various denominations to complimentary air fare to the 2005 AANS Annual Meeting and dues renewal for one year of AANS membership.

Thirty members reaped material rewards for their participation in the 2004 evaluation program. Of the 30, Jerry Hubbard, MD, and Marion McMichael, RN, will enjoy one year of complimentary AANS membership; Mark Kubala, MD, and his guest can fly free, and Marc Friedberg, MD, will receive a free five-night hotel stay, both in conjunction with the AANS Annual Meeting in New Orleans; and Mahadev Souri, MD, and Daniel Donovan, MD, each will receive complimentary registration for the New Orleans meeting.

While the Cushing orator and special lecturers are being finalized, the committee has selected several new topics that members have said they want to explore.

New Breakfast Seminars

Evidence-Based Medicine and Outcome Studies-The Design of a Clinical Study

Congenital Craniofacial Deformities

Changing Career Paradigms in Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery

European Versus U.S. Residency Training of Complex Cranio-Orbital Tumor Lesions

European Versus U.S. Residency Training of Pineal Region Tumors

New Practical Clinics

Interventional Neurovascular Disease: Complication and Avoidance

Preparation for Medical Legal Testimony

Noninvasive Preoperative and Intraoperative Brain

Mapping and Treatment of Epilepsy

Also new for Resident and Fellow AANS members in North America: complimentary registration at the 2005 Annual Meeting. Additional information on new benefits for Resident and Fellow members is available in Residents’ Forum.

Annual meeting details are posted online at www.AANS.org as information becomes available.

Planning for the 2005 AANS Annual Meeting AANS Members Get First Crack at New Orleans Nov. 1 General meeting registration and housing reservations open for AANS members only; registration and housing open to everyone two weeks later. Mid-January Tickets for practical clinics, breakfast seminars and other optional events become available exclusively to AANS members for two weeks. In late January tickets become available too everyone. March 18 Early registration and housing deadline for everyone.. Details are at www.AANS.org.

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