
This online CME program is broad and deep in its coverage of neurosurgery subspecialty areas. Led by Ian F. Dunn, MD, FAANS, authoritative speakers with extensive subspecialty training present the latest technical innovations and surgical techniques, along with pearls and pitfalls from their own clinical practices. Neurosurgery – A Comprehensive Review delivers key take-home points with each lecture, including:
Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke - Pascal Jabbour, MD, FAANS, FAHA
Intracranial Aneurysms - Rose Du, MD, PhD
Vascular Malformations and Moyamoya Disease - Gary K. Steinberg, MD, PhD
Evidence-Based Evaluation and Treatment of Carotid Stenosis - Christopher M. Loftus, MD
Cerebrovascular Emergencies – An Endovascular Perspective - Alan S. Boulos, MD, FACS, FAANS
Closed Head Injury/Concussion and Head Injury in Sports - Mark R. Proctor, MD
Skull Base Trauma: Frontal, Sphenoid, and Paranasal Sinus Injury - Rocco A. Armonda, MD, FACS
Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury - Ryan S. Kitagawa, MD
Decompressive Craniectomy for TBI - Jamie S. Ullman, MD
Cervical Spine Trauma - John H. Chi, MD, MPH
Management of Thoracolumbar Spine Trauma and Stabilization Techniques - Charles A. Sansur, MD, MHSc
Disc Herniations: Cervical, Lumbar, and Thoracic - Charles A. Sansur, MD, MHSc
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery - Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD
Syringomyelia and Hydromyelia - Charles A. Sansur, MD, MHSc
Acute Nerve Injury and Repair - Mark A. Mahan, MD, FAANS
Peripheral Nerve Tumors - Robert J. Spinner, MD
Brachial Plexus Lesions - Susan E. Mackinnon, MD
Electrodiagnostic Indications Nerve Surgery - Susan E. Mackinnon, MD
Compression Neuropathy - Christopher J. Winfree, MD, FAANS
Surgical Management of Weakness and Paralysis: Restorative Techniques - Justin M. Brown, MD, FAANS
Modernizing the Approach to Solid Tumor Brain Metastases - Peter E. Fecci, MD, PhD
Malignant Gliomas - Charles S. Cobbs, MD
Meningiomas - Ossama Al-Mefty, MD, FACS
Low-Grade Gliomas - Nader Sanai, MD, FAANS, FACS
Pineal Region Tumors - Jeffrey N. Bruce, MD, FACS
Posterior Fossa Tumors of Childhood - Tord D. Alden, MD
Vestibular Schwannomas - Kaith K. Almefty, MD
Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Brain Metastasis, Arteriovenous Malformations, and Trigeminal Neuralgia - Jason Sheehan, MD, PhD, FACS
Metastatic Tumors of the Spine - Michael W. Groff, MD
Spinal Cord Tumor Management - Paul C. McCormick, MD, MPH
Meningiomas of the Skull Base and Other Skull Base Lesions - Ian F. Dunn, MD, FAANS
Skull Base Surgical Approaches - Ian F. Dunn, MD, FAANS
Non-Functioning and Functioning Pituitary Tumors - Nelson M. Oyesiku, MD, PhD, FACS
Endoscopy for Pituitary Surgery - Edward R. Laws, MD, FACS
Craniopharyngiomas - R. Michael Scott, MD
Hydrocephalus and Arachnoid Cysts - Tord D. Alden, MD
Functional Neurosurgery: Epilepsy and Movement Disorders Surgery - Mark Richardson, MD, PhD
Neurofibromatosis - Ashok R. Asthagiri, MD
von Hippel-Lindau Disease - Ashok R. Asthagiri, MD
Coma and Brain Death - Brian L. Edlow, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Neurosurgery
Harry Wilkins, MD, Chair of Neurosurgery
University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Stephenson Cancer Center
Oklahoma City, OK
Attending Neurosurgeon
Chief Medical Informatics Officer
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Associate Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Assistant Professor
Barrow Neurological Institute
Chandler, AZ
Director of Skull Base Surgery
Department of Neurosurgery
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Professor of Neurosurgery
Director, Neuro-Endovascular Surgery and Neuro-Trauma
Co-Director, Neuro-ICU
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Washington, DC
Associate Professor
Director, Skull Base Surgery and Surgical Neuro-Oncology
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, VA
Chair, Department of Neurosurgery
Director, Neurosciences Institute
Albany Medical Health System
Albany, NY
Director, Reconstructive Neurosurgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Edgar M. Housepian Professor of Neurological Surgery
Vice-Chairman, Co-Director, Brain Tumor Center
Department of Neurosurgery
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, NY
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
Director, Ivy Center for Advanced Brain Tumor Treatment
Swedish Neuroscience Institute
Swedish Medical Center
Seattle, WA
Professor of Neurosurgery
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Neurocritical Care Faculty and Associate Professor of Neurology
Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Director, Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis
Director, Duke Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program
Associate Deputy Director
Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke
Durham, NC
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
The Angela and Richard T. Clark Distinguished Professor of Neurological Surgery
Division Chief of Neurovascular Surgery and Endovascular Neurosurgery
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, PA
Associate Professor
Director of Neurotrauma
University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston
Houston, TX
Professor of Neurosurgery
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Professor of Neurosurgery
Temple University
Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA
Minot Packer Fryer Professor of Plastic Surgery
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Chief, Division of Peripheral Nerve and Pain Surgery
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, UT
Gallen Professor of Clinical Neurosurgery
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, NY
Vice Chairman
Joan O’Reilly Endowed Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery
Co-Director, UCSF Spine Center
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
San Francisco, CA
Inaugural Daniel Louis Barrow Endowed Chair
Vice-Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery
Professor, Neurosurgery and Medicine (Endocrinology)
Co-Director, Emory Pituitary Center
Residency Program Director
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA
Editor-in-Chief, Neurosurgery
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
Boston Children’s Hospital
Franc D. Ingraham Professor of Neurosurgery
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Director of Functional Neurosurgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charles Pappas Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Visiting Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Professor of Neurological Surgery
Director, Division of Neurosurgical Oncology
Director, Ivy Brain Tumor Center
Barrow Neurological Institute
Chandler, AZ
Professor of Neurosurgery
Director of Spine Surgery
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief, Emeritus
Boston Children’s Hospital
Professor of Neurosurgery
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Professor of Neurosurgery
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, VA
Chair, Department of Neurologic Surgery
Burton M. Onofrio, M.D., Professor of Neurosurgery
Professor of Orthopedics and Anatomy
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Bernard and Ronni Lacroute-William Randolph Hearst
Professor of Neurosurgery and the Neurosciences
Department of Neurosurgery
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Director of Neurotrauma
Director of Quality Improvement
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Hempstead, NY
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Columbia University
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, NY
Oakstone Publishing is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
American Medical Association (AMA)
Oakstone Publishing designates this enduring material for a maximum of 35.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.™ Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
American Academy of PAs (AAPA)
AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 35.50 hours of Category I credit for completing this program.
Date of Original Release: June 1, 2021
Date Credits Expire: June 1, 2024
Estimated Time to Complete: 35.50
CME credit is awarded upon successful completion of a course evaluation and post-test.
At the completion of this course, you should be able to:
This educational activity was designed for neurosurgeons in practice, neurosurgery fellows, residents, nurse practitioners and physician assistants working in neurosurgery.
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Provider: Oakstone CME
Course Director:
Ian F. Dunn, MD, FAANS
Professor and Chair
Department of Neurosurgery
Harry Wilkins, M.D., Chair of Neurosurgery
University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Stephenson Cancer Center
Oklahoma City, OK
Credits: Earn a maximum of 35.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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