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 Speakers     Social Events     Exhibits 

2023 Annual Meeting

February 23 - 26, 2023

Fairmont Hotel - Dallas


Thursday, February 23, 2023

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm              Nominating Committee Meeting

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm              TANS Board Meeting

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm              Past Presidents Dinner

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm              Exhibitor Setup

Friday, February 24, 2023

7:30 am - 8:00 am               Breakfast in Exhibit Hall

8:00 am - 8:15 am               Welcome Address
                                               
Carlos Antonio Bagley, MD
                                               
UT Southwestern

8:15 am - 9:30 am                Neurosurgical Practice and Research

                                                Mohamed Bydon, MD

                                                Mayo Clinic

 

9:30 am - 10:00 am             The Applicability and Potential of 3D Printing in Complex and Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

                                                Salah Aoun, MD

                                                UT Southwestern Medical Center

10:00 am - 10:30 am           Break in Exhibit Hall

10:30 am - 11:15 am             Neurotech Justice: Using Ethics to Improve the Future of Neurosurgery

                                                Theresa Williamson, MD

                                                Harvard Medical School

11:15 am - 11:45 am              TBI from Severe to Mild

                                                Alex B. Valadka, MD, FACS

                                                UT Southwestern Medical Center

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm             Lunch

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm               TANS 50th Anniversary: Innovations in Functional Neurosurgery - Looking Ahead to the Next 50 Years

                                                Hassenbusch Lecture

                                                Nandan Lad, MD, PhD

                                                Duke Neurosurgery

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm              Insular Epilepsy in the Modern Era

                                                Bradley C. Lega, MD

                                                UT Southwestern, Neurosurgery

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm               A Lifetime in Radiosurgery

                                                John R. Adler, MD

                                                Stanford University School of Medicine

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm                Break in Exhibit Hall

3:45 pm - 4:15 pm                Hot Topics in Neurosurgery: Nanomedicine, Bio-Imaging, and Tumor Immunology

                                                Betty Y.S. Kim, MD, PhD

                                                MD Anderson

4:15 pm - 4:45 pm                The ABCs of Meningiomas

                                                Akash J. Patel, MD

                                                Baylor College of Medicine

4:45 pm - 5:15 pm                Controversies in Neurosurgical Oncology

                                                Panel Discussion

5:15 pm - 6:30 pm                Welcome Reception in Exhibit Hall

6:30 pm                                 Dinner (On Your Own)

 

Saturday, February 25, 2023

7:30 am - 8:00 am               Breakfast in Exhibit Hall

8:00 am - 8:15 am               Daily Introduction

                                                Carlos Antonio Bagley, MD
                                               
UT Southwestern

8:15 am - 9:00 am                Communication in Spine Surgery - How To Talk So Patients Will Listen & How To Listen so Patients  Will Talk

                                                Theresa Williamson, MD

                                                Harvard Medical School

9:00 am - 9:45 am               Sometimes an Entrepreneur, Always a Neurosurgeon

                                                John R. Adler, MD

                                                Stanford University School of Medicine

9:45 am - 10:15 am              Sometimes an Administrator, Always a Neurosurgeon

                                                Christopher James Madden, MD

                                                UT Southwestern Medical Center

10:15 am - 10:45 am            Break in Exhibit Hall

10:45 am - 11:15 am             Endovascular treatment of ruptured wide-neck aneurysms

                                                Fadi Al-Saiegh, MD

                                                UT Health San Antonio

11:15 am - 11:45 am             Early Surgery for Moyamoya is Not Associated With Worse Outcome: Analysis of a North American Cohort

                                                Ethan Alexander Benardete, MD
                                               
Baylor Scott & White

11:45 am - 12:15 pm             MMA Embolization for Chronic Subdural Hematomas

                                                Peter Tze Man Kan, MD, MPH, FAANS

                                                UTMB

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm               TANS Business Meeting, Lunch, Presidential Address

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm               Resident Lunch with Honored Guest Speakers

1:15 pm - 1:45 pm                 AI in Neuro-Oncologic Imaging

                                                Joseph Maldijan, MD

                                                UT Southwestern

1:45 pm - 2:15 pm                Special Topic in Neurosurgery: Critical Legal Aspects for Your Practice of Medicine

                                                Anne Lai Howard, JD

                                                UT Southwestern

2:15 pm - 2:45 pm                Special Hot Topic: Neurosurgery & The Geriatric Population

                                                Craig Rubin, MD

                                                UT Southwestern Medical Center

3:30 pm - 6:30 pm               Softball Tournament/TopGolf Outing - depending on weather

6:30 pm                                 Dinner (On Your Own)

Sunday, February 26, 2023

7:30 am - 8:00 am               Breakfast

8:00 am - 8:20 am               Introductions

                                                Carlos Antonio Bagley, MD
                                               
UT Southwestern

8:20 am - 10:40 am             Resident Talks

8:20 am - 8:40 am               Cody Wolfe, UTSW

8:40 am - 9:00 am               Jose Soto, TX A&M/Baylor S&W

9:00 am - 9:20 am               Mike Monterey, UT Houston

9:20 am - 9:40 am               Nisha Giridharan, Baylor

9:40 am - 10:00 am             Methodist

10:00 am - 10:20 am           UT San Antonio

10:20 am - 10:40 am           Thomas Frank, UTMB

10:40 am - 11:00 am            Break

11:00 am - 11:30 am             CSNS Update

11:30 am - 12:00 pm            Closing Remarks

                                                Peter Tze Man Kan, MD, MPH, FAANS

                                                UTMB

                                                2023-2024 TANS President

                                                                                                                                                                                    Adjourn