Winter Meeting 2009
Join Us in Boston Dec. 1–4!

Liliana Goumnerova, MD

Liliana Goumnerova, MD

A full-day seminar oriented to nurses and physician assistants immediately precedes the main event. The exciting scientific program continues over the next three days, with the Raimondi lecture on Thursday, Dec. 3. The meeting concludes with a half-day symposium on the management of children with neurofibromatosis type 1.

Boston Harborwalk Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau

The central location of the Boston Marriott Copley Place is within walking distance of the Public Garden, historic Beacon Hill, and dining and shopping areas. There will be opportunities for organized tours of Beacon Hill and some of the many museums in Boston as part of the social program. Boston can provide entertainment for sports fans (the Boston Bruins and Boston Celtics), art and music lovers (the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of James Levine) and shoppers.

Of note, the American Epilepsy Society is holding its annual meeting Dec. 4–8 at the Hynes Convention Center, next door to the Marriott.

You can register for the Pediatric Section meeting online at www.pedsneurosurgery.org/meeting.asp.

Please join us in Boston Dec. 1-4, 2009, for an exciting meeting.

Liliana Goumnerova, MD, is chair of the 2009 Annual Meeting of the AANS/CNS Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery.

Preliminary Program (PDF)

Scientific Program
TUESDAY, DEC. 1, 2009
6:30 – 8:00 PM
Opening Reception                       Third Floor Atrium

7:00 – 8:00 AM
Continental Breakfast

7:00 – 8:00 AM
ASPN Mission & Goals Meeting    Exeter Room

7:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Speaker Ready Room                  Yarmouth Room

8:00 – 8:05 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD

8:05 – 8:35 AM
Cervical Spine Fusion and Instrumentation in Children
Moderator: Mark R. Proctor, MD
Arnold H. Menezes, MD
Douglas L. Brockmeyer, MD

8:30 – 10:00 AM
Session I: Hydrocephalus
Moderators: Mark R. Proctor, MD; David I. Sandberg, MD

8:30 – 8:39 AM
1.  Variations Among Experienced Pediatric Neurosurgeons in Treating Hydrocephalus
A. Leland Albright, MD (Madison, Wis.)

8:40 – 8:49 AM
2.  The Association Between Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunting and Hearing Loss in Children With Medulloblastoma
Daniel J. Guillaume, MD, MS; Kristin Knight, MS; Edward Neuwelt, MD (Portland, Ore.)

8:50 – 8:59 AM
3.  The Dynamics of Brain and CSF Growth in the Developing Hydrocephalic Mouse
Jason G. Mandell, MS; Thomas Neuberger, PhD; Corina S. Drapaca, PhD; Andrew G. Webb, PhD; Steven J. Schiff, MD, PhD (University Park, Pa.)

9:00 – 9:09 AM
4.  Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor as a Potential Target for Hydrocephalus
Joseph R. Madsen, MD; Joon W. Shim, PhD; Johanna Sandlund, MD, PhD; Mustafa Q. Hameed, MD; Susan Connors, BS; Sandra Smith, MS; Laurel Fleming, BA; Gani Abazi, MD, MPH; Michael Klagsbrun, PhD (Boston, Mass.)

9:10 – 9:19 AM
5.  Effectiveness of a Clinical Pathway for Patients With Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt
Joshua J. Chern, MD, PhD; Charles G. Macias, MD, MPH; Andrew Jea, MD; Daniel J. Curry, MD; Thomas G. Luerssen, MD; William E. Whitehead, MD, MPH (Houston, Texas)

9:20 – 9:29 AM
6.  Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy for Shunt Malfunction: What to Do With the Shunt
Julian J. Lin, MD; David Neils, MD (Peoria, Ill.)

9:30 – 9:39 AM
7.  The Effect of MRIs on Programmable Shunts: A Retrospective Study
Keyne K. Johnson, MD; Valleria Bagley, MD; Jogi Pattisapu, MD; Christopher Gegg, MD; Greg Olavarria, MD (Orlando, Fla.)

9:40 – 9:49 AM
8.  Shunting in Chronic Hydrocephalus Induces VEGFR-2 and Blood Vessel Density Changes in the Hippocampus
Mark Luciano, MD, PhD; Abhishek Deshpande, BS; Stephen Dombrowski, PhD; Natalie Krajcir, BA; Nicholas Zingales; Jun Yang, MD (Cleveland, Ohio)

9:50 – 9:59 AM
9.  Imaging Characteristics Were Not Predictive of Ventriculosubgaleal Shunt Conversion in VLBW Infants With Post-Hemorrhagic Hydrocephalus
Sam A. McBride; Amelia K. Boehme; Chevis N. Shannon, MBA; Jay Riva-Cambrin; Curtis J. Rozzelle, MD; Jeffrey P. Blount, MD; W. Jerry Oakes, MD; Waldemar A. Carlo, MD; John C. Wellons III, MD (Birmingham, Ala.)

10:00 – 10:30 AM
Beverage Break in the Exhibit Hall

10:30 – 12:00 PM
Session II: Tumors
Moderators: Jodi L. Smith, MD, PhD; Robert F. Keating, MD

10:30 – 10:39 AM
10.  Surgical Management of Giant Pediatric Craniopharyngiomas
Robert E. Elliott, MD; Kevin Hsieh, MD; Jeffrey H. Wisoff, MD (New York, N.Y.)

10:40 – 10:49 AM
11.  Safety and Utility of Scheduled Non-Narcotic Analgesic Medications in Children Undergoing Craniotomy for Brain Tumor
David F. Bauer, MD; Alicia M. Waters, BS; R. Shane Tubbs, PhD, PA-C; Curtis J. Rozzelle, MD; John C. Wellons III, MD; Jeffrey P. Blount, MD; W. Jerry Oakes, MD (Birmingham, Ala.)

10:50 – 10:59 AM
12.  Endonasal Endoscopic-Assisted Transphenoidal Resection of Sellar/Suprasellar Lesions in the Pediatric Population
Shaan Raza, MD; James Frazier, MD; Kaisorn Chaichana, MD; Violette Recinos, MD; Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, MD; George I. Jallo, MD (Baltimore, Md.)

11:00 – 11:09 AM
13.  Clinical Management and Seizure Control in Pediatric Gangliogliomas
Chiachien J. Wang, PhD; J. Gordon McComb, MD; Mark D. Krieger, MD (Los Angeles, Calif.)

11:10 – 11:19 AM
14.  Recurrence Risk Associated With Immediate and Delayed Postoperative MRI Changes in Children With Pilocytic Astrocytoma
Wendy M. Goldstein, BS; Mark D. Krieger, MD; J. Gordon McComb, MD (Los Angeles, Calif.)

11:20 – 11:29 AM
15.  Seizure Outcome Following Surgical Resection of Dysembryoplastic Neuroepithelial Tumors in Children
Teda Arunrut; J Gordon McComb, MD; Mark D. Krieger, MD (Los Angeles, Calif.)

11:30 – 11:39 AM
16.  Long-Term Results of Interstitial Radiosurgery in Chiasmal/Hypothalamic Gliomas
Peter C. Warnke, MD, FRCS (Boston, Mass.); Ali Savas III, MD (Ankara, Turkey); Cristoph Ostertag, MD (Freiburg, Germany)

11:40 – 11:49 AM
17.  Findings on MRI Brain Used to Triage Preoperative Imaging of Neuraxis in Children With Cerebellar Neoplams
Jonathan A. Forbes; Matthew Pearson, MD (Nashville, Tenn.)

11:50 – 11:59 AM
18.  All Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas Should Be Biopsied
Michael H. Handler, MD; Nicholas B. Foreman, MB (Aurora, Colo.)

12:00 – 1:00 PM
Lunch in the Exhibit Hall

12:00 – 1:00 PM
SONS Meeting/Lunch                       Suffolk Room

1:00 – 2:30 PM
Session III: Developmental Anomalies
Moderators: Mark S. Dias, MD; Bermans J. Iskander, MD

1:00 – 1:09 PM
19.  Influence of Dural Opening on Scoliosis in Patients With Chiari I Malformations
Todd C. Hankinson, MD (Birmingham, Ala.); Jason Wade; Saadi Ghatan, MD; Richard C.E. Anderson, MD; Neil A. Feldstein, MD (New York, N.Y.)

1:10 – 1:19 PM
20.  Initial Surgical Technique for the Treatment of Middle Fossa Arachnoid Cysts: Bi-Institutional Comparison of Results and Complications
Todd C. Hankinson, MD (Birmingham, N.Y.); R. Shane Tubbs, PhD, PA-C (Birmingham, Ala.); Ivan Kotchetkov, BA; Richard C.E. Anderson, MD (New York, N.Y.); Jeffrey Blount, MD; W. Jerry Oakes, MD (Birmingham, Ala.);  Neil A. Feldstein, MD (New York, N.Y.); John C. Wellons, MD (Birmingham, Ala.)

1:20 – 1:29 PM
21.  Limited Access Craniosynostosis Surgery Without Using Cranial Orthotics
Dean A. Hertzler II, MD; Kerry Crone, MD; Todd Maugans, MD (Cincinnati, Ohio)

1:30 – 1:39 PM
22.  Endoscopic Transphenoidal Fenestration of Rathke Cleft Cysts in Children
Erin Kiehna, MD; Spencer C. Payne, MD (Charlottesville, Va.); Edward R. Laws Jr., MD (Boston, Mass.); John A. Jane Jr., MD (Charlottesville, Va.)

1:40 – 1:49 PM
23.  Natural History of Intracranial Arachnoid Cysts in Children
Andrew Y. Yew, BS; Wajd N. Al-Holou, MD; Zackary Boomsaad, MD; Hugh J.L. Garton, MD, MHSc; Karin M. Muraszko, MD; Cormac O. Maher, MD (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

1:50 – 1:59 PM
24.  Surgical Management for Cranial Congenital Dermal Sinus
Chiachien J. Wang, PhD; Tien T. Nguyen, MD; Mark D. Krieger, MD; J. Gordon McComb, MD (Los Angeles, Calif.)

2:00 – 2:09 PM
25.  Treatment Practices for Chiari I Malformation With Syringomyelia
Brandon Rocque, MD (Madison, Wis.); Timothy George, MD, FACS (Austin, Texas); John Kestle, MD (Salt Lake City, Utah); Bermans J. Iskandar, MD (Madison, Wis.)

2:10 – 2:19 PM
26.  Incidence of Tethered Spinal Cord in Infants With VACTERL
Brent O’Neill, MD (Seattle, Wash.); Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara, MD, PhD (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

2:20 – 2:29 PM
27.  Symptom Response Patterns and Role of Duraplasty and Scoliosis in Retethering in Post-Myelomeningocele Repair Tethered Cord Syndrome
Vivek Arjun Mehta, BS; Violette Renard, MD; Urlich Thomale, MD; Ed Ahn, MD; George I. Jallo, MD (Baltimore, Md.)

2:30 – 3:00 PM
Beverage Break in the Exhibit Hall

3:00 – 4:30 PM
Session IV: Functional
Moderators: Shenandoah Robinson, MD; David Frim, MD, FACS

3:00 – 3:09 PM
28.  Complete vs. Anterior 2/3rd Corpus Callosotomy in Children: Analysis of Outcome
Laleh Jalilian, MD (St Louis, Mo.); Alexander K. Powers, MD (Wake Forest University, N.C.); James Johnston, MD; David D. Limbrick, MD, PhD; Matthew D. Smyth, MD, FACS (St. Louis, Mo.)

3:10 – 3:19 PM
29.  Functional Mapping in Epileptic Patients With Varying Motor Control Using Spectral Changes in ECoG
Andrew S. Geneslaw, BS; Eun-Hyoung Park, PhD; Sheryl Manganaro, BS; Joseph Madsen, MD (Boston, Ma.)

3:20 – 3:29 PM
30.  Spinal Deformities Post Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy After the Pubertal Growth Spurt
Rajeet S. Saluja, MD; Jeff D. Golan, MD, FRCS(C); Michele Parolin, MD; Jeffery A. Hall, MD, FRCS(C); Gus O’Gorman, MD, FRCS(C); Chantal Poulin, MD, FRCS(C); Thierry E. Benaroch, MD, FRCS(C); Marie-Andree Cantin, MD, FRCS(C); Jean-Pierre Farmer, MD, FRCS(C) (Montreal, Canada)

3:30 – 3:39 PM
31 Safety of Staged Epilepsy Surgery
Jonathan Roth, MD; Chad Carlson, MD; Orrin Devinsky, MD; Howard L. Weiner, MD (New York, N.Y. )

3:40 – 3:49 PM
32.  MEG Passive Language Localization in Sedated Children
Frederick A. Boop, MD; McManis Mark, PhD; Freedom Perkins, MD; Mark Van Poppel, MD; Amy McGregor, MD; Dave Clarke, MD; James Wheless, MD (LeBonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.)

3:50 – 3:59 PM
33.  Corpus Callosotomy Outcomes: The Denver Children’s Experience
Elisa J. Kucia, MD; Susan Koh, MD; Paul M. Levisohn, MD; Kelly Knupp, MD; Pramote Laoprasert, MD; Michael Handler, MD (Denver, Colo.)

4:00 – 4:09 PM
34.  Seizure Localization in Pediatric Patients Using Spectral Clustering of Infra-Slow Oscillations in Gamma Band Power
Andrew L. Ko, MD; Jeffrey Ojemann, MD; Samuel Browd, MD, PhD; Edward Novotny, MD (Seattle, Wash.)

4:10 – 4:19 PM
35.  Histological Evidence for the Significance of the Intraoperative Monitoring in Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy
Tomohisa Shimizu, MD; Toru Fukuhara, MD, PhD; Yoichiro Namba, MD (Okayama, Japan)

4:20 – 4:29 PM
36.  Clinical Outcomes and Functional Recovery Following Supplementary Motor Area Resection in Pediatric Nonlesional Epilepsy Surgery
Charles B. Stevenson, MD; James Leach, MD; Joo-Hee Seo, MD; Ki Lee, MD; Katherine Holland, MD, PhD; Anna Byars, PhD (Cincinnati, Ohio); Matthew Smyth, MD (St. Louis, Mo.); Francesco Mangano, DO (Cincinnati, Ohio)

4:30 – 5:30 PM
Wine and Cheese in the Exhibit Hall

5:30 – 6:30 PM
Question Writing Session for SANS and ABPNS       Clarendon Room

THURSDAY, DEC. 3, 2009
7:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Registration                                      Registration B, Fourth Floor

7:00 – 8:00 AM
Continental Breakfast

7:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Speaker Ready Room                       Yarmouth Room

8:00 – 8:30 AM
The Management of the Incidentally Discovered Middle Cranial Fossa Arachnoid Cyst
Moderator: Cory Raffel, MD, PhD
Sarah J. Gaskill, MD, FACS
Nalin Gupta, MD, PhD

8:30 – 10:00 AM
Session V: Trauma
Moderators: Corey Raffel, MD, PhD; Thomas M. Moriarity, MD, PhD

8:30 – 8:39 AM
37.  Decompressive Craniectomy for Trauma in Children: Is It Worth it? A Critical Look at 75 Patients
Christina Notarianni, MD; Stephanie Einhaus, MD; Frederick Boop, MD; Robert Sanford, MD; Shelly Timmons, MD, PhD; Daniel Kueter, MD; Michael Muhlbauer, MD (Memphis, Tenn.)

8:40 – 8:49 AM
38.  Concussions in Pediatric Patients: Preliminary Results Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Functional MRI and Neuropsychological Testing
Rajeet S. Saluja, MD; Jen-Kai Chen, PhD; Rosanne Aleong, PhD; Gabriel Leonard, PhD; Sierra Debenham; Tomas Paus, PhD (Montreal, Canada); Michelle Keightley, PhD (Toronto, Canada); Isabelle Gagnon, PhD; Alain Ptito, PhD (Montreal, Canada)

8:50 – 8:59 AM
39.  Cervical Spine Clearance in the Pediatric Trauma Population
Praful Maste, MD; Paul Porensky, MD; Promod Pillai, MD; Corey Raffel, MD, PhD; Ronald T. Grondin, MD, FRCSC (Columbus, Ohio)

9:00 – 9:09 AM
40.  High Folate Diet in the Rat Significantly Increases Neural Regeneration after Spinal Cord Injury
Nirav J. Patel, MD; Nithya Hariharan, MD; Solomon Ondoma, MD; Bermans Iskandar, MD (Madison, Wis.)

9:10 – 9:19 AM
41.  Prognosis for Children in Cardiac Arrest Shortly After Blunt Cranial Trauma
Lars Widdel, MD (Aurora, Colo.); Kathryn Beauchamp, MD (Denver, Colo.); Ken R. Winston, MD (Aurora, Colo.)

9:20 – 9:29 AM
42.  Retroclival Epidural Hematoma: Clinical Characteristics and Diagnostic Technique
Todd C. Hankinson, MD; R. Shane Tubbs, PhD, PA-C; Christoph Griessenauer, MD; Curtis Rozzelle, MD; John C. Wellons, MD; Jeffrey Blount, MD (Birmingham, Ala.); Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol, MD, MSc (Indianapolis, Ind.); W. Jerry Oakes, MD (Birmingham, Ala.)

9:30 – 9:39 AM
43.  Cell Proliferation and Neuronal Migration After Closed-Head Injury in the Immature Piglet
Symeon Missios, MD; Brent Harris, MD, PhD; Michael Simoni, BS; Tarek Radwan, MD; Beth Costine, PhD; Carter Dodge, MD; Simon Hillier, MD; Leslie B. Adams; Ijeoma S. Chinwuba; Kate Hillier; Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD (Lebanon, N.H.)

9:40 – 9:49 AM
44.  Wartime Pediatric Neurosurgery: The Experience in Afghanistan During Operation Enduring Freedom
Paul Klimo, MD, MPH (WPAFB, Ohio); Brian Ragel, MD (Portland, Ore.); William Scott, DO (Las Vegas, Nev.)

9:50 – 9:59 AM
45.  Serial Radiography in Abusive Head Trauma: A Penn State Update
Mark S. Dias, MD; Ray K. Bradford, BS; Arabinda Choudhary, MD (Hershey, Pa.)

10:00 – 10:40 AM
Beverage Break in the Exhibit Hall
Reception for Dr. McLone

10:40 AM – 12:00 PM
Session VI: Tumors/Developmental Anomalies
Moderators: Ian F. Pollack, MD; Thomas Pittman, MD

10:40 – 10:49 AM
46.  The Human and Rat Filum Terminale: A Novel Source of Multipotent Cells
Ruchira M. Jha, MD; Joseph Madsen, MD; Ryan Chrenek, BA; Xiaojin Liu, PhD; David L. Cardozo, PhD (Boston, Mass.)

10:50 – 10:59 AM
47.  Atlantal Hemi-Rings and Cranial-Cervical Instability: Identification, Clinical Characteristics, and Management
Taryn M. Bragg, MD, MS; Douglas L. Brockmeyer, MD (Salt Lake City, Utah)

11:00 – 11:09 AM
48.  Positional Plagiocephaly Management at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario: Long-Term Outcomes
Michael Vassilyadi, MD, FRCSC; Mohammed F. Shamji, MD, PhD; Praneal Merchant, BSC; Elana C. Fric-Shamji, MD; Karen Dube, RN, NP; Enrique C.G. Ventureyra, MD, FRCS(C) (Ottawa, Canada)

11:10 – 11:19 AM
49.  A Method for Early Correction of Anterior Calvarial Craniosynostosis Using Minimally Invasive Orbital Advancement
Ian M. Heger, MD (Jacksonville, Fla.); Eric Stelnicki, MD; Ari-Yuri Camargo (Hollywood, Fla.)

11:20 – 11:29 AM
50.  Successful Resection of Cystic Hygromas of the Neck Involving the Brachial Plexus
Daniel Harmon, MD; Todd C. Hankinson, MD; Nadine Bradley, BSN, RN; Chevis Shannon, MBA; R. Shane Tubbs, PhD, PA-C; John C. Wellons, MD (Birmingham, Ala.)

11:30 – 11:39 AM
51.  Maternal Embryonic Leucine Zipper Kinase Is an Enrichment Marker for Tumor-Initiating Cells in Medulloblastomas and Plays a Key Role in Their Proliferation
Lissa C. Baird, MD; Amber Miller, MS; Hal S. Meltzer, MD; Michael L. Levy, MD, PhD; Alexey Terskikh, PhD (San Diego, Calif.)

11:40 – 11:49 AM
52. The Human Neonatal Cerebrospinal Fluid Proteome: Application of Nano-lc-ft-ms Proteomics to Post-Hemorrhagic Hydrocephalus
David D. Limbrick, MD, PhD; Carrie Mercier, BS; Reid Townsend, MD, PhD; Terrie Inder, MD, PhD (St. Louis, Mo.)

11:50 – 11:59 AM
53. The Role of a Gluteal Crease Abnormality in Predicting an Underyling Tethered Cord in Children
Kurtis I. Auguste, MD (San Francisco, Calif.); Sue Ditmyer, NP; Peter P. Sun, MD (Oakland, Calif.)

12:00 – 1:00 PM
Lunch in the Exhibit Hall

12:00 – 1:00 PM
Hydrocephalus Association Meeting            Suffolk Room

1:00 – 2:30 PM
Raimondi Lecture                              Charles Stiles, PhD
Transcription Factors and Malignant Glioma in Mouse and Man

2:30 – 3:00 PM
Beverage Break in the Exhibit Hall

3:00 – 5:00 PM
Session VII: Hydrocephalus II
Moderators: Bruce A. Kaufman, MD, FACS; Howard J. Silberstein, MD

3:00 – 3:09 PM
54.  The Terminal Myelocystocele
Christopher Gegg, MD; Greg Olavarria, MD; Keyne Johnson, MD; Jogi Pattisapu, MD (Orlando, Fla.)

3:10 – 3:19 PM
55.  Bipolar Versus Monopolar Coagulation of Occluding Tissue in Ventriculoperitoneal Shunts
Mustafa Q. Hameed, MD; Tomer Anor, PhD; Joseph R. Madsen, MD (Boston, Mass.)

3:20 – 3:29 PM
56.  Predictors of Ventricular Shunt Infections in Children
Elisabeth Ashley, MD; Joseph R. Madsen, MD; Amir Kimia, MD; Lise E. Nigrovic, MD, MPH; Mark I. Neuman, MD, MPH (Boston, Mass.)

3:30 – 3:39 PM
57.  VEGF-Induced Ventriculomegaly and Neutralizing Angiogenesis
Joon W. Shim, PhD; Johanna Sandlund, MD, PhD; Carin H. Han; Mustafa Q. Hameed, MD; Michael Klagsbrun, PhD; Joseph R. Madsen, MD (Boston, Mass.)

3:40 – 3:49 PM
58.  Comparison of Ventricular Reservoirs and Ventriculosubgaleal Shunts in the Management of Post-Hemorrhagic Hydrocephalus
James M. Johnston, MD; Matthew D. Smyth, MD; James Sagar, MD; Tae Sung S. Park, MD; Jeffrey R. Leonard, MD; Rebecca Munro, MA; David Limbrick, MD, PhD (St. Louis, Mo.)

3:50 – 3:59 PM
59.  Shunt Survival Following Surgical Release of Tethered Spinal Cord
David M. Ibrahimi, MD; Vivek A. Mehta, BS; Benjamin S. Carson, MD; George I. Jallo, MD; Edward S. Ahn, MD (Baltimore, Md.)

4:00 – 4:09 PM
60.  Fourth Ventricular Shunt Survival Comparing Stereotactic Transtentorial and Suboccipital Approaches
Frank S. Bishop, MD; Mandy J. Binning, MD (Salt Lake City, Utah); Nicholas M. Wetjen, MD (Rochester, Minn.);  Daniel E. Couture, MD (Winston Salem, N.C.); Douglas L. Brockmeyer, MD (Salt Lake City, Utah)

4:10 – 4:19 PM
61.  Intraoperative Assessment of Cerebral Aqueduct Patency and Cisternal Scarring: Impact on Success of Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy in 403 African Children
Benjamin C. Warf, MD (Boston, MA); Abhaya V. Kulkarni, MD, PhD (Canada, Toronto)

4:20 – 4:29 PM
62.  Ventriculo-Subgaleal Shunting: A Strategy to Reduce the Incidence of Slit Ventricles and Shunt Revisions
Anthony L. Petraglia, MD; Vassilios G. Dimopoulos, MD; Howard J. Silberstein, MD, FACS (Rochester, N.Y.)

4:30 – 4:39 PM
63.  Quality of Life in Obstructive Hydrocephalus: Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy Compared to Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt
Abhaya V. Kulkarni, MD, PhD; Sonya Hui, BSC; Iffat Shams, MSc; Ruth Donnelly, PhD (Toronto, Canada)

4:40 – 4:49 PM
64.  DTI Findings in Children With Benign External Hydrocephalus
Dean A. Hertzler II, MD; Weihong Yuan, PhD; Blaise V. Jones, MD; Akila Rajagopal, MS; Alessandro Cancelliere, PhD; Charles B. Stevenson, MD; Francesco T. Mangano, DO (Cincinnati, Ohio)

4:50 – 4:59 PM
65.  Reinfection Following Initial Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Shunt Infection
Tamara D. Simon, MD, MPH (Salt Lake City, Utah); Matthew Hall, PhD (Child Health Corporation, Shawnee Mission, Kan.); J. Michael Dean, MD, MBA; John R.W. Kestle, MD, MSc; Jay Riva-Cambrin, MD, MSc (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah)

5:00 – 5:30 PM
Section Business Meeting                 Salon E

FRIDAY, DEC. 4, 2009

7:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Registration                                      Registration B, 4th Floor

7:00 – 8:00 AM
Continental Breakfast

7:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Speaker Ready Room                       Yarmouth Room

8:00 – 8:30 AM
The Management of Incidentally Discovered Chiari I Malformation
Moderator: James M. Drake, MD
Richard G. Ellenbogen, MD, FACS
David M. Frim, MD, FACS

8:30 - 10:00 AM
Session VII: Technical/Vascular
Moderators: James M. Drake, MD; Cormac O. Maher, MD

8:30 – 8:39 AM
66.  Trasnasal Odontoidectomy Followed by Posterior Decompression and Occipitocervical Fusion in Children With Chiari I Malformation and Ventral Brainstem Compression
Richard C. Anderson, MD; Todd C. Hankinson, MD; Eli Grunstein, MD (New York, N.Y.); Paul Gardner, MD; T.J. Spinks, MD (Pittsburg, Pa.)

8:40 – 8:49 AM
67.  Pus and Free Bone Flaps
Lars Widdel, MD; Ken Winston, MD (Aurora, Colo.)

8:50 – 8:59 AM
68.  Preoperative Motor Mapping With Resting State Functional Connectivity Magnetic Resonance Imaging
James M. Johnston, MD; Carolyn E. Pizoli, MD, PhD; Joshua Shimony, MD, PhD; David D. Limbrick, MD, PhD; Matthew D. Smyth, MD (St. Louis, Mo.)

9:00 – 9:09 AM
69.  The Efficacy and Safety of Occipital Screw Placement for Occipitocervical Fusion in Children
Joshua J. Chern, MD, PhD; Katherine Relyea, MS; Daniel J. Curry, MD; William E. Whitehead, MD, MPH; Thomas G. Luerssen, MD; Andrew Jea, MD (Houston, Texas)

9:10 – 9:19 AM
70.  Minimally Invasive Placement of Pedicle Screws in Adolescent Patients Using a Neuronavigation Platform
Gregory Heuer, MD; Eamon McLaughlin, BS; Joel A. Bauman, MD; Phillip B. Storm, MD (Philadelphia, Pa.)

9:20 – 9:29 AM
71.  Use of Suboccipital Autograft in Pediatric Cervical Spine Fusion
Douglas A. Hardesty, BA; Joel A. Bauman, MD; Gregory G. Heuer, MD, PhD; Phillip B. Storm, MD (Philadelphia, Pa.)

9:30 – 9:39 AM
72.  Intraoperative Monitoring of Motor-Evoked Potentials in Very Young Children Less Than Three Years of Age
Andrew H. Jea, MD; Krishna B. Satyan, MD; Lillian M. Wilder; James J. Riviello, MD; Stephen A. Stayer, MD; William E. Whitehead, MD; Daniel J. Curry, MD; Robert C. Dauser, MD; Thomas G. Luerssen, MD (Houston, Texas)

9:40 – 9:49 AM
73.  Intracranial Hemorrhage and Neurosurgical Intervention During Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Shawn L. Hervey-Jumper, MD; Andrea Yancon, BS; Gail Annich, MD, MS; Hugh J. L. Garton, MD, MHSc; Karin M. Muraszko, MD; Cormac O. Maher, MD (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

9:50 – 9:59 AM
74.  Pial Synangiosis in Patients with Moyamoya Under Two Years Old
Eric M. Jackson, MD; R. Michael Scott, MD; Edward R. Smith, MD (Boston, Mass.)

10:00 – 10:30 am
Beverage Break in the Exhibit Hall

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Session IX: Case Reports/Hydrocephalus
Moderators: Peter P. Sun, MD; Mark D. Krieger, MD

10:30 – 10:39 AM
75.  Sacroiliac Joint Pain in Pediatric Patients
Rebecca Munro, MA; Jeffrey Leonard, MD (St Louis, Mo.); Alex Powers, MD (Winston-Salem, N.C.); Joan Puglisi, PT (St. Louis, Mo.)

10:40 – 10:49 AM
76.  Disruption of Essential Neurodevelopmental Cytokine Networks Is Exacerbated by Combined Prenatal Inflammatory and Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury
Shenandoah Robinson, MD; Obehi Irumudomon, BA; Qing Li, MD (Cleveland, Ohio)

10:50 – 10:59 AM
77.  Survival of Adjustable Valve Shunts and Set-Pressure Valve Shunts in Children With Hydrocephalus
Krzysztof R. Drzymalski, BA; Meshkan Moghimi, BA; Nikki Thuijs, BA; Joseph Madsen, MD (Boston, Mass.)

11:00 – 11:09 AM
78.  Immortalization and Functional Characterization of Rat Arachnoid Cells
Christopher Janson, MD (Minneapolis, Minn.)

11:10 – 11:19 AM
79.  Lysis of Abdominal Adhesions for Distal Catheter Placement in the Difficult-to-Shunt Patient
Daniel K. Harmon, MD; Shannon Chevis, MD; Gavin Reed; R. Shane Tubbs, PhD; Kurt Rozzelle, MD; Jeffery Blount, MD; W. Jerry Oakes, MD; Jay Wellons, MD (Birmingham, Ala.)

11:20 – 11:29 AM
80.  A Novel Method for Cerebrospinal Fluid Diversion Utilizing the Sternum: A Cadaveric and Animal Study
David F. Bauer, MD; R. Shane Tubbs, PhD, PA-C; M. Rene Chambers, MD (Birmingham, Ala.);  Marios Loukas, MD, PhD (St. George’s University, Grenada); Mohammadali M. Shoja, MD; Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol, MD, MSc (Indianapolis, Ind.)

11:30 – 11:39 AM
81.  Meningioangiomatosis: Clinical, Pathological and Radiographic Review of Six Cases
Susan C. Williams, MD; David Zagzag, MD; Werner Doyle, MD; Jeffrey Wisoff, MD (New York, N.Y.)

11:40 – 11:49 AM
82.  Infant Arachnoid Cysts Have a Different Natural History Than Arachnoid Cysts in Later Childhood
Ashutosh Singhal, MD; Daria Krivosheya, MD; D. Douglas Cochrane, MD; Paul Steinbok, MD (Vancouver, Canada)

11:50 – 11:59 AM
83.  HASTE MRI in Children With Hydrocephalus
Brent O’Neill, MD; Ryan Robison; Kieko Weir; Harman Bains; Sumit Pruthi, MD; Samuel Browd, MD, PhD (Seattle, Wash.)

12:00 – 12:10 PM
Closing Remarks
Liliana Goumnerova, MD, FRCS(C)
Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD

12:15 – 1:00 PM
Lunch                                              Clarendon Room

1:00 – 4:00 PM
Neurofibromatosis Symposium

1:00 - 1:30 PM
Genetics/Diagnosis                         Nicole Ullrich, MD

1:30-2:00 PM
Radiology                                       Tina Young-Poussaint, MD

2:00-2:15 PM
Coffee break

2:15-2:45 PM
Spine Considerations                     John Emans, MD

2:45-3:30 PM
Surgical
Role of surgery/indications for supratentorial tumors—optic pathway tumors

3:30-4:00 PM
Outcome                                        Mark Kieran, MD