From left, front row: Kurt A. Yaeger, MD, PGY-5; Travis R. Ladner, MD, PGY-4; Ian T. McNeill, MD, MS, Chief Resident; Emily Chapman, medical student; and Alejandro Carrasquilla, MD, PGY-3; middle row: Ernest J. Barthélemy, MD, MA, MPH, PGY-6; Joshua B. Bederson, MD; J Mocco, MD, MS; and Abhiraj Bhimani, MD, PGY-1; and back row: Trevor Hardigan, MD, PhD, PGY-2; Leslie Schlachter, PA-C; and Georgios Maragkos, MD, Pre-residency Fellow.
The Department of Neurosurgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai received the first place award for most accepted abstracts by residents at the 2019 Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Annual Meeting, which took place in October in San Francisco.
The 77 accepted abstracts were featured as oral presentations and posters, covering a wide range of topics, including spinal surgery and trauma, intracerebral hemorrhage, skull base tumors, glioblastoma, pediatric epilepsy, and neurocritical care, as well as socioeconomic issues related to neurosurgical treatment. At the 2018 CNS meeting, the Department placed third, with 35 accepted abstracts.
“Our trainees are strongly supported to perform research by Neurosurgery Vice Chair and Residency Program Director J Mocco, MD, MS. They are extremely active in exploring ways to work with faculty to improve how we treat neurological diseases and conditions, and the number of accepted abstracts we had at this year’s CNS meeting is a testament to that,” says Joshua B. Bederson, MD, Leonard I. Malis, MD/Corinne and Joseph Graber Professor of Neurosurgery, and Chair of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai Health System.