Conference: American Association of Neurological Surgeons (Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 21-26 April 2001)
History events at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) are described on p. 34-35 of the program: http://www.neurosurgery.org/aans/meetings/2001/0401program.pdf AANS Section on History of Neurological Surgery Tuesday, 3:00-5:45pm 3:00-4:00pm Special Lecture: "Cushing Wants to go Abroad: Notes on Cushing's American Apprenticeship" Michael Bliss, introduced by T. Glenn Pait 4:00-4:15pm Award presentation: "Harvey Cushing's Meningioma Text and the Historical Origin of the Respectability of the Anterior One-Third of the Superior Sagittal Sinus" Raj K. Shrivastava, presented by T. Glenn Pait 4:15-5:45pm Scientific Session Moderators: Michael Schulder, Dennis E. McDonnell "Harvey Cushing's Meningioma Text and the Historical Origin of the Respectability of the Anterior One-Third of the Superior Sagittal Sinus" Raj K. Shrivastava, Salomao Segal, Chandranath Sen, Martin B. Camins, Kalmon D. Post "The History of Chinese Neurosurgery" Li Li, Chungcheng Wang "Domus Willisi and the First Neurological Institute" Mark C. Preul, William Feindel "Herophilus of Chalcedon: In Pursuit of the Soul" Aykur Karasu, Gulsat Aygen, T. Glenn Pait, M. Gazi Yasargil "The Cushing Response(s)" Faiza Saif, Bengt Ljunggren, Ali Ali-Melaih, George Bell, Tahra Mahmoud, Oliver Ganslandt "The History of Thoracoscopic Spine Surgery" Kaushik Das, Chiedozie Nwagwu, Martin Rothberg The annual AANS History Section Dinner--with speaker Michael Bliss discussing his plans for a new Cushing biography--is described at: http://www.neurosurgery.org/aans/meetings/history.html