Teaching and Learning: In the Lab featuring Chetan Bettegowda, MD, FAANS Dr. Chetan Bettegowda is currently the Jennison and Novak Families Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His clinical focus is on the surgical management of brain tumors and directs and metastatic brain tumor center, meningioma center and trigeminal neuralgia. He directs the Reza Khatib Brain Tumor Center...

Personal Finances: Finances of Starting a Practice featuring E. Hunter Dyer, MD, FAANS Dr. Hunter Dyer has been a practicing neurosurgeon at Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates since 1994. He completed neurosurgery training at UTSW -Dallas.  His practice focus is in minimally invasive spine, open vascular, and transnasal skull base. He was President and Chairman of Board of CNSA from 2002-2022. 

Teaching and Learning: Neuroanatomy featuring Maria Peris-Celda, MD, PhD, FAANS Dr. Peris Celda is an Associate Professor in neurosurgery who specializes in complex brain and skull base tumors and other neurosurgical cranial conditions. She is devoted to offering individualized treatment to each patient including open, minimally invasive, and endoscopic techniques to maximize surgical resection and achieve surgical goals preserving quality of life. Following her surgical anatomy fellowship...

Personal Finances: You Have a Salary, Now What? featuring Jake Weatherford Jake Weatherford, with Castlepoint Wealth Advisors,  is a partner and wealth advisor whose primary focus is to provide client investment advice and implement the firm’s financial planning strategies. He is also responsible for portfolio modeling and financial projections, which help clients evaluate the potential outcomes of their decisions. Jake is nearing a decade in financial advising and specializes in helping...

Communication Tips: Giving and Receiving Feedback featuring Stacey Wolfe, MD, FAANS Stacey Quintero Wolfe, MD is a neurosurgeon with Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is a board-certified neurosurgeon, specializing in disorders of blood vessels, brain trauma and spine. She completed fellowships in endovascular and cerebrovascular/skull base neurosurgery at the University of Miami.  As a 21-year US Navy veteran, she earned the Meritorious Service Medal and...

Denial of Payment after Successful Prior Authorization: The Latest Commercial Payer Ruse featuring Luis Tumialan, MD, FAANS Luis Manuel Tumialán is a Professor of Neurosurgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute specializing in minimally invasive spinal surgery. He graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine, completed his internship at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego. Dr. Tumialán completed additional training in undersea medicine in Groton Connecticut and Navy Dive...

Personal Finances - Managing Student Loan Debt, featuring guest contributor, Kristen Buchman Kristen joined Castlepoint Wealth Advisors  in February of 2022 as an advisor working in lockstep with the advisory team to provide client investment advice and implement the firm’s financial planning strategies. She has obtained her CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ designation and earned her bachelor’s degree in personal financial planning from Kansas State University. After earning her degree, she...

Host JNS Social Media Committee Member, Lior Elkaim, MD, and Paul J. Camarata, MD, FAANS welcome neurosurgery resident and JNS Social Media Manager guest, Faith C. Robertson, MD.  Dr. Robertson is an aspiring academic neurosurgeon with an overarching interest in improving value in healthcare. Clinically, she is passionate about neurooncology. Her research and collaborations involve health systems (local and global), med-tech innovation, and value-based care. She has an MD from Harvard...

Practice Management Fundamentals: It's Not Just CPT Codes - What is Revenue Cycle Management and Why Should You Care, featuring guest contributor, John "Jack" Knightly, MD, FAANS. John Knightly, MD, FAANS is a practicing neurosurgeon with a subspecialty interest in minimally invasive and complex spine surgery, he is currently the Past-President, Atlantic Neurosurgical Specialists and Altair Health as well as Chief of Quality Department of Neurosurgery Atlantic Neuroscience Institute.  His...

Practice Management Fundamentals: It's Not Just CPT Codes featuring guest contributors, Semmes Murphey Clinic CEO John A. Lewis and Daniel Hoit, MD, FAANS. Dr. Daniel Hoit grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His college and medical school were completed at Johns Hopkins University and Yale. While at Yale, he developed an interest in neurosurgery and went on to complete his training at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston. As a resident, he further refined his interest in vascular and...

Host Paul J. Camarata, MD, FAANS, and JNS Social Media Committee Member, Lior Elkaim, MD welcomes neurosurgery leader Christopher Graffeo, MD.   Dr. Graffeo is a neurosurgeon with OU Health in Oklahoma City, primarily focusing on brain tumors, as part of OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center.  Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Graffeo was an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, where he studied literature, art history, and philosophy. After returning to New York City and working...

Practice Management Fundamentals: It's Not Just CPT Codes - What is Venture Capital and Private Equity in Neurosurgery and Why You Should Care, featuring guest contributor, John "Jack" Knightly, MD, FAANS. John Knightly, MD, FAANS is a practicing neurosurgeon with a subspecialty interest in minimally invasive and complex spine surgery, he is currently the Past-President, Atlantic Neurosurgical Specialists and Altair Health as well as Chief of Quality Department of Neurosurgery Atlantic...

Host Paul J. Camarata, MD, FAANS, and JNS Social Media Committee Member, Lior Elkaim, MD welcome neurosurgery leader Hugues Duffau, MD. Dr. Duffau discusses approaches to low-grade gliomas, amongst other topics. Hugues Duffau, MD, PhD, is Professor and Chairman of the Neurosurgery Department in the Montpellier University Medical Center and Head of the INSERM 1191 Team "Plasticity of the central nervous system, human stem cells and glial tumors" at the Institute of Functional Genomics of...

Communication Tips: Managing People featuring guest contributor Robert M. Friedlander, MD, FAANS. Dr. Robert Friedlander is the Walter E. Dandy Distinguished Professor, Chair of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery, and co-director of the UPMC Neurological Institute, positions he has held since 2010. Before coming to the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Friedlander was a professor at Harvard Medical School. He was also vice-chairman of neurosurgery, associate director...

Host Paul J. Camarata, MD, FAANS, and JNS Social Media Committee Member, Lior Elkaim, MD welcome neurosurgery leader Zoher Ghogawala, MD, FAANS to discuss his career journey and much more. Zoher Ghogawala, MD, FACS serves as the Charles A. Fager Chair of Neurosurgery at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center and is Professor of Neurosurgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is active in the surgical treatment of patients with disorders of the spine and carotid vascular disease. His...

Inpatient or Outpatient: ASCs - Moving to Outpatient Care: Spine Techniques featuring Bryan B. Barnes, MD, FAANS Dr. Barnes is a fellowship-trained, board-certified neurosurgeon with a particular interest in spine surgery, including minimally invasive surgical techniques. A native of Rhode Island, Dr. Barnes joined Georgia Neurological Surgery and Comprehensive Spine in 2005. He completed his pre-medical education at Brown University in Providence, R.I., and his medical education at the...

Sessions You Can't Miss at 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting featuring John K. Ratliff, MD, FAANS, FACS   #AANS2023 Dr. John Ratliff is a Professor of Neurosurgery and Orthopedic Surgery, Neurosurgery Residency Program Director, Vice Chair for Operations, Department Quality Officer, and co-Director of Spine and Peripheral Nerve Surgery at Stanford University. Dr. Ratliff chaired the Scientific Program Subcommittee for the AANS Annual Scientific Meeting in Los Angeles. He recently served as...

Communication Tips:  Healthcare Finance Basics: How to Speak the Language of Administrators featuring guest contributor Cheerag D. Upadhyaya, MD, MBA, MSc, FACS, FAANS. Dr. Cheerag D. Upadhyaya is a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.  He also serves as Chief Transformation & Business Strategy Officer for the Department of Neurosurgery.  He has completed research fellowships at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute / National...

Host Paul J. Camarata, MD, FAANS, and JNS Social Media Committee Member, Lior Elkaim, MD welcome neurosurgery leader Andres M. Lozano, MD, PhD, FRCSC to discuss his career journey, his research, and much more. Dr. Lozano was born in Sevilla, Spain and moved with his family to Ottawa at a young age. He obtained his MD degree from the University of Ottawa and his PhD in Neurobiology and neurosurgical training from McGill University. He received postdoctoral training in movement disorders at...

Communication Tips: Breaking Bad News Tips and Guide featuring guest contributor Sean M. Lew, MD, FAANS. Dr. Sean Lew has subspecialty training in pediatric neurosurgery and is board certified in both neurosurgery and pediatric neurosurgery. He has particular interest and experience in the surgical treatment of pediatric epilepsy, pediatric brain tumors, moyamoya disease and craniocervical anomalies. He is active in clinical research with an emphasis on pediatric epilepsy, pediatric cervical...

Teaching and Learning In the Operating Room featuring guest contributor Professor Mustafa Baskaya, MD, FAANS. Dr. Mustafa Baskaya, MD, is a tenured Professor and the Robert J. Dempsey Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health. He is also the director of the Skull Base Surgery Program, the Lincoln Ramirez Neuroanatomy & Microsurgery Skills Laboratory, and the Fellowship Program in Cerebrovascular & Skull Base Surgery, all...

Practice Management Concepts: What Are They and Why You Should Care - Going Into Private Practice and Negotiating a Contract featuring guest contributor John A. Lewis, CEO of Semmes Murphey Clinic. John Lewis joined the Semmes Murphey Clinic in February 2002 as Chief Operating Officer and transitioned into his current role of Chief Executive Officer in August 2009. John began his public accounting career with the Price Waterhouse audit group. He then held various senior leadership roles in...

Inpatient or Outpatient: Ambulatory Surgical Centers: Best Practices for Neurosurgeons featuring guest contributor Richard Wohns, MD, JD, MBA, FAANS. This is part two of Dr. Wohns, guest appearance. Dr. Richard Wohns is the founder and president of NeoSpine which provides comprehensive spine care including surgery, pain management, and imaging, with locations throughout the Puget Sound Region of Washington. Board-certified in Neurological Surgery, Dr. Wohns has practiced for over 30 years.

Inpatient or Outpatient: Ambulatory Surgical Centers Overview - What Are They, What is Their Role in Neurosurgery featuring guest contributor Richard Wohns, MD, JD, MBA, FAANS. Dr. Richard Wohns is founder and president of NeoSpine which provides comprehensive spine care including surgery, pain management, and imaging, with locations throughout the Puget Sound Region of Washington. Board-certified in Neurological Surgery, Dr. Wohns has been in practice for over 30 years.  After earning...