Program Schedule 2025
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- Neurosurgery (e.g. Image Guided Therapy/intervention, brain tumors and intraoperative navigation, nanoneurosurgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, minimally invasive therapy, vascular neurosurgery, functional neurosurgery, neurotrauma/ military medicine, surgical simulation…)
- NeuroRadiology (e.g. Magnetic Resonance, , Magnetic Resonance Angiography, Computed tomography and all its modalities, Positron emition tomography….)
- Neurology (e.g. Movement Disorders, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neurooncology, Neuromodulation, epilepsy, autism, brain and spinal cord function…)
Psychiatry & Psychology (e.g. Opioid, Addiction, medical imaging for psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, depression, PTSD…)
Radiology, Neuro-Oncology and Radiation (e.g.fMRI, MEG,PET, nuclear medicine, MRSI, MR-PET, DTI, CT-PET, focused ultrasoun d, MSI/MEG, ultra-high and low field MRI and interventional radiology, neuro-oncology, Gamma-Knife, Cyberknife, radiation physics, ZAP, medical Oncology…)
Neurovascular surgery (e.g. risk of Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke during Aortic procedures and new protective measures, new dynamic modalities of MRA & MRV in diagnosis of vascular diseases, Neurovascular imaging, Angiogenesis stimulation and stem cells research, new aggressive approach to Stroke management, endovascular treatment of Cerebral aneurysms, Vascular Disease in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) in pathophysiology of MS, carotid disease identification & management in Stroke prevention)
- Neuroscience (e.g. stem cell, molecular neuroscience, image guided mapping of genes, proteomics, genomics, neurophysiology,…)
Neurotechnology & Engineering (e.g. artificial intelligence, fractal geometry, super computing, neurophotonics, biomaterial & tissue engineering, human brain machine interface, brain and spinal cord devices, nanomedicine, extraterrestrial/space medicine & clinical practice, software engineering, electrical and material engineering, aeronautic engineering/space medicine and radiation physics/ oncology as well as robotics…)
Nano-Bio-Electronics & Nanoneurosurgery (e.g. integration of Stem cell/cellular therapy with nanotechnology, medical devices and imaging)
- Spinal Cord (e.g. regeneration, stem cell, imaging, implants and biologics and imaging…)
- Policy and Business Development (e.g. business plan workshops, health care policy issues that affect treatment delivery, usage of certain devices/drugs/imaging technologies, FDA regulations and reimbursements, federal and regional regulation impacting health care delivery and research funding, initiative and congressional legislation.)
- Ophthalmology and Optometry (e.g. research on retinal processing and its impact on modulation of autonomic, endocrine and limbic functions, visual influence on movement and behavior (including mental health diagnoses), effect of delayed visual development in autism and other developmental disabilities, visual circuitry disruptions from autonomic dysregulation, concussions and other brain injuries, advancements in optical assessments, sensory integration, virtual/augmented/mixed reality…)