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  • Friday, Apr 21st
    8:00am – 4:30pm PST
    (APP) Advanced Practitioners Plenary
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 408B
    Moderator: Alice Edwards, PA-C, MHCM – Rutgers State of New Jersey/ RWJBarnabas Health
    Moderator: Danielle Brown, MSPAS, PA-C – CT Assist/Jefferson University Hospital
    APP Session
  • Friday, Apr 21st
    8:00am – 8:03am PST
    (APP) Welcome
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 408B
    APP Session
  • Friday, Apr 21st
    8:04am – 8:44am PST
    (APP) Stroke: Speaker Topic of Choice
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 408B
    Speaker: Christopher Kellner, MD (he/him/his) – Mount Sinai Health System
    APP Session
  • Friday, Apr 21st
    8:45am – 9:28am PST
    (APP) Speech and Motor Mapping: The Awake Crani
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 408B
    Speaker: Guy M. McKhann, MD (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    APP Session
  • Friday, Apr 21st
    9:59am – 10:39am PST
    (APP) Trigeminal Neuralgia
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 408B
    APP Session
  • Friday, Apr 21st
    10:40am – 11:18am PST
    (APP) Your Burning Questions
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 408B
    Speaker: Alice Edwards, PA-C, MHCM – Rutgers State of New Jersey/ RWJBarnabas Health
    Speaker: Danielle Brown, MSPAS, PA-C – CT Assist/Jefferson University Hospital
    APP Session
  • Friday, Apr 21st
    11:19am – 11:57am PST
    (APP) Functional Physician/app Team Approach
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 408B
    Speaker: Adrian W. Laxton, MA, MD, FRCSC, FAANS (he/him/his) – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
    Speaker: Katelyn Welch, PA-C – Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
    APP Session
  • Friday, Apr 21st
    12:58pm – 1:38pm PST
    (APP) Vascular Vignette with Imaging and Polling
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 408B
    Speaker: Christopher Roark, MD, FAANS – University of Colorado Department of Neurosurgery
    APP Session
  • Friday, Apr 21st
    1:39pm – 2:39pm PST
    (APP) Spinal Jeopardy
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 408B
    Speaker: Matthew Cummock, DO – University of Miami
    APP Session
  • Friday, Apr 21st
    3:10pm – 3:48pm PST
    (APP) World Neurosurgery
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 408B
    Speaker: A. Fieggen, MSc, MD, FCS(SA) (he/him/his) – University of Cape Town
    APP Session
  • Friday, Apr 21st
    3:49pm – 4:29pm PST
    (APP) Tumor Topic
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 408B
    Speaker: Joshua Bederson, MD, FAANS (he/him/his) – The Mount Sinai Health System
    APP Session
  • Saturday, Apr 22nd
    12:30pm – 2:30pm PST
    (APP3302) Advanced Practitioners Luncheon
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 410
    Speaker: Aviva Abosch, MD, PhD – University of Nebraska Medical Center
    Moderator: Alice Edwards, PA-C, MHCM – Rutgers State of New Jersey/ RWJBarnabas Health
    Moderator: Danielle Brown, MSPAS, PA-C – CT Assist/Jefferson University Hospital
    APP SessionTicketed Event
  • Saturday, Apr 22nd
    2:30pm – 6:00pm PST
    (SS#VIII) Scientific Session VIII: Advanced Practitioners
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 409AB
    Moderator: Alice Edwards, PA-C, MHCM – Rutgers State of New Jersey/ RWJBarnabas Health
    Moderator: Danielle Brown, MSPAS, PA-C – CT Assist/Jefferson University Hospital
    APP Session
  • Saturday, Apr 22nd
    2:30pm – 2:32pm PST
    (SS#VIII) Welcome
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 409AB
    APP Session
  • Saturday, Apr 22nd
    2:33pm – 3:03pm PST
    (SS#VIII) Pituitary Adenomas
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 409AB
    APP Session
  • Saturday, Apr 22nd
    3:04pm – 3:44pm PST
    (SS#VIII) Augmented Reality for Bedside Procedures
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 409AB
    Speaker: Danielle Brown, MSPAS, PA-C – CT Assist/Jefferson University Hospital
    Speaker: Jon Cohen, PhD – Hoth Intelligence
    APP Session
  • Saturday, Apr 22nd
    4:01pm – 4:56pm PST
    (SS#VIII) Wheel of Misfortune
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 409AB
    APP Session
  • Saturday, Apr 22nd
    4:57pm – 5:27pm PST
    (SS#VIII) TBD - Topic of Choice
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 409AB
    Speaker: D. Ryan Ryan Ormond, MD, PhD, FACS, FAANS (he/him/his) – University of Colorado School of Medicine
    APP Session
  • Saturday, Apr 22nd
    5:28pm – 5:58pm PST
    (SS#VIII) Apps in Organized Neurosurgery Panel
    Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 409AB
    Panelist: Alice Edwards, PA-C, MHCM – Rutgers State of New Jersey/ RWJBarnabas Health
    Panelist: Danielle Brown, MSPAS, PA-C – CT Assist/Jefferson University Hospital
    Panelist: Laura Prado, DNP, NP (she/her/hers) – Atlanta Brain and Spine
    APP Session