Drs. Robert Prins, Linda Liau, Richard Everson, & team investigated the effectiveness of adding TLR agonists to autologous tumor lysatepulsed dendritic cell (ATL-DC) vaccination in patients with newly-diagnosed or recurrent #gliomas . Read the article here: bit.ly/3QL5C1c

Congrats to UCLA #Neurosurgery Professor Emeritus Dr. Antonio DeSalles who is the recipient of the prestigious Fabrikant Award from the International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society (ISRSy). The award recognizes lifetime achievement & significant contribution to #radiosurgery .

In honor of #worldmoyamoyaday , actress Keala Settle spoke about her experience with #moyamoya and shouted out our very own Dr. Anthony Wang Anthony Wang, MD and the UCLA Neurosurgery team. Read the post here: instagram.com/p/C6osD5UtzYO/…

I was honored to be the discussant for the #AANS2024 Van Wagenen lecture by Brian Kwon UBC Department of Orthopaedics on #spinalcordinjury Harbor-UCLA Medical Center UCLA Neurosurgery 🧠

A very interesting talk on chronic pain and substance dependency being correlated in the amygdala by Dr. Bari Dr. Ausaf Bari ! #AANS2024 Isaac Yang MD AANS UCLA Neurosurgery 🧠 #WhatMatters2Me

Great showing today by the Bari lab Dr. Ausaf Bari with two talks at the AANS Annual Meeting. Extremely proud of our ongoing work at UCLA Neurosurgery 🧠 David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA on the cutting edge of #ChronicPain & addiction research in #Neurosurgery . #AANS2024 #WhatMatters2Me

At the tumor session with Dr. Liau and Dr. Lim! #AANS2024 Michael Lim, MD UCLA Neurosurgery 🧠 Isaac Yang MD AANS Stanford Neurosurgery #WhatMatters2Me

Shout out to our very own Dr. Yang Isaac Yang MD on the importance of clinical history and radiographic evidence when finalizing tumor diagnoses. #AANS2024 UCLA Neurosurgery 🧠 AANS #WhatMatters2Me #tumor #skullbase

Today is the first day of the AANS 2024 Annual Meeting! Congratulations to the UCLA Neurosurgery faculty and residents presenting this weekend. View the full schedule of UCLA Neurosurgery presentations here: uclahealth.org/departments/ne…
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Congratulations to the stellar lineup of UCLA #Neurosurgery Faculty & Residents who are scheduled at the AANS Annual Meeting this weekend! Schedule: bit.ly/3WnluLd
Dr. Ausaf Bari Geoffrey Colby, MD, PhD Sanjay S. Dhall, M.D Won Kim Isaac Yang MD Shivani Baisiwala, MD MS TJ Florence MD PhD #AANS2024

Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Langston Holly from UCLA Neurosurgery 🧠 as our guest speaker for the #Neurosurgery Visiting Professor Lecture Series. Thank you, Dr. Holly for your valuable contribution! UT Southwestern Medical Center UTSW O'Donnell Brain Institute

Using a platform that permits recording of deep brain activity during unrestricted ambulation, Nanthia Suthana, ItzhakFried, Jean-Philippe Langevin, MD, & team elucidated how MTL theta band power is modulated during #memory recall & spatial navigation. Read: bit.ly/4dijpGu

Last Friday, we were honored to have Dr. Linda Liau as our 42nd Annual J. Jay Keegan Lecturer. It was an extraordinary afternoon for our residents with a phenomenal presentation and dinner to follow. We are so indebted to Dr. Liau for her time here in #Omaha . University of Nebraska Medical Center UCLA Neurosurgery 🧠

I'm grateful to work with an incredible team at UCLA Health tackling Hemimegalencephaly (HME) and its challenges. Our progress builds upon the foundational work of giants in the field, striving for better patient outcomes.

Hemimegalencephaly (HME) is a rare disorder that can result in drug-resistant epilepsy. Dr. Aria Fallah Aria Fallah MD, MSc & colleagues reported on 56 pediatric patients with HME-related drug-resistant epilepsy who underwent hemispheric surgery at UCLA. Read more: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37873610/

For #braintumor /nervous system tumor patients and caregivers: the UCLA Health UCLA Neurology UCLA Neurosurgery 🧠 Brain Tumor Conf will be on May 10-11. (Virtual & in person)

Register for free at uclahealth.org/medical-servic…
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Proud to announce our medical student summer scholarship has expanded to include 15 nationally recognized institutions. Eternally grateful to our neurosurgical partners for their participation. Congratulations to our scholars! 🙌 #MedEd #Neurosurgery #MedTwitter UM Neurosurgery

MRI-guided focused ultrasound ( #MRgFUS ) is a procedure that treats #tremors by utilizing ultrasound beams to lesion the area of the brain responsible for the tremor. See the marked improvement the procedure offers in this video. Learn more: uclahealth.org/medical-servic… Dr. Ausaf Bari

In this article, Drs. Robert Prins, Won Kim Won Kim, Linda Liau, Richard Everson, & colleagues identified distinct alterations in the immune landscapes of the tumor microenvironments in #metastatic brain cancer & recurrent #glioblastoma . Read more: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37655659/

This week Sanjay S. Dhall, M.D and Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA weigh in on the trend towards the more incendiary online altercations that have become more and more common in the medical Twitterverse podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/neu… #neurosurgery #meded UCLA Neurosurgery 🧠 UCSF Neurosurgery UCLA Health UC San Francisco