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2027 MINS Meeting Agenda

Thursday, June 17, 2027

4:00 – 5:00pm	Exhibitor Set-Up
5:00 – 6:00pm	Signature Cocktail Hour with Exhibitors
5:55 – 6:00pm	Mick Perez-Cruet, MD, MSc – Welcome Address
6:00 – 9:00pm	Dinner talks
	MINS 5th Annual Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Anthony Yeung, MD
6:00 – 6:45pm	Keynote address: MINS Lifetime Achievement Award to Anthony Yeung MD (presented by Mick Perez-Cruet, MD, MSc)
	Session Moderator: Mick Perez-Cruet, MD, MSc
6:45 – 7:15pm	Oscar Alveres
7:15 – 7:35pm	Ricardo Fontes, MD – Where is the line between MIS and Open Surgery
7:35 – 7:55pm	Kevin Chen, MD – Focused Ultrasound: Current State and Future Directions
7:55– 8:15pm	Fred Lang, MD-Biological Therapies for Brain Tumors: Cellular and Endovascular Approaches
8:15 – 8:45pm	Mick Perez-Cruet, MD, MSc – Innovations advancing Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Friday, June 18, 2027

7:30 – 8:00am	Breakfast with Exhibitors
	Session Title-Endoscopic Spine Surgery Moderator: Arthur Jenkins, MD
8:00 – 8:30am	Christopher Yeung, MD – Pars Fracture Repair with Percutaneous Headless Compression Screws, Navigation, and Endoscopy.
8:30 – 9:00am	Aaron Rapp MD: Trans-Kambin Approaches and Advances
9:00 – 9:30am	David Fessler, MD, PhD – Alternative spine treatments: what is real and what is snake oil?
9:30 – 10:00am	Daniel Kim – Current Progress in Endoscopic Spine Surgery
10:00–10:30am	Arthur Jenkins, MD – TBD
10:30 – 11:00am	Keynote Address: Roger Hartl, MD – A New Classification System for Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery: A Tool for Research, Patients, and Industry (MISS Inc.)
	Exhibitor Sponsored Talks
11:00 – 11:30am	TBA
11:30am till 4:00pm	Free Time
4:00 – 5:00pm	Signature Cocktails with Exhibitors
	Session Moderator: Mick Perez-Cruet, MD, MSc
5:00 – 5:30pm	(Panel Discussion) Most exciting developments and innovations in Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery Neel Anand, Karam Asmaro, Aaron Rapp, David Fessler, Fred Lang
	Sponsored Talks
5:30 – 5:45pm	TBD
5:30– 5:45pm	TBD
6:00 – 9:00pm	Dinner talks
6:00 – 7:00pm	Keynote Address: Richard G. Fessler MD, PhD: History of Medicine from Antiquity to Pre-modern Times
	Session Moderator: Neel Anand, MD
7:00 – 7:20pm	Neel Anand, MD – Most exciting developments and innovations in scoliosis treatment
7:20 – 7:40pm	Fred Jung, MD – Lateral approach for discitis
7:40 – 8:00pm	Karam Asmaro, MD – Advances, developments, and innovations in skull based surgery
8:00 – 8:20pm	Brett Gunter, MD – Single surgeon experience with cervical disc replacement
8:20 – 8:40pm	Pierce Nunley, MD – Arthrodesis vs fusion, which should we do?

Saturday, June 19, 2027

7:30 – 8:00am	Breakfast
	Session Moderator: Bill Tolber, MD
8:00 – 8:20am	Daniel Fahim, MD – TBD
8:20 – 8:40am	Christopher Elia, MD – TBD
8:40 – 9:00am	Casey Spinelli, MD – Can Fish Skin Improve Spine Wound Healing?
9:00 –10:00am	Panel Discussion: Building a Success Ambulatory Surgery Center (Moderator, Mick Perez-Cruet MD MS) Discussants: Jad Khalil, MD, Mark Jacobson, MD, Stephen Rapp, MD, Pierce Nunley, MD
10:00 – 10:20am	Brian Gantweker Physician advocacy in Neurosurgery
10:20 – 10:40am	Fidel Hassan, MD – Does LITT increase survival rate for insular gliomas?
10:40 – 11:00am	Jose Jimenez
11:00 – 11:20am	Andrew Nelson, MD – Emergency Medicine Neurosurgery
Noon	Meeting Adjourn