In early February, faculty and trainees from the Yale School of Medicine Department of Neurosurgery attended the 31st annual meeting for the North American Skull Base Society. The meeting, held in Phoenix, Arizona, featured "Teams and Teamwork" as its theme.
Jennifer Moliterno, MD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, and Clinical Director of the Chenevert Brain Tumor Center received a research grant for her lab's work on meningiomas. She also presented three papers on meningiomas, (NF2 Mutant Sporadic Meningiomas Differ Based on Location Relative to the Tentorium; TRAF7 Mutated Subgroups Differ in Sphenoid Wing Meningiomas With Hyperostosis; The Clinical Implications of the Genomic Profiling of Sporadic Multiple Meningiomas).
PGY-6 resident Christopher Hong also presented on the work he is doing with Sacit Bulent Omay, MD, and partners in ENT about the utility of intraoperative MRI insight into nasoseptal flap vascularity and prediction of CSF leak (Unique Feature of Transmandibulary Approach - Puzzle or Lego Approach; Utility of Intra-Operative MRI Assessing NasoSeptal Flap Vascularity in Predicting Post-Operative CSF Leak After Endoscopic Endonasal Approaches to Anterior Skull Base Lesions).