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Dr. Marvin Bergsneider, the 2016 annual meeting Program Director, has announced the first call for papers for presentation at the Carlsbad meeting. Accepted papers will be presented during the meeting's three scientific sessions, September 10th, 11th and 12th. In addition to all WNS members and guests, residents from all neurosurgery training programs in the Western's catchment area are eligible to submit a paper. The two residents whose papers are judged to be the best submitted will have their travel, lodging and registration paid for by the Society. Deadline for submitting papers is May 1st, 2016.
Instructions on submitting a paper plus related forms are located on the WNS Web site (westnsurg.org) in the Forms and Documents section.
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Medtronic, the sole Platinum Level exhibitor in Kauai, deserves the Western's thanks for making the meeting a success.
We hope our members will support the companies that support the Western.
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2015 Annual Meeting Program on Website
For those of you who were unable to attend the annual meeting last year, the program booklet is available on our Website (westnsurg.org) as a pdf file you can download.
The program without the membership list is in the clear in the menu item "Meetings" under the Kauai listing.
If you want the complete program with all members listed with addresses and phone numbers and email address, it is located in the "Member Area Login" menu item. The password to gain access to this menu item is "Western".
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President
Linda Liau, M.D., PhD.
The first woman elected to be president of the Western Neurosurgical Society in its 61 years, our president is an amazingly accomplished neurosurgeon.
Linda became interested in Science early in her formative years. She graduated from Brown University with a BA in Political science and a BS in Biochemistry in 1987. She received her MD degree from Stanford University in 1991 and went on to train in Neurosurgery at UCLA. She did a year of fellowship in Neuro-Oncology in 1998 and at the same time completed her PhD in Neuroscience in 1999. She has been on the faculty of the UCLA department of neurosurgery ever since where she is now Professor and Vice-Chair for Academic Affairs as well as Director of the Brain Tumor Program. She is on the editorial board of 15 National and International scientific journals and is and has been for the last eight years the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neuro-Oncology. And as if this is not enough: Linda serves as a Director on the American Board of Neurological Surgery-ABNS.
Linda has been a member of the Western since 2003 and has served on the Nominating Committee, on the Program Committee and as Program chair in 2006 and Vice-President in 2009. Linda is married to our member Marvin Bergsneider, also a UCLA professor, and they have two beautiful children: Brandon and Bianca.
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Secretary/Treasurer
Marc Vanefsky, MD
We are delighted to introduce our newly elected Secretary/Treasurer. As you know, the ST is responsible for shepherding the Society for 3 years. Anything that goes wrong is his fault and everything that goes right is due to the great leadership of the President.
Dr. Marc Vanefsky received his Bachelor of Science degree with distinction from the University of Rochester in New York in 1985, and his medical degree from the Chicago Medical School in 1989. He completed internship and residency in Neurological Surgery at Stanford University in 1998. He then went on to complete a Cerebrovascular Fellowship also at Stanford. Since 1998, he has been Chief of Neurosurgery at the Kaiser Anaheim Medical Center.
He is a member of the Joint Section of Cerebrovascular Surgery of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, California Association of Neurological Surgeons and a past president, Society of Neurological Surgeons of Orange County and a past president, and the Orange County Medical Society. He currently serves as the chairman of the Southwest Quadrant in the Council of State Neurosurgical Societies.
Marc has been a member of the Western since 2004 and has served on the Audit and Site Selection committees and as Vice-President. His clinical interests focus on surgical treatments of cerebral aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations. He resides in southern California with his wife Helen and has one college age daughter, Angelika.
-Richard Chua
WNS Communications Committee
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