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The Japanese American Friendship Symposium

Join the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Japanese Neurosurgical Society (JNS) for the Japanese American Friendship Symposium

Thursday, April 28 at the San Francisco Marriott

Program
Lunch
Noon - 1:00 PM

Scientific Symposium
1:00 - 5:00PM

Wine and Cheese Reception
5:00 - 6:00 PM

While there is no charge for this CME activity, separate registration is required. Register for this symposium online, or by using the Advance registration form.

Scientific session topics will be presented by neurosurgeons from Japan, followed by brief discussion by two neurosurgeons from North America

This program will be awarded 3.75 Category I CME credits.

Topics
I. Vascular

  • Unruptured aneurysm: Akio Morita (Tokyo University)
  • Moyamoya disease: Yoshikazu Okada (Tokyo Women’s Medical University)
II. Spinal
  • OPLL: Hiroshi Nakagawa (Aichi Medical University)
  • Spinal tumor: Jyun Koyanagi (Sapporo Medical University)
III. Functional
  • Pain: Youichi Katayama (Nihon University)
  • Epilepsy: Tomokatsu Hori (Tokyo Women’s Medical University)
III. Benign Tumor
  • Meningioma: Kazunari Yoshida (Keio University)
  • Acoustic schwannoma: Kazuhiro Hongo (Shinsyu University)

Organizing Committee
United States
  Benjamin T. White, MD
  Department of Neurosurgery
  Univ. of Oklahoma HSC
  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

  Christopher M. Loftus, MD
  Department of Neurosurgery
  Temple University
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Japan
  Tomokatsu Hori, MD
  Professor and Chairman
  Department of Neurosurgery
  Tokyo Women’s Medical University
  Tokyo

  Takeshi Kawase, MD
  Department of Neurosurgery
  School of Medicine, Keio University
  Tokyo


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