2008 AANS Annual Meeting—Post Meeting Information
April 26-May 1, 2008
Chicago, IL

Presidential Address
2008 AANS President
Jon H. Robertson, MD

Jon H. Robertson, MD, presided over the AANS Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, April 26 – May 1, 2008. Following the meeting, he concluded his one-year presidential term and was named past president of the AANS.

Jon H. Robertson, MD, was named president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) at the AANS Annual Meeting – Celebrating AANS’ Diamond Jubilee – in Washington, D.C., April 16-19, 2007. A member of the AANS since 1983, he has served on the AANS Board of Directors since 1999, most recently finishing a one-year term as president-elect and three-year term as secretary. He is chair of the Development Committee, and a member of the following committees: Executive, Finance, Long-Range Planning, Neuro-Knowledge™ Advisory Task Force, and the NeurosurgeryPAC Board of Directors. He served as chair of the Annual Meeting Committee in 1994.

Dr. Robertson was named professor and chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis in 1997. He has been a practicing member of the Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine Institute since 1979.

After receiving his bachelor’s degree from Southwestern College in Memphis and a medical degree from the University of Tennessee Medical School, Dr. Robertson completed his internship and a year of general surgery at the City of Memphis Hospitals. He finished his neurosurgery residency in 1979 at the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences. Dr. Robertson was certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery in 1982.

Active in many professional organizations, Dr. Robertson has served as a member of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, American Academy of Neurological Surgery, Society of Neurological Surgeons, Society of University Neurosurgeons, North American Skull Base Society, the Southern Neurosurgical Society, and is a Board member of the Medical Education & Research Institute in Memphis.

Dr. Robertson is a published author, including the two books, Lasers in Neurosurgery and Cranial Base Surgery. He has co-authored 53 publications and 25 book chapters as co-author, and given approximately 200 presentations at meetings worldwide.

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View the Electronic Posters of the 2008 AANS Annual Meeting
Click here to view and access the AANS e-Posters viewing site.

Photography Orders
You can now view and order photos from all educational and social activities that took place at the AANS Annual Meeting. Please visit www.lagniappestudio.com/aans2008 to view and place your order.

2008 Annual Meeting Audio Sessions Available
Plenary sessions, scientific sessions, and section sessions were recorded at this year’s AANS Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL and are available for purchase.  Each recorded session contains digital audio fully synchronized to the session slide presentation as submitted by the presenters. The complete series offers over 50 hours of educational content, and 10 Category I CME Credits are available.

The series is expected to be posted online by the end of May. Once it is available, all purchasers will receive an email from Content Management Corporation, our contracted vendor, with a user name and password to access the sessions.

If you are claiming CME, refer to the CME page within the online product. That page will provide a link to the AANS CME area, and contains important CME information.

These sessions can also be purchased as CD-ROMs.

Visit the AANS Online Marketplace for a complete list of sessions and an order form.

Save the Date

AANS 77th Annual Meeting
May 2 -7, 2009
San Diego Convention Center
San Diego, California

The Call for Abstracts for the AANS 2009 Annual Meeting is now open! Registration and housing information will be available in fall 2008.

This meeting marked the 76th American Association of Neurological Surgeons' Annual Meeting. This was the second largest attended meeting ever for the AANS with more than 3,464 Medical Attendees and 236 Exhibiting Companies.

A Special Thanks to our Sponsors
The AANS would like to acknowledge the following companies for their generous sponsorship and grants in support of 2008 Annual Meeting efforts and the 2008 Pinnacle Partners Program:

The AANS wishes to thank the following companies for their contributions to the Top Gun Competition:
Boston Scientific Neurovascular
Codman, a Johnson & Johnson company
DePuy Spine, a Johnson & Johnson company
Integra Foundation
Medtronic

The AANS also wishes to recognize those who sponsored our special Rare Books Display in 2008:
Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.
DAY Surgical Products
Fehling Microsurgical Instruments
Flanagan Instruments
Focus Medical Group. Inc.
Hawaii Surgical Specialties
Neurologica Corporation
Neuro-Tech, Inc.
Opto-Systems, Inc.
Surgical Solutions, Inc.
TeDan Surgical Innovations