May is Brain Tumor Awareness Month #BTAM . An estimated 25,050 people will be diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor this year. Join us as we fill our feed with gray this week to raise awareness and educate others. #GoGrayinMay

Use our guide: go.cancer.gov/03EQKw3.

If your cancer research has an aspect of equity, disparities, or diversity, this is the most impactful conference you could attend all year. If you want to know how to engage in this research area, this is a great place to start! Join us! #AACRMICR AACR

CNS Neurosurgical Emergency course CNS Neurotrauma Section outstanding panel on how to #communicate with patient #TBI #GoalofCare

Headed back to the 305 with home court advantage the rest of the series

Winning Shots // MPH

I love the impact #NCICBIIT has on #CancerResearch . What do you love most about being a scientist?

Show me your #FaceOfScience ! Enhance Science

Cannot wait to attend the inaugural EANS-AANS/CNS Tumor Board in Chicago at the upcoming #AANS Annual Meeting. #JNO #WhatMatters

Register today: annualmeeting.aans.org

SO excited to partner with Alexis Ohanian 🇦🇲 as he hosts the 776 invitational this year following the Olympic Games!! This event will not only have the biggest purse of any women’s track event, but it will truly make a much needed impact on our sport.

Great news! So proud of my alma mater University of South Florida Neurosurgery and former co-resident Dr. Alikhani on building an amazing spine program in Tampa!

Earlier this month, NCI Disparities announced the Cancer Equity Leaders. I could not be more excited to support this diverse, powerhouse team in their efforts to reimagine and transform the future of cancer #HealthEquity ! spr.ly/6014bTKco

If you haven’t already seen #emergencynyc Netflix - check it out. Episodes 3 and 5 feature us treating kids with gun shot wounds - and the rest of the series highlights the incredible efforts of frontline workers across Northwell Health

Research suggests that having one totally, guilt-free lazy day per week can help reduce stress and high blood pressure, and improve mental health. We often think that resting or taking a break is a waste of time but in fact, the opposite is true. #Rest is critical!

Read a Special Commentary from the April issue—
#Somatic Mutations in Normal Tissues: Calm Before the Storm, by Zahraa Rahal, Paul Scheet 🌮🧬, and Humam Kadara.
bit.ly/4dkcPiG
MD Anderson Cancer Center

After a historic comeback to gymnastics competition, Simone Biles earns her fourth Laureus Sports Award. #Laureus24

On the cover of Journal of Neurosurgery, PGY6 resident John & colleagues show how diffuse tensor imaging tractography can help surgeons avoid postoperative visual field deficits in intraventricular meningiomas: thejns.org/view/journals/…
Ramin Morshed Mayo Clinic Neuro Mount Sinai Neurosurgery

What a whirlwind month for my mentee and future #neurosurgeon Andrew Mathews.
1. Team won the 2024 Society of Interventional Radiology Biodesign Competition (pics below)
2. Awarded NREF Med Student Research Fellowship to work in my lab
3. Voted NSU Interest Group President

Mondo Duplantis is the GREATEST POLE VAULTER THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN and he just broke his own world record for the 8TH TIME clearing 6.24m 😱

There’s been a Dream Team.

There’s been a Redeem Team.

What are we naming This Team?

I am thrilled to share that our study on Functional Precision Medicine for the treatment of relapsed/refractory childhood cancers is highlighted on Nature Medicine cover for April issue 🤩.

Grateful for our department RadOncUH under the leadership of Daniel E Spratt to receive a shoutout at the 2024 University Hospitals State of Research Address by Daniel I. Simon, M.D. highlighting the success of @Lauren_Henke & the The McClelland Lab!
#RadOnc #NAVAH #AdaptiveRT #bcsm #pcsm #KillCancer

Our April Woman of the Month is Dr. Zarina Ali of Penn Neurosurgery!

Dr. Ali is the Chief of Neurosurgery at Penn Presbyterian, Assistant Prof of #Neurosurgery at Penn Medicine, Senior Fellow of the Penn LDI , & Co-Director of the multidisciplinary Penn Nerve Center. #WomenInNeurosurgery