Recorded CMEs

February 17

Frontiers of Spinal Surgery
SNI Grand Rounds Presentation
Volker K.H. Sonntag M.D.

February 25

Multimodal Treatment for Spinal Tumors
Multimodal Treatment for Spinal Tumors will explore the latest therapeutic techniques for treating patients diagnosed with spinal tumors. Diagnostic and therapeutic options for managing spinal tumors have advanced significantly in the past decade. These breakthroughs have enabled providers to help care for these patients with the goal to maximize their life expectancy as well as preserve neurologic function.

March 11

A Course on Compassion: Empathy in the Face of Chronic Pain
Empathy is inherent in the human experience as it is an integral factor in the fact that we are social creatures. Most physicians and allied health professionals are particularly empathetic by nature and are drawn to the profession of medicine in order to “make a difference.” However, the rigors of training and practice can disconnect them from their compassionate self. In losing that connection to themselves it is difficult to find empathy for their patients, especially when they are angry. Anxiety and frustration are common emotions felt by patients in chronic pain. Maintaining a sense of connection and compassion in dealing with these patients is often challenging. The goal of the course is to increase the attendee’s awareness of how this lack of connection interferes with their own quality of life and ability to be effective healers. Compassion is a trait that must be nurtured over time. Afternoon workshops are intended to provide tools to reconnect the participants to their inherent empathy and original vision of why they entered the medical field.

March 10

Curing Rather than Coping with Chronic Pain: The Melding of Neurology and Psychology
SNI Grand Rounds Presentation
Howard Schubiner M.D.

May 5

Outpatient Spine Surgery
SNI Grand Rounds Presentation
Richard Wohns M.D., M.B.A.

June 3

Spine Management for the Primary Care Physician
This symposium is designed to enhance the skills and performance of those providers who treat patients with back pain. The sessions will focus on the role of primary care in spine care and how health-care reform will impact that role, discuss clinical presentations of common spinal disorders, examine what investigations and initial treatments make sense for spinal pain, and address the role of a multidisciplinary team in the treatment of spine patients.

June 17

Management of Neurological and Neurosurgical Patients
After completion of this course, participants will be better able to evaluate and manage acute care issues in hospitalized neurological and neurosurgical patients. This focused primer will provide a framework for recognition and management of commonly encountered problems in acute care neurology and neurosurgery.

February 17

Advances in Neuromodulative Therapies 2010 and Beyond
Advances in Neuromodulative Therapies: 2010 and Beyond explores the latest techniques and indications for interacting with the nervous system to help patients diagnosed with neurological disorders.

June 3

The Anatomic Principles of Intradural Spinal Surgery
SNI Grand Rounds Presentation
Paul McCormick M.D.

June 25

Spine Management for the Primary Care Physician
This symposium is designed to enhance the skills and performance of those providers who treat patients with back pain. The sessions will focus on the role of primary care in spine care and how health-care reform will impact that role, discuss clinical presentations of common spinal disorders, examine what investigations and initial treatments make sense for spinal pain, and address the role of a multidisciplinary team in the treatment of spine patients.

August 21-23

First Annual ONE Spine Resident & Fellows Course
The First Annual ONE Spine Residents and Fellows Course will explore the latest therapeutic techniques for treating patients with spinal disorders. This three-day course is one of the premier courses for neurosurgical and orthopedic residents and fellows. The course supports the ONE Spine concept of building consensus and cooperation among neurosurgical and orthopedic surgeons that improves spine care and patient outcomes.

September 16

55 Years of Thinking About the Cervical and Lumbar Spine
SNI Grand Rounds Presentation
John Jane M.D., Ph.D.

October 21

Functional Neurosurgery with the Gamma Knife: 19 Years of Experience
SNI Grand Rounds Presentation
Ronald F. Young M.D.

April 3

Pressure Performance Symposium

May 15

Management of Neurologic and Neurosurgical Patients for the Hospitalist