Dr. Costantino Iadecola, director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute and the Anne Parrish Titzell Professor of Neurology, was the featured speaker at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke's Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias 2016 Summit, hosted March 29-30 in Bethesda, Md. He spoke about "Redefining the Neurovascular Unit." The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health focuses on increasing knowledge about the brain and nervous system and using that knowledge to reduce the burden of neurological disease.
Dr. Rodrigo Navarro-Ramirez, a research fellow under the mentorship of Dr. Roger Härtl, a professor in neurological surgery, has been awarded the Society of Lateral Access Surgery's 2016 Young Investigator Award. The award recognizes the highest-ranking abstracts presented at the society's annual meeting; Dr. Navarro-Ramirez was honored for his abstract "Radiological Correlation of Facet Degeneration and Indirect Decompression after Extreme Lateral Interbody Fusion." The society seeks to advance minimally disruptive lateral access spine surgery techniques through clinical research, peer-to-peer education, and membership initiatives.