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Neurosurgical Society of Alabama E-NEWSIssue 8 July 6, 2018NSANews & NotesPhoto by Michael Milverton on UnsplashAdvancing interest in neurological surgery and allied subjectsJoin us for NSA’s ConferenceJuly 20-22, 2018 Hilton SandestinWe are excited about our upcoming conference and the stellar line up of speakers.The conference will begin on Friday night with a welcome reception. Breakfastand registration will begin at 7 a.m. on Saturday. See the complete schedule andregistration form on pages 4 - 6.2018 Conference FacultyNSA’s Honored Guest Speaker for 2018 is StephenCook, PhD, founder, executive director and chief scientist ofthe Fellowship of Orthopaedic Researchers. He has adjunctprofessorships in the departments of Orthopaedic Surgery andOral & Maxillofacial Surgery at the Louisiana State UniversityHealth Sciences Center in New Orleans. He is the former Lee C.Schlesinger Professor in Orthopaedics and director of research inthe Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Tulane UniversitySchool of Medicine, where he was on the faculty for more than 25 years.Dr. Cook is a widely published author and has lectured nationally andinternationally on his orthopaedic studies. His laboratories have been awarded morethan 50 million in funded research including those from the National Institutes forHealth and Veterans Administration.Chad Washington, MD, is an assistant professor ofneurosurgery subspecializing in cerebrovascular disease at theUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Miss.After receiving a bachelor’s degree in mathematics andcomputer science from Millsaps College in 2001, he obtained amaster’s degree in biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt University.He then earned his medical degree at UMMC in 2007. He alsocompleted an MPHS at Washington University in St. Louis in 2012.He is a published author and presenter at scientific meetings nationwide.Continued on page 2WWW.NSANEUROSURGEONS.COM2018ConferenceVendorsNSA is excited toannounce aSOLD OUT exhibit hallfor our 2018conference.NSA thanks to the followingcompaniesfor their support!Adamas PharmaceuticalsArbor PharmaceuticalsBaxter Advanced SurgeryCarl Zeiss Meditec/Neuro-TecCodman Specialty SurgicalCorelinkDB SurgicalGlobus Medical, Inc.K2M, Inc.Med Pro GroupMedtronic Brain DivisionMedtronic Spine and BiologicsNovocure, Inc.NuVasiveOlympusOSSDSIGNOsteoMed, LLCPacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc.PMT CorporationPrecision Spine, Inc.SI-BONE, Inc.Stryker

NSA News & NotesIssue 8 July 6, 2018 Page 2NSA 2018 Conference continuedJohn Amburgy, MD, is a resident in theDepartment of Neurosurgery at the Universityof Alabama - Birmingham. He developed astrong interest in the neurosciences after afamily member become one of the first peoplein the Tampa Bay area to undergo stereotacticradiosurgery for metastatic brain tumors.After working for Pfizer Pharmaceuticalsfor several years, he attended the Medical College of Georgia. Hisresearch interests consist of traumatic brain injuries (includingthose from playing sports), helmet design, pediatric neurosurgery,neurological tumors, Gamma Knife and functional neurosurgery.Winfield Fisher III, MD, has been theGriff Harsh Endowed Chair of Neurosurgeryat the University of Alabama - Birminghamsince 2009. While at UAB he has spent themajority of his time developing a nationallyrecognized neurovasucular service that includesa state-of-the-art neurosurgical unit, and activeparticipation in intensive care and gammaknife therapy. He joined the staff at UAB after his retirement ascaptain in the United States Naval Medical Corps.Dr. Fisher is a past president of the Southern NeurosurgerySociety and Alabama Neurosurgical Society. His areas ofexpertise include: neurovascular diseases of the brain, carotidartery disease, skull base surgery for complex intracranial tumors,peripheral nerves surgery, trigeminal neuralgia and hydrocephalus.Curtis J. Rozzelle, MD, is an associateprofessor in the Department of Neurosurgeryat the University of Alabama – Birmingham/Children’s Hospital of Alabama.After serving as an artillery officer in theU.S. Army in Germany, he received his medialdegree from the Bowman Gray School ofMedicine at Wake Forest University and thencompleted residency in neurosurgery at UAB School of Medicine.Dr. Rozzelle went on to complete fellowships in pediatricneurosurgery at the University of Texas-Southwestern MedicalBranch, in Dallas, and epilepsy surgery at the University of SouthFlorida College of Medicine in Tampa.Dr. Rozzelle’s clinical practice embraces all aspects of pediatricneurological surgery, including neurosurgical oncology, trauma,critical care and vascular neurosurgery. Dr. Rozzelle’s specialinterests include complex spinal disorders, epilepsy surgery,craniofacial surgery, hydrocephalus, and surgical site infectionpreventionWilliam R. Stetler Jr., MD, is an assistantprofessor in the Department of Neurosurgeryat the University of Alabama – Birmingham.He received his medial degree from UABSchool of Medicine graduating at the top ofhis class with AOA honors. Following medicalschool, Dr. Stetler completed a neurosurgeryinternship and residency at the Universityof Michigan where he was able to complete an enfoldedendovascular fellowship mentored by Drs. Greg Thompson andAditya Pandey, as well as Drs. Joseph Gemmete and NeerajChaudhary. He continued his training with another endovascularfellowship at the University of Florida. During this fellowship,Dr. Stetler was able to perform more than 700 endovascularprocedures, as well as numerous microsurgical procedures torefine his technical skills and hone his clinical acumen.He currently is building his practice in general neurosurgerywith a focus on cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgery tocomplement his extensive endovascular training.Barton L. Guthrie, MD, is a professor inthe Department of Neurosurgery and directorof Computer-Assisted Neurosurgery (CANS)at the University of Alabama - Birmingham.He received a medical degree from theUniversity of Alabama at Birminghamthen pursued post-doctoral studies in theDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics,at UAB. Subsequently, he trained in neurosurgery at the MayoClinic, followed by a fellowship at Stanford University.Dr. Guthrie holds several patents for technology related toimage-guided surgery, and was co-founder of Emageon, a nowpublicly traded company on NASDAQ. His original work withEmageon pioneered the era of medical image viewing on thestandard desktop computer. This work now resides in a permanentcollection at the Smithsonian Museum of American History inWashington D.C.Dr. Guthrie has numerous research interests, and directsseveral clinical investigation protocols, including the optimizationof Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease andother movement disorders. He specializes in the treatment ofmovement disorders, surgery and radiosurgery of brain tumors, inaddition to general neurosurgery practice.James M. Johnston, MD, is an associateprofessor in the Department of Neurosurgeryat the University of Alabama - Birmingham.He received his medical degree fromWashington University School of Medicinein Saint Louis and completed neurosurgeryresidency in the Washington UniversityDepartment of Neurosurgery. He pursuedpost-doctoral training in functional and diffusion tensor MRimaging at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology NeuroImaging Laboratories. During this time, he also served asneurosurgical registrar at the National Referral Centre forNeurosurgery, Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. Dr.Johnston was then named Chief Resident in Neurosurgery atBarnes Hospital from 2008-2009 and went on to completefellowship training in pediatric neurosurgery at Saint LouisChildren’s Hospital in 2010.

NSA News & NotesIssue 8 July 6, 2018 Page 3Thank you for your membership in NSA!Jeffrey P. Blount, MD, UAB Departmentof Neurosurgery, Section of PediatricNeurosurgery, BirminghamRobert H. Bradley, MD, NeurosurgeryAssociates of Central Alabama,MontgomeryR. Cem Cezayirli, MD, HaynesNeurosurgery Group, BirminghamM.R. Chambers, DVM, MD, UABDepartment of Neurosurgery,BirminghamShawn B. Clark, MD, Clark & HirshNeurology & Spine PC, MobileW. Brenton Faircloth, MD, CoastalNeurosurgical Institute, PC, MobileWinfield S. Fisher III, MD, UABDepartment of Neurosurgery,BirminghamSean O’Malley, MD, The Brain andSpine Center, PC, AlabasterJoel D. Pickett, MD, HH Spine & Neuro,HuntsvillePatrick R. Pritchard, MD, UABDepartment of Neurosurgery,BirminghamKristen O. Riley, MD, UAB Departmentof Neurosurgery, BirminghamCurtis J. Rozzelle, MD, UAB Departmentof Neurosurgery, Section of PediatricNeurosurgery, BirminghamPatrick G. Ryan, MD, MontgomeryNeurosurgical Associates, MontgomeryThomas A. Staner, MD, BirminghamCheng W. Tao, MD, HH Spine & Neuro,HuntsvilleBryan S. Givhan, MD, West AlabamaNeurosurgery and Spine, TuscaloosaDonnie R. Tyler, MD, CoastalNeurosurgical Institute, PC, MobileMark N. Hadley, MD, UAB Departmentof Neurosurgery, BirminghamNicholas Voss, MD, Dothan NeuroSpine-Pain, DothanCarter S. Harsh, MD, NeurosurgicalAssociates, P.C., BirminghamThomas Randolph Whisenhunt Jr., MD,Montgomery Neurosurgical Associates,MontgomeryJames R. Hirsch, MD, Clark & HirshNeurology & Spine PC, MobileZenko Hrynkiw, MD, GrandviewNeurosurgery, BirminghamRobert J. Johnson Jr., MD, HaynesNeurosurgery Group, BirminghamJames Johnston, MD, UAB Departmentof Neurosurgery, Section of PediatricNeurosurgery, BirminghamF. Donovan Kendrick, MD,Neurosurgery Associates of CentralAlabama, MontgomeryJames M. Markert, MD, UABDepartment of Neurosurgery,BirminghamRick L. McKenzie, MD, West AlabamaNeurosurgery and Spine, TuscaloosaTroy H. Middleton III, MD, CoastalNeurosurgical Institute, PC, MobileRhett B. Murray, MD, The Spine andNeurosurgery Center, HuntsvilleW. Jerry Oakes, MD, UAB Departmentof Neurosurgery, Section of PediatricNeurosurgery, BirminghamJames G. White III, MD, NortheastAlabama Neurological Services,GadsdenD. Bruce Woodham, MD, DothanNeuro-Spine-Pain, DothanNSA welcomesMeghan MartinWe are happy tointroduce MeghanMartin as our newdirector. She isresponsible for theoverall managementof NSA, includingmembershiprecruitment and retention, and meetingplanning. She comes to us from theRenaissance Montgomery Hotel andSpa where she specialized in sales andevent management.Meghan received a bachelor’s degreein broadcast journalism and publicrelations from Troy University. Herexperience will be a welcomed assetto our association. She is filling theposition left by Jennifer Hayes whoresigned in January.If you have not renewed your duesfor 2018 or would like to join NSA,download a dues form at www.nsaneurosurgeons.com/members.To arrange group billing for yourpractice, contact Meghan Martinat mmartin@alamedical.org or call(334) 954-2513.NSA News & NotesNeurosurgical Society of Alabama3200 Dauphin Street, Bldg. A Mobile, AL 36606(334) 954-2500 Fax (334) 269-5200 www.nsaneurosurgeons.comW. Brent Faircloth, MD, PublisherCharlotte H. Morris, Senior EditorThe neurosurgical society of Alabama is organizedis to advance the interest in neurological surgery and allied subjectsand to act as a representative for its membersat the discretion of the membership.The articles contained in NSA News & Notes are meant to provoke thought andcomment and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the members,Executive Council or staff of the Neurosurgical Society of Alabama. Commentsand letters to the editor are welcome Send to cmorris@alamedical.org.