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Resident Awards and Publications

Awards

The Congress of Neurological Surgeons SANS Challenge reflects a milestones-based assessment, uses peer-vetted questions, and accurately represents the high educational standards SANS has brought to neurosurgery self-assessment and education for more than a decade.

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The Congress of Neurological Surgeons SANS Challenge
First Place - University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Congress of Neurological Surgeons SANS Challenge: First Place, UK College of Medicine
Congress of Neurological Surgeons SANS Challenge
Congress of Neurological Surgeons SANS Challenge

Meeting Presentations and Abstact Submission

2021-22

  1. Spears RC, McLouth C, Pennypacker K, Frank J, Maglinger B, Trout A, Roberts J, Stowe A, Grupke S, Fraser J. Alterations in local peri-infarct blood gases in stroke patients undergoing thrombectomy. American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Scientific Meeting. Virtual presentation, 2021.

2020-21

  1. Spears R, McLouth C, Pennypacker K, Frank J, Maglinger B, Trout A, Roberts J, Stowe A, Grupke S, Fraser J. “Vascular collateralization may not affect blood gas changes in peri-infarct vasculature in human ischemic stroke.” Society of Neurointerventional Surgery. Virtual presentation, August 2020.

  2. Spears R, McLouth C, Pennypacker K, Frank J, Maglinger B, Trout A, Roberts J, Stowe A, Grupke S, Fraser J. “An evaluation of blood gases in blood specimens immediately proximal and distal to occlusive thrombi in patients undergoing mechanical thrombectomy.” Southern Neurosurgical Society. Scottsdale, AZ, February 2020.

  3. MM Hulou, GB Maglinger, T Hines, C van Horne. A checklist and a review of the external ventricular drain (EVD) placement and complications for neurosurgery residents. AANS.

  4. MM Hulou, GB Maglinger, T Hines, C van Horne. An Augmented Checklist Designed to Improve Implementation and Reduce Complications of External Ventricular Drain (EVD) Placement. AANS.

2019-20

  1. Hulou MM, Maglinger B, Hines, T, van Horne C. An Augmented Checklist Designed to Improve Implementation and Reduce Complications of External Ventricular Drain Placement. AANS 2020 in Boston, USA.

  2. Hulou MM, McLouth C, Wheeler G, Fraser JF. Predictors of Operative Recurrence for Chronic and Subacute Subdural Hematomas: A 12-Year Single Center Experience. AANS 2020 in Boston, USA.

  3. Maglinger B, Hulou, MM, Grupke S, Fraser JF. Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Dural Arteriovenous Fistula: A 6-year Single Center Experience. AANS 2020 in Boston, USA.

  4. Spears RC, McLouth C, Pennypacker K, Frank J, Maglinger B, Trout A, Roberts J, Stowe A, Grupke S, Fraser J. Alterations in local peri-infarct blood gases in stroke patients undergoing thrombectomy. Neuroscience Clinical Translational Research Symposium, 2020.

2018-19

  1. Hulou MM, Neltner J, Fraser JF. Histological staining of functional and non-functional pituitary adenomas: A review to establish a clinical trial. AANS, April 2019.

  2. Hulou MM, Garcia CR, Slone SA, Dugan A, Lei F, Huang B, Pittman T, Villano JL. Patterns of care, operative morbidity, and survival of cranial chordomas: 10-year analysis of the NCDB, SEER, and NSQIP database. AANS 2019.

Publications

2021-22

  1. Telehealth Sustainability in a Neurosurgery Department During the COVID-19 Pandemic. World Neurosurg. 2021 Aug;152:e617-e624. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.06.018. Epub 2021 Jun 12. Chau M, Quintero J, Guiliani A, Hines T, Samaan C, Seybold K, Stowe M, Hanlon D, Gerhardt G, van Horne C.

  2. Spears RC, McLouth CJ, Pennypacker KR, Frank JA, Maglinger B,Martha S, Trout AL, Roberts J, Stowe AM, Sheikhi L, Pahwa S, Fraser JF. Alterations in local peri-infarct blood gases in stroke patients undergoing thrombectomy. Accepted for publication in World Neurosurgery.

  3. MM Hulou, B Maglinger, CJ McLouth, CM Reusche, JF Fraser. Freehand frontal external ventricular drain (EVD) placement: Accuracy and complications. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience.

  4. MM Hulou, FA Mirza. Commentary: A Novel Intraoperative Brain Mapping Integrated Task-Presentation Platform.  Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown).

  5. MM Hulou, FA Mirza. Commentary: Microsurgical and Tractographic Anatomical Study of Transtemporal-Transchoroidal Fissure Approaches to the Ambient Cistern. Operative Neurosurgery.  

  6. B Maglinger, MM Hulou, CJ McLouth, M Sands, D Pokhrel, WHS Clair, JF Fraser. Changes in Angioarchitecture After Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Dural Arteriovenous Fistula. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease.

2020-21

  1. Predictors of re-operation in the setting of non-acute subdural hematomas: A 12-year single center retrospective study. J Clin Neurosci. 2020 Nov;81:334-339. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2020.09.052. Epub 2020 Oct 21. Hulou MM, McLouth C, Hayden C, Sheldrake A, Perekh M, Dillen W, Wheeler G, Fraser JF.

  2. Changes in Angioarchitecture After Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Dural Arteriovenous Fistula.  Maglinger B, Hulou MM, McLouth CJ, Sands M, Pokhrel D, St Clair WH, Grupke S, Fraser JF.J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2021 May;30(5):105676. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2021.105676. Epub 2021 Feb 25.  PMID: 33640784.

  3. Miller BA, Spears RC, Hines TK, Alhajeri A, Fraser JF. A lumbar arteriovenous fistula presenting with intraventricular hemorrhage and hydrocephalus. BMJ Case Rep. 2020;13(3):e015631. Published 2020 Mar 3. doi:10.1136/bcr-2019-015631.

  4. MM Hulou, CJ McLouth, CS Hayden, AK Sheldrake, M Parekh, WL Dillen, G Wheeler, JF Fraser. Predictors of re-operation in the setting of non-acute subdural hematomas: A 12-year single center retrospective study. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

2019-20

  1. Comprehensive Review of Cranial Chordomas Using National Databases in the USA.  Hulou MM, Garcia CR, Slone SA, Dugan A, Lei F, Huang B, Pittman T, Villano JL.Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol). 2019 Sep;31(9):e149-e159. doi: 10.1016/j.clon.2019.06.004. Epub 2019 Jul 11.  PMID: 31303332.