Co-Chairmen of the CME Committee
	John Ngoi Kern Medical Center		Jay Jan Pillai Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine		Sujit Prabhu Department of Neurosurgery,  University of Texas
Members of the of the CME Committee
	Michael Y. Chen Department of Neurosurgery, City of Hope Cancer Center		Michael S. Okun Department of Neurology, UFL
	Peter Gruen Department of Neurological Surgery, USC		David F. Moore Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the AANS and Society for Brain Mapping and thearputeics (SBMT). The AANS is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The AANS designates this live activity for a maximum of 18 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

DISCLOSURES

Before the program, all faculty members will disclose the existence of any financial interest and/or the relationship they or their significant other have with the manufacturer(s) of any commercial product(s) to be discussed during their presentation. The AANS and Society for Brain Mapping and thearputeics (SBMT) control the content and production of this CME activity and attempt to ensure the presentation of balanced, objective information.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 

INTENDED AUDIENCE

Annual meetings of SBMT are world class scientific events designed to have a significant impact on cross-disciplinary flow of information/ scientific advancements.

The attendees are a mixture of neurosurgeons, radiologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, rehabilitation medicine, cardiologists, oncologists, bioethicists, policy makers, government officials, engineers, physicists, neuroscience, stem cell scientists, Bio-technologists, nano technologists, computer scientists, allied healthcare professionals, healthcare executives, students, post-docs, residents and fellows.

BACKGROUND REQUIREMENTS 

The annual SBMT World Congress is a multi-disciplinary forum designed to facilitate cross-disciplinary dissemination of technological and medical advances and scientific discovery.

DAILY SCHEDULE

METHOD/FORMAT OF INSTRUCTION 

The world congress is the society’s annual meeting that invites prominent scientists and clinicians from all over the globe. Scientific Meetings are broken down into three categories:

• Scientific exhibits and posters

• Special Focus Sessions

FACULTY LIST

2012 Key Note Speakers
	Hans W. Jung Surgeon General; Commander, Canadian  Forces Health Services Group		VADM Matthew L. Nathan Surgeon General, US Navy; Chief,  US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
	Kirsty Duncan Member of Canadian Parliament; Etobicoke, Canada		Kevin Lobo Group President, Orthopaedics Stryker Corporation

2012 Speakers

Maheen Mausoof Adamson, Clinical Assistant Professor (affiliated)
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine
Stanford CA, Acting Director of Research, Director, PhD Fellowship Program
War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC), Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto Health Care System
Palo Alto, CA

Rafat Ansari, Bioscience and Technology Branch, Space Processes and Experiments Division
NASA - Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH

J. Wesson Ashford, Director, War Related Illness and Injury Study Center, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Clinical Professor,
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (affiliated), Stanford University

Isabelle Aubert, Senior Scientist, Alzheimer's research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada

Jane Aubin, Chief Scientific Officer and Vice-President, Research, Canadian Institutes for Health Research

Steffany A.L. Bennett, University Research Chair in Neurolipidomics, Director, CIHR Training Program in Neurodegenerative Lipidomics, Neural Regeneration Laboratory, Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology

Markus Besemann, Canadian Forces Health Service, Mental Health Division, Canada

Sandra E. Black, Brill Chair in Neurology, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON

Frank Bradke, Senior Group Leader, Axon Growth and Regeneration, Deutsches Zentrum fur Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V. (DZNE)

Benjamin Burt, Director of Orbital & Oculoplastic Surgery, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine Texas, Tech University, Texas, USA

Mikulas Chavko, Chief Scientist, US Naval Medical Research Center, Canada

Wayman Wendell Cheatham, Special Assistant for Medical Research to The Navy Surgeon General & Director, Navy Medicine Research and Development, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, US Navy, Washington, DC, USA

Michael Y. Chen, 8th President of SBMT, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Section Head, Malignant Brain Tumor Program, City of Hope National Cancer Center, Duarte, CA

Robert E W Chen, Senior Scientist, Division of Brain Imaging & Behaviour Systems - Neuroscience
Toronto Western Research Institute (TWRI), Toronto Canada

Christopher H. Contag, Professor, Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine
Member, Child Health Research Institute, Canada

Jeff Daskalakis, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Brain Stimulation Research and Treatment Program at CAMH,
Toronto, Canada

Christopher Deppmann, Department of Biology, University of Virginia

Antonio A.F. De Salles, Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology
Head of Stereotactic Surgery Section, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Adriana Di Polo, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and the School of Optometry, University of Montreal, Canada  

Sam Doesberg, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

Jonathan Downar, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

Huanyu Dou, assistant professor Ophthalmology at the TTUHSC, USA

Qiyin Fang, Associate Professor of Engineering Physics
Canada Research Chair in Biophotonics
McMaster University, Canada

Michael G. Fehlings, Professor of Neurosurgery, Krembil Chair in Neural Repair and Regeneration
Director Neuroscience Program, Co-Chairman Spinal Program, University of Toronto
Medical Director, Krembil Neuroscience Centre, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network

Konstantin Feinberg, Postdoc, Freda Miller Lab, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada

Vanessa Foran, Director, Policy, Partnerships and Government Relations, Neurological Health Charities Canada

Raj K. Gupta, Deputy Director, DoD Blast Injury Research Program Coordinating Office, Pentagon, USA

Barry D. Greenberg, Director, Neuroscience Drug Discovery and Development, University Health Network, Director of Strategy,
Toronto Dementia Research Alliance, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, Canada

Warren Grundfest, Professor of Bioengineering & Electrical Engineering
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering & Applied Science, Professor of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Colleen A. Hanlon, Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical university of South Carolina, USA

John Heiss, Head, Clinical Unit, Surgical Neurology Branch, NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, MD

Stuart W. Hoffman, Scientific Program Manager for Brain Injury, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Office of Research and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington DC

Alena Horska, Assistant Professor, Division of Neuroradiology, Russel H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University

Inez Jabalpurwala, President, Brain Canada

J. Patrick Johnson, Spine Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Babak Kateb, Founding Chairman of the Board of SBMT , Scientific Director of SBMT and Brain Mapping Foundation, President of Brain Mapping Foundation, Research Scientists, Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Research Scientist II,
Neurosurgery, Maxine-Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA

Lisa Koski, Director of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation laboratory at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Canada

Michael Lim, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Oncology and Institute of NanoBiotechnology
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

COL Geoffrey Ling, Program Manager, DSO, DARPA, Arlington, VA Colonel, Medical Corps, U.S. Army, Chair of Department of Neurology, USUHS, Baltimore, MD

Deborah Little, Associate Professor of Neurology, Ophthalmology, Anatomy, and Psychology
Departments of Neurology and Rehabilitation, University of Illinois Medical Center and Jesse Brown VA Medical Center

Takako Makita, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience Program, The Saban Research Institute
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine

Earl Miller, Director of Strategic Partnerships, MaRS Discovery District, Toronto, Canada

David Moore, Associate Professor of vascular
Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine
Visiting Scientists, MIT, MA, USA

Jerry Myers, Bioscience and Technology Branch
Space Processes and Experiments Division
NASA - Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH

Ziad Nahas, Professor and Chairperson. Department of Psychiatry American University of Beirut, Lebenon

Parimal Nathwani, Vice President, Commercialization, Life Sciences, MaRS Innovation, Toronto, Canada

Robert Nickells, Professor of Physiology, UW Comprehensive Cancer Center, Institute on Aging. Eye Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology Vice Chair of Research, Canada

Shouleh Nikzad, Lead, Advanced Detector Array & Nanoscience Group, Principal Member of Staff, Lead, Strategic Initiative,
Gigapixel FPAs NASA/JPL, California Institute of Technology, Visiting Research Associate Prof. of Neurosurgery, USC of Medicine, USA

Ayako Ochi, Division of Neurology, Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Canada

Ivan Osorio, Department of Neurology, University of Kansas Medical Center, USA

Vivek Patel, Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa
Neuro-ophthalmology and Adult Strabismus, Canada

Carolynn Patten, Research Scientist-VA Brain Rehabilitation Research Center, University of Florida, USA

Jay J. Pillai, Director of Functional MRI, Neuroradiology Division, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, Attending Neuroradiologist, The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Sujit S. Prabhu, Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

William E. Reichman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Baycrest

Shawn Rhind, Defence R&D Canada Toronto, Defence Scientist, Canada

Marten Risling, Professor, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Timothy P.L. Roberts, Oberkircher Family Chair in Pediatric Radiology Vice-Chair Radiology
Research Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Professor of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Cheryl Rogers, Trade Commissioner, Life Sciences & Medical Devices, Consulate of Canada

Michael J. Roy, Colonel, Medical Corps, U.S. Army, Director, Division of Military Internal Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Hugo Sandoval, Center of Excellence for Neurosciences, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Thomas Sawyer, Defence R&D Canada Suffield, Defence Scientist, Canada

Steven Schiff, Center for Neural Engineering, Penn State University, USA

Roman Schinder, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Director Oculoplastics Kings County Hospital
Department of Ophthalmology, USA

Reinhard W. Schulte, Associate Professor, Translational Research
Dept. of Radiation Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA

Sherif S. Sherif, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Chancellor's Circle, University of Manitoba, Canada

Mark S. Shiroishi, Assistant Professor, Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

Carter Snead, Division Head of Neurology at The Hospital for Sick Children, Senior Scientist at Neurosciences & Mental Health Research Institute, Professor of Departments of Medicine, Paediatrics and Pharmacology at University of Toronto Bloorview Children's Hospital Foundation, Chair of Paediatric Neuroscience, Toronto, Canada

Bojana Stefanovic, Assistant Professor of Physical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada

Prashanthi Vemuri, Assistant Professor of Radiology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Rochester, USA

Yushan Wang, Defence R&D Canada Suffield, Defence Scientist, Canada

Richard Wennberg, Kembrel Neuroscience Center, Division of Neurology Toronto Western Hospital,
University of Toronto, Canada

John T.W. Yeow, Canada Research Chair in Micro/Nanodevices Department of Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON, Canada

John S. Yu, Professor and Vice chair, Director, Brain Tumor Center of Excellence Cedars- Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA<

Jun Zhang, Research Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology with joint appointments in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and the Center of Excellence for Neurosciences at Texas Tech University Health Science Center, USA