Program Schedule 2025
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- Neurosurgery (e.g. Image Guided Therapy/intervention, brain tumors and intraoperative navigation, nanoneurosurgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, minimally invasive therapy, vascular neurosurgery, functional neurosurgery, neurotrauma/ military medicine, surgical simulation…)
- NeuroRadiology (e.g. Magnetic Resonance, , Magnetic Resonance Angiography, Computed tomography and all its modalities, Positron emition tomography….)
- Neurology (e.g. Movement Disorders, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neurooncology, Neuromodulation, epilepsy, autism, brain and spinal cord function…)
Psychiatry & Psychology (e.g. Opioid, Addiction, medical imaging for psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, depression, PTSD…)
Radiology, Neuro-Oncology and Radiation (e.g.fMRI, MEG,PET, nuclear medicine, MRSI, MR-PET, DTI, CT-PET, focused ultrasoun d, MSI/MEG, ultra-high and low field MRI and interventional radiology, neuro-oncology, Gamma-Knife, Cyberknife, radiation physics, ZAP, medical Oncology…)
Neurovascular surgery (e.g. risk of Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke during Aortic procedures and new protective measures, new dynamic modalities of MRA & MRV in diagnosis of vascular diseases, Neurovascular imaging, Angiogenesis stimulation and stem cells research, new aggressive approach to Stroke management, endovascular treatment of Cerebral aneurysms, Vascular Disease in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) in pathophysiology of MS, carotid disease identification & management in Stroke prevention)
- Neuroscience (e.g. stem cell, molecular neuroscience, image guided mapping of genes, proteomics, genomics, neurophysiology,…)
Neurotechnology & Engineering (e.g. artificial intelligence, fractal geometry, super computing, neurophotonics, biomaterial & tissue engineering, human brain machine interface, brain and spinal cord devices, nanomedicine, extraterrestrial/space medicine & clinical practice, software engineering, electrical and material engineering, aeronautic engineering/space medicine and radiation physics/ oncology as well as robotics…)
Nano-Bio-Electronics & Nanoneurosurgery (e.g. integration of Stem cell/cellular therapy with nanotechnology, medical devices and imaging)
- Spinal Cord (e.g. regeneration, stem cell, imaging, implants and biologics and imaging…)
- Policy and Business Development (e.g. business plan workshops, health care policy issues that affect treatment delivery, usage of certain devices/drugs/imaging technologies, FDA regulations and reimbursements, federal and regional regulation impacting health care delivery and research funding, initiative and congressional legislation.)
- Ophthalmology and Optometry (e.g. research on retinal processing and its impact on modulation of autonomic, endocrine and limbic functions, visual influence on movement and behavior (including mental health diagnoses), effect of delayed visual development in autism and other developmental disabilities, visual circuitry disruptions from autonomic dysregulation, concussions and other brain injuries, advancements in optical assessments, sensory integration, virtual/augmented/mixed reality…)

Military Medicine
The Military Medicine and Veterans Health focuses on research regarding health for wounded soldiers and improvement of quality of life. PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury, Mental Health, Neurotechnology, prosthetics, and Neurotrauma.

NeuroPsychiatry & Innovation
The Neuropsychiatric and Innovation SBMT Subcommittee, focuses on research on addiction, anxiety disorder, autism, sleep, medical imaging for psychiatric conditions, schizophrenia, depression, PTSD.

Critical Advances in Alzheimer's Disease
The Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia SBMT Subcommittee, focuses on research on novel early diagnostics, therapeutics and management of Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegenerative diseases and dementia.

CerebroVascular and Skullbase Surgery
The Cerebrovascular and Skull base Surgery SBMT Subcommittee encompasses the divisions of neurosurgery, interventional neuroradiology, and AI endovascular surgery, all of which focus on a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment and care of various neurovascular diseases.

Neuro-Oncology
The Neurooncology SBMT Subcommittee, focuses on research on Brain cancer such as Glioblastoma, Astrocytoma and Meningiomas, their early molecular diagnosis, different therapeutic modalities (chemotherapy, radiation oncology, biologics, immunotherapy)

Visual Processing
The Visual Processing and Retinal Neuromodulation SBMT Subcommittee focuses on research on retinal processing and its impact on modulation
of autonomic, endocrine and limbic functions, visual influence on movement and behavior (including mental health diagnoses), effect of delayed visual development in autism and other developmental disabilities, visual circuitry disruptions from autonomic dysregulation, concussions and other brain injuries, advancements in optical assessments, sensory integration, virtual augmented/mixed reality.

Multiple Sclerosis and Degenerative Diseases
The MS, and Degenerative SBMT Subcommittee, focuses on research on Multiple Sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and the Glaucoma associated to it. Novel Diagnostic, therapeutics and management of these diseases.

NeuroTechnology and Imaging
The Neurotechnology, and Imaging SBMT Subcommittee is for those who want to see the future, today. It dwells on the latests technological advances applied to neurosciences in general. AI Machine Learning.

Spinal Disorders, Surgery and Innovation
The Spine Surgery SBMT subcommittee focuses on State-of-the-art diagnostic, surgical tools, and therapeutics. Some topics that we research are: