Teaching and Learning: In the Lab featuring Chetan Bettegowda, MD, FAANSDr. Chetan Bettegowda is currently the Jennison and Novak Families Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His clinical focus is on the surgical management of brain tumors and directs and metastatic brain tumor center, meningioma center and trigeminal neuralgia. He directs the Reza Khatib Brain Tumor Center and...

Personal Finances: Finances of Starting a Practice featuring E. Hunter Dyer, MD, FAANSDr. Hunter Dyer has been a practicing neurosurgeon at Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates since 1994. He completed neurosurgery training at UTSW -Dallas. His practice focus is in minimally invasive spine, open vascular, and transnasal skull base. He was President and Chairman of Board of CNSA from 2002-2022.

Teaching and Learning: Neuroanatomy featuring Maria Peris-Celda, MD, PhD, FAANSDr. Peris Celda is an Associate Professor in neurosurgery who specializes in complex brain and skull base tumors and other neurosurgical cranial conditions. She is devoted to offering individualized treatment to each patient including open, minimally invasive, and endoscopic techniques to maximize surgical resection and achieve surgical goals preserving quality of life.Following her surgical anatomy fellowship unde...

Personal Finances: You Have a Salary, Now What? featuring Jake WeatherfordJake Weatherford, with Castlepoint Wealth Advisors, is a partner and wealth advisor whose primary focus is to provide client investment advice and implement the firm’s financial planning strategies. He is also responsible for portfolio modeling and financial projections, which help clients evaluate the potential outcomes of their decisions. Jake is nearing a decade in financial advising and specializes in helping ...

Communication Tips: Giving and Receiving Feedback featuring Stacey Wolfe, MD, FAANSStacey Quintero Wolfe, MD is a neurosurgeon with Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.She is a board-certified neurosurgeon, specializing in disorders of blood vessels, brain trauma and spine. She completed fellowships in endovascular and cerebrovascular/skull base neurosurgery at the University of Miami. As a 21-year US Navy veteran, she earned the Meritorious Service Medal and dev...

Denial of Payment after Successful Prior Authorization: The Latest Commercial Payer Ruse featuring Luis Tumialan, MD, FAANSLuis Manuel Tumialán is a Professor of Neurosurgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute specializing in minimally invasive spinal surgery. He graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine, completed his internship at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego. Dr. Tumialán completed additional training in undersea medicine in Groton Connecticut and Navy Dive School ...

Personal Finances - Managing Student Loan Debt, featuring guest contributor, Kristen BuchmanKristen joined Castlepoint Wealth Advisors in February of 2022 as an advisor working in lockstep with the advisory team to provide client investment advice and implement the firm’s financial planning strategies.She has obtained her CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ designation and earned her bachelor’s degree in personal financial planning from Kansas State University. After earning her degree, she be...

Host JNS Social Media Committee Member, Lior Elkaim, MD, and Paul J. Camarata, MD, FAANS welcome neurosurgery resident and JNS Social Media Manager guest, Faith C. Robertson, MD. Dr. Robertson is an aspiring academic neurosurgeon with an overarching interest in improving value in healthcare. Clinically, she is passionate about neurooncology. Her research and collaborations involve health systems (local and global), med-tech innovation, and value-based care. She has an MD from Harvard Med...