Epilepsy Surgery for Children: a 25-Year Perspective
At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to:
- Discuss philosophic and technical advances in pediatric epilepsy surgery
- Describe novel neurosurgical treatment approaches in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
- Summarize the power of hospitality in developing an academic practice, overcoming challenges, managing complications, and building a team
Location:
Mel Cohen Conference Center
Phoenix Children’s Hospital - Thomas Campus
1920 E Cambridge Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85006
About the presenter:
Howard L. Weiner, MD
Chief of Neurosurgery
George A. Peterkin Jr. Endowed Chair in Neurosurgery
Texas Children’s Hospital
Professor (with Tenure) and Vice Chair
Department of Neurosurgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Howard L. Weiner, MD, is Chief of Neurosurgery and the George A. Peterkin Jr. Endowed Chair at Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH), where he leads a team of 10 pediatric neurosurgeons, the largest and one of the most active groups of its kind in the nation, and he is Professor (with Tenure) and Vice Chair of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, Texas.
TCH is the largest children’s hospital in the United States and Texas Children’s neurosurgery/neurology is currently ranked 2nd nationally among all children’s hospitals by the US News and World Report. Prior to this, he was Professor of Neurosurgery at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, where he worked for 27 years, 19 years as faculty in the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery with Drs. Jeffrey Wisoff and David Harter.
Dr. Weiner received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania (1985) and MD from Cornell University Medical College (1989), graduating from both with highest academic standing in his class. At Penn, he completed his senior honors thesis under neuroscientist Eliot Stellar, PhD. He then completed neurosurgery residency and pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at NYU, where he trained under legendary neurosurgeons Joseph Ransohoff, Pat Kelly, and Fred Epstein, and was also a research fellow in the labs of Howard Hughes Investigator Ed Ziff, PhD, at NYU, and Nicole Le Douarin, PhD, in Paris, as the 1996 AANS Van Wagenen Fellow. He initially conducted basic brain tumor research and was awarded an NIH grant. Dr. Weiner currently has a national and international surgical practice in pediatric epilepsy and brain tumor surgery.
He has served on the editorial board of several leading medical journals, serves on the Executive Committee of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons (ASPN), is a Lead Examiner for the American Board of Neurological Surgery (ABNS), and is a widely sought-after mentor and academic leader. Dr. Weiner has been invited to present at numerous national and international conferences and academic medical centers and has served as a Visiting Professor at institutions across the United States and around the world. He actively collaborates with several scientists and has active funding from the NIH and DOD.
Patients are drawn from around the world not only to his novel neurosurgical treatment approaches, but also to his warm, caring, down-to-earth, and highly attentive bedside manner. He has worked intensely over the years to impart this holistic philosophy of “hospitality” in pediatric neurological surgery to the many residents, fellows, and students whom he has mentored.