American Association of Neurological Surgeons

Well,

you know, as folks go to the fall meeting season and cycle, that'll be Congress and Resurgence or NASS and then AANS and spine section in the spring of next year.

understand that Dr. Adler has had the seminal role in at least three of the exhibit hall booths, right? One with Zap, one with the Cyberknife, and another with Nature Publications.

I mean, really, like your contributions, I'm waiting for the next shoe to drop for you.

Those kids had the devil in them.

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons has issued an official position statement on slap fighting.

Shockingly, their statement is, please stop slap fighting.

It's not really that complicated.

One is to sort of highlight what is happening at the ACCME and what that means.

And the second half being about the AANS bulletin and the publication that you're releasing in collaboration with us, which we are very appreciative of.

at the AANS.

So let's start off with CME.

So a lot of folks know what CME is, continuing medical education.

And I know that that's one of... what I see as one of Aspen's core pillars.

And for me, I came from the world of spine, where most of my congresses and conventions that I went to were AAOS, they were Aspen, excuse me, they were CNS, AANS, and NAS.

And for me, I wanted to participate and join my first Aspen course, which was just under eight years ago.

So we've been at it now for six years.

I'm a skull base and brain tumor surgeon here at UCLA, and we're doing this as a part of Neurosurgery Awareness Month.

Now, Neurosurgery Podcast has over a million listens now and is the official podcast for the AANS.

And I have to start with the fact that I've never hosted a podcast before, and I've actually not been on a podcast before.

So this is my first time.

David, thank you so much.

Thank you for joining with us.

Thank you to the AANS.

Thank you, JP and Iron Mike for giving us a chance to be on the Neurosurgery Podcast, my first one.