It was great hearing the story behind the growth of Prasad Spine Academy at grand rounds today Jefferson Neurosurgery Thank you, Srinivas Prasad, MD, MS, FAANS, FACS for sharing our article Bowers Neurosurgical Frailty and Outcomes Lab Christian Bowers

Excited to work with Basel Musmar !

Dr. Bowers, you have been an amazing mentor! I still remember how you set up a zoom meeting to get to know me a few hours after I reached out to you via twitter. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with and help mentor some of the med students at Bowers Neurosurgical Frailty and Outcomes Lab

Congratulations Kareem M. El Naamani, MD and Pascal Jabbour MD, FAANS, FACS, FAHA !!

Congrats Samantha Varela !! So happy for you!

Proud of our #frailty team Michael Covell Joanna Roy for having the Neurosurgery Publications featured article this month on why the HFRS doesn’t work well for neurosurgery & the 10 core principles of frailty-based neurosurgical risk asessment (FBNRA) #frailty fighters Bowers Neurosurgical Frailty and Outcomes Lab

New Neurospine Journal: A frailty-driven predictive model using the Risk Analysis Index predicts failure to rescue following thoracolumbar fusion with strong discriminatory accuracy (C-stat: 0.92). Christian Bowers Joanna Roy Georgios Skandalakis

New NASS #TheSpineJournal : Failure to Rescue refers to death following a major complication. Frail cervical decompression & fusion patients are more prone to FTR and may be risk stratified using the RAI (C-stat: 0.901) to inform postoperative care.
thespinejournalonline.com/article/S1529-…

Check out our 15-year review of gender diversity at three major spine surgery meetings CNS Scoliosis Research Society and NASS Thank you for the opportunity, Amit Jain, MD, MBA and Dr. Mihir Gupta. Johns Hopkins Orthopaedics
thespinejournalonline.com/article/S1529-…

🙏 to Khoi Than for the fix on our key table, w/ CNS nexus. We appreciate World Neurosurgery Journal permitting the last-minute edit. Final version is set & now published! Good luck to all med students pursuing neurosurgery. The roots can be bitter, but the fruit is the sweetest!

Thanks for highlighting our lab's work! AANS Diversity Committee

💯 - the focus on producing tons of publications as a med student is not healthy & is unfair since massive disparities in research opportunities exist.But learning to ask questions & create original research is a critical skill & vital since USMLE Step 1 score is P/F. #staytuned

Proud of Michael Covell Joanna Roy Sean Bhalla for taking leadership of the Bowers Neurosurgical Frailty and Outcomes Lab & for all of the successful submitted AANS abstracts. Cannot wait to see everyone in the Windy City! #frailtyfighters

Thank you for the support, Dr. Bowers!

New in Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences led by Joanna Roy: our systematic review of 244 articles on frailty in neurosurgery.
mFI-11 and 5 remain the most commonly utilized indexes as of March 2023.
Check out the full text below:
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Some of you have seen the venous eponyms figure from our historical vignette, so here's the arterial counterpart. How many of these did you know? Here's the article: doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu…
#neuroscience #neurotwitter #MedTwitter

Thrilled to see BSG and NERVE alongside many excellent resources for medical students interested in neurosurgery. Randy D'Amico, MD

Thank you for the mention Bowers Neurosurgical Frailty and Outcomes Lab. We’re grateful to have contributed to spine education during a challenging time a few years back and excited that many still see value in our on-going program. Virtual Global Spine Conference