Chengyuan Wu, MD, gave this year's Hassenbusch Lecture at the TANS' 2025 Annual Conference.

Introducing Michael Leonard, MD, of San Antonio as the new TANS president. Thanks to Awais Vance, MD, for his time as the TANS Vice President and his hard work to put on the meeting. And thanks to Toral Patel, MD, for her presidency and taking TANS to the next level.

Great talk by Ryan Chiu, MD from UTSW Neurosurgery on utility of MRI in TBI patients at #TANS meeting. Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons

Incredible talk by Alex Flores, MD from BCM Neurosurgery on his work to understand which patients will get pathologic fractures at #TANS. Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons From the Labs at Baylor College of Medicine

Thanks to the TANS Vice President, Awais Vance, MD, of BSW Neurosurgery for putting together the TANS 2025 Annual Conference.

Save the best last!? What a treat to hear from Dr. Ying Mao from Huashan Hospital Fudan University in #Shanghai at #TANS Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons about MMA embolization for subdural hematoma. Their work published in NEJM nejm.org/doi/abs/10.105…

What a great meeting put together by Dr. Vance BSW Neurosurgery

Great talk at Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons yesterday by Dr. Link about #vestibularschwannoma

No doc fix….. Physician payments under Medicare have been CUT 5 years in a row!! House Republicans release 100-page spending bill to prevent shutdown axios.com/2025/03/08/hou…

Medicare Advantage plans got a 5 % raise today. Yet the Doctors, who are the ones who actually care for the patients GET CUT every year. This is RIDICULOUS. cms.gov/newsroom/fact-…

New thought-to-speech brain device allows for ‘natural conversation’ statnews.com/2025/04/07/bra… via STAT

There is absolutely no reason that physicians should not be able to own hospitals. Period.

NYU Langone Facility Dog Helps Boy Relearn How to Walk After Spinal Surgery nyulangone.org/news/nyu-lango…

Surgeons bid for medical first: Removing spinal tumor through patient’s eye msn.com/en-us/health/o…

Our colleague - Dr. Greg Bonnen - passed HB 3812, the prior auth gold card bill, out of the House. It's now in the final stages in the Senate. A big thanks to Kelly Hancock for carrying it in the Senate. A critical tool for efficient care.

⸻ 🚨 URGENT: #SB268 puts Texas patients at risk by removing the TX Med Board’s power to stop unlicensed practice. 🗣️ Call your State Rep & Senator NOW — tell them to VOTE NO on SB 268! Find your lawmakers 👉 wrm.capitol.texas.gov/home Capitol contacts 👉 capitol.texas.gov/Home.aspx

A Texas neurosurgeon and state representative - Dr. Greg Bonnen - just passed HB 3812 in the Texas Legislature to enhance the 2021 prior authorization gold card law. This is one way to address the prior authorization issue.

It's time to take back our hospitals: Repeal 6001! AANS AANS Neurosurgeon CNS Neurosurgery Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA Dutch Rojas PHA AMA Bill Cassidy, M.D.

1 big thing: Why extroverts age better axios.com/newsletters/ax… #axiosfinishline

First in Punchbowl News: More than a dozen House Democrats are demanding additional information about the Trump administration’s expansion of prior authorization requirements for traditional Medicare. punchbowl.news/archive/81125-…