Fantastic job by research mentee Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons med student Eunice Yang 🙌🏻Today she highlighted use of machine learning in QOD to understand factors leading surgeons to choose decompression vs fusion for spondylolisthesis at #CNS2023 NREF Columbia Neurosurgery CNS #2023CNS

Had an amazing time at my first #spinesummit presenting our QOD work applying ML to lumbar spondylolisthesis and CSM outcomes. Thankful to my mentors for this opportunity, and looking forward to much more to come! AANS/CNS Spine Section NREF Columbia Neurosurgery

⚾️ conference double-header day Lumbar Spine Research Society in am 🕙 AANS in pm 🕞 w/ Columbia Neurosurgery partner Dean Chou, MD presenting NREF QOD work using ML to study factors leading to best outcomes for elderly spondylolisthesis pts 🔑 fusion was sole predictive surgical feature

Another wonderful talk by Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons superstar med student, Eunice Yang, who was awarded best abstract of session #AANS2024 🔎She presented our QOD work using ML to define comorbidity phenotypes of pts operated for cervical myelopathy AANS #WhatMatters2Me Columbia Neurosurgery

Andrew Chan, MD Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons AANS Columbia Neurosurgery NREF NewYork-Presbyterian NYPAdvances The Spine Hospital Dean Chou, MD Vivian Le 2nd AANS in the books! Grateful as always to Andrew Chan, MD for his mentorship, and excited to take this work forward!

Congratulations to Dr. Boyett on an outstanding presentation at AANS! And excited to share that this work was recently accepted for publication in JNS Spine

The Columbia Neurosurgery team made an incredible impact at #2025AANS in Boston. We're proud to be part of a global neurosurgery community that values leadership, innovation, and lifelong learning. Andrew Chan, MD Dean Chou, MD Sander Connolly @AANSneuro Brett Youngerman, MD