Now we'll hear an update from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons by CNS President Ashwini Chiran. Thank you very much, Alex. I will begin with the congratulations to Alex on an exceptional meeting and on the theme of the privilege of service. And I thank you, our members, for keeping neurosurgery very strong, and I thank you for the privilege of this time. I would like to start off by inviting you to the CNS meeting in Houston, Mission Neurosurgery. It is a little play on mission control and the space program that is in Houston. And just to share with you a little cuteness, it's about, everybody's heard the colloquialism, it's not brain surgery. When everybody says that, they mean that it's easy, anybody can do it. But what everybody's also saying, it's hard. Neurosurgery's hard. Going to the moon is hard, but we do it. In this meeting, I have as the honored guest, Robert Rosenwasser, who's a leader and trail baser in our field, who was one of the first people to do disease-oriented care when he specialized in endovascular and open vascular neurosurgery. We have a selection of special speakers who are actually going to push the boundaries of human achievement, be it in race car driver, space, surfing, bionic legs, recreating human sensory with David Eagleman. We have courses about the future of neurosurgery, not just a display and marketing about robots, but the actual application of the technology that is developing also from the space program to make more precision neurosurgery possible. At the CNS, we've also doubled down on the future of big data science. This course we placed at the very worst part in a meeting. The last session last year at 2 o'clock on the Wednesday afternoon, and 150 members came to understand what is the role of big data in analytics. We've moved it up in the program and have a series of escalating webinars that are going to educate you on the principles of data science for neurosurgery. Now I'm going to take the last minute to tell you about what we are excelling at currently at the Congress of Neurosurgery. Our strategy is to excel in education, leadership, and guidelines. We have an extensive catalog of presentation, podcasts, courses, content, 200 nexus modules, 150 webinars, 16 separate SANS exams for self-assessment. We have live courses now with something for everybody. If you're interested in stroke, leadership, skull base, board review, spine complications, something for everybody. The Congress wants to be inclusive. We know that there is a lot of obligation and preparation that goes into preparing for the boards, and we have a whole assortment of products aimed at that. And finally, in the spirit of the Congress, we're tech savvy, building new apps. I thank the 2,804 members who have downloaded this app and are using guidelines on a daily basis to improve practice and care. Again, congratulations to Alex on a superb meeting, and thank you very much for being members of the family of neurosurgery.

CNS President Ashwini Chiran

Congress of Neurological Surgeons

Mission Neurosurgery

precision neurosurgery

big data science