Hi everybody, I'm Mark Krieger. I'm the chair of the section and it's my privilege to be able to wrap things up right now. I will tell you that after my end remarks we'll run a video for next year's meeting in Salt Lake City and that'll be immediately followed by the section's business meeting and this business meeting is open for all members of the section but it's on a separate platform so you'll have to click on the separate link which will take you to the zoom meeting format for that. So going ahead into my closing remarks if you could just queue up the slides please. I'm pleased to report that we feel that this meeting was incredibly successful. This was the largest pediatric section meeting attendance in history. Over 466 of you registered for this meeting so we're super proud of that and we're glad that we were able to pull it off especially in this environment. The interesting thing about this meeting is 233 of those 466 people are actually attending section members and the other people are neurosurgery team members and this goes along with our goals. We want the section to be inclusive. We want to include researchers and medical students and advanced practice providers and residents and fellows and particularly fellows. We made a special effort this year to have special sections for the fellows in conjunction with the ACPNF. We did a fellows boot camp and we did a separate fellow session and we're particularly proud to bring those people into the community. We're also proud to support junior faculty members with all sorts of research grants and awards and an opportunity to present their research in this section. So we feel that this meeting was not only successful because of the numbers of people who joined but the breadth and depth of people who enjoyed each of these categories. I'd have to say that none of this meeting would have happened without the section planning committee that worked super hard on this. We realized that we had to switch to a virtual format sometime over the summer and we pulled in people from across the range of classes of people in this section to help put this together and you can see on this slide all the people who did it. They did a heroic effort of getting this all organized and really thinking creatively and out of the box about how to make this work in a virtual setting. We'll give you guys a chance to evaluate this meeting but I think it was really successful and we kept it dynamic and I hope you realize that we're doing this without a net. We were just moving forward on this without any ground rules or with any sense what we're supposed to do in the background and I really think that the planners on this group pulled it off. I also want to thank all of our moderators for keeping things on time. I want to thank all of our presenters and I particularly want to thank Cody and the team from Digital which did a great job of making this look professional. Rebecca Marchi from the ANS who helped coordinate all the scientific work and in particular from my heart of hearts Sue Christensen and Sam Lubering from the AANS who were with us every step of the way were the main driving forces behind this. Again we were flying without a net on this one and I think all those people's hard work really pulled it together and I'm very grateful for all the hard work from everybody involved with this. I also want to thank the other members of the executive committee, Benny, Rich and Matt who all helped and worked hard and directed this thing. They're really the brains behind this operation. I just get to be the pretty face. So I just want to run through the awards. We were really proud to introduce the Molly Hubbard Award for the Best Fellow Abstract and these have been announced already but I want to salute them again. This award went to Dr. Taylor who is a fellow in pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins and he gave a fantastic talk on a human stem cell approach to understanding medulloblastoma initiation and maintenance. We had a new award this year, the Chiara and Cerebral Malleolus Foundation Award that was funded by the Chiara and Cerebral Malleolus Foundation and this went to Dr. Ravindra who is a staff neurosurgeon at Naval Medical Center San Diego affiliated with Rady Children's Hospital and University of California in San Diego. This award went to a multi-center validation of a condylar C2 sagittal vertical alignment in Chiara 1 malformation, a study utilizing the Park-Reeves Cerebral Malleolus Consortium. Congratulations Dr. Ravindra. The Hydrocephalus Award went to Dr. El-Sharif. This is an association with the Hydrocephalus Foundation. Dr. El-Sharif is a six-year neurosurgery resident at the Medical University of South Carolina and his wonderful talk on complement activation leads to worse cognitive outcomes following germinal matric hemorrhage in a chronic mouse model won this award. And the final award, our biggest award for best paper overall, the Shulman Award went to Dr. Kamita Smith who's a fifth-year neurosurgery resident at McMaster University in Ontario on integrated multi-armic analysis of MSI 1 function and brain cancer reveal context-specific downstream targets for drug delivery. And that was a great talk as well. Also I can announce the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Neurological Surgery Award to Dr. Barnett who is a fifth-year neurosurgery resident at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her terrific talk on implementation of telemedicine and pediatric neurosurgery practice during the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual care perpetuate healthcare disparities, really got us all thinking. So congratulations, Dr. Barnett. Particularly I want to thank our sponsors. We thought we'd lose our shirt for this meeting, but thanks to all of your registration and to all these wonderful exhibitors, BrainLand, Livanova, Rossman Search, ClearPoint Neuro, Dupuis Synthes, Integral Life Science, Medtronic, and Zimmer Biomed, as well as AstraZeneca, Integral Life Science, Medtronic, and from New Orleans, thanks to Dr. Flannery, our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital, and Medtronic, we were able to keep this meeting afloat. Thank you all. I hope you were all able to visit the booths. The very last order of business I get to announce is the winners of the virtual challenge. And this was something that we wanted to do to keep people interested throughout the meeting. And this was a very intense competition. So there were a series of tasks that people had to do, including spending the most amount of time on the platform, answering, asking questions, giving presentations, engaging with the exhibitors. And we really had six people who achieved maximum point totals, but then we actually had to go to the videotape and who was actually paying attention throughout the whole meeting. And Dr. Abraham wins first prize for that. And he wins a complimentary 2021 meeting registration for next year. We also elected to give $250 Amazon gift cards to the other five people who achieved full point totals. Dr. Stadler, Mohamed, Bolivan, Murakudi, and Morgenstern. So congratulations to all of you for really embracing this format. And the very last slide I have up before I'll turn it over to the video for Salt Lake City next year is our meeting evaluation. This was all crazy and incredibly new to put this all together. We had no idea what we were doing six months ago, but I think we really put together a wonderful platform and presentation for you all to deliver science and perhaps most importantly, hopefully to create a sense of community. I think a lot of people told me they felt like they were a part of the group by being able to be a part of this. And you guys are the final judge. So we really are looking forward to seeing what the evaluations show. Please be candid. Please be frank. One of the questions will be whether you think we should never do a live meeting again, never do a virtual meeting again, or do a hybrid meeting at some point, and whether you would attend in person or prefer to do it online if we did a hybrid. We're really interested in hearing all your responses. You'll be receiving an email on December 8th. Please fill it out. Please be thoughtful. Please let us know. But if you have comments offline, please feel free to email me or call me or any of the other section members for this. So with that, I will sign off. Again, I want to thank everybody for engaging in this. It was really a heroic effort on everyone's part. We know that this has been a crazy year, but hopefully this was one good spot in the last year wrapping things up. Thank you all, and I look forward to seeing you at the business meeting. Thank you. Hi, this is Dr. Douglas Brockmeier in Salt Lake City, Utah. On behalf of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the University of Utah, it is my privilege to personally invite you to the 50th annual meeting of the Joint Section of Pediatric Neurosurgery to be held in person on December 7th through 10th, 2021 at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah. As always, the meeting will contain high-level scientific content, outstanding speakers and topics related to our specialty, and the opportunity to interact with our vendor partners. All the while, it will be our honor to extend to you the world-famous hospitality that Utah is known for. So come, join us, and be part of the premier scientific and educational meeting in pediatric neurosurgery. And while you're at it, bring your family. There is so much for them to do in town and in the surrounding areas, like ski. We sincerely hope you come to join us. Come to learn, but stay to play.

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