This Socioeconomic session was recorded live at the 2025 AANS Annual Scientific Meeting.
2024 CSNS Randall Smith Award for Meritorious Service recipient Dr. Patrick Wade will reflect on his neurosurgical career in an address entitled "Giving Back." A panel of private practice and employed neurosurgeons will discuss the market power of Optum Health as demonstrated by their suspension of claims processing during their recent data breach.
Speakers: Nitin Agarwal, Prateek Agarwal, Aafreen Azmi, Deborah Benzil, Sarah Bick, Gabrielle Dituri, David Gomez, Robert Harbaugh, Bhav Jain, Catherine Mazzola, Nicole Perez, Charlotte Pineda, Prabhat Poudel, Barry Prystowski, Vasanth Raja, John Ratliff, Jacob Rodman, Daniel Schneider, Paul Serrato, Yifei Sun, Felix Toussaint
The AANS is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The AANS designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The last date to claim credit is 06/26/2027.
As a provider accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the AANS must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all of its sponsored educational activities. In accordance with the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Education, the AANS is required to disclose to the activity audience the relevant financial relationships of the planners, faculty and any other individual in a position to control content of this activity.
Those who have disclosed a relationship with ineligible companies are listed below.
All disclosed financial relationships have been mitigated in accordance with ACCME standards.
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Name
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Relationship/Company |
| Nitin Agarwal |
Depuy Synthes: Research Grant (Ongoing); Springer International Publishing: Royalty Recipient (Ongoing); Thieme Medical Publishers: Royalty Recipient (Ongoing) |
| John Ratliff |
Alphatec Spine: Consultant (Ongoing); K2M Stryker Spine: Consultant (Ongoing); MiRus: Consultant (Ongoing) |
Planners, faculty and any other individuals in control of content not listed have indicated that they have no relevant financial relationships or conflict of interest to disclose for this activity.