Congress of Neurological Surgeons Podcasts

Podcast Miniseries: Cultivating a Culture – Growing a Healthy Neurosurgical Workplace
Ep. 5: From Great Leaders to Great Lessons

Hosts: Brian Gantwerker & Chris Newman

This year-end episode of the CNS Leadership Podcast features hosts Brian Gantwerker and Chris Newman reflecting on leadership lessons from their guest interviews. They discuss themes like leading by example, collaboration, curiosity, mentorship, and patient-centered care, while sharing personal insights on what makes an effective leader.

In this episode of the CNS Innovation Podcast, moderators Dr. David Dornbos and Dr. Ankush Chandra interview Dr. Yasmeen Elsawaf, who is nominated for the 2026 CNS Innovator of the Year Award, for her novel innovation of an intracranial pressure sensing catheter for predictive identification of shunt failure.

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November 2026 Journal Club Podcast

Title: Expectation Versus Reality: Exploring Decisional Regret in Minimally Invasive Lumbar Spine Surgery
To read journal article: www.ovid.com/10.1227/neu.0000000000003946

Author: Philip K. Louie
Guest Faculty: Juan Uribe
Moderator: Matheus P. Pereira

In this episode of the CNS Innovation Podcast, moderators Dr. David Dornbos and Dr. Jessica Campos interview Dr. Aditya Mittal, who is nominated for the 2026 CNS Innovator of the Year Award, for his novel innovation of Cerebral Aneurysm Test 7 (CAT7), a novel biomarker test to predict aneurysm growth and rupture.

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In this episode of the CNS Innovation Podcast, co-hosts David Dornbos and Jessica Campos sit down with Innovator of the Year nominee Dr. Ron Sahyouni to discuss his innovative technology called ReLive: A Closed-Loop Neuromodulation Platform for Functional Motor Restoration. Joined by his mentor Dr. Alexander Khalessi from UC San Diego.

Voting is now open!
https://www.cns.org/innovator-of-the-year-poll