Personal Finances: Finances of Starting a Practice featuring E. Hunter Dyer, MD, FAANS

Dr. Hunter Dyer has been a practicing neurosurgeon at Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates since 1994. He completed neurosurgery training at UTSW -Dallas. His practice focus is in minimally invasive spine, open vascular, and transnasal skull base. He was President and Chairman of Board of CNSA from 2002-2022.

Teaching and Learning: In the Lab featuring Chetan Bettegowda, MD, FAANS

Dr. Chetan Bettegowda is currently the Jennison and Novak Families Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His clinical focus is on the surgical management of brain tumors and directs and metastatic brain tumor center, meningioma center and trigeminal neuralgia. He directs the Reza Khatib Brain Tumor Center and the Physician Scientist Training Program at Johns Hopkins.

As Medical Director of the Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics, his laboratory efforts have focused on the applications of cell free tumor derived DNA for the early detection and monitoring of a myriad of cancers. His research has been funded by the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Medical Scientists, Doris Duke Clinician Scientist Award, Department of Defense and the National Cancer Institute. He has been recognized with numerous awards including being named the 2022 William Baumgartner Johns Hopkins Physician of the Year. He has published widely with over 250 articles including in journals such as Science, Science Translational Medicine, Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, Cell Reports Medicine and PNAS.

Teaching and Learning: Neuroanatomy featuring Maria Peris-Celda, MD, PhD, FAANS

Dr. Peris Celda is an Associate Professor in neurosurgery who specializes in complex brain and skull base tumors and other neurosurgical cranial conditions. She is devoted to offering individualized treatment to each patient including open, minimally invasive, and endoscopic techniques to maximize surgical resection and achieve surgical goals preserving quality of life.

Following her surgical anatomy fellowship under world-renowned neurosurgeon Professor A.L. Rhoton, Dr. Peris Celda's research interests have focused on the development of safer surgical techniques and approaches based on a detailed surgical anatomy knowledge. Dr. Peris Celda's neurosurgical anatomy laboratory team comprises fellows of different backgrounds, national and international, who are deeply committed to surgical education and to advancing surgical techniques towards safer, more accurate surgeries.