For our April session on the 24th, we will be hosting Bassam Al-Fatly and Reese Cosgrove

Bassam Al-Fatly, MD, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Kühn lab in Charité Universitätmedizin, Germany. Bassam has a keen interest in utilizing functional and structural imaging modalities to understand the circuitry of Essential/Parksinonian Tremor, and neuropsychiatric disorders such as Tourette syndrome. The title of his talk will be “Causal and therapeutic network mapping in movement disorders”.

G.Rees Cosgrove, MD, FRCSC, is the Director of Functional Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hopsital, Boston. He is an internationally acclaimed stereotactic and functional neurosurgeon with over 30 years of experience in the surgical treatment of Epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, tremor, dystonia and other movement disorders. Dr. Cosgrove is an early adopter of MRgFUS and has performed over 600 MRgFUS procedures and particpated in various early clinical trials. The title of his talk will be “The Remarkable Evolution of Movement Disorder Surgery – One Neurosurgeon’s Perspective”.