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…

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 Pr…

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 endos…

Personal Finances: You Have a Salary, Now What? featuring Jake Weatherford Jake Weatherford, with Castlepoint Wealth Advisors, is a partner and wealth advisor whose primary focus is to provide client investment advice and implement the firm’s financial planning strategies. He is also responsible for portfolio modeling and financial projections, whi…

Communication Tips: Giving and Receiving Feedback featuring Stacey Wolfe, MD, FAANS Stacey Quintero Wolfe, MD is a neurosurgeon with Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is a board-certified neurosurgeon, specializing in disorders of blood vessels, brain trauma and spine. She completed fellowships in endovascular and cer…

Denial of Payment after Successful Prior Authorization: The Latest Commercial Payer Ruse featuring Luis Tumialan, MD, FAANS Luis Manuel Tumialán is a Professor of Neurosurgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute specializing in minimally invasive spinal surgery. He graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine, completed his internship a…

Personal Finances - Managing Student Loan Debt, featuring guest contributor, Kristen Buchman Kristen joined Castlepoint Wealth Advisors in February of 2022 as an advisor working in lockstep with the advisory team to provide client investment advice and implement the firm’s financial planning strategies. She has obtained her CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLAN…

Host JNS Social Media Committee Member, Lior Elkaim, MD, and Paul J. Camarata, MD, FAANS welcome neurosurgery resident and JNS Social Media Manager guest, Faith C. Robertson, MD. Dr. Robertson is an aspiring academic neurosurgeon with an overarching interest in improving value in healthcare. Clinically, she is passionate about neurooncology. Her re…