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    Scientific Session 4: Top Abstracts

    Friday, February 27, 2026
    3:45 PM - 4:45 PM MST

    Presentations:

    • 3:45 PM - 3:50 PM MST
      Genetic Determinants of Prognosis in Patients with Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer to the Spine

      Presenting Author: Paul McMillan Villalobos, BS – Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco

    • 3:51 PM - 3:53 PM MST
      Abstract Discussant

      Speaker: Christopher E. Wolfla, MD, FAANS – The Medical College of Wisconsin

    • 3:54 PM - 3:59 PM MST
      The Effect of Low Dose Ketorolac on Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion Patients: Final Analysis from a Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Trial

      Presenting Author: Bryce Sarcar, DO – MSUCHM/Henry Ford Providence Neurosurgery

    • 4:00 PM - 4:02 PM MST
      Abstract Discussant

      Speaker: Nevan G. Baldwin, MD – Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

    • 4:03 PM - 4:08 PM MST
      Tract-Specific Microstructural Measures Derived from Diffusion Basis Spectrum Imaging in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy.

      Presenting Author: Muhammad Irfan Kaleem, MBBS – Washington University in St. Louis

    • 4:09 PM - 4:11 PM MST
      Abstract Discussant

      Speaker: Eve Tsai, MD, PhD – University of Ottawa

    • 4:12 PM - 4:17 PM MST
      Incidence and Severity of Postoperative Dysphagia after Short-Segment Anterior Cervical Fusion, Corpectomy, or Arthroplasty

      Presenting Author: Mark N. Pernik, MD – University of Tennessee Health Science Center / Semmes Murphey Clinic, Memphis, TNMD

    • 4:18 PM - 4:20 PM MST
      Abstract Discussant

      Speaker: Robert Heary, MD – Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

    • 4:21 PM - 4:26 PM MST
      Intraoperative to Immediate Postoperative Change in L4–S1 Lordosis After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Do We Lose What We Gain?

      Presenting Author: Iyan Younus, MD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    • 4:27 PM - 4:29 PM MST
      Abstract Discussant

      Speaker: David W. Polly, Jr., MD – University of Minnesota

    • 4:30 PM - 4:35 PM MST
      A Proposed Indocyanine Green–Based Algorithm for Duroplasty in Cervical Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Preliminary Results of a Single-Center Randomized Controlled Trial

      Presenting Author: Cheng Yu Li, MD – Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan

    • 4:36 PM - 4:38 PM MST
      Abstract Discussant

      Speaker: Allan D. Levi, MD PhD – University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

    • 4:39 PM - 4:45 PM MST
      Wrap Up