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ENDO 09 Annual Meeting

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CLINICAL - Radiosurgery for Pituitary Tumors: Has It Come of Age?

Track : CLINICAL

Program Code: M55

Date: Saturday, June 13, 2009

Time: 8:30 AM to 9:15 AM EST

SPEAKER :

ER Laws, MD, FACS, DMedCh Naples (hon), FRCSEd (hon), FRCPSG (hon), Brigham & Women's Hosp.
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose

Dr. Laws received his bachelor�s degree from Princeton University with honors in Economics and Sociology in the Special Program in American Civilization, and then attended the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland receiving the MD in 1963. He did his surgical internship and neurosurgical residency at Johns Hopkins under A. Earl Walker. After completing his residency, he joined the faculty at the Johns Hopkins medical school with a primary appointment in pediatric neurosurgery. He subsequently joined the staff of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota where ultimately he became Professor of Neurosurgery and developed major interests in pituitary surgery and epilepsy surgery along with a continuing interest in the metabolism and pathophysiology of primary brain tumors. In 1987 he became Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, and in 1992 joined the faculty of the University of Virginia as Professor of Neurosurgery and Professor of Medicine, establishing a Neuro-Endocrine Center there. He joined the faculty at Stanford University in 2007 where he served as Surgical Director of the Pituitary/Neuroendocrine Center there. Currently, he is Director of the Pituitary Tumor Center at the Brigham & Women�s Hospital in Boston. During his surgical career he has operated upon more than 7,500 brain tumors, of which 5,000 have been pituitary lesions. Dr. Laws completed his term as President of the American College of Surgeons, and has served as President of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, President of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Editor of Neurosurgery, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for International Education in Neurosurgery, Director of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, President of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and President of the Pituitary Society. He has authored over 500 scientific papers and book chapters, and with Andrew Kaye is co-editor of the encyclopedic volume, �Brain Tumors�. In 2005 he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science. He remains actively involved in surgery and in brain tumor and Neuroendocrine research. Dr. Laws and his wife Margaret (Peggy) have four daughters and six grandchildren.

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