| Tuesday, January 27, 2026 | ||
| Time | Event | Location |
| 5:30 PM | Everyone departs for Twin Pines Lodge from The Marriott | The Marriott Lobby |
| 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Opening Reception @ Twin Pines Lodge | Twin Pines Lodge |
| 8:30 PM | Depart for The Marriott from Twin Pines Lodge | |
| Wednesday, January 28, 2026 | ||
| Time | Event | Location |
| 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Open Scientific Program | The Marriott Lobby |
| 2:30 PM | Everyone departs for Twin Pines Lodge from The Marriott | Twin Pines Lodge |
| 3:00 PM | Afternoon Scientific Program | |
| 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM | Oslerian Principles in Neurosurgery and Life Rees Cosgrove, MD | |
| 3:20 PM – 3:40 PM | Confirmation bias in neurosurgery and life Jiri Fiedler, MD | |
| 3:40 PM – 4:00 PM | Lessons learned as a Chairman & Training of Future Neurosurgeons Mika Niemelä, MD | |
| 4:00 PM – 4:20 PM | Carry Trade – a gritty future for clinical research Elomaa Antti-Pekka, MD | |
| 4:20 PM – 4:40 PM | Complex System Failures Loch MacDonald, MD | |
| 4:40 PM – 5:00 PM | How do you invest your money as a neurosurgeon Amir Dehdashti, MD | |
| 5:00 PM – 5:20 PM | The fear of retirement Giuseppe Lanzino, MD | |
| 5:20 PM – 5:40 PM | Retirement: A Modern Gift we’re still learning how to use Paul Camarata, MD | |
| 5:40 PM – 6:00 PM | Integrative Living Carolina Benjamin, MD | |
| 6:00 PM | Depart for The Marriott from Twin Pines Lodge | |
| 6:30 PM | Transportation Shuttles depart for Marabou Lodge from The Marriott Lobby for all attending dinner at Marabou Ranch | The Marriott Lobby |
| 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM | Dinner @ Marabou Ranch River House Lodge | Marabou Ranch |
| 10:00 PM | Transportation departs for all to The Marriott Residence Inn | |
| Thursday, January 29, 2026 | ||
| Time | Event | Location |
| 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Open Scientific Program Everyone departs for Twin Pines Lodge from The Marriott | |
| 2:30 PM | Everyone departs for Twin Pines Lodge from The | The Marriott Lobby |
| 3:00 PM | Group Photo | |
| 3:30 PM | Afternoon Scientific Program | Twin Pines Lodge |
| 3:30 PM – 3:50 PM | Case Presentation Chuck Ray, MD | |
| 3:50 PM – 4:10 PM | Evolution of Cranial traumas with Skiing Jean-Yves Fournier, MD | |
| 4:10 PM – 4:30 PM | Dural innervation and its clinical implications Adnan Siddiqui, MD | |
| 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM | Y AI? David Langer, MD | |
| 4:50 PM – 5:10 PM | Travelling through Bhutan with friends but not M.D.s David Netuka, MD | |
| 5:10 PM – 5:30 PM | 7 Years: From Rocky Mountains to Kobuk Valley Sophia Peng, MD | |
| 5:30 PM – 5:50 PM | Gothical baroque architecture in Bohemia – story of Johann Blasius Santini-Eichel Vladimir Priban, MD | |
| 5:50 PM – 6:10 PM | Impact of horses on western civilization and my personal journey Gavin Britz, MD | |
| 5:40 PM – 6:00 PM | A Probe? Jacques Morcos, MD | |
| 6:00 PM – 6:20 PM | Wrap Up Discussion | |
| 7:00 PM | Depart for The Marriott Lobby/ Vaqueros from Twin Pines Lodge | |
| 7:15 PM | Depart from the Marriott Lobby to Vaqueros | |
| 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM | Dinner @ Vaqueros Free parking at Restaurant | 730 Lincoln Ave Steamboat Springs, CO 80487 |
| Friday, January 30, 2026 | ||
| Time | Event | Location |
| 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Open Scientific Program | |
| 2:30 PM | Everyone departs for Twin Pines Lodge from The Marriott | The Marriott Lobby |
| 3:00 PM 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM | Afternoon Scientific Program | Twin Pines Lodge |
| 3:00 PM | Our biggest quandary: training the next generation Sepideh Amin-Hanjani, MD | |
| 3:20 PM – 3:40 PM | On the brink: Life Lessons From Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (as described by a Western European/American) Matthew Koch, MD | |
| 3:40 PM – 4:00 PM | Brno, Moravia, Bohemia, Czechia – where are we standing? Martin Smrcka, MD | |
| 4:00 PM – 4:20 PM | Mondino de Liuzzi the “Restorer Anatomy”: the pioneering role of the Schola Medica Bononiensis in the development and teaching of anatomical dissection and surgical anatomy. Carlo Bortolotti, MD | |
| 4:20 PM – 4:40 PM | History of tennis and its similarity to neurosurgery: A trip of lifetime Francesco Acerbi, MD | |
| 4:40 PM – 5:00 PM | Cultivating Perspective: How My Garden Deepens My Engagement with Art, History, and Science— and Shapes Me as a Neurosurgeon and Leader Andrew Grande, MD | |
| 5:00 PM – 5:20 PM | Psychedelics: A long, strange trip ahead for Neurosurgery? Michael Lawton, MD | |
| 5:20 PM – 5:40 PM | Foucault as Surgeon: Critical Theory and the Archeology of Cerebrovascular Knowledge/Power Nexus Michael Lang, MD | |
| 5:40 PM – 6:00 PM | The Diocletian Divide Ivan Radovanovic, MD | |
| 6:00 PM – 6:20 PM | The Stories We Tell Fady T. Charbel, MD | |
| 6:20 PM – 6:40 PM | Punk rock and neurosurgery Andrew Carlson, MD | |
| 6:40 PM – 7:00 PM | Wrap Up Discussion | |
| 6:30 PM | Everyone departs for family & friends attending dinner at Twin Pines Lodge from The Marriott Lobby | |
| 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Gala Dinner @ Twin Pines Lodge Twin Pines Lodge | |
| Saturday, January 31, 2026 | ||
| Time | Event | Location |
| 7:30 AM- 9:00 AM | Open Scientific Program | |
| 9:00 AM- 2:30 PM | Departures | |
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