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One Neurosurgery Movement

http://www.oneneurosurgery.com

We Recognize

• AANS and CNS have contributed to our specialty since

they were founded in 1931 and 1951, respectively.

• CNS and AANS are led by talented and dedicated

individuals.

• The time and effort they spend on our two national
• rganizations is admirable.

Question is “How Can We Do Better In The Future?”

• The Great Majority of Neurosurgeons Favors One

Neurosurgery Society.

• 100% of Vendors Favor Supporting A Single Annual

Meeting.

Neurosurgeons Poll

January – March, 2013

Are you in favor of combining the AANS and CNS into one society? Yes 1,836 90.4% No 196 9,6% Total 2, 032 100%

Vendors Poll

July, 2013

Would you prefer to support one annual major Neurosurgery meeting? Yes 100% 29 vendors Do you anticipate or have you implemented more restrictive budgets for Neurosurgery meeting support and attendance? Yes 93% 27 vendors No 7% 2

National Organization of Other Specialties

• One Primary Society, One Annual Meeting, One Primary Journal

OB/GYN (43,000 active practitioners) Anesthesiology (34,000) Orthopedic Surgery (24,000) Ophthalmology (15,000) Urology (10,000) Otolaryngology (10,000) Plastic Surgery (4,000)

• CT surgery (3,000)- Two primary societies, Two annual meetings, One journal
• Neurosurgery (3,800) Two primary societies, annual meetings, journals

What Are Justifications for Two Neurosurgery Societies?

• CNS is a leadership training ground

CNS has no leadership training program.

• Two organizations give stronger political voice

Unproven claim (4,000 neurosurgeons/1 million physicians - 0.4%)

• Other justification?

Basic Truths

• Time away from work and family during the AANS

and CNS annual meetings is important to neurosurgeons.

• Many neurosurgeons go to the meetings for a day
• r a few days to get CME and meeting attendance

credit, and rarely stay for the whole meeting.

• AANS and CNS meetings discuss essentially the

same topics and have almost identical

• presentations. “The circle of innovation does not

justify 2 annual meetings.”

• The most robust education comes from smaller

meetings, rather than the large meeting format.

• The annual cost of AANS and CNS to neurosurgery

community is huge.

• The time and money our members have to attend

meetings decreased and will likely further decrease.

• Vendor support (the bedrock of the financial stability
• f both national meetings) is decreasing.

• Neurosurgery has two primary societies, two

annual meetings and two journals

• About 70 neurosurgery societies, including state

neurosurgical societies, and subspecialty societies

• One society for 57 neurosurgeons!

Meeting Attendance For Membership

• You need to attend AANS and CNS meetings to keep

membership.

• All other primary societies – No meeting attendance

requirement.

Opinions of Neurosurgeons Favoring One Neurosurgery

• Too many dues/meeting requirements. We should

not have to go to meetings for our CME’s. There are

• ther (sometimes even better) ways to get CME’s

than AANS meetings.

• The circle of innovation does not justify two

neurosurgical meetings per annum.

• Would like to see a combined neurosurgical voice

and less ego-driven sub-compartmentalization of neurosurgical societies.

• Even though both societies have done a fine job for

us, I think we would be better served at lower cost by a unified organization.

• Seems archaic to have 2 identical
• rganizations at this juncture
• There are several advantages to have only one

main professional society.

• One organization is enough.
• Our community is too small to necessitate two

nationally-run organizations.

• One society will have better political power

and better attendance at meetings.

• Save sometime and money with 1
• rganization.
• Combine.
• Together we fall, united we stand.

• There are benefits to having two professional

societies, most notably the innovations that are driven by healthy competition between the

• rganizations. Having said that, it does seem

reasonable to have an open discussion that engages our members to examine whether or not the obvious benefits of a single organization

• utweigh the advantages of the current situation.

Vendors Comments

• Both societies overlap in too many areas and

industry can not continue to support so many societies that appeal to their customer bases. It reduces what we can do within that segment of our

• business. This is a great initiative – and long overdue.
• A great idea to improve education, focus messaging,

and improve advocacy for neurosurgery.

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