BRAIN & SPINE GROUP
BRAIN & SPINE GROUP
SUPPORTERS' PROGRAM
SUPPORTERS' PROGRAM
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Our Programs
Our Programs
Your Impact Starts Now
Your Impact Starts Now
Education Program
Our education program provides global opportunity for learning in the pre-clinical and clinical neurosciences through in-person and online learning mechanisms. With accessibility always at the forefront of our programming, we’re able to serve multiple learning pathways with minimal barriers through our hands-on training courses, online lectures, reading materials, and our newest online learning platform - BSG Learn.
Our education program provides global opportunity for learning in the pre-clinical and clinical neurosciences through in-person and online learning mechanisms. With accessibility always at the forefront of our programming, we’re able to serve multiple learning pathways with minimal barriers through our hands-on training courses, online lectures, reading materials, and our newest online learning platform - BSG Learn.
For the 2024-2025 academic year, our education program is focusing on continued expansion of in-person training camps and adding new courses to the BSG Learn catalog. BSG Learn is an essential tool for helping students all over the world access premium courses at their own pace. Additionally, BSG Learn allows for greater collaboration of educators from different organizations while also serving courses to individuals beyond the scope of medical students i.e. industry reps, undergraduate students, residents, nurses, patients etc. We’re excited about the launch of the new BSG Learn platform and the year ahead populating our catalog of courses with a diversity of learning opportunity.
Mentorship & Early Development Program
The Neurosurgery Education and Research Virtual Experience Group (aka “NERVE”) is the foundational component of the Mentorship & Early Development Program. NERVE is designed to help supplement medical school by providing a multi-institutional forum for shared objective mentorship with a particular focus on disadvantaged students.
The NERVE program focuses on five competency domains:
Research Skills and Scholarly Activity.
Clinical Knowledge.
Professional Development.
Technological Literacy and Resource Management.
Technical Skills.
To this end, in addition to twice-monthly sessions covering these domains, NERVE students also participate as members of one or more of our research teams.
Research Program
Our Research Program began as a skills development program to augment student’s external research experiences, but has since matured into a fully recognized team-based, clinical research program. Each research team focuses on a unique set of research priorities aimed at improving our knowledge of brain & spine health and disease.
Each team is led by a faculty member with a proven track record of commitment to student mentorship and engagement in academic scholarship. With the addition of the technology program fueling the research program with data assets and other necessary infrastructure, the independent research capabilities of our medical student researchers and our research teams continues to grow.
Technology Program
The Technology Program was founded early 2024 by two engineers with a vision to bring biomedical research out of the monolithic age through collaboration of technologists with researchers and clinicians. The program has since grown to five engineers on a mission to build technology that directly empowers education and research and ultimately leads to advancements in our ability to care for the human condition.
In the program’s short history it has already produced:
BSG Learn platform for global education.
Cloud infrastructure for storing, manipulating, and analyzing large-scale clinical research data.
Data cataloging to help researchers find data for their research projects.
Custom statistical analysis environments that leverage platform interconnectivity for generating results.
Project management systems.
Secured grant funding from Amazon Web Services to continue development of large-scale data systems and artificial intelligence tools for biomedical research.
“Being a part of the BSG Supporters' Program means being a part of improving the future of pre-clinical and clinical neurosciences. Thank you to all the individuals, families, foundations, and businesses that support our education, mentorship, research, and technology programs. Together we continue to make significant a impact on brain & spine health.”
“Being a part of the BSG Supporters' Program means being a part of improving the future of pre-clinical and clinical neurosciences. Thank you to all the individuals, families, foundations, and businesses that support our education, mentorship, research, and technology programs. Together we continue to make significant a impact on brain & spine health.”
Susan C. Pannullo, MD
Susan C. Pannullo, MD
Chair, Board of Directors
Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery and
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS AND DONORS
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS AND DONORS
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Program Metrics & Projections
Program Metrics & Projections
The Future Starts Now
The Future Starts Now
Education
Education
Fall 2023 - Summer 2024
Online Impact
51 videos published in past year (772 videos published to-date)
639.4k views (52% increase from prior year)
27.5k hours streamed (23% increase from prior year)
5.8k new global subscribers (15% increase from prior year)
18,500 global subscribers to-date
2 new BSG Learn courses
“Introduction to Research Methods”
“Virtual Medical Student Neurosurgery Training Camp”
In-Person Impact
1 Medical Student Neurosurgery Training Camp set for September 7, 2024 in partnership with Mayfield Education & Research Foundation.
30 students registered to attend.
Fall 2024 - Summer 2025 Projections
Online Impact
Public release of the BSG Learn platform for global learning.
Scheduled release of 10 new courses.
Migration of existing video and written content into BSG Learn platform for improved discovery, searching, and usability.
In-Person Impact
2 Medical Student Neurosurgery Training Camps
Second annual course in partnership with Mayfield Education & Research Foundation.
Fall 2025.
Expect to accommodate 30 students.
First annual course in partnership with The Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Buffalo and the Jacob’s Institute
Spring 2025.
Expect to accommodate 100 students.
Mentorship & Early Development
Mentorship & Early Development
To date, the NERVE program is responsible for 20+ conference abstracts and publishing 24 peer-reviewed manuscripts.
The 2024-2025 Academic Year will begin with 3 faculty, 10 student leaders, and a new cohort of 36 students:
6 returning members
46 different institutions across
24 states/US territories
5 countries
65.5% MD, 27.3% DO, and 7% IMG
47.3% women
69% do NOT have home neurosurgery programs.
To date, the NERVE program is responsible for 20+ conference abstracts and publishing 24 peer-reviewed manuscripts.
The 2024-2025 Academic Year will begin with 3 faculty, 10 student leaders, and a new cohort of 36 students:
6 returning members
46 different institutions across
24 states/US territories
5 countries
65.5% MD, 27.3% DO, and 7% IMG
47.3% women
69% do NOT have home neurosurgery programs.
Research
Research
Fall 2023 - Summer 2024
3 Research Teams
55 Student Researchers
3 Academic Faculty Mentors
4 Principal Investigators
10+ conference abstracts
15+ peer-reviewed manuscripts
Fall 2024 - Summer 2025 Projections
4 Research Teams
60+ Student Researchers
4 Academic Faculty Mentors
5 Principal Investigators
15+ conference abstracts
20+ peer-reviewed manuscripts
Founding of Institutional Review Board to further increase autonomy of research teams.
Technology
Technology
January 2024 - Summer 2024
5 Software & Data Engineers.
4 Production Cloud Environments Deployed.
BSG Learn - EC2 Distribution.
Data Center Catalog - Elastic Kubernetes Service Cluster.
Stats Center - EC2 Distribution.
Authentication Service for managing secure access - EC2 Distribution
1 Development Cloud Cluster Deployed.
Backbone environment for working with Large Language Models (LLMs) and developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications.
Elastic Kubernetes Service Cluster.
Data warehouse established with two data pipelines built.
Pipeline for HCUP Datasets (i.e. NIS, KID, NASS etc.).
Pipeline for data from National Library of Medicine FTP server.
Custom application prototype for clinical data capture.
Established new design system and began renovation of website as a single point of entry and access to all available tools.
Fall 2024 - Summer 2025 Projections
Increase software & data engineer capacity and transition from 100% volunteer team to having engineers on staff.
Launch custom Generative AI platform.
Demonstrate effectiveness with internal research teams as a tool to increase research productivity.
Bring a commercial product to market.
Demonstrate product quality superior to competitors by leveraging our data warehouse for context enrichment at a novel scale.
Significantly increase data assets available for traditional research and AI development.
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