Dr. Wenya Linda BiUSA
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
| 2018 to present | Neurosurgeon, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School |
| 2023 - | Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School |
| 2018 - 2022 | Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School |
Skull base surgery, Neurooncological surgery, Imaging, Meningioma, Brain tumors
Dr. Wenya Linda Bi is Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. Her clinical expertise harnesses multimodality techniques to treat skull base pathologies and deep-seated brain tumors. In addition, she leads a research team focusing on the translational biology of skull base tumors, quantitative imaging analyses of these tumors, and refining intraoperative neuromonitoring techniques. A central driver across her efforts is to translate knowledge from advanced technologies to be transparent, scalable, and broadly accessible.
Novel intraoperative monitoring and mapping techniques beyond the corticospinal tract
1108 08:50-09:00
Neuro-oncology/305
Intraoperative neuromonitoring augments the safety and efficacy of neurosurgical techniques, especially in complex pathologies and adjacent to highly eloquent regions. Evolving techniques for intraoperative monitoring and mapping offer methods to reliably detect the presence and integrity of motor tracts, including the corticospinal tract, corticobulbar tracts, the tracts and nuclei of the facial, oculomotor, abducens, vagus, and other brainstem functions. Reflexes offer an additional tool to assessing the integrity of intrinsic brainstem circuits.
Intraoperative Neuromonitoring idiosyncrasies
1108 10:10-10:20
Skull Base/304A
The use and reliance on intraoperative neuromonitoring depends on the trust in its output. Understanding and reversing artifacts that cause changes in neuromonitoring, independent of a true change in neurologic function, is important in being able to fully harness neuromonitoring as a tool in pushing the boundaries of resection in neurosurgery. This talk describes some common neurophysiological patterns seen with brain sag, electrode placement, and how to reverse false changes rapidly at the time of surgery.