Dr. Mark Gallay will join our Zoom meeting, Sunday, Nov. 17 to discuss MRI guided FUS Palidothalamic Tractotomy (PTT)

[MBAnderson]

We have a HU support group that meets via Zoom every Sunday at 12 Noon US, Eastern Standard Time

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Zoom link; No registration. Just click the link.

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Dr. Gallay received his medical degree from the University of Zurich in 2008. His doctoral dissertation, "Human cerebello- and pallidothalamic tracts: Stereotactic localization, interindividual variability, and MR correlations," was completed in 2009 at the University Hospital Zürich under the supervision of Dr. Anne Morel and Prof. Daniel Jeanmonod. There, he further studied the monkey and human insular cortex as a post-doctoral fellow before training in neurosurgery at the Kantonsspital St. Gallen and the University Hospital Geneva. He completed his neurosurgical training in 2015. Between 2015 and 2024, he worked as a neurosurgeon and, from 2020 to 2024, served as chief medical officer at the Center for Focused Ultrasound Neurosurgery Sonimodul, Switzerland.

Since September 2024, he works as a functional neurosurgeon at the SIFUS Institute of Focused Ultrasound Surgery in Bern (Ostermundigen), which he co-founded. He is currently a consultant neurosurgeon for the University Hospital of Geneva (HUG) and teaches university students at the University of Fribourg. He has been in contact with the ExAblate Neuro system since 2008 as part of the first MRgFUS study in functional neurosurgery.

[Grammy80]

Sounds wonderful; I'll be doing a lot of listening~!! Thanks for what you do!💞

[vwolff]

Outstanding! It's now on my calendar and I'll be looking forward to hearing what he has to say.

[MBAnderson]

MRgFUS Pallidothalamic Tractotomy for Chronic Therapy-Resistant Parkinson's Disease in 51 Consecutive Patients: Single Center Experience

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[SusanRenee]

Good to see posts from you again!

[MarionP]

Fascinating summary. Actually very fascinating. You've got my attention when not very much does. If I don't get to attend, please let's ask about negative side effects, absence of positive effects because the summary referred to all areas benefiting, but the detail was clearly limited to certain ones and definitely not all. Very interesting how they determined that there were no cognitive detriments and I think someone should go into that with them. Also very critical, the idea of whether these results are generalizable to other practitioners or whether there is going to be one guy in one place., and this will maybe be importantly discussed if you get to talking about the "histological" aspects of the decision-making process, because if these can be made systematic and standardized, then the prospect of being limited to only a special guru or two who have the unique talent and sensitivity combination to go with the computer tomography really does need to be addressed, because of the invasiveness, and because of the critical important idea that human individual variability in specific anatomy is unavoidable, therefore how in the world do they proceed with differentiation? Anyway this is one that is really really fascinating and and IF this process can be made more systematic, than we don't have to think about cloning the guy and electing him pope, because he might legitimately actually be one and that would be very sad because we want him to be able to spread the knowledge and skills, make them transferable and trainable. But this is really fascinating news and I think people should listen in and attend. A mechanical ablation, we already knew about FUS but about the individual variability, in patients and in team and in technical tools, in view of the problem of what do you do if it didn't work, how do you undo and reverse and what if there are significant problematic side effects, and all these really have to be gone into... but does it sound really groundbreaking? Yes it does definitely! Goody! Deserves a "Zowie!" If you can get it and afford it, definitely sounds worth it, and I don't like invasive procedures.

[MBAnderson in reply to MarionP]

Marion, It is, indeed, a tough decision - but, I got to a point where I felt it was worth the gamble.

[Zella23]

Brilliant Marc! 🤩 Well done!

[Drummer67]

Thanks for arranging this MarcB

[LindaP50]

Sounds interesting, Marc. Good of you to arrange this for our fellow HU members.

[PalmSprings]

Awesome! Thanks Marc for hosting and organizing!

[eschneid]

Well done Marc! That's why you are our fearless Zoom leader........

[Smokeypurple]

Excellent thanks Marc 👍👏👍👏👍👏