Conferences

Where the work gets presented, and by whom. Almost every project here is student-led from first commit to podium — the consortium exists to put medical students in front of an audience with something of their own to say.

Michigan Association of Neurological Surgeons — Annual Meeting

August 14–16, 2026 Crystal Mountain, Michigan

↓  Agenda (PDF) ↓  Slides (PPTX, 12 MB)

Gregory Schwing presenting at the Michigan Association of Neurological Surgeons annual meeting
Gregory Schwing presenting in the advanced-practitioner session.

Concurrent session for advanced practitioners

  1. Invited

    Gregory Schwing, MD, PhD Saturday 15 August, 1:45 pm · Arctic Bay

    When the Cord Is Compressed: Neuroradiology Essentials for Surgical Decision-Making in Degenerative Spine Disease

Preston M. Hickey Medical Student Symposium

August 7, 2026 Wayne State University School of Medicine · Detroit, MI

↓  Program (PDF)

Gregory Schwing, Ashley Schehr and Razanne Zaghloul at the Preston M. Hickey Medical Student Symposium
Gregory Schwing, Ashley Schehr and Razanne Zaghloul at the symposium. Ashley and Razanne took first and third place in the oral presentations.

Oral presentation awards

  1. 1st

    Ashley Schehr M2, Wayne State University School of Medicine

    Automated CT-Based Cobb Angle Measurement for Scoliosis Evaluation: A Computational Imaging Pipeline Across 1,156 Cases

  2. 3rd

    Razanne Zaghloul M2, Wayne State University School of Medicine

    Automated Measurement of Lumbar Intervertebral Disc Heights from CT Segmentation Masks: A Preliminary Validation Study

Consortium projects presented

  • Ashley Schehr M2

    Automated CT-Based Cobb Angle Measurement for Scoliosis Evaluation: A Computational Imaging Pipeline Across 1,156 Cases

  • Razanne Zaghloul M2

    Automated Measurement of Lumbar Intervertebral Disc Heights from CT Segmentation Masks: A Preliminary Validation Study

  • Hassan Saad M2

    Automated TRALL Angle Computation from CT Segmentation: A Scalable Pipeline for Lumbar Lordosis Quantification

  • Jerick Kim M2

    Straightening Out the Curve: Automated Analysis of Lordosis Distribution Index Measurement Using CT Segmentation Masks

  • Dane Hubers M2

    CT-Based Automated Morphometric Analysis of the Lumbar Spinal Canal: Normative Torg Ratio and Canal Diameter Values Across L1–L5

  • Jason Fahmy M2

    Automated Quantification of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Using CT-Derived Vertebral Landmarks

  • Namrata Vedagarbha M3

    Opportunistic Screening for Vertebral Degeneration Using Automated Analysis of Vertebral Hounsfield Units

Seven consortium projects were presented at the symposium, all of them built on the shared CT segmentation pipeline. Titles are as printed in the official program. Consortium members also present their own unrelated work; this list is the consortium’s, not a roster of everything its members did.

American Association of Clinical Anatomists — 43rd Annual Meeting

June 12–15, 2026 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Gregory Schwing at the American Association of Clinical Anatomists annual meeting
Gregory Schwing at the AACA annual meeting.

Tech Fair oral presentation

  1. Oral

    Gregory Schwing, MD, PhD Wayne State University · Detroit Medical Center

    Harnessing Algorithmic Disagreement for Automated Lumbosacral Transitional Vertebrae Detection