Log In
Create an Account
Join CNS
  • Awards and Scholarships
  • Our Impact
    • Memorials, Tributes & Planned Giving
    • Funds Overview
    • Our Philanthropy Partners
    • Our Inspiring Supporters
    • CNS Foundation Impact Reports
    • News
  • Initiatives
    • Clinical Scientist Career Development
    • International Philanthropy
    • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
    • CNS Guidelines
    • At A Glance
  • Leadership
    • Appreciation from our Chair
    • Board of Directors
    • About
  • Volunteer
  • 2022 CNS Annual Meeting
  • Donate
  • CNS Guidelines Initiative

    The CNS Foundation proudly supports the development, review and dissemination of CNS Guidelines in order to keep this essential service free, accessible and of high quality to the worldwide community of neurosurgeons.

    Your browser does not support HTML5 video. Thomas Larrew, 2021 CNS Guidelines Quality Scholar Award Recipient
  • To browse CNS Guidelines in your subspecialty, please visit the CNS Guidelines page.


    CNS Guidelines Quality Scholarship  

    The CNS Foundation is proud to support the inaugural CNS Guidelines Quality Scholarship Award with a 2020 Innovative Seed Grant. The resident or fellow recipient of this award will conduct a one-year project where they select guideline recommendation(s) from a published CNS Guideline, develop quality measures, and use CPT codes to analyze a dataset of their choosing to assess the impact of guidelines on practice. The 2021-2022 winner of the CNS Guidelines Quality Scholarship is Dr. Thomas Larrew of Medical University of South Carolina.

    To support this award, please direct your annual gift to the CNS Guidelines initiative. DONATE TODAY.

    Goal: $15,000 in annual support

    Perioperative Spine Surgery Guidelines (2019 – 2022)

    Generously supported by the Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves (Spine Section), this three-year project will support preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative guidelines for neurosurgeons in the Spine and Peripheral Nerves sub-specialty. 

    Demonstrating Impact – The Guidelines App

    2017: Trauma Section donation funds development and implementation of free Guidelines App. Available for both Android and Apple phones, the CNS Guidelines App includes guideline recommendations and topic overviews for all CNS-produced guidelines in six specialty areas. Through the app, clinicians have immediate, at the point-of-care access to 16 guideline topics, with links to the full-text of the guideline.

    2019: Guidelines App dissemination reaches 9,000 downloads by neurosurgeons around the world.

    The CNS adheres to robust methodological processes to ensure the publication of high quality, evidence-based guidelines that clinicians can rely on. Currently, the CNS produces guidelines in the subspecialty topic areas of Pain, Pediatrics, Spine, Stereotactic/Functional, Trauma, and Tumor.

    If you or your organization are interested in learning more about supporting the CNS Guidelines Initiative, please contact Courtney Johnson, Manager of Foundation & Giving, to learn about specific standards and policies for supporting medical guidelines.

    Guideline Award Applications.

    Apply Today
  • “CNS Foundation represents the primary source of funding for the creation and publication of clinical practice Guidelines in Neurosurgery. As current Chair of the AANS-CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, I feel that it is critical to have funding to support clinical practice guidelines for spinal disorders. CNS Foundation provides necessary support for guidelines development.”
    - Zoher Ghogawala, MD, FACS
    CNS Foundation Section Steward

Improving worldwide patient health through innovative programs that allow neurosurgeons to collaborate globally as researchers, learners, educators and caregivers.

Get Involved

  • Join
  • Support
  • Advocate

Associated CNS Websites

  • Neurosurgery
  • Operative Neurosurgery
  • Nexus
  • SANS Lifelong Learning
  • Faculty Service Center

Connect With Us


  • Careers
  • Press Room
  • Advertise
10 North Martingale Road, Suite 190, Schaumburg, IL 60173
847-240-2500
877-517-1CNS (Toll Free)

Copyright © 2019 Congress of Neurological Surgeons, unless otherwise noted. All Rights Reserved.
Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Contact Us