2025 Annual Meeting
KEYNOTE & HONORED GUEST SPEAKERS

Leseliey Welch is a public health strategist, social entrepreneur, and professional dreamer whose guiding value is Love. As a founder of Birth Detroit and Birth Center Equity, her work is grounded in making communities stronger, healthier and more accessible – starting with ensuring all people have access to all safe birth options. Birth Detroit will open its first freestanding community birth center in spring 2024, and Birth Center Equity is a national effort to invest in Black, Indigenous, people of color-led birth centers at scale to make birth centers a real option in all communities. She has two decades of leadership experience in city, state and national health organizations, including having served as Deputy Director of Public Health for the City of Detroit. Leseliey earned her degree in Women’s Studies, Masters in Public Health and Masters in Business Administration from the University of Michigan, and is an Aspen Institute Ascend Fellow.

CURTIN CALL SPEAKER

Christine M. Glastonbury, MBBS, is a Professor of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, and Radiation Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Glastonbury is a Neuroradiologist with a particular academic and clinical interest in Head & Neck (HN) Imaging. She is a member of the HN Expert Panel for the development of the American Joint Committee on Cancer [AJCC] Cancer Staging System, 8th and 9th editions. Christine is also the first radiologist member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Networks [NCCN] Head and Neck Cancers Panel. She has authored and edited multiple textbooks, more than 130 articles and received multiple awards for scientific and education exhibits at annual meetings. She is perhaps most well-known for her lectures, simplifying complex HN anatomy and disease processes, to encourage all radiologists to understand and embrace HN imaging.
Originally from Adelaide, Australia, where she completed her medical degree and radiology training, Christine spent a year in London at the Hammersmith Hospital and at the Royal Marsden, Surrey, before 2-year Neuroradiology fellowship at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Since 2004 Christine has been part of the Neuroradiology team at UCSF that prides itself on a close working relationship with neurologists, surgeons, oncologists, and internists, providing the highest level of patient care. Christine works closely with the Radiation Oncologists and HN surgical and oncology team at the weekly HN tumor board and radiation planning sessions to optimize the care of HN cancer patients at UCSF. After having previously been Neuroradiology fellowship program director and interim chief of Neuroradiology through COVID, Christine is the Vice-Chair for Academic Affairs and the director of Mentoring in Radiology. She was honored to serve as the Program President for the World Federation of Neuroradiological Societies’ 2022 meeting in New York City, hosted by the ASNR, and was elected President for the American Society of Head and Neck Radiology in September 2024.

After finishing training in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Wayne State University in Detroit and spending four years in private practice, Dr. Marentette pursued a 1-year fellowship In the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Zurich under the direction of Hugo Obwegeser.  At that time, Ugo Fisch was the head of Otolaryngology, and Gazi Yasargil was the head of Neurosurgery.  He subsequently spent eight years at the University of Minnesota, working with Stephen Haines doing pediatric craniofacial surgery. In 1993, he was recruited to the University of Michigan to start a skull base program with the Department of Neurosurgery, initially with Donald Ross, now at OHSU.  Dr. Marentette is currently Professor Emeritus of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and has been a member of NASBS since its founding in 1989.

A New Jersey native and earned her B.S. in history and biology at Yale University, followed by her M.D. from Columbia University. She completed her neurosurgical training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and was a Senior Staff Fellow at the NIH.

Dr. Muraszko joined the University of Michigan in 1990, became Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery in 1995, and was Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery from 2005 to 2022—the first woman in the U.S. to chair an academic neurosurgical department. She holds joint appointments in Plastic Surgery and Pediatrics and was inducted into the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.

Her leadership roles include serving on multiple neurosurgical boards and committees, including as President of the Society of Neurological Surgeons (2019-2020). She has earned numerous awards, including the American Medical Association Inspirational Physician Award and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Humanitarian Award.

Dr. Muraszko’s research focuses on pediatric brain tumors, Chiari malformations, and complex craniofacial anomalies. She is Director of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Clinic at the University of Michigan and co-founded Project Shunt, a program delivering neurosurgical care to children in Guatemala. Her research contributions include over 200 peer-reviewed publications, books, and chapters.

She is married to Scott VanSweringen, an architect, and they have two children, Paxton and Alexandria. They enjoy traveling, fishing, and architectural conservation.