Scientific Program: Day 3

Friday, Oct. 4

Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, Beth Robertson Auditorium
1925 Pressler Street, Houston, Texas 77030

Session 9
Challenging Brain Tumors
Moderators: TBD

8:00 – 8:15 a.m.	Posterior fossa meningiomas: Classifications and unification of surgical approaches	Oleksandr Voznyak
8:15 – 8:30 a.m.	CPA meningioma: Approach selection and lessons learned	Roberto Silveira
8:30 – 8:45 a.m.	Foramen magnum meningiomas: Choosing the best approach	Jose Landeiro
8:45 – 9:00 a.m.	Surgery in the thalamus	Ahmed Aljuboori
9:00 – 9:15 a.m.	Endoscopic endonasal approaches to complex skull base tumors	Aristotelis Kalyvas
9:15 – 9:30 a.m.	Combined endoscopic endonasal and transcranial approaches: Useful or overzealous?	Samy Youssef
9:30 – 9:45 a.m.	Merits of the Samii practice code in skull base surgery	Imad Kanaan
9:45 – 10:00 a.m.	Discussion
10:00 – 10:15 a.m.	Break	Exhibit hall open

Session 10
Cerebrovascular
Moderator: P. Roc Chen

10:15 – 10:30 a.m.	Microsurgical management of complex aneurysms	Francisco Gonzalez-Llanos
10:30 – 10:45 a.m.	Complex extracranial bypasses: Indications and techniques	Tao Wang
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.	Brain AVMs: From establishing eloquence to mastery of technique	Spyros Karadimas
11:00 – 11:15 a.m.	New innovations in microsurgical teaching for residents and fellows: How do we shorten the learning curve?	Nickalus Khan
11:15 – 11:30 a.m.	Discussion

Session 11
Panel Discussion: Skull Base Lesions (Non-Meningiomas)
Moderators: Nimer Adeeb & Mohamed Samy ElHammady

Special Guest Lecture

Noon – 12:30 p.m.	TBD	Special Speaker
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.	Lunch

Session 12
Skull Base Frontiers
Moderator: Madison Michael

1:30 – 1:45 p.m.	MVD for tinnitus	Krish Sridhar
1:45 – 2:00 p.m.	Endoscopy in the CP angle: Not just for MVD	John Lee
2:00 – 2:15 p.m.	Minimalism in skull base surgery: Less is more	Sumit Sinha
2:15 – 2:30 p.m.	Indications for endoscopic and open approaches for petroclival chondrosarcomas: Decision making and long-term outcomes	Shaan Raza
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.	Mastering the cavernous sinus	Carlos David
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.	Revisiting operability within the cavernous sinus	Georgios Zenonos
3:00 – 3:15 p.m.	Discussion
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.	Break	Exhibit hall open

Session 13
Cranial Nerves & Stereotactic/Functional
Moderators: TBD

3:30 – 3:45 p.m.	Trigeminal neuralgia: Best treatment is…?	Enrique Osorio
3:45 – 4:00 p.m.	Trigeminal neuralgia without vascular conflict: Role of neurolysis	Marco Gonzales-Portillo
4:00 – 4:15 p.m.	Glossopharyngeal schwannomas	Mohamad Farajirad
4:15 – 4:30 p.m.	Deep brain stimulation: Quo vadis?	Cordula Mathies
4:30 – 4:45 p.m.	Drug refractory epilepsy: Decision making, surgical strategy and results in 694 cases treated over 22 years	Dattatraya Muzumdar
4:45 – 5:00 p.m.	Discussion

Session 14
Panel Discussion: Cerebrovascular
Moderators: Spiros Blackburn & Erol Sandalcioglu