Modern approaches to the brain and skull base

August 22, 2024 to August 23, 2024

Houston Methodist Hospital will be partnering with a European institution to host a skull base and brain course. It will include lectures and hands on labs. There will be guest speaker from plastic surgery that will also speak to the collaboration with plastics in skull base and brain surgery.

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Course summary

Course opens:

03/03/2023

Course expires:

05/31/2024

Event starts:

08/22/2024 - 7:30am CDT

Event ends:

08/23/2024 - 3:30pm CDT

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Program: Modern approaches to the brain and skull base
		20 mins presentation, 10mins Q&A, 30mins total each speaker
Day 1: Thu August 22nd
08:00 – 08:30	Registration/Welcome and introduction	Gavin Britz, MD Guenther Feigl, PD PhD Krešimir Rotim, PD PhD
Time	Lectures and Hands-on dissection	Faculty
08:30 – 09:15	Keynote lecture: Cosmetic approach to skull base incision	Michael Klebuc, MD
09:15 – 9:45	Minimally invasive approaches to brain lesions	Gavin Britz, MD
09:45 –10:15	Minimally invasive supraorbital approach to skull base lesions	Guenther Feigl , PD PhD
10:15 –10:45	Anatomy of the expanded endonasal approach to the skull base	Mas Takashima, MD
15 min break
11:00 – 11:30	Expanded endoscopic endonasal approach to the parasellar space and cavernous sinus compartments	Roman Bosnjak, MD PhD
11:30 – 12:00	Maliganat parapahyngeal lesions: Open versus endoscopic approach	Martin Jurlina, MD PHD

Lunch 12:30-13:30
13:30-13:45	Brief Introduction of Surgical Anatomy (Domagoj Gajsky, MD)		*Lab Instructors:* Rainer Ritz, MD PHD Steffen Rosahl, MD PHD Domagoj Gajsky, MD Roman Bosnjak, MD PhD Martin Jurlina, MD PHD
13:45-15:00	Cosmetics lab	Michael Klebuc, MD
15:00-16:15	Superorbital lab	Guenther Feigl, MD
16:15-17:30	Transnasal lab	Mas Takashima, MD
19:30	Gala Dinner
Day 2: Friday August 23
Time	Lectures and Hands-on dissection	Faculty
09:00 – 09:30	Neurosurgical thoughts for Lateral skull base approach	James Lui, MD
09:30 –10:00	ENT thoughts for lateral approaches	Jeff Vrabec, MD
10:00 –10:30	Minimally invasive modified OZ approaches	Brandon Lebelt, MD
10:30 –11:00	Meningiomas of the craniocervical junction: Modern approaches to treatment	Krešimir Rotim, PD PhD
11:30 –12:00	Perihippocampal tumors with epilepsy: should we avoid hippocampal resection	Tomislav Sajko, MD
Lunch 12:00-13:00
13:00-13:15	Brief Introduction of Surgical Anatomy (Domagoj Gajsky, MD)		*Lab Instructors:* James Lui, MD Rainer Ritz, MD PHD Steffen Rosahl, MD PHD Domagoj Gajsky, MD Roman Bosnjak, MD PhD Martin Jurlina, MD PHD
13:15-15:00	Classical transpetrosal approach lab	James Lui, MD
Closing remarks 15:00-15:30

Croatia

COURSE DIRECTORS
	Gavin W. Britz MD, MPH, MBA, FAANS Candy and Tom Knudson Distinguished Centennial Chair in Neurosurgery Professor and Chairman Department of Neurosurgery Director, Neurological Institute Co-Director, Cerebrovascular Center Co-Director, Skull Base Program Houston Methodist Hospital Professor of Neurological Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, NY Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

	Guenther C. Feigl, MD, PhD Professor of Neurosurgery Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, Klinikum Bamberg, Germany Director of the Brain Tumor Center Bamberg Director of the Skull Base Center Bamberg Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery, (IAM) Houston Methodist, Houston Texas Full Faculty Member on the Affiliate Track, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston Texas Honorary Professor, University of Applied Health Sciences, Zagreb Croatia

KEYNOTE SPEAKER	Michael Klebuc, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Houston Methodist Hospital & Weill Cornell School of Medicine Eva Lynn & John S. Dunn Jr. New Century Chair in Reconstructive Surgery Director of the Center for Facial Paralysis and Functional Restoration

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Modern approaches to the brain and skull base

Modern approaches to the brain and skull base

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