Program Information

Monday Breakfast Sessions

Low Grade Gliomas: State-of-the Art Treatment
J.M. Piepmeier (USA), Moderator
M. Bernstein (Canada); S.R. Dharker (India); M. Galanda (Slovakia); K. Ueki (Japan); C. Lindquist (UK)

Germ Cell Tumors
S. Matsumoto (Japan), Moderator
Y. Sawamura (Japan); J. Yoshida (Japan); J.N. Bruce (USA); J.P Blount (USA); R.D. Hayward (UK)

Brain Mapping as an Aid to Tumor Surgery
G.A. Ojemann (USA), Moderator
M.S. Berger (USA); T. Kayama (Japan); A.H. Friedman (USA); J-C. Tonn (Germany); H. Duffau (France)

Chiari Type I Malformation
W.J. Oakes (USA), Moderator
P. Steinbok (Canada); C. Mazza (Italy); K.C. Hwang (South Korea); A. Cohen (Israel); V.
Maixner (Australia)

Advances in Brachial Plexus Surgery
D.G. Kline (USA), Moderator
R.J. Spinner (USA); M. Sarnardzic (Serbia); S. Yamada (USA);  M.J.A. Malessy (Netherlands); A. Isla (Spain)

Skull Base Radiosurgery
D.S. Kondziolka (USA), Moderator
J. Regis (France); K. Kitz (Austria); C.P. Yu (Hong Kong); J.P. Sheehan (USA); J.R. Adler (USA)

Neuromodulation in Failed Back Syndrome
J. Vangeneugden (Belgium), Moderator
K. Kumar (Canada); T. Beems (Netherlands); N.G. Rainov (UK); N.M. Boulis (USA); C.J. Winfree (USA)

Cavernous Sinus Meningiomas: Recent Surgical Concepts
V. Dolenc (Slovenia), Moderator
K. S. Lee (South Korea); R. Delfini (Italy); N.M. Pamir (Turkey); K.M. Aziz (USA); A.
Sepehrnia (Germany)

Surgical Risks and Complications in Skull Base Surgery
R. Ramina (Brazil), Moderator
K. Adachi (Japan); J. H. Lee (USA); A. Nanda (USA); C. Hardwidge (UK); P.A. Winkler (Germany)

Revascularization for Complex Skull Base Aneurysms and Tumors
L.N. Sekhar (USA), Moderator
J.M. Mura Castro (Chile); F.T. Charbel (USA); J.J. Morcos (USA); T. Miyamoto (Japan); Y.
Zhao (China)

The Neurosurgery of Pain
K.J. Burchiel (USA), Moderator
R.M. Levy (USA); J.M. Henderson (USA); T.Z. Aziz (UK); B. Linderoth (Sweden); B. Abdennebi (Algeria)

Challenges in Neurosurgery: Socioeconomic, Legal and War
J.R. Bean (USA), Moderator
A.R. Hudson (Canada); E. Marcin Kevicius (Lithuania), G.F. Haddad (Lebanon); L.E. Moores (USA); U.P. Devkota (Nepal)

Metastatic Spine Cancer
R. Assaker (France), Moderator
I. Ali (Bangladesh); M. Zileli (Turkey); L. Angelov (USA); P. Massaro Marchant (Chile); V.K.H. Sonntag (USA)

Artificial Cervical Disc
J. Goffin (Belgium), Moderator
R.W. Haid (USA); M. McDonald (Australia); L.H. de Mattos Pimenta (Brazil); J.M. Canizal Garcia (Spain); M. Shoda (Japan)

Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
J.W. German (USA), Moderator
R.L. Saunders (USA); T. Tissen (Russia); S.P. Concha Gutierrez (Chile); P. Suchomel (Czech Republic); V.K.H. Sonntag (USA)

Lumbar Fusion: Techniques
Y.S. Kim (South Korea), Moderator
A.M. Nowitzke (Australia); D. Rosenthal (Germany); K. Elisevich (USA); A.D. Levi (USA); L.M. Cavallo (Italy)

Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Austere Environments
A.M. Rubiano (Colombia), Moderator
M.T. Shokunbi (Nigeria); A.H. El-Hakim (Egypt); N. Knoller (Israel); K.B. Yrysov (Kyrgyz Republic); Z. Czernicki (Poland)

Treatment of Extracranial Carotid Artery Disease in 2009
G.G. Ferguson (Canada), Moderator
R.E. Harbaugh (USA); H. Wassman (Germany); A.A. de Sousa (Brazil); A.P. Karapurkar (India); L.N. Hopkins (USA)

Dural AVF: Surgical, Endovascular, Radiosurgical Treatment
D.L. Barrow (USA), Moderator
J.M.C. Van Dijk (Netherlands); M. Collice (Italy); L. Picard (France); K. Ganapathy (India); K.
Fujita (Japan)

Unruptured Aneurysms: Treatment Indications and Methods
M.C. Wallace (Canada), Moderator
E. Pozzati (Italy); I. Ng (Singapore); A. Morita (Japan); B. Richling (Austria); D.G. Piepgras (USA)

Monday Main Topic Sessions

Insular Gliomas: From Anatomy to Management
M.G. Yasargil (USA), Moderator
U. Ture (Turkey); F.F. Lang (USA); H. Duffau (France)

Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery
D.F. Kelly (USA), Moderator
A. Perneczky (Germany); G.S. Fernández Molina (Argentina); P. Cappabianca (Italy)

Pediatric Posterior Fossa Tumors
T.S. Park (USA), Moderator
M. Carter (UK); E.A. Al-Shail (Saudi Arabia); M.K. Baykaner (Turkey)

Asymptomatic Meningiomas: When Do We Operate?
G.L. Rosseau (USA), Moderator
R.K. Bindal (USA); T. Van Havenbergh (Belgium); J. Kuratsu (Japan)

Surgical Treatment of Movement Disorders
J. Guridi (Spain), Moderator
I.M. Mendez (Canada); P. Coubes (France); H.M. Mehdorn (Germany)

Management of the Incompletely Clipped/Coiled Intracranial Aneurysm
K.W. Lindsay (UK), Moderator
C. Raftopoulos (Belgium); B.K. Misra (India); C.A. David (USA)

Combined Therapy for Intracranial AVMs: Surgery, Endovascular Treatment and Radiosurgery
M.K. Morgan (Australia), Moderator
N. Hashimoto (Japan); J. Zhao (China); C.G. McDougall (USA)

Minimally Invasive Lumbar Surgery: Show Me the Data
R.B. Rodgers (USA), Moderator
K.T. Foley (USA); R.G. Fessler (USA); M.Y. Wang (USA)

Economics of Spine Surgery
M. Masini (Brazil), Moderator
G.J. Dohrmann (USA); I.H. Kalfas (USA); K. Sridhar (India)

New Neuromonitoring Methods in Traumatic Brain Injury: PtiO2, Microdialysis, EcoG, EEG, CBF
G.T. Manley (USA), Moderator
P.J. Hutchinson (UK); J.V. Rosenfeld (Australia); C.M. Tolias (UK)

Monday Plenary Sessions

Presiding Officer: Roberto C. Heros (USA)
Moderator: Jacques J. Morcos (USA)

Judah Folkman, MD (USA); James T. Rutka (Canada); Evandro De Oliveira (Brazil); Yucel Kanpolat (Turkey)