Program Information

Tuesday Breakfast Sessions

High Grade Gliomas: Management Options
I.F. Parney (Canada), Moderator
Y.G. Chung (South Korea); O. de Witte (Belgium); D.P. Rojas Pinto (Chile); M.W. McDermott (USA); S. Shibui (Japan)

Brain Metastasis: The Full Spectrum
K. Takakura (Japan), Moderator
R.A. Brandt (Brazil); R. Diez Valle (Spain); W.H. Ng (Singapore); M. Levivier (Belgium); C.G Yampolsky (Argentina)

Craniopharyngiomas in Adults: Controversies in Management
A.P. Bricolo (Italy), Moderator
H. Takahashi (Japan); J. Steno (Slovakia); A.A. Mancy (Egypt); A.V. Ciurea (Romania); G.N. Zuccaro (Argentina)

Pituitary Surgery: Techniques and Complications
M. Buchfelder (Germany), Moderator
A. Teramoto (Japan); K.D. Post (USA); G. Frank (Italy); R. Jooma (Pakistan); S.H. Kim (South Korea)

Advances in Craniosynostosis Surgery
H.R. Machado (Brazil), Moderator
A. Zuleta Ferreira (Chile); D.F. Jimenez (USA); E. Arnaud (France); G. Tamburrini (Italy); M. Vassilyadi (Canada)

Epilepsy in Children: Surgical Management
J.T. Rutka (Canada), Moderator
W. Harkness (UK); S. Bhatia (USA); O. Delalande (France); M. Benifla (Israel); T.T. Wong (Taiwan)

New Perspectives in Peripheral Nerve Trauma
E.L. Zager (USA), Moderator
R. Midha (Canada); S. Rochkind (Israel); Z. Roganovic (Serbia); M.P. Socolovsky (Argentina); T. Taira (Japan)font>

Difficult Skull Base Meningiomas: Prospective Combined Treatment of Surgery and Radiosurgery
C. Lindquist (UK), Moderator
B.K. Misra (India); R. Liscak (Germany); K. Kitz (Austria); W. T. Couldwell (USA); T. I. Mathiesen (Sweden)

Jugular Foramen Tumors: How to Preserve the Lower Cranial Nerves
T. Fukushima (USA), Moderator
L. A. Borba (Brazil); T. Sameshima (USA); T. Sasaki (Japan); J.D. Oviedo (Argentina): G. Maira (Italy)

Image Guided Skull Base Surgery
T.C. Origitano (USA), Moderator
A. Kato (Japan); T. Hori (Japan); R. Ramamurthi (India); P. Black (USA); S. Wolfsberger (Austria)

Surgical Treatment of Parkinsons Disease
J. Guridi (Spain), Moderator
S. Blond (France); M.I. Hariz (UK); R.A.E. Bakay (USA); F. Velasco Campos (Mexico); P. Krack (France)

Complications in Neurosurgery: Management, Avoidance and Philosophical Aspects
R.C. Heros (USA), Moderator
M.K. Morgan (Australia); M. A. Arraez Sanchez (Spain); R. Sawaya (USA); J. Rowe (UK); A. Ducati (Italy)

Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: Ventral, Dorsal or Combined Approach
D.J. Dirisio (USA), Moderator
P.R. Cooper (USA); R. Corvalan Latapia (Chile); A. Gushcha (Russia); S. Martin-Ferrer (Spain)

Artificial Lumbar Disc
F.H. Geisler (USA), Moderator
S.J. Vorster (South Africa); Y.S. Kim (South Korea); R.F. Heary (USA); A.T.H. Casey (UK); B. Hall (Australia)

The Future of Spine Surgery: What’s New?
M.A. Hafez Ramadan (Egypt), Moderator
J. Goffin (Belgium); D. Jaskólski (Poland); J.F. O’Shea (USA); K.M. Scheufler (Germany); D. Choi (UK)

Advances in Cervical Fusions
F. Porchet (France), Moderator
G.J. Martin-Rodriguez (Spain); A.N. Konovalov (Russia); K. E. Turel (India); H. Nakagawa (Japan); N. Duggal (Canada)

Rebuilding the Injured Brain and Spinal Cord after Injury: Fantasy or the Future?
M.G. Fehlings (Canada), Moderator
M.R. Bullock (USA); A. Mahmood (USA); N. Phan Cong (Canada); H. Huang (China); H. Cheng (Taiwan)

Intracranial Stenosis: Surgical, Endovascular and Medical Management
W. Taki (Japan), Moderator
M.T. Lawton (USA); Y. Mao (China); F.H. Pahl (Brazil); E.I. Levy (USA); C.W. Oh (South Korea)

Surgical Treatment of Brainstem Cavernous Malformations: Indications and Techniques
S. Giannotta (USA), Moderator
R.D. Lobato (Spain); H. Bertalanffy (Switzerland); M.E. Azouzi (USA); V. Jovanovic (Serbia); R.F. Spetzler (USA)

Skull Base Surgical Techniques for Simple and Complex Intracranial Aneurysms
M.K. Shibata (Brazil), Moderator
J.J. Jafar (USA); K. Hongo (Japan); A. Andreou (Greece); A.F. Krisht (USA); A. Amirjamshidi (Iran)

Tuesday Main Topic Sessions

Intraoperative MRI: Technology and Applications
P. Black (USA), Moderator
W.A. Hall (USA); C. Nimsky (Germany); F.W. Saunders (Canada)

Peripheral Nerve Tumors
D.G. Kline (USA), Moderator
A. Guha (Canada); D.H. Kim (USA); A. Alexandre (Italy)

Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases
R. Spiegelmann (Israel), Moderator
R. Liscak (Germany); S. Fukuoka (Japan); D. Mathieu (Canada)

Neurosurgical Approaches to Dystonia
D.E. Sakas (Greece), Moderator
P.R. Schuurman (Netherlands); R.L. Alterman (USA); T. Taira (Japan)

Motor Cortex Stimulation Therapy for Post-Stroke Weakness
Y. Katayama (Japan), Moderator
J.A Brown (USA); C. Fukaya (Japan); J-P Nguyen-Buu (France)

Skull Base Approaches vs. Minimally Invasive Approaches
J. J. Morcos (USA), Moderator
A. Kassam (USA); A. Perneczky (Germany); T. Fukushima (USA)

Surgical Management of Moyamoya Disease and Related Syndromes: Indications and Techniques
K. Ikezaki (Japan); Moderator
R.M. Scott (USA); K. Houkin (Japan); L. Quintana Marin (Chile)

Minimally Invasive Cervical Spine Surgery
R.E. Isaacs (USA), Moderator
J.W. German (USA); J.E. O’Toole (USA); T.L. Tredway (USA)

Intramedullary Spinal Pathology
K. Hida (Japan), Moderator
P.C. McCormick (USA); Y.A. Shulev (Russia); T. Tominaga (Japan)

Strategies for Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury
C.H. Tator (Canada), Moderator
A. Attar (Turkey); M. Tadie (France); E.C. Benzel (USA)

Tuesday Plenary Sessions

Presiding Officer: Jacques Brotchi (Belgium)
Moderator: Nelson M. Oyesiku (USA)

John P. Donoghue, PhD, MS (USA); Seija Fukuoka (Japan); Hector Giocoli (Argentina); Jacques Brotchi (Belgium)