Advance Registration Deadline: July 30, 2024

This course is designed for skull base fellows or early-career neurosurgeons with an interest in skull base surgery. The two-day intensive course will include a combination of lectures, case-based discussions, and cadaver dissections designed to cover the basic surgical approaches and anatomy required of every skull base neurosurgeon. Faculty will include neurosurgeons and ENT surgeons who will demonstrate both posterolateral transtemporal surgical approaches as well as endoscopic endonasal anatomy and surgical options. The course will also feature an emphasis on the treatment of vascular lesions.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify factors that lead to surgical complications and poor outcomes when treating brain tumors.
• Employ strategies for surgical complication avoidance and treatment management.
• Analyze the impact of surgical complications on patient quality of life.
• Demonstrate proper surgical techniques for endonasal endoscopic approaches to the skull base.

Course Director: Nicholas Bambakidis