PRE-MEETING COURSES - PRACTICAL COURSE

PRACTICAL COURSE OBJECTIVES

The Practical Course is designed to provide both practicing physicians and residents/fellows with an opportunity to explore the use of a variety of skull base approaches for the management of cranial tumors and cerebrovascular disease. This one-day course is taught by an outstanding faculty of recognized experts from the fields of neurotology, neurosurgery, and facial-reconstructive surgery. It is an interactive demonstration with the aid of slides, cadaver dissections, and intraoperative videos. The Practical Course coordinators include Joseph Zabramski, MD, Daniel R. Peiper, MD and Albert L. Rhoton Jr, MD.

FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2001

6:30 am - 7:30 am

Registration/Continental Breakfast

7:30 am - 9:00 am

Orbitozygomatic Approach

Joseph M. Zabramski, MD

B. Gregory Thompson, MD

Intradural Approach to the Cavernous Sinus

Mauro A. T. Ferreira, MD

Fernando L. Gonzalez, MD

Extradural Approach to the Cavernous Sinus

Johnny B. Delashaw Jr, MD, PhD

Extended Pterional/Kawase Approach

Daniel R. Pieper, MD

Michael LaRouere, MD

Microsurgical Approaches to the Orbit

Ian T. Jackson, MD

9:00 am - 9:30 am

Break

9:30 am B 11:45 am

Transcondylar Approach

Chandranath Sen, MD

Extreme Far-lateral Approaches

Donald C. Wright, MD

Microsurgical Approach to the Jugular Foramen

Helder Tedeschi, MD

11:45 am B 12:45 pm

Lunch Break

12:45 pm - 2:30 pm

Retromastoid Approach

Albert L. Rhoton Jr, MD

Petrosal Subtemporal Approach

Franco DeMonte, MD

Translabyrinthine Approach

Guy J. Petruzzelli, MD, PhD

Transcochlear Approach

John P. Leonetti, MD

Combined Supra/Intratentorial Approaches

Thomas C. Origitano, MD, PhD

2:30 pm B 3:00 pm

Break

3:00 pm B 5:00 pm

Transmaxillary Approach

Norihiko Tamaki, MD

Transfacial Approach

Paul J. Donald, MD

Transmandibular Approach

Ehab Y.N. Hanna, MD

Subfrontal Approaches

Joram Raveh, MD, DMD

5:00 pm

Practical Course Concludes