2026 Pre-Meeting Course
This is a comprehensive course designed to provide focused anatomic lectures with complementary dissections. This format will allow learners to increase their knowledge base through thoughtful didactics. Learners will be able to work shoulder to shoulder with experts in the field to apply the aforementioned knowledge to anatomic dissections thereby enhancing their skill sets through appropriate cadaveric dissection. This is ideal for all skull base specialists, notably neurosurgeons, rhinologists, otologists and oculoplastic surgeons.
At the conclusion of this session, attendees will be able to:
– Develop an appropriate surgical plan to approach varying skull base pathology.
– Apply new anatomic and surgical knowledge to one’s practice.
PROGRAM
Subject to Change
Please note the Pre-Meeting Hands-on Course takes place at USCD Center for the Future of Surgery Lab ; transportation will be provided to and from the headquarter hotel
DAY 1: Wednesday, March 4, 2026
| 7:30 AM | Registration/Breakfast |
| 7:45 AM | Introductions |
| 8:00 AM | Endonasal Skull Base Anatomy and Intra/Extra-Nasal Flaps |
| 8:30 AM | Step by Step Sellar with Medial Cavernous Dissection |
| 8:45 AM | Step by Step Cribriform |
| 9:00 AM | Step by Step Tubercular/Planar |
| 9:15 AM | Step by Step Transclival/Transodontoid |
| 9:30 AM | Lab Starts |
| 12:00 PM | Lab Ends |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch/Managing Endonasal Skull Base Complications |
| 1:00 PM | PPF/ITF 3D Anatomy |
| 1:30 PM | Step by Step PPF/ITF with Middle Fossa/Mekels/Cavernous |
| 1:45 PM | Break |
| 2:00 PM | Lab Starts |
| 5:00 PM | Lab Ends |
DAY 2: Thursday, March 5, 2026
| 7:15 AM | Registration/Breakfast |
| 7:30 AM | Introductions |
| 7:45 AM | Open Skull Base Anatomy |
| 8:00 AM | Eyebrow Craniotomy |
| 8:15 AM | Step by Step Pterional, OZ, pre-temporal transcavernous |
| 8:30 AM | Step by Step Middle Fossa with Kawase |
| 8:45 AM | Step by Step Retrosigmoid/Far Lateral |
| 9:00 AM | Temporal and Posterior Fossa Anatomy |
| 9:15 AM | Step by Step Translabyrinthine |
| 9:30 AM | Lab Starts |
| 12:00 PM | Lab Ends |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch/Challenging Case Panel Discussion |
| 1:15 PM | Lab Starts |
| 5:00 PM | Lab Ends |