Pacific Rim Master Class 2025

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Pacific Rim Master Class in Endoscopic Endonasal and Keyhole Surgery

FOR BRAIN, SKULL BASE AND PITUITARY TUMORS WITH HANDS-ON MICRODISSECTION
A collaboration between University of Colorado & Pacific Neuroscience Institute

March 28-30th, 2025 | Santa Monica, California, USA

This 3-day course experience will provide an extensive immersion in advanced endonasal and transcranial keyhole surgical techniques using didactic and anatomical lectures, cadaveric dissections, and live surgery on Day 1.

The course faculty are highly experienced and recognized world-experts in minimally invasive endoscopic and keyhole surgery.

The course emphasis will be on:

Patient and approach selection
Surgical judgement
Anatomical awareness
Technical nuances
Complication avoidance
Maintaining quality of life
Optimizing clinical outcomes

Specific approaches discussed and performed in the lab will include:

Endoscopic endonasal route including extended approach variations
Supraorbital eyebrow craniotomy
Mini-pterional craniotomy
Gravity-assisted transfalcine and transtentorial endoscopic approaches
Retromastoid route

A team approach involving neurosurgery, otolaryngology and neuro-ophthalmology will be stressed as well as collaboration with neuro-oncology, endocrinology and radiation oncology.

The course will have sessions on keyhole surgery for neurosurgeons, and endonasal approaches for ENTs/ophthalmologists.

Audience

Neurosurgeons, otolaryngologists/ENT/rhinologists, plastic surgeons, and neuroophthalmologists/ ophthalmologists with some prior experience in endoscopic and keyhole surgery who want to expand their repertoire and capabilities.

Pricing

$1,500 individual

Didactic & hands-on

Free for residents / fellows

$500 observers / didactic only

CME Certification

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of AAMS and Pacific Neuroscience Institute. The AAMS is accredited by the California Medical Association (CMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The AAMS designates this educational activity for a maximum of 16 hour(s) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this live activity.

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Course Directors

Pacific Neuroscience Institute

PNI Faculty

In alphabetical order by last name

Garni Barkhoudarian, MD
Co-Director, Pituitary Disorders Center
Director, Adult Hydrocephalus Center
Director, Facial Pain Center
Director, SJCI/PNI Neuroanatomy

Chester F. Griffiths, MD, FACS
Head & Neck Surgery
Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery
Director, Facial Pain Center Director, Pacific Eye, Ear & Skull Base Center

Adi Iyer, MD, MS
Neurosurgery & Neurointerventional Surgery
Director, Stroke & Neurovascular Center

Daniel F. Kelly, MD
Director, Brain Tumor Center
Director, Pituitary Disorders Program
Director & Co-Founder, Pacific Neuroscience Institute

Amit Kochhar, MD
Director, Facial Nerve Disorders Program

Howard Krauss, MD
Director, Eye, Ear & Skull Base Center
Co-Founder, Pacific Neuroscience Institute

Walavan Sivakumar, MD
Director, Neurovascular Surgery
Director, Neurosurgery PNI South Bay

Alex Solomon, MD
Neuro-ophthalmology

Noa Tal, MD
Endocrinology

Andrew Wong, MD
Neurosurgery Fellow 2024-25

Michael Yong, MD, MPH, MBA
Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery;
Neurorhinology – Advanced Sinus & Skull Base Surgery

Lab Manager: Josh Emerson, BS, MFA

CU Faculty

In alphabetical order by last name

Ash Khanwalkar, MD
Otolaryngology
Head & Neck Surgery
University of Colorado Medicine

Prem Subramanian, MD, PhD
Chief, Neuro-ophthalmology
UCHealth Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Eye Center

A. Samy Youssef, MD, PhD
Director, Skull Base Surgery
Professor of Neurosurgery & Otolaryngology
University of Colorado Medicine

Visiting Faculty

In alphabetical order by last name

Doo Sik Kong, MD
Samsung Medical Center
Seoul, South Korea

Peter Nakaji, MD
Founder and Director
Scottsdale Neurosurgery Specialists
Scottsdale, Arizona

Jai Thakur, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery,
Director of Minimally Invasive Cranial & Skull Base Neurosurgery, Director of Neurosurgery Education, University of South Alabama

Gabriel Zada, MD
Director, USC Brain Tumor Center
Professor of Neurological Surgery (Clinical Sch)
Otolaryngology and Internal Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC
Co-Director, USC Pituitary Center
Los Angeles, CA