Pacific Rim Master Class 2024

Overview

Pacific Rim Master Class in Endoscopic Endonasal and Keyhole Surgery

FOR BRAIN, SKULL BASE AND PITUITARY TUMORS WITH HANDS-ON MICRODISSECTION

A collaboration between Pacific Neuroscience Institute & University of Colorado

March 15-17^th, 2024 | 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

$1,000 individual

Didactic & hands-on

$500 residents / fellows

$250 didactic only

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Course Directors

Pacific Neuroscience Institute

Faculty Speakers

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
Usman Khan, MD, PhD
- Neurosurgery Fellow 2023-24
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
Noa Tal, MD
- Endocrinology
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
A. Samy Youssef, MD, PhD
- Director, Skull Base Surgery
- Professor of Neurosurgery & Otolaryngology
- University of Colorado Medicine

Invited Faculty

In alphabetical order by last name

Zachary Litvack, MD
- Director of Minimally Invasive & Skull Base Surgery
- Department of Neurosurgery
- Swedish Medical Center
- Seattle, WA
Zara Patel, MD
- Professor of Otolaryngology
- Director, Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery
- Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS)
- Stanford Health Care
- Palo Alto, CA
Teddy Totimeh, MD
- Consultant Neurosurgeon
- Accra, Greater Accra Region
- Ghana, West Africa
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