Pacific Rim Master Class 2023

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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 24-26, 2023 | Santa Monica, California, USA

This endoscopic endonasal and keyhole surgery CME course will provide an extensive immersion in advanced endonasal and transcranial keyhole surgical techniques using didactic and anatomical lectures, cadaveric dissections, and a 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 parallel 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

$3,000 individual

Didactic & hands-on

$5,000 pair ($2,500 individual)

Didactic & hands-on

$1000 residents / fellows

$500 didactic only

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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

J. Frank Berry, MD, MS
Neurosurgery Fellow 2022-23
Pacific Neuroscience Institute

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

CU Faculty

In alphabetical order by last name

Anne Getz, MD
Rhinology & 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

Visiting Faculty

In alphabetical order by last name

Ivan El-Sayed, MD
Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology
Director of the Otolaryngology Minimally Invasive Skull Base Surgery
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS)
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Kentaro Horiguchi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery
Chiba University Hospital
Tokyo, Japan

Doo Sik Kong, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery
Samsung Medical Centre, Korea

Pablo Villanueva, MD
Facultad de Medicina
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile

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

Course Overview

Friday, March 24^th
12 – 5pm – Live surgery, short lectures, and evening reception

Saturday, March 25^th
All-day lectures & dissection & course dinner

Sunday, March 26^th
All-day lectures & dissection
5pm – Adjourn

Days At-A-Glance

Friday, March 24^th, 2023 – DAY 1
Noon – 5pm
Pacific Neuroscience Institute, 2125 Arizona Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90404

11am – Noon	Registration & Lunch
Noon	Welcome Course Overview Daniel F. Kelly, MD Garni Barkhoudarian, MD A. Samy Youssef, MD, PhD
12:10pm	Live Surgery Case introduction J. Frank Berry, MD, MS – PNI Fellow
12:30pm	Invited Guest Lecture Complications of endoscopic endonasal surgery in Chile Pablo Villanueva, MD
1 – 3:30pm	Case Discussion Live commentary Garni Barkhoudarian, MD
3:30-4pm	Break
4pm	Approach lecture Keyhole or endonasal surgery – case dependent Garni Barkhoudarian, MD Daniel F. Kelly, MD
4:30pm	Combined Open & Endoscopic Approaches Parasellar region, cavernous sinus or lateral skull base A. Samy Youssef, MD, PhD
5pm	Welcome Reception SoCalo Restaurant
7pm	Faculty Dinner La Puglia

Saturday, March 25^th, 2023 – DAY 2
All day
Saint John’s Cancer Institute, 2200 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90404

7am	Continental Breakfast Parallel Neurosurgery Session (J&JG Conference Room)	Continental Breakfast Parallel ENT Session (Executive Conference Room)
7:30am	Keyhole surgery: supraorbital and mini-pterional approaches Daniel F. Kelly, MD	Mucosal repurposing and turbinate preservation in endoscopic skull base surgery Chester F. Griffiths, MD, FACS
8am	Endoscope-assisted posterior fossa surgery Garni Barkhoudarian, MD	Sinonasal malignancies Anne Getz, MD
8:30am	Endoscope-assisted cranial surgery and fluorescence Gabriel Zada, MD	Endoscopic approaches to the Infratemporal Fossa Ivan El-Sayed, MD
9am	Keyhole approaches for aneurysm surgery Walavan Sivakumar, MD	Management of complex wounds and skull base reconstruction Amit Kochhar, MD
9:30am	Tuberculum sella mengioma: above or below? Garni Barkhoudarian, MD	The skull base repair ladder at UCSF Ivan El-Sayed, MD
10am	Anatomical Dissection Eyebrow keyhole supraorbital craniotomy Mini-pterional craniotomy Tranorbital (eyelid)
Noon	Lunch
12:30pm	Lunch lecture Olfaction preservation in anterior skull base meningiomas A. Samy Youssef, MD, PhD
1 – 4pm	Anatomical Dissection Endonasal approaches Coronal plane – Meckel’s cave approach Coronal plane – infratemporal approach
4pm	Panel Discussion Scary cases (all faculty)
6pm	Adjourn
7pm	Course Dinner Earth, Wind, & Flour

Sunday, March 26^th, 2023 – DAY 3
All day
Saint John’s Cancer Institute, 2200 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90404

7am	Continental Breakfast
7:15am	Endoscopic endonasal surgery: overview Daniel F. Kelly, MD
7:30am	Flap reconstruction and CSF leak management Chester F. Griffiths, MD, FACS
8am	Coronal plane approaches: anterior (transorbital) and infrapetrous coronal approaches (medial petrous apex and petroclival) Anne Getz, MD
8:30	Management of cavernous sinus invasion Kentaro Horiguchi, MD
8:55am	Neuro-ophthalmic evaluation and management in association with multidisciplinary care of parasellar tumors Howard R. Krauss, MD
9:15am	Trans-orbital approaches to skull base tumors Doo Sik Kong, MD
9:40am	Endoscopic endonasal approach for craniopharyngioma Kentaro Horiguchi, MD
10am	Anatomical Dissection Endonasal approaches Sagittal plane – transtubercular Sagittal plane – transclival Sagittal plane – odontoid
12pm	Lunch

12:30pm	Lunch Lecture Factors predicting visual recovery after orbital tumor research Doo Sik Kong, MD
1pm	Anatomical Dissection Supracerebellar / infratentorial / transtentorial sitting position Transfalcine approach
3pm	Carotid injury prevention and model demonstration Gabriel Zada, MD
4pm	Panel discussion Scary cases All faculty
5pm	Adjourn