Scientific Programme

Outline Scientific Programme 

Preliminary Scientific Programme
‘Evidence Skull based’

Please note that the following programme schedule is preliminary and subject to change.

Wednesday 5 June 2024
Lobby North
10.00 – 18.00 hrs.    Registration
13.00 – 18.00 hrs.    Exhibition

Auditorium
12.30 – 13.00 hrs.    Opening                 
13.00 – 13.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture – Expanded endonasal
13.30 – 15.00 hrs.    Clinical Pathway session – Vestibular Pathology
15.00 – 15.30 hrs.    Break
15.30 – 17.00 hrs.    Clinical Pathway session – Vestibular Pathology
17.00 – 17.45 hrs.    Opening ceremony
17.45 – 19.00 hrs.    Welcome drinks in bar/bistro SAAM

Room Brussels
13.00 – 13.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture – Hearing preservation surgery in acoustic neuroma:
                                    where we are
13.30 – 15.00 hrs.    Round table – Vestibular implant
15.00 – 15.30 hrs.    Break
15.30 – 17.00 hrs.    Round table – Intervention radiology

Room Paris
13.00 – 13.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture – Intraoperative management of the facial nerve during
                                    vestibular schwannoma surgery
13.30 – 15.00 hrs.    Round table session – Petroclival meningeoma
15.00 – 15.30 hrs.    Break
15.30 – 17.00 hrs.    Round table session - Malignancies of the temporal bone RT

Room Berlin/Copenhagen
13.00 – 13.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture – Endoscopic under nasal trans facial approach to the
                                    infratemporal fossa and upper para pharyngeal space
13.30 – 15.00 hrs.    Free paper session 
15.00 – 15.30 hrs.    Break
15.30 – 17.00 hrs.    Free paper session

Room Rome
13.00 – 13.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture – Principles of paranasal sinus surgery: tricks and pitfalls
13.30 – 15.00 hrs.    Free paper session  
15.00 – 15.30 hrs.    Break
15.30 – 17.00 hrs.    Free paper session 

Room Athens
13.30 – 15.00 hrs.    Round table session - tbc  
15.00 – 15.30 hrs.    Break
15.30 – 16.15 hrs.    Basic instructional course ENT -  Lateral skull base approaches: trans lab,
                                    retro sigmoidal, middle fossa, (indications/ approaches and surgical
                                    techniques/closure and reconstruction)
16.15 – 17.00 hrs.    Basic instructional course Neuro - Skull base meningeoma surgery
                                    (indications/ approaches and surgical techniques/closure and 
                                    reconstruction)

Thursday 6 June 2024
Lobby North
08.00 – 18.00 hrs.    Registration
09.00 – 18.00 hrs.    Exhibition

Auditorium
08.00 – 08.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture- Infratemporal fossa approach
08.30 – 10.00 hrs.    Clinical Pathway session – Vestibular schwannoma
10.00 – 10.30 hrs.    Break
10.30 – 12.00 hrs.    Clinical Pathway session – Vestibular schwannoma
12.00 – 12.30 hrs.    ‘Special’ topic lecture
12.30 – 13.30 hrs.    Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 hrs.    Clinical Pathway session –     Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2)    
15.00 – 15.30 hrs.    Break
15.30 – 17.00 hrs.    Clinical Pathway session – Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2)    
17.00 – 17.30 hrs.    ‘Special’ topic lecture

Room Brussels
08.00 – 08.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture - Dilemmas in temporal paragangliomas: partial vs total
                                    removal
08.30 – 10.00 hrs.    Round table session – Skull base reconstruction after tumour resection  
10.00 – 10.30 hrs.    Break
10.30 – 12.00 hrs.    Round table session – Giant acoustic Neuroma: Management paradigms
12.00 – 12.30 hrs.    Key note lecture - Team-based approach for the management of
                                    vascular injury during endoscopic endonasal surgery
12.30 – 13.30 hrs.    Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 hrs.    Round table session – Vestibular schwannoma management in NF2
15.00 – 15.30 hrs.    Break
15.30 – 17.00 hrs.    Round table session - Multiple and bilateral paragangliomas:
                                    management and QOL

Room Paris
08.00 – 08.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture - Surgical anatomy of the lateral skull base
08.30 – 10.00 hrs.    Round table session – Hearing rehabilitation after acoustic neuroma
                                    surgery 
10.00 – 10.30 hrs.    Break
10.30 – 12.00 hrs.    Round table session – Orbital approaches
12.00 – 12.30 hrs.    Key note lecture – Skull base anatomy 3D
12.30 – 13.30 hrs.    Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 hrs.    Round table session – Carotid artery management in skull base surgery 
15.00 – 15.30 hrs.    Break
15.30 – 17.00 hrs.    Round table session – Radiomics

Room Berlin/Copenhagen
08.00 – 08.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture - Endoscopic management of orbital lesions
08.30 – 10.00 hrs.    Free paper session 
10.00 – 10.30 hrs.    Break
10.30 – 12.00 hrs.    Round table session – Jugular foramen and craniocervical junction
12.00 – 12.30 hrs.    Key note lecture – Dutch national guideline for head and neck
                                    paragangliomas
12.30 – 13.30 hrs.    Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 hrs.    Free paper session 

15.00 – 15.30 hrs.    Break
15.30 – 17.00 hrs.    Free paper session

Room Rome
08.00 – 08.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture - ICA transpositions in extended trans nasal approaches
                                    toe Petro clival and petrous apex region
08.30 – 10.00 hrs.    Free paper session
10.00 – 10.30 hrs.    Break
10.30 – 12.00 hrs.    Round table session – Treatment strategies for large or giant Petro clival
                                    meningiomas
12.00 – 12.30 hrs.    Key note lecture – Surgical treatment of Jugular Foramen Lesions
12.30 – 13.30 hrs.    Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 hrs.    Free paper session 
15.00 – 15.30 hrs.    Break
15.30 – 17.00 hrs.    Free paper session

Room Athens
08.30 – 10.00 hrs.    Round table - Accreditation
10.00 – 10.30 hrs.    Break
10.30 – 11.15 hrs.    Basic instructional course - Anterior skull base approaches: endoscopic
                                    approaches (indications/ approaches and surgical techniques/closure
                                    and reconstruction)
11.15 – 12.00 hrs.    Public debate
12.30 – 13.30 hrs.    Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 hrs.    Round table session - tbc 

Friday 7 June 2024
Lobby North
08.00 – 18.00 hrs.    Registration
09.00 – 18.00 hrs.    Exhibition

Auditorium
08.00 – 08.30 hrs.    ‘Special’ topic lecture 
08.30 – 10.00 hrs.    Clinical Pathway session – Paraganglioma (PGL)
10.00 – 10.30 hrs.    Break
10.30 – 12.00 hrs.    Clinical Pathway session – – Paraganglioma (PGL)
12.00 – 12.30 hrs.    ‘Special’ topic lecture
12.30 – 13.30 hrs.    Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 hrs.    Clinical Pathway session –     Malignancies of the anterior skull base    
15.00 – 15.30 hrs.    Break
15.30 – 17.00 hrs.    Clinical Pathway session – Malignancies of the anterior skull base
17.00 – 18.00 hrs.    General Assembly 

Room Brussels
08.00 – 08.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture - Patient specific craniomaxillofacial reconstruction
08.30 – 10.00 hrs.    Clinical Pathway session – Chordomas 
10.00 – 10.30 hrs.    Break
10.30 – 12.00 hrs.    Clinical Pathway session – Chordomas
12.00 – 12.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture - Limits of endoscopic skull base surgery
12.30 – 13.30 hrs.    Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 hrs.    Round table session – Facial nerve in skull base surgery
15.00 – 15.30 hrs.    Break
15.30 – 17.00 hrs.    Round table session - Malignancies of the temporal bone
17.00  – 18.00 hrs.   Keynote lecture - Genetics in skull base pathology

Room Paris
08.00 – 08.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture - Updates in the Management of Skull Base Chordoma
08.30 – 10.00 hrs.    Round table session – Clivus chordomas and chondrosarcomas: surgical
                                    strategy vs quality of life
10.00 – 10.30 hrs.    Break
10.30 – 12.00 hrs.    Round table session – Radiotherapy and various treatment modalities  
12.00 – 12.30 hrs.    Key note lecture – Endoscopic management of vascular tumours
12.30 – 13.30 hrs.    Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 hrs.    Round table session – Intraoperative monitoring
15.00 – 15.30 hrs.    Break
15.30 – 17.00 hrs.    Round table session – Technical innovation in Skull base surgery

Room Berlin/Copenhagen
08.00 – 08.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture - Tuberculum sellae meningioma - the controversy
                                    goes on
08.30 – 10.00 hrs.    Free paper session
10.00 – 10.30 hrs.    Break
10.30 – 12.00 hrs.    Round table session – Malignant anterior cranial base tumours
12.00 – 12.30 hrs.    Key note lecture – Neoadjuvant therapy for advanced sinonasal cancers
12.30 – 13.30 hrs.    Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 hrs.    Free paper session
15.00 – 15.30 hrs.    Break
15.30 – 17.00 hrs.    Free paper session

Room Rome
08.00 – 08.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture - Combined transcranial and endoscopic approaches in
                                    anterior skull base surgery 
08.30 – 10.00 hrs.    Free paper session
10.00 – 10.30 hrs.    Break
10.30 – 12.00 hrs.    Round table session – Petrous bone/ apex cholesteatoma
12.00 – 12.30 hrs.    Key note lecture – Pulsatile tinnitus
12.30 – 13.30 hrs.    Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 hrs.    Free paper session 
15.00 – 15.30 hrs.    Break
15.30 – 17.00 hrs.    Free paper session

Room Athens
08.30 – 10.00 hrs.    Round table session – Rehabilitation of long term facial paresis
10.00 – 10.30 hrs.    Break
10.30 – 11.15 hrs.    Basic instructional course ENT - Anterior skull base approaches: open
                                    approaches (indications/ approaches and surgical techniques/closure
                                    and reconstruction)
11.15 – 12.00 hrs.    Public debate - Nf2 vestibular schwannoma treatment
12.30 – 13.30 hrs.    Lunch
13.30 – 14.15 hrs.    Basic instructional course Neuro - vestibular schwannoma surgery
                                    (indications/ approaches and surgical techniques/closure and
                                    reconstruction)
14.15 – 15.00 hrs.    Public debate - Open versus endoscopic approach in anterior skull base
                                    surgery
15.00 – 15.30 hrs.    Break
15.30 – 17.00 hrs.    Round table session - tbc

Saturday 8 June 2024
Lobby North
08.00 – 13.00 hrs.    Registration
09.00 – 13.00 hrs.    Exhibition

Auditorium
08.00 – 08.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture - Reluctant orbital cellulitis, how and what I do
08.30 – 10.00 hrs.    Clinical Pathway session – Osteomyelitis of the skull base 
10.00 – 10.30 hrs.    Break
10.30 – 12.00 hrs.    Clinical Pathway session – Osteomyelitis of the skull base
12.00 – 12.30 hrs.    ‘Special’ topic lecture
12.30 – 13.00 hrs.    Wrap-up and farewell 

Room Brussels
08.00 – 08.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture-Natural History non-vestibular cranial nerve tumours
                                    in NF 
08.30 – 10.00 hrs.    Round table session – Current management of Sino nasal malignancies
10.00 – 10.30 hrs.    Break
10.30 – 12.00 hrs.    Round table session – Evidence based medicine
12.00 – 12.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture - Surgical anatomy of the anterior/central skull base

Room Paris
08.00 – 08.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture - Electric stimulation of the vestibular system
08.30 – 10.00 hrs.    Round table session – Anterior Skull base surgery - managing
                                    complications  
10.00 – 10.30 hrs.    Break
10.30 – 12.00 hrs.    Round table session – Skull base pathologies: choosing the
                                    best approach
12.00 – 12.30 hrs.    Key note lecture – Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence Syndrom

Room Berlin/Copenhagen
08.00 – 08.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture - Clinical outcome of urgent decompression for optic
                                    neuropathy in patients with Graves` disease
08.30 – 10.00 hrs.    Free paper session
10.00 – 10.30 hrs.    Break
10.30 – 12.00 hrs.    Round table session – Managing benign nasal tumours
12.00 – 12.30 hrs.    Key note lecture – Endoscopic approach to giant pituitary adenomas

Room Rome
08.00 – 08.30 hrs.    Keynote lecture - Neurophysiology in facial nerve paresis
08.30 – 10.00 hrs.    Free paper session
10.00 – 10.30 hrs.    Break
10.30 – 12.00 hrs.    Round table session – Superior semi-circular dehiscence syndrome
12.00 – 12.30 hrs.    Key note lecture – Clinical gender and molecular features of NF2: results
                                    from over 1600 patients
Room Athens
10.30 – 11.15 hrs.    Basic instructional course – Pituitary surgery (indications/ approaches
                                    and surgical techniques/closure and reconstruction)
11.15 – 12.00 hrs.    Public debate – Vestibular schwannoma treatment