Scientific Programme

Scientific programme topics
- Anterior/central skull base
- Lateral skull base
- Oncology
- Imaging & interventional radiotherapy
- Radiotherapy
- Basic science

Session types
- Keynote Lectures by global leaders
- NEW! Special Keynote Lectures by experts from another field of interests
- NEW! Clinical Pathway sessions
- Round Table sessions
- NEW! Public Debates
- Instructional Courses 
- Free Paper sessions

Invited faculty
Siverio Agazzi (US)
Noweed Ahmed (UK)
Patrick Axon (UK)
Michaël Bruneau(BE)
Ricardo Carrau (US)
Giuseppe De Donato (IT)
Amir Dehdashi (US)
John DelGaudio (US)
Ilhan Elmaci (TR)
Maurizio Falcioni (IT)
Dan Fliss (IL)
Sebastien Froelich (FR)
Paul Gardner (US)
Nils-Claudius Gellrich (DE)
Christos Georgalas
Ehab Hanna (US)
Richard Irving (UK)
Dirk Kunst (NL)
Luis Lassaletta (ES)
Michael Link (US)
Simon Lloyd (US)
Davide Locatelli (IT)
Fernando Muñoz-Hernández (ES)
Anil Nanda (US)
Ben Panizza (AUS
Lars Poulsgaard (DK)
Jörg Schipper (DE)
Shaan Raza (US)
Shakeel Saeed (UK)
Carl Snyderman (US)
Marcos Tatagiba (DE)
Yasin Temel (NL)
Nick Thomas (UK)
Kyle van Koevering (US)
Eric Wang (US)
Sami Youssef (US)

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