Invitation
Dear Friends,
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are delighted to invite you to attend the WFNS Education Course organized by the WFNS Education & Training Committee, WFNS Young Neurosurgeons Forum Committee, and NPISTANBUL Brain Hospital. The conference scheduled from September 27 to 29, 2024, at NPISTANBUL Brain Hospital, Istanbul, Türkiye.
First day of the meeting is dedicated to craniocerebral surgery, 2nd day is dedicated to spine surgery. Distinguished faculty will give lectures in advanced level. We have planned an exciting and enriching academic program with an interactive scientific discussion. The conference is planned to keep in mind the need of young neurosurgeons and spine surgeons. It will be a platform for them to learn from the experts in the field on the practical aspects of treating various disorders of the brain and spine.
On third day of the meeting there will be hands-on workshops for limited participants: Micro vascular bypass course and spine hands on dissection course.
Istanbul is a very historical city full of treasures and sightseeing beauties. We welcome you to this conference of WFNS Educational Course.
Onur Yaman
NPISTANBUL Brain Hospital Spine Center Chair
Mehmet Zileli
WFNS Education & Training Committee Chair
Abuzer Güngör
WFNS Young Neurosurgeons Committee Chair
Committees
| Organization Committee (In Alphabetical Order According to Surname) | |
| Mustafa Başkaya | Linda Bi |
| İsmail Bozkurt | Alvaro Campero |
| Savaş Ceylan | Sachin Chemate |
| Alberto Dau | Miki Fujimura |
| M. Sabri Gürbüz | Yahya Güvenç |
| İsmail İştemen | Alistair Jenkins |
| Regunath Kandasamy | Numan Kararslan |
| Sabino Luzzi | Jun Muto |
| Ender Ofluoğlu | Fatos Olldashi |
| Manas Kumar Panigrahi | Sergio Salvador |
| Roberto Leal da Silveira | Erkin Sönmez |
| Albert Sufianov | Salim Şentürk |
| Ülkün Ünlü Ünsal | |
Faculty Members (In Alphabetical Order)
Abuzer Güngör
Adnan Demirci
Ahmed Adnan
Akın Akakın
Atilla Yilmaz
Ayça Ersen Danyeli
Bekir Rovcanin
Bekir Tuğcu
Berker Cemil
Bin Xu
Celal Özbek Çakır
Celil Gökçek
Cihan İşler
Deniz Kargı
Eduardo Carvalhal Ribas
Emrah Çeltikçi
Ender Ofluoğlu
Erdal Yayla
Erhan Türkoğlu
Erkin Sönmez
Ersoy Kocabıçak
Fatih Yakar
Gardashan Kerimzade
Gazanfer Ekinci
Giovanni Raffa
Gökberk Erol
Güçlühan Güçlü
Hamdi Nabawi Mostafa
Hidayet Şafak Çine
Ibrahim Omerhodzic
İdris Avcı
Ivana Roskova
Jun Muto
M. Sabri Gürbüz
Manuel de Jesus Encarnacion Ramirez
Mehmet Zileli
Melih Bozkurt
Murat Şakir Ekşi
Nargiza Saatova
Numan Karaaslan
Onur Yaman
Osame Mohammed
Ozan Başkurt
Rovshan Halilzade
Sabino Luzzi
Sachin Chemate
Sait Öztürk
Salim Şentürk
Salman Sharif
Samir Smajic
Savaş Ceylan
Serdar Çevik
Serdar Ercan
Serdar Kahraman
Tufan Kartum
Tural Hidayetov
Ülkün Ünlü Ünsal
Yahya Güvenç
Yücel Doğruel
General Information
Please kindly visit the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey http://www.mfa.gov.tr/visa-information-for-foreigners.en.mfa to search the visa requirements for Turkey.
If it is needed, a formal invitation letter will be gladly e-mailed for the participants who had completed their registration process. For further details, you can gladly contact via [email protected]
The official language of the both meetings will be English.
All cellphones should be silenced during sessions. Sound and video recording of the lectures are allowed only for personal use. During that recording, the device should be silenced (no click or beep sounds) not to disturb audience.
The average temperature in Istanbul during at the beginning of September is around 20-25oC at daytime.
220w is used to operate the technical equipments in Turkey.
A certificate of attendance will be presented to all registered participants as electronic.
Upon request, the organization committee will be pleased to send a personal invitation to all participants, to facilitate visa and other formalities. This letter should not be considered as an offer of financial support from the organizers. Please kindly visit the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey to search visa requirements for Turkey.
Please kindly visit the official website of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey to search the update currency rates. http://www.tcmb.gov.tr/yeni/eng/
Scientific Program
| 27 | SEP 2024 FRIDAY |
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Spine symposia |
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| 28 | SEP 2024 SATURDAY |
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Craniocerebral symposia |
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| 29 | SEP 2024 SUNDAY |
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Microvascular anastomosis course Hands on spine dissection course (Upsurgeon) |
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| 08:45-09:00 | Opening address | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Panel 1: Spinal cord injury and cervical trauma Moderators: Mehmet Zileli, Yahya Güvenç |
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| 09:00-09:15 | Spinal cord injury: Emergency care and classification | Salman Sharif |
| 09:15-09:30 | Intensive care and early decompression for SCI | Osame Mohammed |
| 09:30-09:45 | Management of upper cervical trauma | Mehmet Zileli |
| 09:45-10:00 | Odontoid fractures; current concepts | Yahya Güvenç |
| 10:00-10:15 | Management of subaxial cervical trauma | Onur Yaman |
| 10:15-10:30 | Case discussion (subaxial trauma and surgery) | Adnan Demirci |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Panel 2: Thoracolumbar spinal trauma; Osteoporotic fractures Moderators: Salman Sharif, İbrahim Omerhodzic |
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| 11:00-11:15 | Classification of thoracolumbar spinal trauma | İdris Avcı |
| 11:15-11:30 | Conservative management of TL trauma | Ülkün Ünlü Ünsal |
| 11:30-11:45 | Surgical management of TL trauma | Deniz Kargı |
| 11:45-12:00 | Classification of osteoporotic vertebral fractures | Tural Hidayetov |
| 12:00-12:15 | Nonoperative management of osteoporotic vertebral fractures | Bekir Rovcanin |
| 12:15-12:30 | Surgical indications and techniques for osteoporotic vertebral fractures | Samir Smajic |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-15:00 | Panel 3: Lumbar degenerative disorders Moderators: Mirza Pojskic, Salim Şentürk |
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| 13:30-13:40 | Back pain and leg pain: Differential diagnosis | Güçlühan Güçlü |
| 13:40-13:50 | Treatment options for lumbar disc herniation | Salim Şentürk |
| 13:50-14:00 | Treatment options for lumbar spinal stenosis | İbrahim Omerhodzic |
| 14:00-14:10 | Lumbar degenerative instability: Diagnosis and management | Hamdi Nabawi Mostafa |
| 14:10-14:20 | Management of degenerative lysthesis | Erkin Sönmez |
| 14:20-14:40 | Management of degenerative kyphosis | Ender Ofluoğlu |
| 14:40-14:50 | Reasons of persisting pain after lumbar surgery | Şakir Ekşi |
| 14:50-15:00 | Case discussion (Lumbar instability and fusion) | Serdar Ercan |
| 15:10-15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30-17:00 | Panel 4: Spine tumors Moderators: Serdar Kahraman, Ender Ofluoğlu |
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| 15:30-15:45 | Classification of primary spine tumors | Serdar Çevik |
| 15:45-16:00 | Surgery for primary spine tumors | Berker Cemil |
| 16:00-16:15 | Classification of metastatic spine tumors | Rovshan Halilzade |
| 16:15-16:30 | Surgical and nonsurgical treatment of metastatic spine tumors | Numan Kararslan |
| 16:30-16:45 | Intramedullary spinal cord tumors and management | Serdar Kahraman |
| 16:45-17:00 | Case discussion (spine bony tumor with surgery) | Celal Çakır |
| 17:00-18:00 | Case discussion Moderators: Mehmet Zileli, Onur Yaman |
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| 17:00-17:10 | Case Presentation (Cervical spine trauma) | Erdal Yayla |
| 17:10-17:20 | Case Presentation (TL spine trauma) | Hidayet Şafak Çine |
| 17:20-17:30 | Case Presentation (Lumbar degenerative instability) | Celil Gökçek |
| 17:30-17:40 | Case Presentation (Spine tumor) | Ozan Başkurt |
| 17:40-18:00 | Discussion | |
| 08:30-08:45 | Welcome talks | |
| 08:45-10:15 | Panel 5: Young Neurosurgeons Panel Moderators: Abuzer Güngör, Giovanni Raffa |
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| 08:45-08:55 | Ergonomics for young neurosurgeons | Sachin Chemate |
| 08:55-09:10 | Research and Publications | Manuel de Jesus Encarnacion Ramirez |
| 09:10-09:25 | Vascular Neurosurgery: Tips and Tricks for YNS | Sabino Luzzi |
| 09:25-09:40 | Glioma: Recent Advances | Ivana Roskova |
| 09:40-09:55 | Updates on neurosurgical education and training in the EANS framework. | Giovanni Raffa |
| 09:55-10:05 | Neuroanatomy Educatıon for YNS | Abuzer Güngör |
| 10:05-10:15 | How to get Published? | Fatih Yakar |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45-12:30 | Panel 6: Endoscopic Skull-base Surgery Moderators: Jun Muto, Sabino Luzzi |
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| 10:45-10:55 | Endoscopic Anatomy of Sellar Region | Tufan Kartum |
| 10:55-11:10 | Endoscopic Endonasal Approach | Savaş Ceylan |
| 11:10-11:25 | Extended Endonasal Approaches | Savaş Ceylan |
| 11:25-11:35 | Anatomy of Transorbital Approaches | Gardashan Kerimzade |
| 11:35-11:55 | Transorbital Approach | Emrah Çeltikçi |
| 11:55-12:10 | Transmaxillary Approach to Orbit | Yücel Doğruel |
| 12:10-12:30 | Transoral Robotic-Assisted Neurosurgery for Skull Base and Upper Spine Lesions | Jun Muto |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-15:00 | Panel 7: Vascular Surgery Moderators: Bin Xu, M.Sabri Gürbüz |
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| 13:30-13:45 | EC-IC bypass: Indications and techniques | Bin Xu |
| 13:45-14:00 | Hemodynamic changes in STA-MCA bypass | Bin Xu |
| 14:00-14:10 | Hybrid Approach in AVM surgery | Erhan Türkoğlu |
| 14:10-14:25 | Surgery for Posterior Circulation Aneursyms | Melih Bozkurt |
| 14:25-14:40 | Surgery for Anterior Circulation Aneursyms | Abuzer Güngör |
| 14:40-14:50 | Mentality of Cisternostomy for YNS | Nargiza Saatova |
| 14:50-15:00 | Pretemporal Transcavernous Approach | M.Sabri Gürbüz |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30-17:00 | Panel 8: Glial Tumors Moderators: Savaş Ceylan, Eduardo Carvalhal Ribas |
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| 15:30-15:40 | Microsurgical and White Matter Anatomy of the Cerebrums | Eduardo Carvalhal Ribas |
| 15:40-15:55 | Radiologic Examination of Glial Tumors | Gazanfer Ekinci |
| 15:55-16:10 | New Pathologic Classification of Glial Tumors | Ayca Danyeli |
| 16:10-16:20 | Preoperative brain mapping and planning based on nTMS for surgery of brain tumors in eloquent areas | Giovanni Raffa |
| 16:20-16:35 | Current Surgical Concepts in Glial Tumors | Cihan İşler |
| 16:35-16:50 | Fiber Tractography for Resection of Motor Area Tumors | Sabino Luzzi |
| 16:50-17:00 | Approaches to the Thalamus | Ahmed Adnan |
| 17:00-18:30 | Panel 9: Functional Neurosurgery Moderators: Bekir Tuğcu, Abuzer Güngör |
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| 17:00-17:15 | Microsurgical and White Matter Anatomy of DBS targets | Gökberk Erol |
| 17:15-17:30 | Functional Anatomy of Deep Brain Nuclei | Cihan İşler |
| 17:30-17:45 | Past, Present, and Future of Deep Brain Stimulation | Ersoy Kocabıçak |
| 17:45-18:00 | How to Build a DBS Center | Bekir Tuğcu |
| 18:00-18:15 | DBS for Movement Disorders | Akın Akakın |
| 18:15-18:30 | VNS for Epilepsy Surgery | Sait Öztürk |
| 18:30-18:45 | Spinal Cord Stimulation Surgery | Atilla Yılmaz |
| 18:30-18:35 | Closing remarks | |
| 08:30-16:00 |
Microvascular dissection course Max participants 10 person |
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| 08:30-17:00 |
Hands on spine dissection course (Upsurgeon) Max participants 15 person |
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Registration
| Registration | Until August 20 2024 |
On and After August 21 2024 |
On-Site |
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| Delegate Symposia ( 27 & 28 September ) |
150 € | 175 € | 200 € |
| Resident Symposia ( 27 & 28 September ) |
100 € | 125 € | 150 € |
| * Microvascular Anastomosis Course (29 September) | 150 € | 175 € | 200 € |
| * Hands on Spine Dissection Course (Upsurgeon) (29 September) | 150 € | 175 € | 200 € |
The registration fees mentioned above include; printed materials, coffee breaks, lunches and VAT.
To attend the courses, Symposia registration is compulsory.
Residents must send a letter from the chief of their department.
Microvascular anastomosis course is limited with 10 Pax.
Hands on spine dissection course (Upsurgeon) is limited with 15 Pax.
Changes and Cancellation
All changes and cancellations can only be made written.
The refund will be made after the meeting. Please note that name changes are permitted on the basis that written notice is given prior to the start of the meeting.
Refund for cancellations of registration will be made subject to the following deadline and administration charge.
| On and before August 10 2024 | Full refund excluding the bank expenses |
| Between August 11 - September 03 2024 | 50% of registration fee excluding the bank expenses |
| On and after September 04, 2024 | No refund |
Bank Details
| Account Name: | PRIME Kongre Yonetimi ve Turizm |
| Bank Name: | T. Is Bankasi |
| Branch Name: | Suadiye |
| Bank Address: | Suadiye Mahallesi, Bagdat Cad. No: 417A, 34740 Kadikoy / Istanbul - Turkey |
| Branch Code: | 1176 |
| Swift Code: | ISBKTRIS |
| Account No: | 0698745 (Euro) |
| IBAN No: | TR84 0006 4000 0021 1760 6987 45 (Euro) |
Organization Secretariat
Address: Op.Cemil Topuzlu Cad. TİBAŞ Dalyan Konutları F Blok K:4 D:8 Fenerbahçe / Kadıköy 34726 İstanbul - Turkey
Phone: +90 (216) 357 23 23
Fax: +90 (216) 357 23 33
E-Mail: [email protected]
Accommodation
To be announced soon.
Venue
Yamanevler Mah. Ahmet Tevfik İleri Cad. No: 18 – 34768
Ümraniye / İstanbul / Türkiye
Navigation Coordinates : 41.028940, 29.114211
Contact
ORGANIZATION SECRETARIAT
PRIME Congress Management and Tourism Ltd.
Op. Cemil Topuzlu Cad. TİBAŞ Dalyan Konutları
F Blok K.4 D.8 Fenerbahçe
34726 İstanbul – Turkey
+90 216 357 23 23
