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| • |
"Cranial
Chordomas and Chondrosarcomas - An 11 Year Experience" |
| • | "Cranial
Nerve Function in Cavernous Sinus Surgery" Neuroscience Conference, University of Pittsburgh, 1988 |
| • | "Cervical
Spine Disorders in Rheumatoid Arthritis" Neuroscience Conference, University of Pittsburgh, May, 1989 |
| • | "Approaches
to the Ventral Craniocervical Junction" Neuroscience Conference, University of Pittsburgh, July, 1989 |
| • | "Meningiomas
in Pregnancy" Grand Rounds: Magee-Women's Hospital, March, 1990 |
| • | "Lesions
at the Craniocervical Junction" Grand Rounds: St. John Medical Center, Steubenville, OH, March, 1990 |
| • | Practical
Course: Skull Base Tumors American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Nashville, TN, April 28 - May 3, 1990 |
| • | "Extreme
lateral approach for the management of ventral intra and extradural
lesions at the foramen magnum and cervical spine" Craniocervical Junction Meeting, Pittsburgh, October 10-11, 1990 |
| • | "Anterior
Approaches to the Skull Base" Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Los Angeles, CA, October 21, 1990 |
| • | "Saphenous
Vein Grafting of Internal Carotid Artery at the Skull Base" Neuroscience Conference, University of Pittsburgh, January 30, 1991 |
| • | Practical
Course: Surgical Exposures of the Skull Base American Association of Neurological Surgeons, New Orleans, LA, April 20, 1991 |
| • | Practical
course: Craniovertebral Junction/Clivus-Surgical Approaches Annual Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society, Acapulco, Mexico, February 16, 1992 |
| • | Practical
Course: Anterior Approaches to the Skull Base 60th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, April 11-12, 1992 |
| • | Current
trends in the management of tumors of the skull base Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY, September 26, 1992 |
| • | Practical
Courses: Skull Base Surgery, Lateral and infratemporal approaches Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 42nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 1, 1992 |
| • | Skull
Base Surgery Workshop All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, Dec 3-5, 1992 |
| • | Skull
Base Surgery Workshop National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences. Bangalore, India, December 7-9, 1992 |
| • | "Lateral
Skull Base Approaches" (Practical Clinics) Annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Boston, April 25, 1993 |
| • | Instructor,
Skull Base Surgery - Anterior Approaches 43rd Annual Meeting CNS, October 2-7, 1993, Vancouver, BC, October 3, 1993 |
| • | Instructor,
Cranial Base Surgery Courses Tenth International Congress of Neurological Surgery, Acapulco, Mexico, October 17, 1993 |
| • | Demonstrator
at Lateral and Posterior Cranial Base Surgery Workshop Tenth International Congress of Neurological Surgery, Acapulco, Mexico, October 17, 1993 |
| • | Instructor,
Far lateral transcondylar approach in the special practical course Joint Annual Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society and the German Skull Base Society, Orlando, FL, February 19, 1994 |
| • | Co-director,
Skull Base Surgery: the Clivus, Craniocervical junction, and the Carotid
Artery New York, NY, March 5-6, 1994 |
| • | Instructor,
Practical Clinic on Skull Base Approaches to tumors and aneursyms AANS 62nd Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 10, 1994 |
| • | Surgical
Approaches to the Skull Base - a hands-on cadaver workshop Practical Anatomy and Surgical Technique Workshop of St. Louis, MO, September 27-29, 1994 |
| • | Guest
Professor: Skull Base Surgery Workshop including live surgery demonstration All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, February 19-24, 1995 |
| • | Guest
Professor: Hands-on workshop on cavernous sinus surgery Neurological Institute of Sao Paolo, Brazil, Director: Evandro de Oliveira, MD, September 21-22, 1995 |
| • | Visiting
Faculty: Surgical Approaches to the Skull Base - a hands-on cadaver
workshop Practical Anatomy and Surgical Technique Workshop, St. Louis, MO, Course Director: Ossama Al-M, MD, October 10-12,1995 |
| • | Practical
Course: Lateral Skull Base Approaches 45th Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, October 15, 1995 |
| • | Guest
Professor: Second Biannual Symposium including live surgery demonstration Spanish Society of Skull Base Surgery Valencia, Spain (Live Surgery demonstration: Cavernous sinus tumor), February 20-23, 1996 |
| • | Practical
Course: Lateral trancondylar approach to foramen magnum 2nd International Skull Base Congress, San Diego, CA, June 29, 1996 |
| • | Visiting
Professor Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, November 8, 1996 |
| • | Guest
Professor: Practical Course on Cavernous Sinus Surgery Second International Course on Skull Base Surgery, Mexico City, Mexico, November 27, 1996 |
| • | Instructor
in Practical Course 8th Annual Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society, Litttle Rock, AR, March 21, 1997 |
| • | Instructor:
Skull Base Surgery Techniques Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, August 1-2, 1997 |
| • | Instructor:
Practical Course First International Symposium on Neurosurgery, Peerless Hospital and B.K. Roy Research Center, Calcutta, India, February 2-5, 1999 |
| • | Instructor:
Demonstration course on Cavernous sinus surgery 10th Annual Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society, Chicago, May, 1999 |
| • | Instructor Interdisciplinary symposium and hands-on dissection workshop, Beme, Switzerland, October 27-30, 1999 |
| • | Instructor:
Demonstration course on the Extreme Lateral Approach to the craniocervical
junction 11th Annual Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society, Scottsdale, AZ, March 16, 2000 |
| • |
Course Director
- Craniocervical Junction: Pathology and Surgical Treatment |
| • | Course
Co-director - Current trends in the management of tumors at the skull
base New York, NY, September 26, 1992 |
| • | Course
Co-director - Skull Base Surgery: the clivus, craniocervical junction
and the carotid artery New York, NY, March 5-6, 1994 |
| • | Course
Co-director - Lateral Skull Base Approaches - Practical Course 45th Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, San Francisco CA, October 15, 1995 |
| • |
"Surgical
Management of Parasellar Tumors" |
| • | Visiting
Professor: "Surgical Management of Anteriorly Placed Lesions
at the Craniocervical Junction" University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, January, 1990 |
| • | "Reconstruction
of the Cranial Base" (Panel discussion) First Annual Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society, Marina Del Rey, CA, February, 1990 |
| • | "Approaches
to the Anterior Aspect of the Craniocervical Junction and Upper Cervical
Spine" Neuroscience Conference, Colorado Neurological Institute, Denver, CO, March, 1990 |
| • | "Abnormal
CSF Physiology: Diagnosis and Treatment" Cranial Base Surgery: Practical Applications Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA, June, 1990 |
| • | "Management
of Petrous Internal Carotid Artery During Excision of Tumors of the
Infratemporal Fossa and Clivus" Cranial Base Surgery: Practical Applications Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA, June, 1990 |
| • | "Intracavemous
Surgery" (Panel discussion) Clinical Congress, American College of Surgeons, Scientific Session San Francisco, CA, October 7-12, 1990 |
| • |
"Approaches
to the Craniovertebral Junction and Upper Cervical Spine" |
| • | "Extended
Frontal Approach to Clival Lesions" (Panel discussion) North American Skull Base Society Second Annual Meeting, Lake Buena Vista, FL, March 2, 1991 |
| • | "Cavernous
Sinus Surgery" II International Skull Base Symposium, Iguassu Falls, Brazil, July 11, 1991 |
| • | "Surgical
Approaches to Anterior Skull Base" II International Skull Base Symposium, Iguassu Falls, Brazil, July 12, 1991 |
| • | "Extreme
Lateral Transcondyle Approach to the Foramen Magnum" II International Skull Base Symoposium, Iguassu Falls, Brazil, July 13, 1991 |
| • | "Subfrontal
Approach to the Skull Base" Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Orlando, FL, October 29, 1991 |
| • | "Extreme
lateral transcondylar approach to the craniovertebral junction and
upper cervical spine" Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Orlando, FL, October 30, 1991 |
| • | Breakfast
Seminar: "Surgery of the Clival and Foramen Magnum Region" 60th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, April 13, 1992 |
| • | Key
Note Speaker: International Course on Cranial Base Surgery Sao Paolo, Brazil, May 14, 15 1992 |
| • | "Management
of Nasophatyngeal Tumors: Chordomas and Chondrosarcomas" (Panel
discussion) 78th Annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, New Orleans, LA, October 13, 1992 |
| • | Special
Course III: Diseases and approaches that require a team 42nd Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Washington DC, November 4, 1992 |
| • |
Surgical Anatomy
and Approaches to the Cavernous Sinus |
| • | Clinical
outcome analysis of petroclival meningiomas and chordomas (Moderator
for Panel Discussion) 4th Annual Meeting of NASBS, Scottsdale, AZ, February 12-14, 1993 |
| • | Visiting
Professor (performed 2 demonstration operations for Foramen Magnum
Tumors) Department of Neurosurgery, University of Erlangen, Director: Prof. R. Fahlbusch, Germany, April 17-21, 1993 |
| • | Breakfast
Seminar: "Initial management of skull base chordoma and chondrosarcoma" 61st Annual Meeting of American Assoc. of Neurological Surgeons, Boston, MA, April 28, 1993 |
| • | "The
transoral approach - an exemplary key-hole approach" International Congress on Minimal Invasive Techniques in Neurosurgery, Wiesbaden, Germany, June 15-19, 1993 |
| • | Visiting
Professor (performed 1 demonstration operation) Department of of Neurosurgery, University of Erlangen-Nurenberg, Director: Prof. R. Fahlbusch, Germany, June 17-18, 1993 |
| • | "Skull
Base Chordomas and Chondrosarcomas" Brazilian Academy of Neurosurgery Annual Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, August 8-12, 1993 |
| • | Management
of tumors at the craniovertebral junction Brazilian Academy of Neurosurgery - Annual Meeting, August 8-12, 1993 |
| • | "The
Transcondylar Approach" Decade of the Brain, an International Conference - George Washington University, Washington, DC, September 12, 1993 |
| • | Extreme
lateral approach to the clivus and foramen magnum Pre Congress Workshop
First European Congress of the European Skull Base Society, Riva del Garda, Italy, September 25-26, 1993 |
| • | Round
Table on lateral approaches to the skull base First Congress of the European Skull Base Society, Riva del Garda, Italy, September 26-30, 1993 |
| • | Visiting
Neurosurgeon University of Erlangen, Germany, Director: Prof. Rudolph Fahlbusch, MD, September 30, 1993 |
| • | Speaker
at Luncheon Seminar Management of Lesions Craniocervical Junction 43rd Annual Meeting CNS, Vancouver, BC, October 4, 1993 |
| • | Petroclival
meningiomas videoseminar (Moderator) Tenth International Congress of Neurological Surgery, Acapulco, Mexico, October 17-22, 1993 |
| • | Breakfast
seminar: Surgical techniques for meningiomas involving major sinuses Tenth International Congress of Neurological Surgery, Acapulco, Mexico, October 17-22, 1993 |
| • | Forum
Type Session; Skull Base Surgery; Anterior Skull Base Surgery Tenth International Congress of Neurological Surgery, Acapulco, Mexico, October 22, 1993 |
| • | Speaker
at Symposium on Transpetrosal Approaches Joint Annual Meeting of the German and North American Skull Base Societies, Orlando, FL, February 20, 1994 |
| • | Speaker
at Symposium on Carotid Artery Management Joint Annual Meeting of the German and North American Skull Base Societies , Orlando, FL, February 21, 1994 |
| • | Speaker
at Breakfast Seminar on Surgical Approaches to the Lateral Skull Base AANS 62nd Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 13, 1993 |
| • | Key
Note Speaker 7th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Skull Base Surgery, Fukuoka, Japan, May,1995 |
| • | Speaker
Korean Skull Base Surgery Annual Meeting, Seoul, Korea, May, 1995 |
| • | Special
lecture on Round Table Panel on Petroclival Tumors and Management
of the Internal Carotid Artery in the Skull Base 44th Congress of the French Speaking Society of Neurosurgery, Angers, France, June 12-15, 1994 |
| • | Breakfast
Seminar: "Complications of Skull Base Surgery" Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Chicago, IL, October 4, 1994 |
| • | "Controversies
in skull base surgery - carotid artery reconstruction" Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Chicago, IL, October 4, 1994 |
| • | "Jugular
Foramen Tumors" Sao Paolo Neurosurgical Society, Sao Paolo, Brazil, September 23, 1995 |
| • | Innovations
in Cranial Approaches and Exposures 45th Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. San Francisco, CA, October 16, 1995 |
| • | "Transfrontal
approach to clival chordomas," "Tumors of the Cavernous
Sinus" II Biennial Symposium of the Spanish Skull Base Society, Valencia, Spain, February 22-23, 1996 |
| • | Grand
Rounds "Surgery for cavernous sinus tumors" SUNY Downstate Medical Center, New York, NY, April 4, 1996 |
| • | Breakfast
Seminar: "Tumors of the clivus and foramen magnum" Annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Minneapolis, MN, May 2, 1996 |
| • | "The
craniocervical junction" Symposium 2nd International Skull Base Congress, San Diego, CA, June 30, 1996 |
| • | Extreme
lateral approaches 2nd International Skull Base Congress, San Diego, CA, July 2, 1996 |
| • | Neurosurgery
Grand Rounds "The future of skull base surgery" Department of Neurosurgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, July 15, 1996 |
| • | "Risks
and complications of Skull Base Surgery" (Moderator: Luncheon
Seminar ) 46th Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Montreal, Canada, September 30, 1996 |
| • |
Visiting Professor: "Meningiomas of the Cavernous Sinus"
Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, November 8, 1996 |
| • | Invited
speaker Second International Course on Skull Base Surgery, Mexico City, Mexico, November 28-30, 1996 |
| • | Guest
Speaker Conjoint Meeting of the New York Head and Neck Society and New York Academy of Medicine, January 15,1997 |
| • | "Management
of the Internal Carotid Artery at the Skull Base" Head and Neck Clinical Symposium at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montetlore Hospital. New York, NY, January 24, 1997 |
| • | Nemosurgical
perspectives in tumors of the anterior skull base 8th Annual Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society, Little Rock, AR, March 25, 1997 |
| • | Invited
Speaker Medical College of Georgia Neurosurgery Service Annual Resident Reunion Meeting, April 5, 1997 |
| • | Breakfast
Seminar: "Cranial base approaches to the posterior fossa" 65th Annual Meeting of AANS, Denver, CO, April 14, 1997 |
| • | Breakfast
Seminar: "Tumors of the clivus and foramen magnum" 65th Annual meeting of the AANS, Denver, CO, April 17, 1997 |
| • | "Skull
Base Surgery for Malignant Tumors" (Moderator: Main Topic Session
4) 11th International Congress of Neurological Surgery, Amsterdam, July 8, 1997 |
| • | Luncheon
Seminar: "Jugular Foramen Tumors" (Moderator ) 11th International Congress of Neurological Surgery, Amsterdam, July 10, 1997 |
| • | Visiting
Professor Regional Neurosurgical Center, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, July 11, 1997 |
| • |
Luncheon Seminar: "How I do it: Cerebral Revascularization"
(Moderator) 47ih Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, New Orleans, LA, October 1, 1997 |
| • | Guest
Speaker New Jersey Neurosurgical Society, September 8, 1997 |
| • | Visiting
Professor Dept. of Neurosurgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, October 20, 1997 |
| • | Guest
Speaker: Seminar on Approaches to the Skull Base Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, November 12-13, 1997 |
| • | Guest
Speaker: First International Workshop on minimally invasive neurosurgery P.D. Hinduja Hospital, Bombay, India, December 6-8, 1997 |
| • | Guest
Speaker Skull Base Surgery CME of the Neuroscientists Assoc. of Gujarat, Ahmedabad, India, December 9, 1997 |
| • | Session
III (Moderator) 46th Annual Conference of Neurological Society of India, Jaipur, India, December 12, 1997 |
| • | "Management
of the Internal Carotid Artery in Malignant Tumors of the Skull Base" International Federation of Head and Neck Oncologic Societies -Asia Pacific Congress, Bombay, India, December 13, 1997 |
| • | Jugular
Foramen Tumors 2nd International Interdisciplinary Congress on Craniofacial Skull Base Surgery, Cancun, Mexico, January 22,1998 |
| • | Anterior
Craniofacial Resection 2nd International Interdisciplinary Congress on Craniofacial Skull Base Surgery, Cancun, Mexico, January 24, 1998 |
| • | Visiting
Professor Department of Surgery, Creighton University School of Medicine Omaha, NB, April 15-16, 1998 |
| • | Breakfast
Seminar: Cranial Base approaches to the posterior fossa 66th Annual meeting of the American Assoc. of Neurological Surgeons, Philadelphia, PA, April 27, 1998 |
| • | Critical
Discussant Scientific Session VIII 66th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Philadelphia, PA, April 29, 1998 |
| • | Breakfast
Seminar: Tumors of the clivus and formen magnum 66th Annual meeting of the Association of Neurological Surgeons, Philadelphia, PA, April 30, 1998 |
| • | Guest
Speaker Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, May 21, 1998 |
| • | Guest
Speaker New Jersey Neuroscience Institute, June 24, 1998 |
| • | Guest
Speaker 22nd Congress of the Brazilian Neurosurgical Society, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 5-11, 1998 |
| • | Luncheon
Seminar: "Lateral Skull Base Operative Approaches" Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Seattle, WA, October 4, 1998 |
| • | Luncheon
Seminar: "Choosing a skull base approach" Annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Seattle, WA, October 5, 1998 |
| • | Breakfast
seminar: "Decompression and stabilization of the craniovertebral
junction" 671h Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, New Orleans, LA, April 26, 1999 |
| • | Breakfast
seminar: "Surgical approaches to the lateral skull base" 67th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, New Orleans, LA, April 28, 1999 |
| • |
Outcomes of clival tumor treatment Moderator 1Oth Annual Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society, Chicago, May, 1999 |
| • | Invited
speaker Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2-5, 1999 |
| • | Invited
speaker Grand Rounds, UMDNJ New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, September 21, 1999 |
| • | Invited
speaker Buenos Aires Neurosurgical Society, Pinamar, Buenos Aires, December 9-11, 1999 |
| • | Visiting
Professor Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, February 4, 2000 |
| • | Visiting
Professor Department of Neurosurgery, Temple University School of Medicine, (Live surgery demonstration), March 2-3, 2000 |
| • |
Foramen Magnum Tumors (Panel discussion) 11th Annual Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society, Scottsdale, AZ, March 19, 2000 |
| • |
Approaches to the foramen magnum (Moderator) 11th Annual Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society, Scottsdale, AZ, March 19, 2000 |