Pre-Meeting Skull Base Dissection Course

*A separate registration will be required for the Pre-Meeting Dissection Course

Moderators: Brian Thorp & Gustavo Pradilla

This is a comprehensive course designed to provide focused anatomic lectures with complementary dissections. This format will allow learners to increase their knowledge base through thoughtful didactics. Learners will be able to work shoulder to shoulder with experts in the field to apply the aforementioned knowledge to anatomic dissections thereby enhancing their skill sets through appropriate cadaveric dissection. This is ideal for all skull base specialists, notably neurosurgeons, rhinologists, otologists and oculoplastic surgeons.

At the conclusion of this session, attendees will be able to:

Develop an appropriate surgical plan to approach varying skull base pathology.
Apply new anatomic and surgical knowledge to one’s practice.

Accreditation Statement

CME Accreditation

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of American College of Surgeons (ACS) and North American Skull Base Society. American College of Surgeons is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American College of Surgeons designates this a live educational activity. The number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™will be determined later this fall. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Satisfactory Completion for credits:

All attendees must have completed and turned in a course attendance/evaluation form prior to leaving the conference. Each session claimed for credit must be attended in its entirety.

Schedule at a Glance

*Schedule Subject to Change

Wednesday, February 16Thursday, February 17

7:45am-8:00am	Introduction
8:00am-8:15am	Endonasal Skull Base Anatomy
8:15am-8:30am	Step by Step Transplanar/Transtubercular/Transsellar
8:30am-8:45am	Step by Step Transcribriform
8:45am-9:00am	Step by Step Transclival
9:00am-9:15am	Step by Step Transodontoid
9:15am-9:30am	Break
9:30am-12:00pm	Dissection
12:00pm-1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm-1:15pm	PPF/ITF Anatomy
1:15pm-1:30pm	Step by Step PPF/ITF Dissection
1:30pm-1:45pm	Step by Step TONES
1:45pm-2:00pm	Break
2:00pm-5:00pm	Dissection
5:00pm	Question and Answer

7:30am-7:45am	Introduction
7:45am-8:00am	Parasellar, Suprasellar, Anterior Cranial Fossa Anatomy
8:00am-8:15am	Step by Step Extended Bifrontal and Transbasal
8:15am-8:30am	Step by Step Pterional, OZ, Pre-temporal Transcavernous
8:30am-8:45am	Step by Step Middle Fossa with Kawase
8:45am-9:00am	Step by Step Retrosigmoid
9:00am-9:15am	Step by Step Far Lateral
9:15am-9:30am	Break
9:30am-12:00pm	Dissection
12:00pm-1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm-1:15pm	Step by Step Translabyrinthine
1:15pm-1:30pm	Step by Step Transcochlear
1:30pm-1:45pm	Step by Step Endoscopic Transotic
1:45pm-2:00pm	Break
2:00pm-5:00pm	Dissection
5:00pm	Question and Answer

Registration available late fall.