Neurological Surgery Symposium 2014RCSI, Dublin, IrelandFriday-Saturday, July 25 & 26, 2014List of Speakers

Daniel L. Barrow, MD, FACS, MBNA/Bowman Professor and Chairman Department of Neurosurgery Chief of the Neurosurgery Service at Emory University Hospital, Director, Emory MBNA Stroke Center, Atlanta “Technical Aspects of Managing Intracranial Aneurysms not Suitable for Endovascular Therapy”

Craig A. Vandeveer, MD Charlotte North CarolinaDirector, American Board of Neurological Surgeons; Critical Care & Cerebrovascular Sections of the AANS

Ralph G. Dacey, Jr., M.D., FACS, FRCSI (Hon), Henry G. and Edith R. Schwartz Professor and Chairman Department of Neurological Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Neurosurgeon-in-Chief, Barnes-Jewish Hospital“Colloid Cysts of the Third Ventricle: Natural History, Management Decisions and Surgical Approaches”

Arthur L. Day, M.D., FACS, Professor and Vice-Chair, Director of Clinical Education, The Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas, Health Science Center, Houston“Surgical Anatomy and Exposure of the Anterior Visual System”

Steven L. Giannotta, M.D., FACS, Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles “Incorporating the Endoscope into a Mature Cranial Base Practice”

Mark N. Hadley, M.D., FACS, Professor and Director of Residency Training Program, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham

“Perfusion pressure in the perioperative management of spinal cord pathology”

Darach Crimmins, MD, FRSCI (SN), Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon and Lead Consultant in Paediatric Neurosurgery, Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street, Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin and Beaumont Hospital Dublin, Ireland“Myelomeningocele closure: antenatal elective extravaganza or neonatal emergency?

Mohsen Javadpour, MD, FRSC (SN), Consultant Neurosurgeon, Beaumont Hospital Dublin, Ireland, Council Member of the SBNS and former Chair of the British Neurovascular Group“Endoscopic trans-sphenoidal resection of craniopharyngiomas”

Ciaran Bolger, MD, PhD, FRCSI (SN), Consultant Neurosurgeon Beaumont Hospital Dublin,Ireland, Council Member of SBNS, Professor of Neuroscience RCSI, President

Emeritus European Association of Spine Surgery“Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery- Is it worth all the bother?”

Paul Eldridge, MD, FRCS (Eng), Consultant Neurosurgeon at The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool, UK, Professor of Neurosurgery University of Liverpool, former Council Member of the SBNS, Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Neurosurgery

“How to manage trigeminal neuralgia”

Charles Marks, MD, FRCS, Consultant Neurosurgeon Cork University Hospital, formerly attending at Neurosurgery in Jerusalem, Israel and trainee in Bristol and Queens Square, London, UK“100 years of wartime neurosurgery : Cushing, Cairns, Vietnam and Afghanistan"

Jibril Farah, MD FRCSI, Consultant Neuurosurgeon, The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool, UK, Director of the Epilepsy Surgery Programme at the Walton Centre, Specialist in Functional Neurosurgery

“Resection of tumours from eloquent areas”

Caroline Hayhurst, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Cardiff University Hospital, Cardiff, UK, Director of Skull Base and Neuro-oncology Surgery at Cardiff University Hospital, Cardiff, UK

“Minimally invasive approaches to the anterior skull base: eyebrow or endoscopic?”