Monday 26 June
Time Potsdam I-III Bellevue Tegel Lincke I-II Schinkel I-II Kaminzimmer
09:00
09:00-12:00
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PMW1
PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Moderators: Hagai BERGMAN (Prof) (Jerusalem, Israel), Erich RICHTER (Marrero, USA)
Coordinator: William D HUTCHISON (neurophysiology) (Coordinator, Toronto, Canada)
09:00 - 12:00 Techniques in microelectrode recording. William D HUTCHISON (neurophysiology) (Keynote Speaker, Toronto, Canada)
09:00 - 12:00 Physiology of the thalamus and basal ganglia in movement disorder surgery. Zvi ISRAEL (Department Chairman) (Keynote Speaker, Jerusalem, Israel)
09:00 - 12:00 Current models of basal ganglia circuitry. Hagai BERGMAN (Prof) (Keynote Speaker, Jerusalem, Israel)
09:00 - 12:00 Basal ganglia physiology in animal models. Mesbah ALAM (Scientist) (Keynote Speaker, Hannover, Germany)
09:00 - 12:00 Selected cases - recordings and interpretation. Brigitte PIALLAT (Keynote Speaker, Grenoble, France)
09:00 - 12:00 Effect of sedation and anesthesia on recordings. Alexandre EUSEBIO (Professor) (Keynote Speaker, Marseille, France)
09:00 - 12:00 Neural rhythms in MD surgery. Sameer SHETH (Associate Professor of Neurosurgery) (Keynote Speaker, Houston, USA)

09:00-12:00
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PMW2
PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
EPILEPSY

PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
EPILEPSY

Moderators: Claudio POLLO (Deputy Chief Doctor) (Bern, Switzerland), Igor TRIFONOF (Moscou, Russia)
Coordinator: Faisal AL OTAIBI (Coordinator, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
09:00 - 12:00 Assessment of surgical patients. Youssef COMAIR (Chair Department) (Keynote Speaker, Beirut, Lebanon)
09:00 - 12:00 The role of adjunct testing in epilepsy. Faisal AL OTAIBI (Keynote Speaker, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
09:00 - 12:00 Electrocorticography. Antonio GONÇALVES FERREIRA (Head of the Stereotactic and Functional Division) (Keynote Speaker, LISBON, Portugal)
09:00 - 12:00 StereoEEG recordings. Nitin TANDON (Keynote Speaker, Houston, USA)
09:00 - 12:00 Temporal lobectomy. Claudio POLLO (Deputy Chief Doctor) (Keynote Speaker, Bern, Switzerland)
09:00 - 12:00 Functional imaging. Dario ENGLOT (Fellow/Trainee) (Keynote Speaker, Nashville, USA)
09:00 - 12:00 Laser ablation in epilepsy. Chengyuan WU (Associate Professor/Attending) (Keynote Speaker, Philadelphia, PA, USA, USA)
09:00 - 12:00 How epilepsy helps us understand cognition and memory. Itzhak FRIED (Keynote Speaker, Los Angeles, USA)
09:00 - 12:00 MEG. Masaki IWASAKI (Keynote Speaker, Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan)

09:00-12:00
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PMW4
PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
PAIN SURGERY

PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
PAIN SURGERY

Moderators: Wolfgang HAMEL (Hamburg, Germany), Chris HONEY (Neurosurgeon) (Vancouver, Canada)
Coordinator: Marc SINDOU (Professor of Neurosurgery) (Coordinator, Lyon, France)
09:00 - 12:00 Trigeminal neuralgia and facial pain. Marc SINDOU (Professor of Neurosurgery) (Keynote Speaker, Lyon, France)
09:00 - 12:00 Spinal cord stimulation. Josh ROSENOW (Director, Functional Neurosurgery) (Keynote Speaker, Chicago, USA)
09:00 - 12:00 DREZ lesioning. Peter KONRAD (Keynote Speaker, Nashville, USA)
09:00 - 12:00 DBS for pain. Alex GREEN (Consultant Neurosurgeon) (Keynote Speaker, Oxford, United Kingdom)
09:00 - 12:00 Surgical treatment of headache syndromes. Denys FONTAINE (Neurosurgeon) (Keynote Speaker, NICE, France)
09:00 - 12:00 Motor cortex stimulation. Gaston SCHECHTMANN (Doctor) (Keynote Speaker, Stockholm, Sweden)
09:00 - 12:00 Sphenopalatine ganglion stimulation. Jocelyne BLOCH (Médecin Cadre) (Keynote Speaker, Lausanne, Switzerland)
09:00 - 12:00 DRG stimulation. Jan VESPER (Head of Department) (Keynote Speaker, Duesseldorf, Germany)

09:00-12:00
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PMW3
PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
RADIOSURGERY

PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
RADIOSURGERY

Moderators: Motohiro HAYASHI (Associate professor) (Tokyo, Japan), Roberto SPIEGELMANN (Consultant Neurosurgeon) (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Coordinator: Jean REGIS (PROFESSEUR) (Coordinator, Marseille, France)
09:00 - 12:00 Fundamentals of radiosurgery-from frames to physics. Antonio DE SALLES (Professor - Chief) (Keynote Speaker, Sâo Paulo, Brazil)
09:00 - 12:00 Radiosurgery for benign tumors. Marc LEVIVIER (Chef de Service) (Keynote Speaker, Lausanne, Switzerland)
09:00 - 12:00 Radiosurgery for acoustic neuromas. Jean REGIS (PROFESSEUR) (Keynote Speaker, Marseille, France)
09:00 - 12:00 Radiosurgery for metastatic disease. David MATHIEU (Professor) (Keynote Speaker, Sherbrooke, Canada)
09:00 - 12:00 Functional radiosurgery. Roberto MARTINEZ-ALVAREZ (Neurosurgeon) (Keynote Speaker, Madrid, Spain)
09:00 - 12:00 Radiosurgery for treatment of arteriovenous malformations. Roman LISCAK (head) (Keynote Speaker, PRAGUE, Czech Republic)

09:00-12:00
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PMW5
PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
TREATMENT OF TOURETTE’S SYNDROME

PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
TREATMENT OF TOURETTE’S SYNDROME

Moderators: Rees COSGROVE (Director, Epilepsy and Functional Neurosurgery) (Boston, USA), Mansour PARVARESH (Associate Professor) (Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran)
Coordinator: Yasin TEMEL (head of department) (Coordinator, Maastricht, The Netherlands)
09:00 - 12:00 Overview ofTourette’s syndrome. Ludvic ZRINZO (Professor of Neurosurgery) (Keynote Speaker, London, UK, United Kingdom)
09:00 - 12:00 Psychiatric issues inTourette’s. Kirsten MUELLER-VAHL (Keynote Speaker, Germany)
09:00 - 12:00 Surgical patient selection. Yasin TEMEL (head of department) (Keynote Speaker, Maastricht, The Netherlands)
09:00 - 12:00 Treatment ofTourette with GPi stimulation. Veerle VISSER-VANDEWALLE (Head of Dep. of Ster. and Funct. NS) (Keynote Speaker, Cologne, Germany)
09:00 - 12:00 Treatment ofTourette with GPe stimulation. Osvaldo VILELA FILHO (Keynote Speaker, GOIANIA, Brazil)
09:00 - 12:00 Treatment ofTourette with thalamic stimulation. Terry COYNE (Neurosurgeon) (Keynote Speaker, Brisbane, Australia)

09:00-12:00
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OFFM
OFFICER’S MEETING

OFFICER’S MEETING

12:00
12:00-14:00
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SSW1
SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM SPONSORED BY WSSFN
NEUROMODULATION ZUR BEHANDLUNG PSYCHIATRISCHER ERKRANKUNGEN

SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM SPONSORED BY WSSFN
NEUROMODULATION ZUR BEHANDLUNG PSYCHIATRISCHER ERKRANKUNGEN

Coordinator: Juergen VOGES (Head of the Department) (Coordinator, Magdeburg, Germany)
12:00 - 14:00
Speakers: Prof. Dr. med.Th. Schläper, Univ.-Freiburg; Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. A. Heinz, Univ.-Hospital, Charitè Berlin, Prof. Dr. med. V. Coenen, Univ.- Freiburg, Prof. Dr. med. J. Voges, Univ.-Magdeburg

12:00-14:00
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SSW2
SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM SPONSORED BY WSSFN
GLOBAL BRAIN INITIATIVES - IMPLICATIONS FOR FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY

SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM SPONSORED BY WSSFN
GLOBAL BRAIN INITIATIVES - IMPLICATIONS FOR FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY

Coordinators: Joseph NEIMAT (Chairman) (Coordinator, Louisville, USA), Mark RICHARDSON (Neurosurgeon) (Coordinator, Pittsburgh, USA)
Keynote Speakers: James GNADT (Keynote Speaker, Rockville, USA), Ferath KHERIF (Keynote Speaker, Switzerland), Philippe RYVLIN (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois) (Keynote Speaker, Lausanne, Switzerland)

14:00
14:00-18:00
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PMW8
PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
LESIONING

PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
LESIONING

Moderators: Jin Woo CHANG (Seoul, Republic of Korea), Emil ISAGULYAN (Neurosurgeon (Pain Management)) (Moscow, Russia)
Coordinator: Jin Woo CHANG (Coordinator, Seoul, Republic of Korea)
14:00 - 18:00 Historical aspects of lesioning -from Cooper’s cryolesioning to HiFU. Takaomi TAIRA (faculty, speaker) (Keynote Speaker, Tokyo, Japan)
14:00 - 18:00 Lesioning using invasive methods. Tipu AZIZ (Professor) (Keynote Speaker, Oxford, United Kingdom)
14:00 - 18:00 Radiosurgical lesioning. Sun-Ha PAEK (Professor) (Keynote Speaker, Seoul, Republic of Korea)
14:00 - 18:00 Stereotactic laser ablation surgery. Robert GROSS (Neurosurgeon, MD/PhD Dir, eNTICE Chair, SOM Faculty) (Keynote Speaker, Atlanta, USA)
14:00 - 18:00 Lesioning using HiFU. Nir LIPSMAN (Keynote Speaker, Toronto, Canada)
14:00 - 18:00 Lesioning for unusual movement disorders. Takaomi TAIRA (faculty, speaker) (Keynote Speaker, Tokyo, Japan)
14:00 - 18:00 Increasing the accuracy of lesioning procedures. Mojgan HODAIE (Attending Neurosurgeon) (Keynote Speaker, Toronto, Canada, Canada)

14:00-18:00
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PMW10
PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
SURGERY FOR PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS

PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
SURGERY FOR PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS

Coordinators: Marwan HARIZ (neurosurgeon) (Coordinator, Umeå, Sweden), Keith MATTHEWS (Professor) (Coordinator, Dundee, United Kingdom), Bart NUTTIN (Professor) (Coordinator, Leuven, Belgium)
14:00 - 18:00 Introduction: Is surgery for psychiatric disorders really needed? Marwan HARIZ (neurosurgeon) (Keynote Speaker, Umeå, Sweden)
14:00 - 18:00 DBS for OCD: Why it is not flying like DBS for PD? Bart NUTTIN (Professor) (Keynote Speaker, Leuven, Belgium)
14:00 - 18:00 Two failed trials of DBS for depression; what went wrong? Andres LOZANO (Alan & Susan Hudson Cornerstone Chair in Neurosurgery, University Health Network) (Keynote Speaker, Toronto, Canada)
14:00 - 18:00 What happened to STN DBS for OCD? Anne-Helene CLAIR (Keynote Speaker, PARIS, France)
14:00 - 18:00 When is a patient with OCD treatment refractory? David CHRISTMAS (Consultant Psychiatrist) (Keynote Speaker, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom)
14:00 - 18:00 When is a patient with major depression treatment refractory? Raphaëlle RICHIERI (Keynote Speaker, marseille, France)
14:00 - 18:00 Long-term outcome of DBS for OCD with emphasis on side-effects. Rick SCHUURMAN (neurosurgeon) (Keynote Speaker, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
14:00 - 18:00 DBS for addiction. Juergen VOGES (Head of the Department) (Keynote Speaker, Magdeburg, Germany)
14:00 - 18:00 DBS for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Ali R. REZAI (Keynote Speaker, Ohio, USA)
14:00 - 18:00 Ablative surgery for aggressiveness. Osvaldo VILELA FILHO (Keynote Speaker, GOIANIA, Brazil)
14:00 - 18:00 DBS for obesity. Antonio DE SALLES (Professor - Chief) (Keynote Speaker, Sâo Paulo, Brazil)
14:00 - 18:00 Surgery for anorexia nervosa. Bomin SUN (director) (Keynote Speaker, shanghai, China)
14:00 - 18:00 DBS for Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. Veerle VISSER-VANDEWALLE (Head of Dep. of Ster. and Funct. NS) (Keynote Speaker, Cologne, Germany)
14:00 - 18:00 Imaging of psychiatric brain circuitries. Sameer SHETH (Associate Professor of Neurosurgery) (Keynote Speaker, Houston, USA)
14:00 - 18:00 Animal models for psychiatric disorders. Christelle BAUNEZ (Director of Research) (Keynote Speaker, Marseille, France)
14:00 - 18:00 How to proceed? Why is the field stagnating? Are psychiatrists aversive to psychiatric surgery? Why is it still experimental?
Panel Discussion
14:00 - 18:00 Closing talk: Ideal requirements for neurosurgery to become accepted credible treatment of refractory patients. Keith MATTHEWS (Professor) (Keynote Speaker, Dundee, United Kingdom)

14:00-18:00
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PMW7
PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
STEREOTACTIC AND FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY WORKSHOP FOR INDUSTRY

PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
STEREOTACTIC AND FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY WORKSHOP FOR INDUSTRY

Moderators: Paresh DOSHI (Neurosurgeon) (mumbai, India), Michael SCHULDER (Vice Chair, Neurosurgery) (Lake Success, NY, USA)
Coordinator: Michael SCHULDER (Vice Chair, Neurosurgery) (Coordinator, Lake Success, NY, USA)
14:00 - 18:00 A primer of Neurodegenerative disorders. Suneil KALIA (Associate Professor) (Keynote Speaker, Toronto, Canada, Canada)
14:00 - 18:00 Introduction to movement disorder surgery-targets, techniques and indications. Paresh DOSHI (Neurosurgeon) (Keynote Speaker, mumbai, India)
14:00 - 18:00 Preoperative patient assessment-how do we select surgical candidates? Jens VOLKMANN (Chairman) (Keynote Speaker, Würzburg, Germany)
14:00 - 18:00 Novel indications for treatment. Michael SCHULDER (Vice Chair, Neurosurgery) (Keynote Speaker, Lake Success, NY, USA)
14:00 - 18:00 The delicate art of programming - What are the key issues? Joerg MUELLER (Keynote Speaker, Berlin, Germany)
14:00 - 18:00 Movement disorders - the patient’s perspective and impact on quality of life. Gun-Marie HARIZ (ergotherapist) (Keynote Speaker, Umeå, Sweden)
14:00 - 18:00 What I always wanted to know about Functional Neurosurgery-(but was afraid to ask...).
Panel discussion

14:00-18:00
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PMW6
PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
DBS

PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
DBS

Moderators: Jorge GURIDI (Neurosurgery) (Pamplona, Spain), Angelo FRANZINI (MILANO, Italy)
Coordinator: Erlick PEREIRA (Consultant Neurosurgeon) (Coordinator, London, United Kingdom)
14:00 - 18:00 Methods of stereotaxy, cartesian coordinates, frame application. Romain CARRON (MEDECIN) (Keynote Speaker, MARSEILLE, France)
14:00 - 18:00 Targets, frames and maximizing trageting accuracy. Patric BLOMSTEDT (Neurosurgeon) (Keynote Speaker, Umeå, Sweden)
14:00 - 18:00 Nexframe and Starfix systems. Joseph NEIMAT (Chairman) (Keynote Speaker, Louisville, USA)
14:00 - 18:00 Neuromodulation for movement disorders-technique, indications and current outcomes. Stephan CHABARDÈS (head of the department) (Keynote Speaker, GRENOBLE, France)
14:00 - 18:00 Neuromodulation for epilepsy. Dirk VAN ROOST (Consultant) (Keynote Speaker, Ghent, Belgium)
14:00 - 18:00 Neuromodulation for novel indications: Depression, Alzheimers, Anorexia. Clement HAMANI (Keynote Speaker, Toronto, Canada)
14:00 - 18:00 DBS complications. Maria Fiorella CONTARINO (Dr.) (Keynote Speaker, Leiden/The Hague, The Netherlands)
14:00 - 18:00 Neuromodulation for pain. Erlick PEREIRA (Consultant Neurosurgeon) (Keynote Speaker, London, United Kingdom)

14:00-18:00
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PMW9
PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
EDUCATION AND TRAINING in collaboration with ESSFN and WSSFN Education Committees

PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
EDUCATION AND TRAINING in collaboration with ESSFN and WSSFN Education Committees

Moderators: Joachim K. KRAUSS (Chairman and Director) (Hannover, Germany), Jean REGIS (PROFESSEUR) (Marseille, France)
Coordinators: Joachim K. KRAUSS (Chairman and Director) (Coordinator, Hannover, Germany), Jean REGIS (PROFESSEUR) (Coordinator, Marseille, France)
14:00 - 18:00 Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery across the globe-The diverse aspects of treatment. Jairo ESPINOSA (CEO) (Keynote Speaker, Bogotà, Colombia)
14:00 - 18:00 A comprehensive fellowship in SFN - What should it include? Zelma KISS (Associate Professor) (Keynote Speaker, Calgary, Canada)
14:00 - 18:00 Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery inTaiwan. Jung-Tung LIU (Keynote Speaker, Taipei, Taiwan)
14:00 - 18:00 Setting up a DBS in Indonesia. Achmad FAHMI (Keynote Speaker, Surabaya, Indonesia)
14:00 - 18:00 Starting a functional neurosurgery group. Akmal HUSSAIN (Keynote Speaker, Punjab, Pakistan)
14:00 - 18:00 Setting up an epilepsy center. Andy PARRENT (Keynote Speaker, Ontario, Canada)
14:00 - 18:00 Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery in Africa. Graham FIEGGEN (Head of Department) (Keynote Speaker, Cape Town, South Africa)
14:00 - 18:00 Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery in South America. Fabian PIEDIMONTE (Keynote Speaker, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
14:00 - 18:00 Stereotactic and Functional Neurosrugery in Algeria. Guenane LAKHDAR (Pr neurosurgen) (Keynote Speaker, Algeria, Algeria), Benaissa ABDENNEBI (Keynote Speaker, Alger, Algeria)