Welcome and Opening: Professor Christobel Saunders AO, James Stewart Chair of Surgery, Head of the Department of Surgery at RMH
08:00 – 10:30
CONTROVERSIES IN TUMOUR NEUROSURGERY
Chairs
| 08:15 – 08:45 | Mitch Berger | Management of the eloquent incidental glioma |
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| 08:45 – 09:10 | Gelareh Zadeh | Management of incidental meningioma |
| 09:10 - 09:30 | Jim Whittle | We've failed so far – we need to change the research paradigm …. |
| 09:30 – 09:50 | Kate Drummond | Tumour surgery should only be done by tumour surgeons – death of the generalist? |
| 09:50 – 10:10 | Hamish Alexander | Supramaximal resection – becoming the standard of care? |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | Discussion |
10:30 – 11:00
Morning Tea
1100 – 1230
CONTROVERSIES IN SKULL BASE SURGERY
Chairs
| 11:00 – 11:25 | Michael Link | Pushing the boundaries in the CP angle |
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| 11:25 – 11:45 | James King | Pushing the boundaries in endoscopic endonasal approaches |
| 11:45 – 12:05 | Brinda Shivalingam | Minimally invasive skull base approaches – why struggle through a small hole? |
| 12:05 – 12:25 | Andrew Morokoff | Maximally invasive skull base approaches – morbid or safe? |
| 12:25 – 12:30 | Discussion |
12:30 - 13:15
Lunch
13:15 – 14:00
PETER PETTY MEMORIAL LECTURE
| Aviva Abosch |
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| Electrophysiology, Sleep, Addiction, and the Neurosurgeon |
14:00 – 15:00
CONTROVERSIES IN EPILEPSY AND FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY
Chairs
| 14:00 – 14:25 | James Rutka | Pushing the Boundaries in Epilepsy Surgery |
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| 14:25 – 14:45 | Aviva Abosch | Pushing the Boundaries in Neuromodulation |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Sarah Olson | Is ablative surgery dead? |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Leon Lai | Pushing the Boundaries in Microvascular Decompression for tinnitus |
| 15:15 - 15:20 | Discussion |
15:20 – 15:45
Afternoon Tea
15:45 – 17:30
CONTROVERSIES IN TUMOUR NEUROSURGERY
| 15:45 – 16:05 | Gelareh Zadeh | Meningioma – no longer a surgical disease? |
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| 16:05 – 16:35 | Mitch Berger | All glioma surgery should be done awake .. or there is no such thing as Broca's area |
| 16:35 – 16:55 | TBA | Immunotherapy has failed – what next? |
| 16:55 – 17:15 | Joseph Sia | Radiotherapy for low grade glioma – now or later? |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Discussion |
19:00
Conference Dinner
Venue
The Pavilion, Arts Centre, Melbourne
