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Thursday 19/11/26
0800 – 1030 \| CONTROVERSIES IN TUMOUR NEUROSURGERY
0800 – 0815	Chairs	Welcome and Opening
0815 – 0845	Mitch Berger	Every glioma patient should be a research subject
0845 – 0915	James Rutka	Four decades of brain tumour surgery – lessons learned – what have we got wrong?
0915 – 0940	Sandro Krieg	Awake craniotomy is obsolete
0940 – 1005	Michael Jenkinson	We have been overtreating meningiomas for decades
1005 – 1020	Kate Drummond	Every brain tumour patient should be treated at a specialist centre
1020 – 1030	Discussion
1030 – 1100	Morning Tea
1100 – 1230 \| CONTROVERSIES IN TUMOUR NEUROSURGERY
1100 – 1115	Jim Whittle	Extent of resection is irrelevant in the vorasidenib era
1115 – 1130	Sandro Krieg	Extent of resection is irrelevant in the vorasidenib era
1130 – 1150	Mitch Berger	We should sacrifice neurological function for greater extent of resection
1150 – 1210	Michael Jenkinson	The ROAM trial – have we finally answered the wrong question?
1210 – 1230	Case Discussion Case 1 Case 2
1230 – 1315	Lunch
1315 – 1400 \| PETER PETTY MEMORIAL LECTURE
1315 – 1400	Neurosurgeons as advocates - a moral imperative
1400 – 1530 \| CONTROVERSIES IN TRAUMA NEUROSURGERY
1400 – 1420	Guy Rosenthal	ICP is just a number
1420 – 1440	Mitch Berger	Should I let my kids play football?
1440 – 1500	Guy Rosenthal	Surgery for acute subdural haematoma should be a last resort
1500 – 1520	Gail Rosseau	Trauma neurosurgery is the only neurosurgery we should teach
1520 – 1530	Discussion
1530 – 1600	Afternoon Tea
1600 – 1730 \| CONTROVERSIES IN VASCULAR NEUROSURGERY
1600 – 1620	Ryan Naylor	Personalised medicine will replace surgery for AVM
1620 – 1640	Alex Adamides	We are overtreating unruptured aneurysms
1640 – 1700	Marcus Stoodley	The EC/IC bypass has been unfairly abandoned
1700 – 1730	Case Discussion Case 1 Case 2
1900	Conference Dinner

Friday 20/11/26
0830 – 1030 \| NEW FRONTIERS IN NEUROSURGERY
0830 – 0850	James Rutka	Has anything impacted brain cancer survival in adults or children?
0850 – 0910	Michael Jenkinson	Neurosurgeons should not do clinical trials
0910 – 0930	Sandro Krieg	TMS can fix all our problems
0930 – 0945	Andrew Morokoff	Brain computer interfaces – very expensive hype?
0945 – 1000	Guy Rosenthal	AI can tell us what to do
1000 – 1015	Ben Jonker	Functional neurosurgery can treat everything now
1015 – 1030	Matthew Gutman	LITT – placebo nonsense or a genuine treatment?
1030 – 1100	Morning Tea
1100 – 1300 \| MY GREATEST DISASTER
1100 – 1115	Gail Rosseau
1115 – 1130	Sandro Krieg
1130 – 1145	Mitch Berger
1145 – 1200	Michael Jenkinson
1200 – 1215	Guy Rosenthal
1215 – 1230	Alex Adamides
1230 – 1245	Martin Hunn
1245 – 1300	James King
1300 – 1330	Lunch
1330 – 1600 \| CONTROVERSIES IN CSF AND SPINE NEUROSURGERY
1330 – 1345	Andrew Gauden	Spontaneous intracranial hypotension – is it real?
1345 – 1400	Michael Jenkinson	Most shunt technology is adopted without evidence
1400 – 1415	Brian Owler	NPH – underdiagnosed and undertreated?
1415 – 1430	James King	CSF is like love… it always finds a way (through the skull base)
1430 – 1445	Yingda Li	Endoscopic spine surgery – just another way to find CSF?
1445 – 1500	Nick Vrodos	Do you need a spine fellowship to put in screws?
1500 – 1515	Short break
1515 – 1600	Case Discussion and Close Comparing the “Fuse, Fuse, Fuse” team and the “Refuse to Fuse” team Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
1600	CLOSE