Neuroscience
This past weekend, Penn Neurosurgery hosted a comprehensive three-day continuing medical education (CME) program in Neuro-Oncology and Skull Base Surgery.
The course focused on advances and innovative treatment of gliomas and brain metastasis, the use of Gamma Knife Perfexion radiosurgery and proton therapy for brain tumors, and endoscopic surgery in treatment of skull base disorders.
There was a mix of lectures and case studies and included hands-on laboratory sessions to enhance the learning experience.
A special highlight of the program was the Distinguished Skull Base Professorship, featuring presentations by Peter Nakaji, MD from Barrow Neurosurgical Associates in Phoenix, Arizona and Carl H. Snyderman, MD, MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. The editor of Journal of Neuro-Oncology, Dr. Linda Liau, professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, presented her perspective on glioma surgery and treatment.
The course was led by Penn neurosurgeons, Sean M. Grady, MD, Charles Harrison Frazier Professor and chair of Penn Neurosurgery and John Y.K. Lee, MD, assistant professor of neurosurgery.
Several Penn Medicine faculty members with Distinguished Skull Base Professorship Peter Nakaji, MD (3rd from left) and Carl H. Snyderman, MD, MBA (4th from left) during the Neuro-Oncology and Skull Base CME course held in Philadelphia on March 7-9, 2013.
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Neuroscience
Penn Neurosurgery Hosts Neuro-Oncology and Skull Base Course
This past weekend, Penn Neurosurgery hosted a comprehensive three-day continuing medical education (CME) program in Neuro-Oncology and Skull Base Surgery.
The course focused on advances and innovative treatment of gliomas and brain metastasis, the use of Gamma Knife Perfexion radiosurgery and proton therapy for brain tumors, and endoscopic surgery in treatment of skull base disorders.
There was a mix of lectures and case studies and included hands-on laboratory sessions to enhance the learning experience.
A special highlight of the program was the Distinguished Skull Base Professorship, featuring presentations by Peter Nakaji, MD from Barrow Neurosurgical Associates in Phoenix, Arizona and Carl H. Snyderman, MD, MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. The editor of Journal of Neuro-Oncology, Dr. Linda Liau, professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, presented her perspective on glioma surgery and treatment.
The course was led by Penn neurosurgeons, Sean M. Grady, MD, Charles Harrison Frazier Professor and chair of Penn Neurosurgery and John Y.K. Lee, MD, assistant professor of neurosurgery.
Several Penn Medicine faculty members with Distinguished Skull Base Professorship Peter Nakaji, MD (3rd from left) and Carl H. Snyderman, MD, MBA (4th from left) during the Neuro-Oncology and Skull Base CME course held in Philadelphia on March 7-9, 2013.- Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Patient’s Story
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