Programme

BSBS Cambridge Jan 2009
Cambridge Garden House - 15th 16th January 2009

Thursday 15th January
10.00	BSBS Council meeting
11.00	AGM
12.00	Lunch
13.15	Welcome: David Moffat and Carl Hardwidge
13.30	Invited Lecture: Vittorio Colletti Intraoperative neuromonitoring and auditory brainstem implantation
14.15	Round Table: Hearing preservation considerations in the management of vestibular Schwannoma Chair: David Moffat Vittorio Colletti, Carl Hardwidge, David Baguley, Sarah Jeffries, Richard Irving & Shak Saeed
15.15	Coffee
15.45	Gamma Knife or Linac - the radiotherapy treatment of choice for skull base lesions Jeremy Rowe & Sarah Jefferies
16.45	Management of CP angle tumours Robert Macfarlane
17.15	Management of Jugular foramen lesions with consideration to lower cranial nerve function. Mike Gleeson
17.45	Close
19.30	Dinner

Friday 16th January
09.00	Welcome: Rames Kirollos
09.10	Invited lecture: David Howard What factors dictate surgical success when managing anterior cranial base malignancies.
09.40	Surgical approaches for the management of foramen magnum pathology Rames Kirollos
10.00	Resection of skull base tumours with major arterial sacrifice: when and how Richard Nelson
10.20	Microvascular decompression Paul Eldridge
10.40	Is there a role for endoscopic management of central skull base pathology? Nigel Mendosa and Will Grant
11.00	Coffee
11.20	Free Papers
12.50	Award of the Charles Ballance Medal Welcome the new President of the bsbs
1300	Lunch