WSBF FELLOWSHIP DIPLOMA IN LATERAL SKULL BASE SURGERY 2024
SCHEDULE
27th August To 5th of September, 2024
RAMAIAH ADVANCED LEARNING CENTER, BENGALURU, INDIA
DAY 1, Tuesday, AUGUST 27, 2024
08:00 AM – 08:30 AM: Inauguration & lighting of the lamp and introduction to the course
08:30 AM – 09:00 AM: Anatomy of the temporal bone (Dr. Sampath CP Rao)
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM: Endoscopic anatomy of middle ear & facial nerve (Dr. Mohamed Badr-El-Dine)
09:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Radiology of the temporal bone (Dr. Pallavi Rao)
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Coffee Break
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Exclusive endoscopic removal of localized middle ear tumors (Dr. Mohamed Badr-El-Dine)
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: All about tympanomastoid paragangliomas (Dr. Sampath CP Rao)
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: All about tumors of the external auditory canal (Dr. Sampath CP Rao)
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM: Anatomy of facial nerve & facial nerve decompression (Dr. Deviprasad D)
12:30 PM – 01:30 PM: Lunch
01:30 PM – 05:00 PM: Workshop on neuronavigation & instrumentation
DAY 2, Wednesday, August 28, 2024
08:00 AM – 08:30 AM: Conventional stapes surgery - my experience (Dr. SKE Appa Rao)
08:30 AM – 09:00 AM: Canal wall up and down mastoidectomy (Dr. Meenesh Juvekar)
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM: Surgery for cholesteatomas (Dr. Sankar Mahadevan)
09:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Difficult situations and complications in cholesteatomas (Dr. SKE Appa Rao)
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Coffee Break
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Subtotal petrosectomy: Interface between otology & lateral skull base (Dr. Sampath CP Rao)
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: All about skull base osteomyelitis (Dr. Sampath CP Rao)
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Medical management of skull base osteomyelitis (Dr. Neha Mishra)
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM: Lunch
01:00 PM – 05:00 PM: Stepwise dissection with demonstration by faculty (First articulated bone): Cortical mastoidectomy,
Cochlear implantation, Cochlear drill out & cochlear anatomy, Infralabyrinthine approach, Translabryinthine approach,
Lateral temporal bone resection, Infratemporal fossa approaches
08:00 PM onwards: Faculty dinner
DAY 3, Thursday, August 29, 2024
08:00 AM – 08:30 AM: Candidacy for cochlear implantation and surgical techniques (Dr. Rajeev Kapila)
08:30 AM – 09:00 AM: Early intervention in cochlear implantation (Dr. Sanjiv Badhwar)
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM: Cochlear implantation: A-Z (Dr. Meenesh Juvekar)
09:30 AM – 09:45 AM: Surgical steps in cochlear implant surgery (Dr. Ramesh Kaulgud K)
09:45 AM – 10:00 AM: Social welfare initiatives for hearing rehabilitation: Spearheading the GoK program (Dr. Ramesh
Kaulgud K)
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Coffee Break
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Bone anchored hearing solutions: BAHA & Osia (Cochlear India)
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Single stage implantation in skull base surgery: A paradigm shift (Dr. Sampath CP Rao)
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Auditory Brainstem implantation: A-Z (Dr. Raghunandan Sampath Kumar)
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM: Lunch
01:00 PM – 05:00 PM: Stepwise dissection with demonstration by faculty (Second articulated bone): Cortical
mastoidectomy, Infralabyrinthine approach, Translabryinthine approach, Lateral temporal bone resection, Infratemporal
fossa approaches
DAY 4, Friday, August 30, 2024
08:00 AM – 08:30 AM: Introduction to intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (Dr. Yasmine Elashram)
08:30 AM – 09:00 AM: Intraoperative monitoring of facial nerve in skull base surgery (Dr. Yasmine Elashram)
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM: Intraoperative hearing preservation in Skull Base Surgery (Dr. Yasmine Elashram)
09:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Value monitoring trigeminal & lower cranial nerves in skull base surgery (Dr. Yasmine Elashram)
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Coffee Break
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Case Discussions
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: All about petrous bone cholesteatomas (Dr. Sampath CP Rao)
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Petrous apex: anatomy and surgical strategies (Dr. Ravi Samy)
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM: Lunch
01:00 PM – 05:00 PM: Stepwise dissection with demonstration by faculty (on first side of cadaver): Cortical
mastoidectomy, Infralabyrinthine approach, Translabryinthine approach, Lateral temporal bone resection, Transotic
approach, Transcochlear approach
DAY 5, Saturday, August 31, 2024
08:00 AM – 08:30 AM: The Translabryinthine approach (Dr. Sampath CP Rao)
08:30 AM – 09:00 AM: Transotic and transcochlear approaches (Dr. Sampath CP Rao)
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM: Combined approaches (Dr. Sampath CP Rao)
09:30 AM – 10:00 AM: All about endolymphatic sac tumors (Dr. Niveditha Damodharan)
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Coffee Break
10:30 AM – 11:00 PM: Wait & scan, surgery or radiotherapy for vestibular schwannomas (Dr. Sampath CP Rao)
11:30 PM – 12:00 PM: Case Discussions
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM: Lunch
01:00 PM – 05:00 PM - Stepwise dissection with demonstration by faculty (on first side of cadaver): Infratemporal fossa
approaches, Far lateral approach
DAY 6, Sunday, September 01, 2024
08:00 AM – 08:30 AM: Anatomy of the middle cranial fossa (Dr. Ravi Samy)
08:30 AM – 09:00 AM: Radiology of the middle cranial fossa (Dr. Pallavi Rao)
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM: All about trigeminal neuralgias (Dr. Bhavin Parikh)
09:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Management of tumors of cavernous sinus (Dr. Suresh Dugani)
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Coffee Break
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: All about trigeminal schwannomas (Dr. Suresh Dugani)
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: The middle fossa approach: Indications and technique (Dr. Ravi Samy)
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: All about skull base epidermoids (Dr. Suresh Dugani)
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM: Lunch
01:00 PM – 05:00 PM: Stepwise dissection with demonstration by faculty (on first side of cadaver): Middle cranial fossa
approach, Kawase’s approach
DAY 7, Monday, September 02, 2024
08:00 AM – 09:00 AM: Breakfast with Faculty @ Truffles, RMV Extn. Bangalore
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM: Anatomy of the posterior cranial fossa (Dr. Krishna Prabhu)
09:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Radiology of the posterior cranial fossa (Dr. Pallavi Rao)
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: All about meningiomas (Dr. Krishna Prabhu)
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: All about vestibular schwannomas (Dr. Sathwik Shetty)
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Minimally invasive retrosigmoid approach (Dr. Bhavin Parikh)
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM: Lunch
01:00 PM – 05:00 PM: Stepwise dissection with demonstration by faculty (on first side of cadaver): Minimally invasive
retrosigmoid approach, Suboccipital approach
DAY 8, Tuesday, September 03, 2024
08:00 AM – 08:30 AM: Anatomy of the infratemporal fossa (Dr. Sampath CP Rao)
08:30 AM – 09:00 AM: Radiology of the infratemporal fossa (Dr. Chanabasappa Chavadi)
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM: Infratemporal fossa approaches (Dr. Sampath CP Rao)
09:30 AM – 10:00 AM: All about skull base paragangliomas (Dr. Sampath CP Rao)
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Coffee Break
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Non vascular tumors of the jugular foramen (Dr. Pawan Singhal)
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Management of parapharyngeal space tumors (Dr. Pawan Singhal)
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Management of the internal carotid artery in skull base surgeries (Dr. Sampath CP Rao)
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM: Lunch
01:00 PM – 05:00 PM: Stepwise dissection with demonstration by faculty (on second side of cadaver): Cortical
mastoidectomy, Infralabyrinthine approach, Translabryinthine approach, Transotic approach, Transcochlear approach
DAY 9, Wednesday, September 04, 2024
08:00 AM – 08:30 AM: Anatomy of the internal carotid artery (Dr. Iype Cherian & team)
08:30 AM – 09:00 AM: Modified Dolenc approach (Dr. Iype Cherian & team)
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM: Interventional neuroradiology in lateral skull base surgery (Dr. Ullas Acharya)
09:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Anatomy of the vertebral artery (Dr. Iype Cherian & team)
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Pterional and orbitozygomatic approaches (Dr. Iype Cherian & team)
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Fellowship Exam
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM: Lunch
01:00 PM – 05:00 PM: Stepwise dissection with demonstration by faculty (on second side of cadaver): Combined approach,
Dolenc approach
Workshop on microvascular anastamosis (Dr. Iype Cherian and Dr. Salona)
DAY 10, Thursday, September 05, 2024
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM: Approaches to the jugular bulb (Dr. Regi Thomas)
09:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Surgical management of skull base osteomyelitis (Dr. Regi Thomas)
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Facial plastics and skull base surgery: Match made in heaven (Dr. Vishwas KV)
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Assessment of the facial nerve and grading systems (Dr. Vishwas KV)
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: KEYNOTE LECTURE: The future is here: Robotics in skull base surgery (Ms. Anupam Nayak)
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM: Lunch
01:00 PM – 05:00 PM: Stepwise dissection with faculty (on second side of cadaver): Infratemporal fossa approaches,
Minimally invasive retrosigmoid approach, Suboccipital approach, Far lateral approach
08:00 PM onwards: Gala Dinner @ ITC Windsor
