Overview

This conference is under the auspices of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN), and international neuromodulation Society (INS), and World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) and in collaboration with Middle-Eastern Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (MSSFN), and with the Turkish Neurosurgery Society Stereotactic, Functional, Pain and Epilepsy Surgery Education and Training Group.
This face-to-face conference will host a perfect harmony and mutual exchange of knowledge and experiences among speakers/trainers and participants from different countries and continents.
The participants will have the opportunity to listen to the experiences of the most important names in the field of Interventional Neuromodulation, Stereotactic Lesioning and Deep Brain Stimulation approaches such as; Andres Lozano, Kelly Foote, Michael Okun, Marwan Hariz, Patric Blomstedt, Konstantin Slavin, Robert Levy, Georgios Matis, Ali Savaş and Suleyman Özyalçın, and they will have a chance about hands-on training in these areas. This course will provide the opportunity to be informed about the innovations and new developments on these subjects and will give the opportunity to carry out the initiatives on cadavers with basic training directly from the most important names of this field.

Program

Day 1, May 26, 2023

08:00 - 08:15 AM: Opening Ceremony

08:15 - 09:30 AM: Neurology Section, Chairs: Ali Savaş, Sibel Ertan

08:15 - 08:30 AM: Future of the Surgical Treatment of Movement Disorders - Michael Okun

08:30 - 08:45 AM: Rationale and Patient Selection for DBS in Parkinson's disease - Stefan Jun Groise

08:45 - 09:00 AM: Rationale and Patient Selection for DBS in Tremor - Cenk Akbostancı

09:00 - 09:15 AM: Rationale and Patient Selection for DBS in Dystonia - Sibel Ertan

09:15 - 09:30 AM: Discussion

09:30 - 10:45 AM: DBS Section – 1, Chairs: Kelly Foote, Konstantin Slavin

09:30 - 09:45 AM: DBS Failure - Kelly Foote

09:45 - 10:00 AM: Avoiding and managing surgical complications in DBS - Patric Blomstedt

10:00 - 10:15 AM: Advances in Functional Neurosurgery - Andres Lozano

10:15 - 10:30 AM: Postoperative Management of DBS patient - Yıldız Değirmenci

10:30 - 10:45 AM: Discussion

10:45 - 11:00 AM: Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 PM: DBS Section – 2, chairs: Andres Lozano, Ali Zırh

11:00 - 11:15 PM: Closed loop DBS, Kelly Foote

11:15 - 11:30 PM: DBS for Psychiatry, Bart Nuttin

11:30 - 11:45 PM: Future of neurosurgery for Psychiatric disorders, Konstantin Slavin

11:45 - 12:00PM: Double Target DBS for Rare Tremor Syndromes, Atilla Yılmaz

12:00 - 12:15 PM: DBS for Pain, Ahmed Raslan

12:15 - 12:30 PM: Discussion

12:30 - 1:30 PM: Lunch Syposium Inomed, Neurophysiological markers to improve lead placement in DBS surgery - Stefan Jun Groise Chairman: Cihan İşler, Selçuk Göçmen

1:30 - 2:45 PM: Lesioning Section, Chairs: Patric Blomstedt, Marwan Hariz

1:30 - 1:45 PM: Radiofrequency lesioning for Parkinson´s disease - Marwan Hariz

1:45 - 2:00 PM: Lesioning of Zona Incerta for Movement Disorders - Ali Savaş

2:00 - 2:15 PM: The potential of focused ultrasound in neurosurgery - Andres Lozano

2:15 - 2:30 PM: Radiosurgery for Movement Disorders - Selçuk Peker

2:30 – 2:45 PM: Discussion

2:45 - 4:15 PM: Pain & Spasticity Section, Chairs: Süleyman Özyalçın, Gül Talu, Robert Levy

2:45 – 3:00 PM: Overview of peripheral nerve stimulation - Konstantin Slavin

3:00 - 3:15 PM: Brain mapping for Functional Neurosurgery - Ahmed Raslan

3:15 - 3:30 PM: Intrathecal therapy & Ziconotide - Status Quo - Georgios Matis

3:30 - 3:45 PM: Advanced Technologies for Spinal Cord Stimulation - Robert Levy

3:45 - 4:00 PM: Patient Selection in Neuromodulation for Pain - Süleyman Özyalçın

4:00 - 4:15 PM: Surgical treatment of Spasticity - Walid Abdel Ghany

4:15 - 4:30 PM: Coffee Break

4:30 - 6:00 PM: Future on DBS, Chairs: Tanju Uçar, Bekir Tuğcu, Faisal Taleb

4:30 - 4:45 PM: Technology and DBS - Ersoy Kocabıçak

4:45 - 5:00 PM: Stereotactic Academy - Patric Blomstedt

5:00 - 5:15 PM: Tractography usage in DBS targeting - Harith Akram

5:15 - 5:30 PM: DBS for Secondary Dystonia - Aly Ibrahim

5:30 - 5:45 PM: Lesion and DBS of the ANT for epilepsy - Andrey Sitnikov

5:45 - 6:00 PM: Neuroanatomy and Connectome Associated with Deep Brain Stimulation - Vanessa Holanda

6:00 - 6:15: Discussion

6:15 PM: Closing remarks

Day 2, May 27, 2023

8 AM - 7 PM: Neuromodulation interventions Hands on Cadaver Course

10 AM - 3:15 PM: Neuromodulation Interventions Hands on Programming Course