UC Irvine Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery will be holding a symposium on skull base surgery on Saturday, April 25, 2009. Our guest of honor will be Dr. Peter Roland, professor and chairman at University of Texas, Southwestern in Dallas. We hope that you can join us for an exciting day of skull base surgery.

 

 The symposium will be free of charge, but we request that you please RSVP to Ellen Takahashi, eatakaha@uci.edu or please call 714-456-8450 to register. I have attached the program below.

 

Course Director

Hamid R. Djalilian, M.D.

Associate Professor

Director of Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery

 

 

UC Irvine Skull Base Symposium

Saturday, April 25, 2009

UC Irvine Medical Center

101 City Drive South

Orange, CA  92868

 Medical Center Library, 2^nd floor Auditorium

 

8:00      Opening Remarks

8:00      Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Skull Base Tumors –  

             Mark Linskey, MD

8:30      Endoscopic Approach to the Pituitary Gland – Hamid

             Djalilian, MD

9:00      The Role for Craniofacial Resection in Oncology –

             William Armstrong, MD

9:30      Update on the Treatment of Acoustic Neuroma –

             Hamid Djalilian, MD

10:00    Petrous Apex Lesions – Peter Roland, MD

10:30    Discussion

10:45    Break

11:00    Treatment of Petroclival Meningiomas – Mark

             Linskey, MD

11:30    Reconstruction of Skull Base Defects – William

             Armstrong, MD

12:00    Diagnosis and Management of Glomus Jugulare –

            Hamid Djalilian, MD

12:30    Hearing Preservation in Acoustic Neuroma Surgery – 

             Peter Roland, MD

1:00      Lunch

 

A map can be found at http://ent.uci.edu/map.pdf.  Parking is free at the UCIMC visitor parking structure off of City Drive and Dawn Way.