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Cleveland clinic spine review 2011 Cleveland Spine Review: Hands-On 2011 was a comprehensive spine course utilizing the cadaver laboratory and didactic sessions, emphasizing on the fundamentals of spine surgery, particularly biomechanical considerations, and the surgery decision-making process. Through intensive, hands-on sessions utilizing cadavers, participants studied surgical techniques and strategies for a range of procedures including: screw, lateral mass, pedicle and wire fixation, as well as occipitocervical and cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and lid sacral surgical techniques. Complex surgical exposures in all regions of the spine were emphasized. The Directors were Ed Benzel, Greg Trost, Doug Orr and Mark Eichler and the Guest of honor was Volker Sonntag from BNI. Guest faculty included Salman Sharif (Pakistan), Mehmet Zileli & Cumhur Kilincer (Turkey), Abdelfattah Saoud (Egypt) and Daniel Resnick (Wisconsisn). The Cleveland Clinic faculty included Richard Schlenk, Iain Kalfas, Thomas Mroz and Michael Steinmetz. Led by experienced faculty, the course examines the multiple adjuncts to surgery, including soft tissue and bone retractors and distractors, minimally invasive surgical techniques, spinal implants (from multiple vendors), and dissection tools. Non-operative strategies are also emphasized. Significant time is dedicated to operative indication discussions. The problem-based decision making process was introduced and emphasized during these very interactive discussions. Besides the academics, chief of Neurosurgery Ed Benzel threw a Crawfish boil party and Hike at his beautiful place and Doug Orr cooked Halal stake and Cedar Salmon for the international faculty. Bowling and Spine Bowl also took place with lot of fun and learning.
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" Dr Salman Sharif, Invited as visiting professor to University of Wisconsin, USA"
Prof Robert Dempsey, Chief Of Neurosurgery at University of Wisconsin at Madison, introducing Dr Salman Sharif as Invited Visiting Professor
Invited Visting Professor Salman Sharif, with ex president of Congress of Neurosurgery, Prof Robert Dempsey after his lecture.
Pakistani Neurosurgeon invited as visiting Professor to Wisconsin USA Dr Salman Sharif, Chief of Neurosurgery at Liaquat National Hospital and Medical college was invited as visiting Professor of Neurosurgery at Madison, Wisconsin. This was indeed a honor for Pakistan Society of Neurosurgeons and Pakistan that a Pakistani Neurosurgeon was invited as visiting professor and deliver a lecture. Professor Gregery Trost, chief of spinal surgery showed the visiting professor around the research laboratory along with Mustafa K. Baskaya, who is the director of Cadaver skull base lab. Chief resident Brendon Rocque along with Chris Nickele and Basheal Agarwal gave the invited guest a tour of the hospitals, research facilities and Medical School. This was followed by lunch. Dr Salman Sharif was introduced to the faculty by Professor Robert Dempsey, Professor and Chairman of Neurosurgery at University of Wisconsin at Madison. A lecture on Pakistan, its people and Neurosurgery was given by the visiting professor. His main theme of talk that followed was Endoscopic Transphenoidal Skull Base Surgery. The clinical and lab faculty including Nathaniel Brooks, Amgad Hanna, Joshua E.Medow, Daniel K. Resnick and Praveen Deshmukhand and residents and fellows attended the lecture. Drs Beth and Greg Trost hosted a dinner in the evening in which all the faculty and residents with families were invited at Trost's residents at Trapper's trail. ___________________________________________________________________________
AANS Annual Scientific Meeting International Spine Master was a didactic course held on the 9th April with Prof Arnold, University of Iowa as the director. It comprised of lectures, case presentations and discussion. The faculty in the international spine masters included Salman Sharif (PAK), Murat Cosar (TURKEY), Phyo Kim (JAPAN), Lzumi Koyanagi (JAPAN), Antonino Raco (ITALY), Vedantam Rajshekhar (INDIA) and Mehmit Zileli (TURKEY).
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27th ANNUAL MEETING OF
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EUROPEAN SECTION
From the dawn of time, Istanbul has been a meeting place of people from different religions and cultures who have come together and learned to live in peace and harmony. The 27th Annual Meeting of the CSRS-ES was held in Istanbul from June 08 to11, 2011.
Spinal surgeons from 27 countries and from all over the world got together to attend a fabulous scientific activity organized by Prof. Sait Naderi from Istanbul. The theme of the meeting was Cervical Spine infections and the presidential addresses were given by Sanford Emery, CSRS-American Section President on Strategies for Surgical Treatment of Central Cord Syndrome, on Inter-and Intra-observer Variability of a Cervical OPLL Classification Using Reconstructed CT Images by Han Chang, CSRS-AP Section president and the by Jose Casamitjana, CSRS European Section President on KlippelFeil and other Congenital Abnormalities.
In Round tables, Cervical Spine Infections was discussed and the moderator was Bernhard Jeaneret. Mehmet Zileli spoke on Cervical spine pyogenic infections and invited lecture on Cervical spine tuberculosis was delivered by Salman Sharif from Pakistan. Duello Grande was on cervical disc prosthesis and Jan Goffin and Andre Jackowski discussed pros and cons. Duello Magna was on Management of mild and moderate CSM, Carlos Villas discussed about conservative management and Philippe Bance discussed about surgical management.
In Social events dinner was arranged at The Maiden’s Tower which is located in the middle of the sea on a tiny island. It is a very historical and unique place and a cruise was also arranged along Bosphorus, between the Asian and European sides of Istanbul. This connects Marmara Sea and Black Sea and is one of the most exquisite places in the world.
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O.V. Jooma Memorial Neurosurgical Course
The theme of the First O. V. Jooma Neurosurgical Course was “Learning from the Masters”. The event was attended by many young neurosurgeons, residents and medical students. The course officially started with opening remarks from chairman organizing committee and head of Department of Neurosurgery JPMC, Professor Dr. Sattar Hashim. First session was moderated by Dr. Ather Enam and Dr. Mumtaz Ali. Dr Najib from Riyadh Saudi Arabia talked about Functional Anatomy of Cerebral Cortex. In his presentation he focused on all recent radiological advances that can be used to study functional properties of different areas of the brain...
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The much awaited Pakistan Society of Neurosurgeons 21st National Conference; hosted by the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre took place at Hotel Sheraton, Karachi recently. The timing of the conference could not have been better as the weather in Karachi was just perfect, combining the refreshing winter breeze with clear sky and warm comforting sunshine. The scientific program foretold a blend of all aspects of modern neurosurgery and promised two days of rich academic exchange. The conference officially started with opening remarks from Chairman Organizing Committee and Director General of Health Professor Rashid Jooma, followed by a remembrance session, in memory of the (Late) Professors Ayub Ommaya and father of Neurosurgery in Pakistan Professor OV Jooma. It has been a tradition of the society to start its national conference every year with tributes in honour of society's past members and these memorial lectures are delivered by especially invited honorable guests. The session was moderated by Professor Ahmed Ali Shah, Dr Salman Sharif and Dr Amer Mohamad Panezai. The Ayub Khan Ommaya memorial lecture was delivered by Professor Ali Ansari, Professor Emeritus and ex secretary of health Government of Sind. He spoke about the intricacies of thought and emotion, and the OV Jooma memorial lecture by Professor Maximilian Mehdorn from Kiel, Germany, who presented a current update...
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7TH ACNS CONFERENCE BEIJING
The 7th Asian Congress of Neurological Surgeons was organized in beautiful Olympic city of Beijing. The conference included workshops on endoscopy, ICP monitoring and Cerebrovascular surgery. The following Neurosurgeons from Pakistan presented their papers
Prof Tariq Salahuddin
Dr Salman Sharif
Dr Javed Iqbal
Dr Riaz Raja
Dr Sohail Umerani
Dr Shehzad Shamim
Dr Zubair Tahir
Dr Mohammad Faheem
Dr Zubair Tahir got the Profesoor Raja's ACNS award for his paper. Congrats Dr Zubair from PSN. Keep it up.
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| Pakistan had a strong contingent participating at the meeting in Japan. The following Neurosurgeons gave talks in the meeting Ali Raja, Naveed Ashraf, Nazir Ahmed, Rasheed Jooma, Salman Sharif, Shabbir Lehri and Tariq Salahuddin. |  |
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