Preliminary Timetable

Please note: the program is subject to change

KEY:

Session/Lecture in English

Session/Lecture in French with Slides in English

Free Paper Session

Social Events and Breaks

Sponsored Seminar

Society/Committee Meeting 

Thursday, March 26, 2009

14:30 EANS Administrative Council Meeting

Friday, March 27, 2009

08:30 Registration Opens

08:30 – 12:00

EANS Executive Committee meeting
09:00  CME Session
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 CME Session Contd.
12:30 Opening Session

13:00

Lecture: Basics

13:30

Lunch Break & Exhibition

14:15

Video Sessions: How I do it From Masters?

16:15 Free Papers: Miscellaneuos I
17:00 Coffee Break & Exhibition
17:15 European Lecture
18:00 Coaches depart from the Pullman Palm Beach Hotel / départ des autocars de l'Hôtel Pullman Palm Beach
18:30 WELCOME RECEPTION at the Pullman Palm Beach Hotel / Réception de Bienvenue à l'Hôtel Pullman Palm Beach

 Saturday, March 28, 2009

08:00  EANS-SFNC Opening Ceremony

Poster Session I: Skull Base

Posters may be mounted from 08:00 on the day of your presentation and removed by 18:00 on the same day.

Session de posters: Base du crâne

Il est possible de monter les posters à partir de 08h00 le jour de votre présentation et de les démonter à 18h00 le même jour.

09:00 Special Lecture: News in Functional Neurosurgery - part I
09:30 Coffee Break, Posters and Exhibition
10:00  Special Lecture: News in Functional Neurosurgery - part II
12:00 Lecture: Impact of Technical Advances in Neurosurgery on Ethics and Good Practice
12:30

Lunch Break, Poster Viewing and Visit Exhibition
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EANS INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS RECEPTION

13:00 Luncheon Seminar Sponsored by Covidien: CSF leak prevention: a review of closure options and healthcare economics
14:00 Special Session: Skull Base Meningiomas
16:00 Coffee Break, Posters and Exhibition
16:30 Free Communications: Skull Base / Communications Libres: Base du crâne
18:00 Coaches depart from Pullman Palm Beach Hotel / départ des autocars de l'Hôtel Pullman Palm Beach
  Gala Dinner – The Popes’ Palace [Le Palais des Papes], Avignon / Dîner de Gala au Palais des Papes, Avignon

 Sunday, March 29, 2009

Morning Meeting UEMS Section Meeting

Poster Session II: Functional & Vascular

 Posters may be mounted from 08:00 on the day of your presentation and removed by 18:00 on the same day.

Session de posters II: Fonctionnel et vasculaire

Il est possible de monter les posters à partir de 08h00 le jour de votre présentation et de les démonter à 18h00 le même jour.

Morning Meeting JRAAC Meeting
07:15 Official Opening SFNC
07:30 Session: Vascular Surgery Club - Giant anuerysms / Session: Club de neurochirurgie vasculaire - les anévrysmes géants
09:00 Free Communications: Vascular / Communications Libres: vasculaire
10:00 Coffee Break, Poster Viewing and Visit Exhibition
10:30  Lecture: Neurosurgical Board Certification and UEMS
11:00  Assemblée Générale SFNC
12:00 Lunch Break, Poster Viewing and Visit Exhibition
12:15 Luncheon Seminar Sponsored by Elekta: Brain metastases modern neurosurgical management at the era of gamma knife surgery
13:30 Session: Club of functional and stereotactic neurosurgery / Club de neurochirurgie fonctionnelle et stéréotaxique 
15:30 Free Papers: Stereotactic & Functional
16:50  Coffee Break Sponsored by Eisai, Poster Viewing and Visit Exhibition
17:10 Session: Past, Present & Future of Epilepsy Surgery
17:45 Roundtable of the neurosurgeons from private practice / Table ronde des neurochirurgiens libéraux
19:15 Seminar sponsored by Carl Zeiss Meditec: La technologie Pentero au service de nos patients

 Monday, March 30, 2009

07:30 Session: Club of Neurooncology - Gliomas and Brain Location: from cognition to molecular biology / Club de neurooncologie - Gliomes et localisation cérébrale: de la cognition à la biologie

Poster Session III: Oncology

Posters may be mounted from 08:00 on the day of your presentation and removed by 18:00 on the same day.

Session Posters III: Oncologie

Il est possible de monter les posters à partir de 08h00 le jour de votre présentation et de les démonter à 18h00 le même jour.

09:50 Free Communications: Neurooncology / Communications Libres: Neurooncologie
10:30  Coffee Break Sponsored by Eisai, Poster Viewing and Visit Exhibition
09:30 Lecture: Towards targeted therapies for brain tumors
11:00 Session: Experimentation of Medical Assessment (EPP) SFNC / Evaluation des Pratiques Professionnelles (EPP) SFNC
12:30  International education in neurosurgery
12:50 Lunch Break, Poster Viewing and Visit Exhibition
13:15 Luncheon Seminar Sponsored by BrainLAB, Medtronic & Elekta: Imaging integration at the OR Pros & Cons of the diverse strategies
14:45 14:45 - 16:45 Session: Infirmières (neurologie et neurochirurgie) AFIINC & SFETD
La prise en charge de la douleur & son évaluation clinique

14:00 buses depart from the Pullman Palm Beach hotel to the Faculty of Medicine  

Cadaver Workshop: Percutaneous spinal osteosynthesis

For more information on this workshop, please click here

16:45  Coffee Break, Poster Viewing and Visit Exhibition
17:15  Conférence spéciale: Hypotension intracrânienne (Strasbourg & Nancy) - étude de cas cliniques / Special Lecture: Intracranial hypostension - clinical case studies
18:15 Collège: La Formation Professionnelle à la communication et au management médical
20:00 Coaches depart from the Pullman Palm Beach Hotel / départ des autocars de l'Hôtel Pullman Palm Beach
20:30 French Neurosurgery Society (SFNC) Gala Dinner – Chamber of Commerce / Dîner de Gala SFNC à la Chambre de Commerce

 Tuesday, March 31, 2009

07:30 Session: Société Francophone de Neurochirurgie du Rachis - Prise en charge des lésions rachidiennes des rhumatismes inflammatoires / Inflammatory rheumatisms: management of spinal locations

Poster Session IV: Pediatric, spine and other

Posters may be mounted from 08:00 on the day of your presentation and removed by 18:00 on the same day.

Session de posters IV: pédiatrie, rachis et autres

Il est possible de monter les posters à partir de 08h00 le jour de votre présentation et de les démonter à 18h00 le même jour.

09:00 Free Communications: Spine / Communications Libres: Rachis 
10:00  Coffee Break, Poster Viewing and Visit Exhibition
10:30  Lecture: Dilemma of supraspecialisation and the issue of frontiers of the specialty - erosion of the specialty is it true and can something be done?
11:00 Session: Endoscopic pituitary surgery / Session: Chirurgie endoscopique des adénomes hypophysaires
12:30 Lunch Break, Poster Viewing and Visit Exhibition

13:30

Free Communications: Miscellaneous II / Communications Libres: Divers II

14:30 Session: Pediatry - External Ventricular Drainage / Session: Pédiatrie - Drainage ventriculaire externe 
16:00  Coffee Break, Poster Viewing and Visit Exhibition
16:30 Free Communications: Pediatrics / Communications Libres: Pédiatrie
17:30 Free Communications: Miscellaneous III / Communications Libres: Divers III
18:30 - 18:45 Closing Ceremony