Carle Illinois Microsurgery and Endoscopic Hands-On Course

Welcome from the Course Director

On behalf of Carle Foundation Hospital and our partners at the University of Illinois, I welcome each one of you to the Carle Illinois Microsurgery and Endoscopic Hands-On Course. Advancing academic and educational training has been at the core of the Carle Neuroscience Institute. We are fortunate to have world-class faculty who will provide you with a fantastic and unique training opportunity. Thank you for attending!

— Wael Mostafa, MD, PhD

This two-day course is free to invited residents and fellows of ACGME-accredited neurosurgery programs and invited faculty. Each day will include lectures and cadaveric dissection that focus on microsurgical approaches (day one) and endoscopic approaches (day two). For more information, please contact neurosurgery.course@carle.com

This event is hosted by Carle Health in conjunction with Carle Illinois College of Medicine and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

2024 Agenda

Friday, August 9, Microsurgery Day

7:00 - 7:30 a.m.
Welcome & Breakfast

7:30 - 8:00 a.m.
The Pterional Approach and Its Applications (Troy Payner)

8:05 - 8:35 a.m.
Anterior Clinoidectomy (Kushal Shah)

8:40 - 9:10 a.m.
Surgical Exposure of Cavernous Sinus (A. Samy Youssef)

9:15 a.m. - noon
Cadaver Dissection (All Faculty)

Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch with Vendors

1:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Aziz Annual Lecture: Approaches to Anterior Cranial Fossa (Michael Chicoine)

1:35 - 2:05 p.m.
Retrosigmoid Approach (Steven Carr)

2:10 - 2:40 p.m.

Transpetrosal Approaches (Mohamed Labib)

2:45 - 3:15 p.m.
Far lateral/Transcondylar Approach. (Samy El Hammady)

3:15 - 3:30 p.m.
Break

3:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Cadaver Dissection (All Faculty)

7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Social Event

Saturday, August 10, Endoscopic Day

7:00 - 7:30 a.m.
Breakfast

7:30 - 8:00 a.m.
Relative Sinus, Sellar, Suprasellar & Skull Base Anatomy (Alhusain Nagm)

8:00 - 8:30 a.m.

Endoscopic Endonasal Approach to The Sellar Region (Anand Germanwala)

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
Endoscopic Endonasal Resection of Craniopharyngioma (Wael Mostafa)

9:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Endoscopic Endonasal Approach to the Anterior Cranial Fossa (Nathan Zwagerman)

10:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Break

10:15 - 12:00 p.m.
Cadaver Dissection (All Faculty)

Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch with Vendors

1:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Endoscopic Pterygopalatine Approach (James Evans) * Virtual

1:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Endoscopic Skull Base Reconstruction Techniques (Hayan Dayoub)

2:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Complication Avoidance in Skull Base Surgery (Samy ElHammady)

2:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Break

2:45 - 5:30 p.m.
Cadaver Dissection (All Faculty)

5:30 p.m.
Adjournment

2024 Faculty

Guest Faculty
Steven Carr, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
University of Missouri
Michael Chicoine, MD
Chair of Department of Neurosurgery
University of Missouri in Columbia
Hayan Dayoub, MD
Neurosurgeon, Springfield Clinic
Mohamed Samy El Hammady, MD
Neurological Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

James Evans, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery and Otolaryngology
Thomas Jefferson University
Former President of the North American Skull Base Society
Mohamed Labib, MD
Neurosurgeon, University of Maryland Medical System
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Anand Germanwala, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery and Residency Program Director
Loyola University Medical Center










Alhusain Nagm, MD, MSc, PhD
Neurosurgeon, University of Maryland Medical Center


Troy Payner, MD
Director of Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Fellowship
Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine, Indiana University


Kushal Shah, MD
Neurosurgeon, Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine
Clinical Assistant Professor, Marian University

Ramachandra Tummala, MD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
University of Minnesota

A. Samy Youssef, MD, PhD
Vice Chair of Education, Professor of Neurosurgery and Clinical Otolaryngology, Director of Complex Cranial and Skull Base Surgery, Program Director of Skull Base Surgery Fellowship
University of Colorado School of Medicine

Nathan Zwagerman, MD
Assistant Professor and Director of Pituitary and Skull Base Surgery
Medical College of Wisconsin



Internal Faculty
Wael H. Mostafa, MD, PhD – Course Director
Program Lead for Brain Tumor and Skull Base Surgery, Carle Health
Clinical Assistant Professor, Carle Illinois College of Medicine