Scientific Program

Sunday 27 April 2014
Opening Ceremony (Royal Hall)

8:00 - 8.30	Registration
8.30 – 9.00	Opening Ceremony
	National Anthem
	A verse from Holy Quran
	Patron of the conference	Prof. Abdullah Malkawi
	Welcome speech	Prof. Tewfik Daradkeh
	Note speaker	Prof. Michael Morgan
	Director General of KAUH	Prof. Ibrahim Bani Hani
	Speech of the Jordanian association of neurosurgery	Dr. Amer Shorbaji
	Chairman of the conference Co-Chairman of the conference	A.Prof.Mohammad Barbarawi Dr.Darweesh Al Khawaja
9.00– 9.30	Coffee break

Zaharawi Hall (Red Hall) Brain Chairmen: Prof. Ibrahim Sbeih, Dr. Amer Shorbaji, A.Prof. Mohammad Barbarawi
9.30 – 10.00	History of Neurosurgery in Jordan	Prof. Walid Al Maani
10.00– 11.00	Management of Unruptured AVM (bAVM). Since ARUBA	Prof. Michael Morgan
11.00– 11.30	Keyhole brain surgery concept	Prof. Charles Teo, Dr. Yashar Kalani
Chairmen: Prof. Walid Al Maani, Dr. Nidal Khasawneh, Dr. John Christie
11.30– 12.00	Applications of cerebral by-pass surgery	Prof. Peter Horn
12.00– 12.30	Lamina Terminals Approach for craniopharyngioma	Prof. Ibrahim Sbeih
12.30– 12.45	Utilization of multidisciplinary surgical techniques to successfully manage 20 brain abscesses in a	A.Prof. Mohammad Barbarawi
12.45 – 1.00	Updates on Pediatrics Tumors	Prof. Charles Teo, Dr. Yashar Kalani
1.00 – 2.00	Lunch break
Chairmen: Prof. Charles Teo, Dr. Asem Mansour, Dr. Abdullah Al-Akayleh
2.00 – 3.00	Surgical management of bAVM without embolization	Prof. Michael Morgan
3.00 – 3.20	New aspects in the Management of Brain Tumors	Prof. Peter Horn
3.20– 3.40	Petroclival Meningioma personal experience	Prof. Ibrahim Sbeih
3.40 – 4.00	Gamma Knife in Jordan	Dr. Mohammad Samaha
Chairmen: Prof. Michael Morgan, Dr. Mohammad Samaha, Dr. Saad Hamdan
4.00 – 4.20	Advanced MR imaging of Brain Tumors	Dr. Asem Mansour
4.20 – 4.40	Constitutional Mismatch Repair – Deficiency (CMM R-D) syndrome	Dr. Maysa Al-Hussaini
4.40 – 4.55	Awake craniotomy at king Abdullah University Hospital	A.Prof. Mohammad Barbarawi
4.55– 5.20	Management of intracranial meningioma in Jordan	Dr. Abdullah Al-Akayleh
5.20– 5.35	Validation of outcome Measurments in surgically treated vestibular schwannoma	Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Shudifat
5.35 – 6.00	Dorsal sympathectomy for palmar hyperhidrosis.	Dr. Nasri Khoury

Ibn Al Nafeas (Blue Hall) Chairman: Dr.Darweesh Al Khawaja Spine
Chairmen: Prof. Peter Horn, Dr. Darweesh Al Khawaja, Dr.Mahmoud Karmi, Dr.Nidal Rousan
9.30– 10.00	Surgery for Lumbar spinal stenosis with spondylo-listhesis, looking at results for decompression without fusion	Dr. John Christie
10.00– 10.15	Surgical management of low grade isthmic spondylolisthesis. A randomized controlled study of the surgical fixation with and without reduction	A.Prof. Zaid Audat.
10.15- 10.35	Surgical treatment of primary sacral tumors	Dr. Ziad Alzoubi
10.35– 10.55	Annular Closure device our experience	Dr. Taraq Kanaan.
10.55– 11.15	Evaluation and treatment of diastomatomyelia	Dr. Nidal Khasawneh
11.15– 11.30	Maximum –Minimal Protocol	Dr. Philppe Dodier
11.30-11.50	Minimlly Invasive spine surgery: options Easy Go offers.	Prof. Joachim Oertel.
11.50– 12.10	Cervical lateral mass screw-rod fixation. Surgical experience with 2500 consecutive screw. Analytical review and long term outcome	A.Prof. Mohammad Barbarawi
12.10– 12.35	Minimally invasive spine surgery (MIS)	Dr. Darweesh Al Khawaja
12.35– 1.00	Endoscopic assisted skull base surgery: what is the role of the endoscope in transcranial approaches?	Prof. Joachim Oertel.
1.00– 2.00	Lunch Break
Endoscopic Brain Surgery
Chairmen: Dr. Nasri Khoury, Dr. Awni Musharbash, Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Shudifat
2.00 – 2.20	Development of international ethical standards for stem cell – based therapy	Dr. Ziad Alzoubi
2.20 – 2.40	Endoscopic transsphenoidal approach for pituitary adenoma	Dr. Ali Ayyad
2.40 – 3.00	Endoscopic Assited Microvascular Decompression of the Trigeminal and Facial Nerves	Dr. Ali Ayyad
3.00– 3.25	Management of Parkinson Disease	Dr. Mohammad Samaha
3.25 – 3.45	Neuroendoscopy, King Hussien Medical Centre Experience	Dr. Nidal Khasawneh
3.45 - 4.05	Endoscopic assisted microsurgical technique for management of anterior cranial fossa lesions using the keyhole supraorbital approach	Dr. Ali Ayyad
4.05 – 4.35	Keyhole Approaches to the Ventricles	Prof. Charles Teo, Dr. Yashar Kalani
4.35 - 5.00	Penetrating head injury with a bullet, outcome	Dr. Abdulrahman Al- Shudifat
Operating theatre Spine Work Shop Chairmen: Prof. Joachim Oertel, Dr. Tareq Kanaan, A.Prof. Ziad Audat, Dr.Ziad Mhedat
2.00 - 6.00	Maximum –Minimal –Protocol" :Towards New Neurosurgical Standards in Preoperative Planning and Informed Conset through Virtual 3D- Reconstruction and Simulation Using a cost-efficient DICOM Imaging Software	Dr. Philippe Dodier Dr. Tareq Kanaan

Monday 28 April 2014

Operating theatre Brain Work Shop Chairmen: Prof. Charles Teo, Dr. Darweesh Al Khawaja, A.Prof. Mohammad Barbarawi, Dr. Yashar Kalani, Dr. Ali Aljamal
8.00 - 4.00	Keyhole Craniotomy for Skull Base Tumor Resection. Live Surgery	Prof. Charles Teo, Dr.Darweesh Al Khawaja, A.Prof.Mohammad Barbarawi