Program as of June 18, 2019.
Tuesday, June 25
11:00 AM
Niagara Falls Sight-Seeing
6PM
Welcome Reception
Wednesday, June 26
7:00 – 7:45
Registration and Coffee
7:45 – 8:00
Introduction, Goals of meeting
Lynne Bilston
Marcus Stoodley
Mark Kane
Marcus Stoodley
Mark Kane
Session 1: Chiari Malformation
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
8:30 – 8:55
Chiari morphometrics: what changes after surgery and does this relate to headache resolution?
8:55 AM – 9:20 AM
Headache in Chiari I Malformation: Assessment Using Real-Time MR CSF Flow Imaging
9:45 – 10:00
Fawaz Almotairi
10:00 – 10:20
MORNING TEA
Session 2: Chiari Malformation
10:20 AM – 12:20 PM
10:20 – 10:45
12:00 – 1:00
LUNCH
Session 3: Chiari Malformation
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
1:00 – 1:25
Mechanisms and management of balance and hearing disturbance in Chiari
Roger Kula and Abraham Shulman
1:45 – 2:00
Brandon Rocque
2:15 – 2:30
John Oshinski
2:30 – 2:45
Dominic Morino
2:45 – 3:00
Consensus and future research: Chiari malformation
Marcus Stoodley and Lynne Bilston
3:00 – 3:20
AFTERNOON TEA
Session 4: Cranio-Vertebral Junction
3:20 – 5: 40
3:45 – 4:10
Craniovertebral Junction disorders and Chiari malformation. Myth and truth in pathophysiological and neurosurgical implications
Massimiliano Visocchi
4:15 – 4:40
Craniocervical junction hypermobility
Jeff Wilson
4:40 – 4:55
4:55 – 5:10
Tatsushi Inoue
Cocktail Hour
6:30 – 7:30
Sponsored by:
Conference Dinner
7:30 PM
To be held at the Hyatt Hotel.
Thursday, June 27
Session 5: Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
8:20 – 8:35
Melanie Garrett
9:00 – 9:15
Neuro-imaging of craniocervical / cervical instability in EDS and other hereditary connective tissue disorders
Myles Koby
9:15 – 9:30
Lindsay Wilson
9:30 – 10:00
Consensus and future research: EDS and cranio-vertebral junction
Marcus Stoodley and Lynne Bilston
10:00 – 10:25
MORNING TEA
Session 6: Chiari Malformation and Syringomyelia
10:25 AM – 12:30 PM
12:30 – 1:10
LUNCH
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Session 7: Syringomyelia/CSF Physiology
1:10 PM – 3:00 PM
1:10 – 1:25
Management of persistent or recurrent syringomyelia after Chiari decompression
Kaishin Tanaka
1:50 – 2:15
3:00 – 3:20
AFTERNOON TEA
Session 8: Chiari malformation and Syringomyelia
3:20 PM – 5:40 PM
3:20 – 3:40
Chiari malformation combined with syringomyelia in minimally invasive surgery in different forms of cerebrospinal fluid circulating fluid dynamics
Yongli Lou
3:40 – 3:55
Arthur R. Kurzbuch
3:55 – 4:10
Marika Furlanetto
4:10 – 4:25
Tomasz Dziedzic
4:25 – 4:40
Chiari malformation in adults: outcome after surgical treatment, with a special attention for the results on headache
Marika Furlanetto
4:40 – 4:55
Steven Nshuti
4:55 – 5:10
Dural histopathology in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels with Chiari-like malformation
Marissa O’Donnell
5:10 – 5:25
Adena Gustein
5:25 – 5:40
A shunt procedure for post-traumatic and tuberculous syringomyelia treatment
Hao Li
Friday, June 28
Session 9: Non-Chiari Syringomyelia: Pathogenesis
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
9:20 – 9:45
Mechanism of syrinx formation in spinal cord pathologies (tumours, tethered cord)
9:45 – 10:00
Uwe Max Mauer
10:00 – 10:20
MORNING TEA
Session 10: Chiari Malformation/Syringomyelia
10:20 AM – 12:25 PM
11:25 – 11:40
Mansoor Foroughi
11:40 – 11:55
Joel Berliner
12:10 – 12:25
Nic D. Leipzig
12:25 – 1:05
LUNCH
Session 11: Chiari Malformation and Syringomyelia
1:05 PM – 3:30 PM
1:20 – 1:35
Dipak Pukale
1:35 – 1:50
Brittany N. Sommers
1:50 – 2:05
Brian L. Davis
2:05 – 2:20
Magda Lam
2:20 – 2:35
Blaisee Simplice Talla Nwotchouang
2:35 – 2:50
Alaaddin Ibrahimy
2:50 – 3:05
Uwe Max Mauer
3:05 – 3:20
Consensus and future research: Syringomyelia
Lynne Bilston, Marcus Stoodley
3:20 – 3:45
AFTERNOON TEA
Session 12: Open Forum for Discussion
3:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Please join us for continued discussion on the topics covered during the course of the conference.
Saturday, June 29
Session 13: Information Session for Patients
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Morning tea compliments of UB Neurosurgery.