Cambridge Lectures In Neurosurgical Anatomy

Prof Duffau trained at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris where he later developed clinical and research interests in the surgical treatment of intrinsic brain tumours. Five years ago he became a Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, University of Montpellier in France. At the Institute of Neurosciences of Montpellier he leads a team studying lasticity of the central nervous system, human stem cells and glial tumors (INSERM U583). He and his teams have accummulated a great deal of experience in the management of gliomas, especially low grade gliomas, and this together with Prof Duffau's seminal work on intraoperative funcional brain mapping, understanging of speach nad other higher mental function as well as brain plasticity has been published in numerous important scientific journals. Professor Duffau is a popular invited speaker in national and international meetings. Many of the observations and hypotheses relating to the function of brain, especially in the context of glioma is summarised in his recent publication "Brain Mapping: From Neural Basis of Cognition to Surgical Applications". (Click on the book to see details. For more titles visit our Bookstore.)

 

Professor Juha Herneniemi, MD PhD

Dr Gentili has been a Staff at the Department of Neurosurgery of the Toronto Western Hospital since 1982. After his residency in neurosurgery in Toronto Dr Gentili spent two years (1979 – 1981) as a fellow with Professor Yasargil in Zurich and Professor Lindsey Symon at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London.

Currently, Dr Gentili is a Professor of Surgery and the Director of Skull Base Centre at the University of Toronto. Dr Gentili’s large clinical practice focuses on skull base, neurovascular and pituitary surgery. He has an extensive operative experience which is internationally renowned. Not only was he involved in the establishment of the discipline “skull base neurosurgery” through the North American Skull Base Society, but he always continued to innovate, more recently in the area of endoscopic skull base techniques.

Dr Gentili has inspired a multitude of trainees and fellows from all over the world, as a true Master Surgeon with comprehensive knowledge of operative and microsurgical neuroanatomy. Whoever witnessed Dr Gentili operate would truly appreciate the meaning of “meticulous” surgery.

Mr Kirollos graduated from the Medical School at the University of Alexandria in Egypt in 1984. In 1987 he moved to the United Kingdom to pursue his post-graduate medical education. Mr Kirollos trained in neurosurgery at the Atkinson Morley Hospital in London, the Frenchay Hospital in Bristol, the Leeds General Infirmary, and the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Liverpool. He obtained an MD degree for his research into photodynamic therapy of pituitary adenomas. Mr Kirollos completed a skull base fellowship under Dr Gentili at the Toronto Western Hospital. In 2001 he was appointed Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. His main clinical interests include anterior and middle skull base, pituitary and pineal surgery, and surgical treatment of AVMs. He also performs aneurysm surgery with an average of 30 aneurysm operations per annum.

A passion for neurosurgical technique based on the thorough understanding of anatomy has accompanied Mr Kirollos’ neurosurgical training and is very much the basis of his surgical practice today. He keenly shares this philosophy and skill with his trainees. Mr Kirollos has been actively involved in day-to-day teaching of medical students, junior and middle grade neurosurgical trainees. He oversees a weekly registrar teaching sessions at the Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Mr Kirollos serves as a faculty on the Neuroanatomy of Operative Approaches and the British Neurosurgical Trainee Courses since their conception in 2005 and 2010, respectively. In 2006 Mr Kirollos was elected as a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. For his commitment to surgical education he received the prestigious Silver Scalpel Award in 2010.

 

There is hardly an international meeting of importance that would not have Professor de Oliveira either as a speaker or a panellist. Professor de Oliveira’s name has been closely associated with neurosurgical anatomy and microsurgical technique. He obtained his medical degree from Santa Catarina Federal University School of Medicine in Florianopolis in Brazil in 1969. His neurosurgical residency in Montevideo in Uruguay followed by a fellowship in microsurgical anatomy at the University in Florida in Gainesville. Dr de Oliveira maintains a close association with the Department of Neurosurgery and the University of Florida where he has been an Associate Professor from 1989 and Professor of Neurosurgery from 1996. Between 1985 and 1998 Dr de Oliveira headed the São Paulo Neurological Institute and subsequently became the Director of the Institute of Neurological Sciences in São Paulo while heading the Department of Neurosurgery at the Medical Sciences School, State University of Campinas – UNICAMP. Dr de Oliveira is the President of the Brazilian Neurosurgical Congress in 2008.

There is hardly any cranial region or surgical approach that has not Dr de Oliveira’s name attached to it. Dr de Oliveira has been a co-author of numerous seminal publications in neurosurgical anatomy and microsurgical techniques, and the textbook he co-edited with Dr Laligam Sekhar Cranial Microsurgery: Approaches and Techniques is a classic (see below). Professor de Oliveira has not only published extensively, but he generously shares his surgical knowledge and skill around the globe. Professor de Oliveira is the Director of an excellent annual hands-on course in neurosurgical anatomy based in Braga, Portugal.

 

Professor Reisch was born on October 19th, 1971, Budapest, Hungary. He has finished the Semmelweis Medical School in Budapest in 2006 with the highest award "Pro Scientia" Prize, founded by the President of the Hungarian Republic. After a one-year fellowship in the Anatomical Institute of the Semmelweis Medical School in Budapest, he graduated the neurosurgical training from 1997 to 2003 in the Neurosurgical Department of Mainz (Chairman: Prof. Axel Perneczky). He passed his neurosurgical national board examination in 2003 and became associate professor. From 2005 to 2008 he was Professor and Vice-Chairman of the Neurosurgical Department of the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz. In 2008 he moved to Zurich, Switzerland.

Professor Reisch is author an co-author of numerous scientific publications if the field of endoscopic and minimally invasive neurosurgery, including the comprehensive book on Minimally Invasive Approaches in Neurosurgery, published in 2008 by Springer Verlag. Currently, he is tutor of the national course Cranial Neuroendoscopy of the German Society of Neurosurgery (DGNC) on and together with Professor Nikolai Hopf course director of the international neuroendoscopy courses of the Aesculap Academy.

 

 

Dr Rhoton does not need an introduction. Everyone knows that Rhoton is not a special alloy, the secret behind the unfading popularity the Rhoton set of microsurgical instruments, but one of the most influential figures in the world of neurosurgery in last 50 years. To many Dr Rhoton’s name is synonymous with neurosurgical anatomy and there are good reasons for it. Virtually every issue of Neurosurgery caries one or more Dr Rhoton’s papers and his Cranial Anatomy and Surgical Approaches feature on every neurosurgeon’s bookshelf. Dr Rhoton is not just a great neurosurgeon, neurosurgical anatomist, but also a caring physician. Cambridge Lectures in Neurosurgical Anatomy are proud to adopt his words … to make the delicate, awesome, and fateful work of the neurosurgeon more accurate, gentle, and safe. as the Lectures’ official motto.

 

Professor Guilherme C. Ribas obtained his medical degree from the Federal University of São Paulo in São Paulo in 1977. Between 1978 and 1982 he trained in neurosurgery at the University of São Paulo under Professor Gilberto Machado de Almeida and at the University of Virginia under Professor John A Jane. In 1985 he was a visiting research fellow at Professor Albert Rhoton’s laboratory at the University of Florida.

He obtained a doctorate in Neurology in 1991 and in 2005 became a Professor of Surgery at the University of São Paulo’s Medical School. He is oversees graduate and post-graduate courses in neuroanatomy at the Department of Surgery headed by Professor Aldo Junqueira Rodrigues Jr. Professor Ribas’ research focused on microneurosurgical anatomy and on cranial neurosurgical techniques has produced numerous high-impact publications in this field. His paper "The cerebral sulci and gyri" published in Neurosurgical Focus was the most downloaded paper of the year 2010 of the Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group. His neurosurgical practice is based at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in São Paulo, and he specialises in surgery for intrinsic and extrinsic brain tumours.

Since 1995 Professor Ribas teaches Surgical Neuroanatomy at the Department of Neurosurgery of the University of Virginia, where in 1997 he was appointed Professor of Clinical Neurosurgery. He also serves as a faculty on “Sulcus, Gyrus and Ventricles” hands on course in neurosurgical anatomy held also annually in Braga, Portugal, since 2003, together with Professors Evandro de Oliveira, Albert Rhoton, Ugur Ture and Antonio Cesar Mussi. He was the fist guest speaker of the Cambridge Lectures in Neurosurgical Anatomy in 2005 and since has served as a faculty and organiser of this course.

Professor Ribas is a keen photographer and he managed to carry this passion with him into the field of neurosurgical education. Professor Ribas is one of the pioneers of neurosurgical 3D photography, projection and printing. His world class collection of anatomical and per-operative images stands out not only because of cleverly planned and meticulously prepared dissections, the clarity of photography, but also because of its exceptional aesthetic value.

 

Professor Nicolas de Tribolet