Speaker Symposium Day

Agenda, Day 1

8:30 am - 5:15 pm

Opening Remarks:

8:30 am

Athos Patsalides, MD

Keynote Talk:

8:35 am - 9:30 am

Reconstructing Perceptions of Cranial Venous Outflow

Nicholas Higgins, MD

Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension:

9:30am - 11:00am

Lessons from the last 20 years. What’s next?

-Marc Dinkin, MD

Best practices: Indications and Patient selection for Venous Sinus Stenting

-Maksim Shapiro, MD

Venous Sinus Manometry: Variables and Pitfalls

-Kyle Fargen, MD

Venous Sinus Stenting for Pediatric Patients 

-Prakash Muthusami, MD

Venous Sinus Stenting: Treatment Failure and Complication Avoidance

-Michael Abraham, MD

Headache and Venous Sinus Stenosis: What We Know and What We Don’t Know

-Roberto De Simone, MD

Pulsatile Tinnitus:

11:15 am - 12:15 pm

PT and Venous Sinus Stenosis

-Matthew Ammans, MD

Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Venous Sinus Stenosis: Does it matter?

-Reade De Leacy, MD

Venous Etiology of PT: Beyond Venous Sinus Stenosis

-Mohamad Abdalkader, MD

The ENT perspective: surgical options

-David Eisenman, MD

Stents for Venous Sinuses:

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm

The "River Stent" Trial

-Athos Patsalides, MD

The "Bosstent": The Canadian Experience

-Vitor Pereira, MD

"What I learned from the River trial and the FDA approval process”

-Pierre Gobin, MD

The Elusive Pathways of Intracranial Pressure:

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

The Interplay Between Venous Outflow and Intracranial Pressure

-Mark Luciano, MD

Intracranial Hypertension: Venous or (Veno)Lymphatic Disorder?

-Stephanie Lenck, MD

The Blurred Boundary Between Intracranial Hypertension and Hypotension

-Waleed Brinjikji, MD

Internal Jugular Vein Stenosis: Work-up and Treatment Options

-Larry Sheng-Fu Lo, MD

Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis:

3:45 pm - 4:30 pm

CVST: Should we be more aggressive with endovascular therapies?

-Richard Libman, MD

Endovascular Treatment for Acute CVST

-Timothy White, MD

Endovascular Treatment for Chronic CVST 

-Athos Patsalides, MD

Dual Arteriovenous Fistulas:

4:30 pm - 5:15 pm

Transvenous Embolization for Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas

-Timo Kriggs, MD

Preserving The Venous Sinus During Embolization for DAVF

-Thomas Link, MD

Transvenous/ Direct Embolization for Carotid Cavernous Fistulas

-Eytan Raz, MD


Fellows Workshop

Agenda Day 2

8:30 am - 12:30 pm


Venous Sinus Stenting:

8:30 am - 10:30 am

Athos Patsalides, MD

Case Presentations:

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Athos Patsalides, MD, Tim White, MD, Roberto Kutcher, MD