The Art & Science of Surgery for Children with Nervous System Tumors

07:40AM-08:05AM: Jorge Lee (Le Bonheur), “Tractography & fMRI”

08:05AM-08:15AM:  Discussion

08:15AM-08:35AM: Thomas Merchant (St. Jude), “Conventionally Fractionated Re-irradiation for Recurrent Ependymoma: Final Results”

08:35AM-08:55AM: Theodore Johnson (Children’s Hospital of Georgia), “Salvage options for relapsed ependymoma and IDO-based chemo-immunotherapy for advanced cases”

08:55AM-09:15AM: Discussion

09:15-10:15 Robert Keating (National Children’s Hospital), “The elusive challenge of CMS/PFS: Current approaches to minimize risk” and Kristian Aquilina (UK), “Extent of Resection in Medulloblastoma – Evolution and Controversy”

10:05-10:15: Discussion

10:30-10:50: Katie Fehnel (Boston Children’s), “Operative considerations for intramedullary spinal cord tumors”

10:50-11:10: Christina Sayama (OHSU Doernbecher Children’s) “Spinal Deformity Associated with Spinal Tumors: Considerations in Management

13:00-13:05: Introduce Dr. Malluci

13:05-13:45: “Core Outcomes Sets in paediatric brain tumour surgery- standardising the outcomes that should be measured and reported in all future trials and surgical series”

13:45-14:00: Discussion

14:00-14:30:  Lucas Elijovich & Paul Klimo (Semmes Murphey), “Radiation-induced Arteriopathy: Workup and Treatment”

14:30-14:50:  Robin Evans (Plastic surgeon, Le Bonheur), “Facial Reanimation Techniques and Timing”

14:50-15:00: Discussion

15:00-15:20: Howard Weiner (Texas Children’s) “Epilepsy associated brain tumors- the role of lesionectomy”

15:20-15:40: Nir Shimony (SMC), “When to think about more than just removing the tumor”

15:40-16:00: Discussion

07:25-08:30: Special Guest Speaker: Lilly Goumnerova/Mohamed El Beltagy (US/Egypt)

07:25-07:30: Introduce Lilly and Mohamad (Lissa)

07:30-08:30: Craniopharyngiomas with a prevalent solid component: microsurgical technique and strategy (Elbeltagy); Using predictive score to decide on extent of surgery (Goumnerova)

08:30-08:50: Winson Ho, (UCSF), “Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT) for Tumors”

08:50-09:20:  Kun-Wei Song (Stanford), “CAR-T for Diffuse Midline Gliomas (DMGs)”

09:20-09:35:  Toba Niazi (Nicklaus Children’s), “Update on Focused Ultrasound”

09:35-09:50:  Lissa Baird (Boston Children’s), “Intraoperative Tumor Diagnosis”

09:50-10:15: Discussion

10:30-11:00: Guillermo Aldave (Texas Children’s) “Chordoma”

11:00-11:30:  Lissa Baird (Boston Children’s) “Orbital Tumors