Review 2021

The 72nd Annual Meeting of the German Society of Neurosurgery took place in virtual form for from 06 to 09 June 2021.

The main topics of the annual meeting 2021 were:
    • Building centres, networks and interdisciplinarity
    • Perspectives in neurosurgery
    • Rare disorders
    • Quality assurance and complication management
    • Neurosurgery crossing health sector and hospital operator boundaries
    • Free Topics

Scientific programme

Programme booklet

Monday, 7 June 2021

11:30–13:00 hrs.
Building centres, networks and interdisciplinarity

Neurovascular centres – What makes the difference?
Andreas Raabe (Bern/CH)

Establishing neurooncological centres and foster new therapeutic strategies
Frederik F. Lang (Houston, TX/US)

Bulding interdisciplinary skull base centres and keep interdisciplinarity alive
Sébastien Froelich (Paris/FR)

Diagnosis and treatment of spine tumours – clinical practice guidelines from the Polish Society of Spine Surgery, the Polish Society of Oncology
Andrzej Maciejczak (Tarnów/PL)

15:45–17:15 hrs.
Neurosurgery crossing health sector and hospital operator boundaries

Bedarfsplanung und Intersektorale Versorgung im Bereich der Neurochirurgie (German title)
Anke Schliwen (Berlin/DE)

Strengthening cross-sectoral medical care – state of political deliberations
Matthias Gruhl (Bremen/DE)

Multisector 360° model of coordinated care for patients with brain tumours – a pilot study
Radosław Rola (Lublin/PL)

Reform der Notfallversorgung in Deutschland (German title)
André Gries (Leipzig/DE)

Tuesday, 8 June 2021

11:00–12:30 hrs.
Rare disesases

Neural regeneration and neurofibromatosis type 2 – common denominators
Helen Morrison (Jena/DE)

Neurofibromatosis types 1 and 2 and imaging
Gareth Evans (Manchester/GB)

Tba.
Jaishri Blakeley (Baltimore, MD/US)

Intracranial meningiomas in neurofibromatosis type 2 patients – How often surgery is needed?
Arkadiusz Nowak (Warsaw/PL)

16:45–18:15 hrs.
Quality assurance and complication management

Impatient Quality Metrics – data and implications
Ralf Kuhlen (Berlin/DE)

Qualitätsindikatoren in der Neurochirurgie (German title)
Walter Stummer (Münster/DE)

Complication management in neurosurgery
Anil Nanda (Newark, NJ/US)

Neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring in paediatric spinal cord surgery – Does it improve outcome?
Marek Mandera (Katowice/PL)

Wednesday, 9 June 2021

09:45–11:30 hrs.
Perspectives in neurosurgery

Equality and diversity in neurosurgery
Marike L. D. Broekman (Leiden/NL)

Quo vadis – Perspektive der Neurochirurgie in Deutschland (German title)
Florian Ringel (Mainz/DE)

The status of radiosurgery in German neurosurgery
Maximilian Ruge (Köln/DE)

Perspektiven in der vaskulären Neurochirurgie (German title)
Daniel Hänggi (Düsseldorf/DE)

Computed flow dynamics in analysis of the role of the first coil in embolisation of ruptured intracranial aneurysms
Dariusz Jaskólski (Łódź/PL)

Monday, 7 June 2021

09:45–11:15 hrs.
Probleme der neurochirurgischen Begutachtung
(German)
Problems of neurosurgical examination
Symposium of the German Society of Neuroscientific Assessment (DGNB) 

Schädigung peripherer Nerven durch Lagerung
Hermann Müller-Vahl (Hannover/DE)

Was bedeuten die neuen Leitlinien der AWMF für das neurochirurgische Gutachten?
Peter Marx (Berlin/DE)

Das leichte Schädel-Hirn-Trauma in der Begutachtung
Hans-Ulrich Puhlmann (Berlin/DE)

Tuesday, 8 June 2021

15:15-16:45 hrs.
Elektroden im Gehirn – Gegenwart und Zukunft

Electrodes in the brain – present and future
Joint Session of the German Society of Neurosurgery (DGNC) and the German Society for Biomedical Engineering (DGBMT)

Gegenwärtige und zukünftige Herausforderungen bei der Programmierung komplexer THS Systeme – remote control
Jan Vesper (Düsseldorf/DE)

Klinische, translationale und revers translationale Ansätze in der Entwicklung neuer Zielorte für die DBS
Volker A. Coenen (Freiburg/DE)

Grenzen der Technik – ethische Aspekte der Brain-Machine-Interfaces
Steffen Rosahl (Erfurt/DE)

Grenzen der Technik – ethische Aspekte der Brain-Machine-Interfaces
Steffen Rosahl (Erfurt/DE)

Miniaturisierung von technischen Schnittstellen zum Nervensystem – Chancen und Herausforderungen
Thomas Stieglitz (Freiburg)

Humanes Resektions-Gewebe als Ersatz von Tiermodellen in der translationalen Hirnforschung
Ulrich Hofmann (Freiburg)

Ethik und Verantwortung in der Neurotechnologie
Philipp Kellmeyer (Freiburg)

Expert interview with the speakers

Open discussion

The abstracts of the 72nd Annual Meeting of the German Society of Neurosurgery can be found here:

Abstracts 2021

Traditionally, the annual meeting of the German Society of Neurosurgery ends with the report of the fellows. Below you will find the research results of our scholarship holders.

Scolarship reports