Conference

COGNITIVE NEUROSURGERY SUMMIT

"Long-term oncological & quality of life results in Low Grade Glioma"

8:45  Official opening by GOTZONE SAGARDUY, Basque Government Minister of Health

PART I: ANATOMY, ONCOLOGY, LONG TERM SURVIVAL & QUALITY OF LIFE (Chair: IÑIGO POMPOSO)

11:00  Coffee Break

PART II: FUNCTIONAL COGNITIVE MAPPING (Chair: MANUEL CARREIRAS)

13:30-14:15  Time for Lunch

PART III: NEUROREHABILITATION & COGNITION (Chair: ILEANA QUIÑONES)

15:45  Coffee Break

PART IV: TRANSLATING COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE INTO SURGICAL PRACTICE (Chair: SANTIAGO GIL-ROBLES)

17:15 Discussing the future directions of the Cognitive Neurosurgery: European DLGG Network Proposal. (Chairs: SANTIAGO GIL-ROBLES & ILEANA QUIÑONES)

17:30 Closing Remarks by IÑIGO POMPOSO and all the attendants

BCBL Director. Ikerbasque Research Professor. Group Leader

Head of Medical Oncology Department at Clínica IMQ Zorrozaurre in Bilbao

Neurosurgeon at Cruces University Hospital in Bilbao.

Researcher at Biocruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute.

Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Gui de Chauliac Hospital, Montpellier University Medical Center in France

Director of the Team “Plasticity of the central nervous system, human stem cells and glial tumors”, INSERM U1051, Institute of Neurosciences of Montpelli

Rehabilitating doctor at the Brain Injury section, Cruces University Hospital in Bilbao.

Rehabilitating doctor at Menni Brain Injury Network Neurorrehabilitation Center in Bilbao.

Consultant Neurosurgeon at King’s College Hospital in London.

Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Lariboisièr Hospital in Paris.

Neurosurgeon at Hospital del Mar in Barcelona.

Former President of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS)

Principal investigator responsible for the coordination and management of one of the main BCBL’ translational research projects leading to the development and refinement of protocols for intervention with brain tumour patients who require surgery (“Brain surgery with awake patients”). Among my responsibilities as PI are the coordination with the neurosurgery unit of the Hospital Universitario Cruces Bilbao, the identification of weaknesses in the intervention protocols and the creation of tools that can be transferable to clinical practice. This project, with its non-invasive functional neuroimaging approach, will help to improve the benefit-to-risk ratio of brain surgery by increasing knowledge of how the brain is functionally modified in response to tumour growth. This would allow for better surgical planning on a patient-by-patient basis, by precisely informing about tumour localization and surrounding functional brain tissue, both before and after surgery. This project received the prize for the Best Health Technology Innovation awarded by the Spanish Technology and Health Foundation and the Spanish Federation of Healthcare Technology Companies in 2019 (https://www.euskadi.eus/gobierno-vasco/-/noticia/2019/euskadi-premio-a-la-mejor-innovacion-tecnologica-en-salud-impulsada-por-una-comunidad-autonoma/).

Head of the Brain Injury Service at Aita Menni Hospital in Mondragón (Spain).

Coordinator of the Menni Brain Injury Network, including all the Brain Injury Services run by the Hospital Nuns in Spain.

Clinical management services – SERGESCLIN 500

Audiovisual technician – SERGESCLIN 500

Head of the Neurosurgery Department at Quironsalud Hospital in Madrid.

Researcher at Biocruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute.

Neurosurgeon at Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital in Santander

• Scientific Director of Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) in Donostia San Sebastian (Spain)

Principal investigator responsible for the coordination and management of one of the main BCBL’ translational research projects leading to the development and refinement of protocols for intervention with brain tumour patients who require surgery (“Brain surgery with awake patients”). Among my responsibilities as PI are the coordination with the neurosurgery unit of the Hospital Universitario Cruces Bilbao, the identification of weaknesses in the intervention protocols and the creation of tools that can be transferable to clinical practice. This project, with its non-invasive functional neuroimaging approach, will help to improve the benefit-to-risk ratio of brain surgery by increasing knowledge of how the brain is functionally modified in response to tumour growth. This would allow for better surgical planning on a patient-by-patient basis, by precisely informing about tumour localization and surrounding functional brain tissue, both before and after surgery. This project received the prize for the Best Health Technology Innovation awarded by the Spanish Technology and Health Foundation and the Spanish Federation of Healthcare Technology Companies in 2019 (https://www.euskadi.eus/gobierno-vasco/-/noticia/2019/euskadi-premio-a-la-mejor-innovacion-tecnologica-en-salud-impulsada-por-una-comunidad-autonoma/).

Vice Dean of Innovation and Grade Coordination at the Medical and Nursery School, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

Full Professor of Human Anatomy, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

Principal Investigator of LaNCE research group.