Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery/Joint Cerebrovascular Section Fellows Course
This is a preliminary program and is subject to change.
Thursday, July 17, 2025
8:00 am Registration
8:00 am – 9:00 am Breakfast in Exhibit Hall
8:30 am – 9:00 am SNIS Business Meeting (SNIS Members Only)
Didactic Session – Global Perspectives on Vascular Malformations: Challenges and Breakthroughs
Programming in collaboration with ESMINT
Moderated by David Dornbos, MD & Christian Taschner, MD
9:00 am – 9:08 am Natural History of Hemorrhage in Brain AVMs, Judy Huang, MD
9:08 am – 9:16 am Conservative Management of Brain AVMs, Jean-Christophe Gentric, MD
9:16 am – 9:24 am Angiographic Evolution of Brain AVM Angioarchitecture after Partial Endovascular Treatment, Eimad Shotar, MD
9:24 am – 9:32 am Outcome Evaluation of Repeat Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Cerebral AVMs, Georgios Mantziaris, MD
9:32 am – 9:37 am Discussion
9:37 am – 9:53 am Debate: Do we Need Pre-operative Embolization in Patients with Brain AVMs
9:53 am – 10:01 am Discussion
10:01 am – 10:09 am ‘Pressure Cooker’ and ‘Balloon Pressure’ Techniques Significantly Increase 3-month Complete Occlusion Rate after Spinal AVF Embolization, Damien Parat, MD
10:09 am – 10:17 am Natural History, Angiographic Presentation and Outcomes of Anterior Cranial Fossa Dural AVFs, Edgar Samaniego, MD
10:17 am – 10:25 am Dural AVFs with Cognitive Impairment: Angiographic Characteristics and Treatment Outcomes, Alejandro Tomasello, MD
10:25 am – 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am – 10:45 am Break in Exhibit Hall
Concurrent Didactic Sessions
Didactic Session – Mind over Splatter: Tackling NeuroTrauma with Precision and Puns
Moderated by Paul Singh, MD & Viktor Szeder, MD
10:45 am – 10:55 am Neurotrauma in the battlefield, Rocco Armonda, MD
10:55 am – 11:05 am Neurotrauma in the inner city, Gaurav Jindal, MD
11:05 am – 11:15 am TBI related to vasospasm, Kasra Khatibi, MD
11:15 am – 11:25 am Traumatic CC Fistulas, Robert Starke, MD
11:25 am – 11:35 am Management of traumatic dissections, Goetz Benndorf, MD
11:35 am – 11:45 am Imaging of traumatic dissections, Violiza Inoa, MD
11:45 am – 12:00 pm Discussion
Didactic Session – All Roads Lead to the Suite: Training in the USA vs. EU
Moderated by Anna Kuhn, MD & Allison Strickland, MD
10:45 am – 10:55 am EU: Training Across Borders
10:55 am – 11:05 am USA: From ACGME to NESAC to UCNS, Ansaar Rai, MD, FSNIS
11:05 am – 11:15 am Discussion
11:15 am – 11:25 am Individual Certification in the USA, Jeremy Heit, MD
11:25 am – 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am – 11:40 am Neurointerventional Fellowship Match: A Brief Update, Jenny Tsai, MD
11:40 am – 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am – 11:55 am Non-academic Group Practice in the USA: Where are we, and where are we going?, Daniel Sahlein, MD
Didactic Session – Abstract Presentations 5
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Abstract Presentations
Didactic Session – Abstract Presentations 6
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Abstract Presentations
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch in Exhibit Hall
Didactic Session – Complications and Ethics: Balancing Care and Responsibility
Moderated by Emanuele Orru’, MD, Ajit Puri, MD & Allison Strickland, MD
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm Complex Cases that Didn’t Go Well: “I wish I would have done…”, Babu Welch, MD
2:15 pm – 2:20 pm Discussion
2:20 pm – 2:26 pm Carotid Stenting Complications, Donald Heck, MD
2:26 pm – 2:32 pm TCAR Complications, Radmehr Torabi, MD
2:32 pm – 2:40 pm Discussion
2:40 pm – 2:55 pm Liquid Embolics Gone Haywire, Frédéric Clarençon, MD
2:55 pm – 3:00 pm Discussion
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm Access Site Complications and Bailouts, Katyucia de Macedo Rodrigues, MD
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm Discussion
5:30 pm Fellows Course Hands-on Labs and Reception
Friday, July 18, 2025
8:00 am Breakfast
8:25 am – 8:30 am Welcoming Remarks, Brian Howard, MD & Lee-Anne Slater, MBBS
Didactic Session – From Fellowship to Attending & Everything in Between
Moderated by Brian Howard, MD & Lee-Anne Slater, MBBS
8:30 am – 8:45 am Get the Most out of Your Fellowship, Raghav Mattay, MD
8:45 am – 9:00 am Academics during Fellowship & Beyond, Justin Mascitelli, MD
9:00 am – 9:15 am Finding a Job: Academic, Maxim Mokin, MD, PhD
9:15 am – 9:30 pm Finding a Job: Private, Guilherme Dabus, MD
9:30 am – 9:45 am Discussion
9:45 am – 10:00 am Break
Didactic Session – Where Anatomy Meets Disease: Learning Through Cases
Moderated by Brian Howard, MD & Lee-Anne Slater, MBBS
10:00 am – 10:15 am Tiny Arteries and a Big Vein Johanna Fifi, MD
10:15 am – 10:30 am During AVF of the Craniocervical Junction, Matthew Amans, MD
10:30 am – 10:45 am Brain AVM: Disarming a Brain Bomb, Babu Welch, MD
10:45 am – 11:00 pm ECA Embolizations: Avoiding Blind Spots, Maksim Shapiro, MD
11:00 am – 11:15 am Discussion
Didactic Session – Roto-Rooter
Moderated by Brian Howard, MD & Lee-Anne Slater, MBBS
11:15 am – 11:30 am Stroke: How I Do It, Ansaar Rai, MD
11:30 am – 11:45 am Is Mevo a No-go?, Jenny Tsai, MD
11:45 am – 12:00 pm Large Core: Does Size Matter?, Violiza Inoa, MD
12:oo pm – 1:00 pm Lunch & Learn
Didactic Session – Things that Go Pop
Moderated by Brian Howard, MD & Lee-Anne Slater, MBBS
1:00 pm – 1:15 pm Aneurysms: Management Philosophy of a Comprehensive Cerebrovascular Surgeon, Michael Lang, MD
1:15 pm – 1:30 pm Brain AVMs: To Cut or Not to Cut, Ivan Radovanovic, MD, PhD
1:30 pm – 1:45 pm dAVFs: Whoosh There It Is, Edgar Samaniego, MD
Didactic Session – Capes and Undies – The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Moderated by Brian Howard, MD & Lee-Anne Slater, MBBS
1:45 pm – 2:00 pm Near Miss, Sheila Eshraghi, MD
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm Recognized Complication, Emanuele Orru’, MD
2:15 pm – 2:30 pm Disaster, Christopher Kellner, MD
Didactic Session – Professional Development
Moderated by Brian Howard, MD & Lee-Anne Slater, MBBS
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Open Forum
3:00 pm Concluding Remarks and Discussion