About

The Neurosurgery Course 2025 is being brought to you by The ASSERT Centre, UCC/CoMH and The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. It will be held in The ASSERT Centre, College of Medicine & Health, UCC, Cork on Wednesday the 22 January 2025.

Participants will gain hands-on experience and have access to fresh frozen cadavers in our state of-the-art surgical skills laboratory. The simulated operating room features integrated audio-visual facilities to allow for real time and post-procedure feedback from expert faculty. There will be 2 participants per cadaver and there will be 1-to-1 supervision/direction by the expert faculty.

Pre-course reading material will be provided.

Course Overview:

• Anterior skull Base:  sellar and suprasellar lesions
• Lateral Skull Base approaches
• Subfrontal and bicoronal approach
• Interhemispheric transcallosal approach

Course Faculty:

Mr Wail Mohammed – Course Director
Mr Mahmoud Kamel
Mr Chris Lim
Mr Gulam Zilani
Mr Kieron Sweeney
Ms Lena Mary Houlihan
Mr Mohammad Habibullah Khan
Ms Tafadzwa Mandiwanza
Prof Darach Crimmins
Mr John Caird

The course is limited to 12 places and these will be offered on a first come first served basis.

Course Inclusions: Morning, lunch, afternoon breaks and refreshments.

Course content, date and faculty may be subject to change or cancellation due to unforeseen circumstances.