Event Schedule
Preliminary Agenda for 6th November 2025Registration and Breakfast
08:55
Welcome Address & House Keeping
Session 1: Updates in cerebral aneurysm management
Session Moderators: Gholkar (UK) Patankar (UK)
09:00
23 years of ISAT and counting – so why do I still clip aneurysms? Siddiqui (USA)
09:15
ISAT2 results and beyond: Do we have enough evidence on how to treat complex aneurysms? Molyneux (UK)
09:30
Endovascular management of complex giant aneurysms Costalat (France)
09:45
Intrasaccular device shape modification and implications Holtmanspötter (Germany)
10:00
The Intrasaccular Debate: Fangirl (Biondi, France) vs Hater (Schirmer, USA)
10:20
Coffee break
Session Moderators: Berdikhojayev (Kazakhstan) Sourour (Dubai)
11:00
Management of recurrences from intrasaccular devices Patankar (UK)
11:15
Looking beneath the surface…what’s next for coatings? Pierot (France)
11:30
Is it safe to treat aneurysms as day case procedures? Siddiqui (USA)
Fast5 power pitches: Devices coming to a shelf near you
Session Moderators: Rennie (UK) Gaikwad (India)
11:45
Super large bore aspiration catheters: Cereglide92 Rai (USA)
11:52
Steerable catheters: Drive Wire 24 Lopes (USA)
11:59
Sofia 088 Brinjikji (USA)
12:06
Caresto Stent Sourour (Dubai)
12:13
Neuroguard Schirmer (USA)
12:20
Lunch Break
Microvention Lunchtime Symposium: WEB is the way Smith (UK) 13:00-13:30
Phenox Lunchtime Symposum: Impact of HPC in intracranial aneurysm technologies- Flow diversion and aneurysm bridging 13:30-14:00
14:00
Fireside Chat: ‘The wound is where light enters you’ Islam (UK) Mosimann (Canada)
Session 2: Endovascular treatments of high pressure disorders
Session Moderators: Thorne (UK), Watkins (UK)
14:30
The three faces of cranial venous outflow insufficiency Higgins (UK)
14:45
Venous stenting in IIH: The Lariboisière Experience Civelli (France)
15:00
Pulsatile Tinnitus: Whats the buzz around stenting? Nordemeyer (Germany)
15:15
The eshunt system and its role in treatment of NPH Malek (USA)
15:30
Panel discussion, audience Q+A
15:50
Coffee break
Session 3: CSF leaks
Session Moderators: Matharu (UK) Davagnanam (UK)
16:20
Clinical Presentation and Diagnosis of CSF leaks Cheema (UK)
16:35
Neurodiagnostics: Imaging Basics and Recent Advances Qureshi (UK)
16:50
Neurorinterventional Treatments: From Blood Patches to Endovascular Surgery Brinjikji (USA)
17:05
Surgical Treatments of CSF leaks Sayal (UK)
17:20
Debate: Is there a role for fibrin glue in CSF-V and T2 leaks in the presence of more definitive treatements?
17:40
Plenary Lecture: Endovascular Navigation in the Cerebral Circulation and Beyond. Alex Berenstein USA
18:10
Close of Day 1
Gala Dinner
Fishmongers’ Hall
Time:
19:30
Address:
Fishmongers’ Hall
London Bridge
LONDON
EC4R 9EL
08:00
Breakfast
08:25
Welcome Address & House Keeping
Session 4: Updates on AV shunts
Session Moderators: Mosimann (Canada) Puthuran (UK)
08:30
Advances in trans-arterial embolization techniques Saatci (Turkey)
08:45
Transvenous embolization: pitfalls and managing risk Chapot (Germany)
09:00
AVM treatments and lessons learnt: The Indian Experience Limaye (India)
09:15
Modern techniques for pediatric AV shunts Muthusami (Canada)
09:30
Hold your nerve…the direct stick approach to treating C-C Fistulas! Howard (USA)
09:45
Panel discussion, Audience Q+A
10:05
Coffee break
Session 5: Cerebral AVMs
Session Moderators: Fragata (Portugal) Castanho (UK)
10:35
Case Based Discussion: Complications from AVM treatments: Rangi (UK), Rennie (UK) Wuppalapati (UK)
10:55
Developments in AVM materials: Next generation embolic materials Gil (Spain)
11:10
ARUBA and TOBAS: Are they flawed? Arnberg-Sandor (Sweden)
11:25
Debate: Should we treat unruptured AVMs Murphy (UK) vs Mosimann (Canada)
11:45
Roundtable discussion: How do we collectively improve endovascular curative success rates?
12:05
Lunch Break
Stryker Lunchtime Symposium: NeqStent case series and followup Islim (UK) & The ELITE flow diverting stent Lynch (UK) 12:30-1300
Medtronic Lunchtime Symposium: Strategic clot retrieval..mastering advanced techniques in MT Chapot (Germany) &
MeVo update: To Treat or Not to Treat and How We Do it Safely Goyal (Canada) 13:15-1330
Session 6: Device Deformations & Complications
Session Moderators: Siddiqui (USA) Gal (Denmark)
13:30
Flow remodelling in bifurcation aneuryms : Simply artistic or artistic simplicity? Cekirge (Turkey)
13:45
Braid deformation in flow diverting stents de Villiers (Australia)
14:00
FD complications and their management Chapot (Germany)
14:15
Impact of complications during INR procedures on Practitioners Rai (USA)
Session 7: Ischemic stroke Part 1
Session Moderators: Brinjikji (USA) Matin (India) Schmitt (UK)
14:30
Patient selection for MT Goyal (Canada)
14:45
Large core, low ASPECTS patients, when should we treat and what are the limits Jovin (USA)
15:00
Sustaining urgency and momentum in stroke care Goyal (Canada)
15:15
IA thrombolysis in MT patients- update on the medical management evidence and pitfalls Zaidi (USA)
15:30
Roundtable discussion
15:45
Coffee break
Session 8: Ischemic stroke Part 2
Session Moderators: Jovin (USA) and Goyal (Canada)
16:15
ICAD: evidence, management and new developmets Goel (India)
16:30
Extradural arterial pathology: Stenoses, Dissections and their management Gupta (India)
16:45
Stroke in the extremely elderly de Villiers (Aus)
17:00
Venous Thrombectomy: Patient selection, tips and tricks Gopinathan (Singapore)
17:15
Case based discussions
17:30
Close of Meeting
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