International Brain Tumour Awareness Week Bucaramanga, Colombia Gabriel Vargas MD, Honorary President of the Neurological Oncology Section of the Latin American Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (FLANC) and lead coordinator of the XI Symposium
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ctivities in Bucaramanga, Colombia continue to support this event despite the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020 and 2021. For the eleventh year running we supported the International Brain Tumour Awareness Week 2021 with three great events.
Event One – an in-person, presymposium course We organized a pre-symposium practical course in person, on the use of Ultrasound Intraoperatively in Neurooncology addressed to neurosurgeons of Bucaramanga and residents and professors of the neurosurgery program of the Hospital Militar Central (Bogota DC) as special guests of the event and as part of their academic event called “Tertulia Neuroquirúrgica”. The course was coordinated by radiologist Camilo Lara MD, Andres Vargas MD, and Gabriel Vargas MD, held at Hospital Universitario Los Comuneros.
Event Two – a dinner talk A dinner talk was organized between neurosurgeons all over the city and neurosurgery residents from the Hospital Militar Central. The use of new strategies in neuro oncology was the main topic of discussion and it helped to create strategies for multidisciplinary treatment of our patients.
Event Three – the XI International Brain Tumor Awareness Day Symposium On November 6, 2021, we held the XI International Brain Tumor Awareness Day Symposium at the Universidad de Santander (UDES) with the participation
of 60 participants in person (COVID-19 restrictions still applied) and more than 350 online participants. Physicians, health
personnel interested in the topic, students, brain tumor patients and their families attended the event. ➤ Brain Tumour
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