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by Gabriel Vargas
Gabriel Vargas MD,
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Honorary President of the Neurological Oncology Section of the Latin American Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (FLANC) and lead coordinator of the XI Symposium
Activities 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 . ➤
Participants at the XI International Brain Tumour Awareness Day Symposium included neurosurgery research group students from UDES and residents and professors of the neurosurgery program of the Hospital Militar Central (Bogota DC)
Pre-Symposium practical course in ultrasound for the management of brain tumors. Juan Luque MD, Chief of Neurosurgery at the Hospital Militar Central is shown practicing with the specimens
We had a great scientific symposium with the support of world class speakers from around the globe including Latin America, Europe and the United States . Specialists gave lectures during the day discussing diagnosis, current treatments and care of patients with brain tumors . The speakers who supported our event during the academic agenda were Dr . Fernando Martinez (Uruguay), Dr . Marcos Maldaun (Brazil), Dr . Hughes Duffau (France), Dr . Joerg-Christian Tonn (Germany), Dr . Miguel Arraez (Spain), Dr . Paul Gardner (USA) and Dr . Tito Vivas (USA) .
All the activities were supported by Universidad de Santander (UDES) and its medical faculty; Clinica Chicamocha; Hospital Universitario Los Comuneros; Society for Neuro-Oncology Latin America (SNOLA); the neurooncology and skull base section of the Colombian Association of Neurosurgery (ACNcx); the neurooncology section of the Federacion Latinoamericana de Neurocirugía (FLANC); and different commercial partners involved in the treatment of patients with brain tumours .
The event was free for everyone . The entire event can be viewed on You Tube . Search for “XI Simposio Día Internacional de Concientización de Tumores Cerebrales” . n
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