Morning session

10:30 AM – 11:00AM Registration and welcome coffee

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM Opening remarks
Speaker: Charlotte Timmermans, MSc & certified IONM practitioner, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (ZOL)

11:15 AM – 11:30 AM Damned if you monitor, damned if you don’t. Why quality is paramount to avoid medical malpractice
Speaker: Charlotte Timmermans, MSc & certified IONM practitioner, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (ZOL)

11:30 AM – 12:30 AM Fundamentals of intraoperative neuromonitoring: techniques, alarm criteria and anesthesia
Speaker: Adam Jackson, Neurophysiologist & Clinical assistant professor of Neurology, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Hospital & Health Sciences System, College of Medicine

12:30 AM – 1:00 PM From setup to success: establishing an effective IONM facility (discussion)
Speakers:
• Charlotte Timmermans, MSc & certified IONM practitioner, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (ZOL)
• Ludovic Ernon, Neurologist, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (ZOL)
• Tatjana Reynders, Neurologist, Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen (UZA)
• Peter Muller, Anesthesiologist, AZ Sint-Lucas Gent

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch break

Afternoon session

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Parallel workshops (35min each)
• IONM in tethered cord surgery
• IONM in CPA/brainstem surgery
• IONM in supratentorial surgery

4:00 PM – 4:15 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM – 4:45 PM Advanced brain mapping techniques for high eloquent supratentorial surgery
Speaker: Christophe Oosterbos, Neurosurgeon, ZIekenhuis Oost-Limburg (ZOL)

4:45 PM – 5:00 PM New frontiers in awake surgery: cortico-cortical evoked potentials
Speaker: Charlotte Timmermans, MSc & certified IONM practitioner, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (ZOL)

5:00 PM – 5:15 PM Closure
Speaker: Rose Bruffaerts, Neurologists, Universitair ziekenhuis Antwerpen (UZA)

5:15 PM – 6 PM Reception and networking opportunities