Here are six notes on the course:
1. Neurosurgeons Jeffrey Bruce, MD, and Marc Otten, MD, taught the course.
2. Residents and medical students completing their neurosurgery rotation took the course.
3. Dr. Otten and Dr. Bruce focused on operative approaches to the base of the skull.
4. The attendees learned about the “removal of bone for access to the brain, avoidance of brain retraction and reconstruction at the end of surgery.”
5. Dr. Bruce serves as director of skull base surgery and co-director of the Brain Tumor Center at Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
6. Dr. Otten serves as director of Colombia neurosurgery at New York-Presbyterian/Lawrence. He is also an assistant professor neurological surgery at Columbia University Medical Center.
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