| Sunday, March 15th, 2026 |
| 1:00 - 8:00pm | Check-in Reception (faculties and trainees) |
| 5:00 - 6:00pm | Training Committee meeting for faculty members |
| 8:00 - 9:00pm | Welcome and general informations / Opening Ceremony Tatiana Protzenko / Antonio Bellas / Ricardo Santos de Oliveira / Wan Tew Seow (AASPN & ISPN) / Luca Massimi (ESPN) / Adrian Caceres (ASOLANPED) |
| 9:00pm | Dinner |
| Monday, March 16th, 2026 |
| 7:00 - 8:00am | Breakfast |
| Morning Session - Auditorium |
| 8:00 - 12:30 | Spine diseases | Chairs: Marcelo Pousas / Hamilton Matushita |
| 8:00 - 8:20 | Embryologic considerations and classification | Tatiana Protzenko |
| 8:20 - 8:40 | The clinics and physiopathology of tethered cord syndrome | Thomas Roujeau |
| 8:40 - 9:00 | Spinal Lipomas (classification) and critical analysis | Luca Masimi |
| 9:00 - 9:20 | The role of intraoperative monitoring in spinal surgery | Wan Tew Seow |
| 9:20 - 9:40 | Spine Occult Dysraphism (Limited dorsal myeloschisis (LDM / spine dermal sinus) | Jorge Bizzi |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Chiari I & Syringomyelia | Leopoldo Mandic |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Diastematomyelia | Artur da Cunha |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Cranio cervical junction anomalies | Ramiro del Rio |
11:30 - 11:50 |
Ultrasound aplication in spine disease | Llewellyn Padayachy |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Discussion | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | ROUNDTABLE – Occult Dysraphism surgery Preoperative planning Monitoring - Why and When? Surgical approach (incision, dissection, and lesion strategy) Closure CSF leakage |
Chairman: Federico Di Rocco Antonio Bellas Thomas Roujeau4m| Sandi Lam Adrian Caceres |
| 8:00 - 12:30 | Lunch | |
| Afternoon Session - Room |
| 2:00 - 3:30 | Chairs: Paulo Ronaldo Jubé / Sergio Cavalheiro | |
| 2:00 - 2:20 | Neurofibromatosis and spine lesions | Antonio Bellas |
| 2:20 - 2:40 | Spinal cord tumors | Thomas Roujeau |
| 2:40 - 3:00 | Surgical approach for Spinal deformities in children | Ricardo Gepp |
| 3:00 - 3:20 | Is there a role for spine endoscopy in pediatric cases? | Sandi Lam |
| 3:20 - 3:30 | Discussion |
| Simultaneous Rooms |
| 3:30 - 5:30 | Group Yellow Hands-on: Spine / new Technologies / craniofacial / ultrasound |
Chairs: Luca Massimi / Tatiana Protzenko / Antonio Bellas /
Javier Gonzalez Ramos / Wan Tew Seow / Ramiro del Rio / Nelci Zanon / Thomas Roujeau / Giovana Paternoster/Hamilton Matushita / Ricardo Gepp |
| 3:30 - 5:30 | Group Green Video /Anatomy |
Chairman: Feres Chaddad Kemel Gothme / Eduardo Juca / Paulo Ronaldo / Jorge Bizzi / Adrian Caceres |
| 3:30 - 5:30 | Group Blue
Solve a Case (each faculty presents 2 or 3 cases and is allowed 20 minutes/faculty) |
Chairs: Sandi Lam / Sergio Cavalheiro
Matheus Ballestero / Leopoldo Mandic / Artur da Cunha / Federico Di Rocco / Llewellyn Padayachy |
| 8:00 - 10:00pm | Dinner |
| Tuesday, March 17th, 2026 |
| 7:00 - 8:00 | Breakfast |
| Morning Session - Room |
| 8:00 - 13:00 | Peripheral nerve and Midline tumors | Chairs: Javier Gonzalez Ramos / Antonio Bellas |
| 8:00 - 8:20 | Brachial plexus trauma | Ricardo Gepp |
| 8:20 - 8:40 | Peripheral nerve injuries in children - prevalence, mechanisms | Llewellyn Padayachy |
| 8:40 - 9:00 | Peripheral nerve tumors | Ricardo Gepp |
| 9:00 - 9:20 | Facial Nerve Palsy After Tumor Resection | Ramiro del Rio |
| 9:20 - 9:30 | Discussion | |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Clinical case discussion | Matheus Ballestero |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Surgical Anatomy of sellar and suprasellar region | Feres Chaddad |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Optic pathway and hypothalamic gliomas | Wan Tew Seow |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Craniopharyngiomas in pediatric patients. | Sergio Cavalheiro |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Skull base tumors in children | Hamilton Matushita |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Pituitary tumors in children | Javier Gonzalez Ramos |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | How to Avoid Medicolegal Problems? | Wan Tew Seow |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Round table - How I prepare my case? / How I deal with surgical complication? | Chairman: Sandi Lam
Nelci Zanon / Artur da Cunha / Sergio Cavalheiro / Llewellyn Padayachy / Luca Masimi |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch | |
| 15:00 - 18:00 | Integrative activities | |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Dinner |
| Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 |
| 7:00 - 8:00 | Breakfast |
| Morning Session - Room ALERCES |
| 8:00 - 10:00 | Surgical Approaches | Chairs: Ricardo Gepp / Kemel Gothme |
| 8:00 - 8:20 | Endonasal appoaches in children | Javier Gonzalez Ramos |
| 8:20 - 8:40 | Minimally Supraorbital approach | Ricardo Santos de Oliveira |
| 8:40 - 9:00 | Subtemporal Approach | Sandi Lam |
| 9:00 - 9:20 | Pterional Approach | Adrian Caceres |
| 9:20 - 9:40 | Fronto-pterional Approach | Federico Di Rocco |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Fronto-orbital-zygomatic | Eduardo Jucá |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30 - 12:30 | Vascular | Chairs: Jorge Bizzi / Llewellyn Padayachy |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Moyamoya disease | Wan Tew Seow |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Supratentorial Cavernomas in children | Kemel Gothme |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Spinal Cord vascular malformations | Feres Chaddad |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Pediatric Cerebral Arterious vascular malformation | Sandi Lam |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Clinical case Discussion | Ramiro del Rio |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Discussion | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Afternoon Session - Room ALERCES |
| 2:00 - 5:30 | Chairs: Leopoldo Mandic / Ramiro Del Rio | ||
| 2:00 - 2:20 | Endonasal appoaches in children | Feres Chaddad | |
| 2:20 - 2:40 | Minimally Supraorbital approach | Ricardo Santos de Oliveira | |
| 2:40 - 3:30 | Subtemporal Approach | Matheus Ballestero |
| Simultaneous Rooms |
| 3:30 - 5:20 | Group Yellow Hands-on: Spine / new Technologies / craniofacial / ultrasound |
Chairs: Luca Massimi / Javier Gonzalez Ramos / Wan Tew Seow / Ramiro del Rio / Jorge Bizzi / Leopoldo Mandic / Eduardo Jucá / Adrian Caceres / Ricardo Gepp / Tatiana Protzenko / Antonio Bellas |
| 3:30 - 5:20 | Group Green Video /Anatomy |
Chairman: Feres Chaddad / Federico Di Rocco / Leopoldo
Mandic / Thomas Roujeau / Hamilton Matushita |
| 3:30 - 5:20 | Group Blue Solve a Case (each faculty presents 2 or 3 cases and is allowed 20 minutes / faculty) |
Chairman: Sandi Lam / Sergio Cavalheiro Kemel Gothme / Matheus Ballestero / Paulo Ronaldo Jubé / Giovana Paternoster / Llewellyn Padayachy / Nelci Zanon / Artur da Cunha |
| 8:30 - 10:00pm | Dinner |
| Thursday, March 19th, 2026 |
| 7:00 - 8:00 | Breakfast |
| Morning Session - Room ALERCES |
| 8:00 - 12:30 | Craniofacial | Chairs: Giovana Paternoster / Arthur da Cunha |
| 8:00 - 8:20 | Bone defect reconstruction (bone, plastic, metal, new materials) | Matheus Ballestero |
| 8:20 - 8:40 | Orbital anomalies (tumors and congenital) A neurosurgical view | Luca Masimi |
| 8:40 - 9:00 | Fibrous dysplasia | Adrian Caceres |
| 9:00 - 9:20 | Cranial vault tumors | Nelci Zanon |
| 9:20 - 9:40 | Encephaloceles | Paulo Ronaldo Jubé |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Clinical Case Discussion | Sergio Cavalheiro |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30 - 12:30 | Chairs: Nelci Zanon / Leopoldo Mandic | |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Craniosynostosis: Classification and Diagnosis work-up | Giovana Paternoster |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Non syndromic craniosynostosis – surgical (Scaphocephaly) | Leopoldo Mandic |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Fronto-orbital advancement (brachycephaly and plagiocephaly) | Giovana Paternoster |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Trigonocephaly: How I do it? | Paulo Ronaldo Jubé |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Posterior Deformity. Critical analysis of literature | Federico Di Rocco |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Facial advancement in complex synostosis | Hamilton Matushita |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch | |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Trainee Presentations (tutors) | Chairs: Ricardo Santos de Oliveira / Tatiana Protzenko / Antonio Bellas |
| 2:30 - 2:10 | Cutis aplasia (Yellow) | Kemel Gothme (tutor) |
| 2:10 - 2:20 | Neurenteric cyst (Green) | Sandi Lam (tutor) |
| 2:20 - 2:30 | Cordoma in children (Green) |
Ramiro del Rio (tutor) |
| 2:40 - 3:30 | Discussion and announcement of the best presentation | |
| 2:20 - 2:30 | Pediatric Neurosurgery LACPN Quizz (digital QR code questions) 20 questiontest |
Matheus Ballestero |
| Simultaneous Rooms |
| 3:30 - 5:30 | Group Yellow Hands-on: Spine / new Technologies / craniofacial / ultrasound |
Chairs: Luca Massimi / Javier Gonzalez Ramos / Wan Tew Seow / Ramiro del Rio / Kemel Gothme /Arthur da Cunha / Tatiana Protzenko / Ricardo Gepp / Antonio Bellas |
| 3:30 - 5:30 | Group Green Video /Anatomy |
Chairman: Feres Chaddad
Marcelo Pousas / Nelci Zanon / Giovana Paternoster / hamilton Matushita |
| 3:30 - 5:30 | Group Blue Solve a Case (each faculty presents 2 or 3 cases and is allowed 20 minutes/faculty) |
Chairman: Sandi Lam / Sergio Cavalheiro
Matheus Ballestero / Thomas Roujeau / Jorge Bizzi/Eduardo jucá / Adrian Caceres / Federico Di Rocco |
| 5:30 - 6:00pm | Critical analysis of the course | Ricardo de Oliveira / Tatiana Protzenko / Antonio Bellas |
| 20:00 - 2:00 | Farewall Dinner & Party |
| Friday, March 20th, 2026 |
| 10:00 | Check-out |
