Program

Master Class Neurovascular Anatomy

9-10th April 2026

Brain Institute. Pitié-Salpêtrière
Paris - FRANCE

Thursday April 09 2026


8:30 – 9:00Introduction and welcome coffee
Frédéric Clarençon
9:00 – 10:00Pharyngeal Arches Across Phylogeny and Ontogeny
Andrew Gillis
10:00 – 11:00Embryology of human pharyngeal arch arteries and their remodeling: modal anatomy and anatomical variants of the aortic arch
Robert H. Anderson
11:00 – 11:30Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30Human embryology of the internal carotid, external carotid and vertebral arteries explored by 3D microscopic imaging of cleared embryos
Eimad Shotar
12:30 – 14:00Lunch break – SyGlass interactive VR embryo demonstration
Eimad Shotar, Alain Chédotal
14:00 – 15:00Anatomy of the vertebral artery
Philippe Gailloud
15:00 – 16:00Biology of arterial vessel wall and it’s variability across the vasculature: implication for arterial pathology
Hafid Ait-Oufella
16:00 – 16:30Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30Interactive case presentations session (5-7 min per participant)

Friday April 10 2026


8:30 – 9:00Welcome coffee
9:00 – 10:00Managing « hostile » supra-aortic arteries: from navigation to therapeutics
Adnan Siddiqui
10:00 – 11:00Interactive case presentations session (5-7 min per participant)
11:00 – 11:30Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30Supra-aortic arteries geometry and tortuosity: implication for catheters and implantable devices in interventional neuroradiology: the engineer’s point of view
Matt Gounis
12:30 – 13:00Steerable catheters and endovascular devices
Raphael Blanc
13:00 – 14:00Lunch break – SyGlass interactive VR embryo demonstration
Eimad Shotar, Alain Chédotal
14:00 – 16:00Dissection and surgical videos
Moncef Berhouma (Live session from the Dijon anatomy laboratory)
Julien Gaudric (Registered surgical cases)
16:00 – 16:30Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30Closing session
Frédéric Clarençon

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fully dedicated to neurovascular anatomy

The third Master Class of Neurovascular Anatomy will be hosted at the heart of Paris, France, at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, a historic beacon of patient care in neurological diseases, in the Brain Institute, a leading institution in Neuroscience Research.

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