Program

Master Class Neurovascular Anatomy

9-10th April 2026

Brain Institute. Pitié-Salpêtrière
Paris - FRANCE

Thursday April 09 2026


Morning session, moderation by Alain Chédotal & Frédéric Clarençon
8:30 – 9:00Introduction and welcome coffee
Frédéric Clarençon
9:00 – 10:00Pharyngeal Arches Across Phylogeny and Ontogeny
Andrew Gillis (University of Chicago, USA)
10:00 – 11:00Embryology of human pharyngeal arch arteries and their remodeling: modal anatomy and anatomical variants of the aortic arch
Robert H. Anderson (Newcastle University, GB)
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 (Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, IDV, Paris, France)
12:30 – 14:00Lunch break – SyGlass interactive VR embryo demonstration
Eimad Shotar, Alain Chédotal
Afternoon session, moderation by Eytan Raz & Joseph Gabrieli
14:00 – 15:00Biology of atherosclerosis and its variability across the vasculature
Alain Tedgui (The Paris Cardiovascular Research Center, Paris, France)
15:00 – 16:00Managing « hostile » supra-aortic arteries: from navigation to therapeutics
Adnan Siddiqui (Buffalo University, USA)
16:00 – 16:30Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30Interactive case presentations session (5-7 min per participant)
Moderation by Arturo Consoli & E. Shotar

Friday April 10 2026


Morning session, moderation by Eytan Raz & Frédéric Clarençon
8:30 – 9:00Welcome coffee
9:00 – 10:00Anatomy of the vertebral artery
Philippe Gailloud (John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
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 (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA)
12:30 – 13:00Steerable catheters and endovascular devices
Raphael Blanc (Rothschild Foundation, Paris)
13:00 – 14:00Lunch break – SyGlass interactive VR embryo demonstration
Eimad Shotar, Alain Chédotal
14:00 – 16:00Dissection and surgical videos
Moncef Berhouma & Eric STEINMETZ: Live session from the Dijon anatomy laboratory
Registered surgical cases: Julien Gaudric
16:00 – 16:30Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30Comparative anatomy – Closing session
Frédéric Clarençon (Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Sorbonne University, Paris, France)

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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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