7 Gliomas Cadaveric Workshop – NeuroLab Athens
As part of the 1st Athens Seven Gliomas Surgery Course, participants will take part in a dedicated cadaveric white matter dissection workshop at NeuroLab Athens, a state-of-the-art surgical training facility. Working on prepared cadaveric hemispheres, attendees will study the cortical and subcortical anatomy that underpins safe glioma surgery.
Guided by an international faculty of experienced neurosurgeons, participants will follow the major lateral white matter pathways step by step. They will learn how these tracts relate to tumor location and how they are identified during awake and asleep brain mapping. The workshop connects intraoperative mapping paradigms directly with the true anatomy, so that functional boundaries become clear and surgical decisions are better informed.
Each participant will have hands-on time at the dissection table, with close supervision and time for discussion. The emphasis is on the practical goal of every glioma resection: maximal extent of resection while preserving function, known as the onco-functional balance.
The workshop is designed for mid- to senior-level neurosurgical residents and young specialists with an interest in neuro-oncology. Places are limited to keep the experience personal and interactive.
Venue
NEUROLAB
Dedicated cadaveric surgical training centre in central Athens with two dissection labs (20 hands-on stations) and a seminar room for up to 40.
NeuroLab is a surgical training centre on Sevastoupoleos Street in central Athens, occupying six floors (about 480 m²) designed exclusively for hands-on education. Its courses and workshops cover the head and neck specialties, namely neurosurgery, maxillofacial surgery, ENT, plastic and dermatologic surgery, ophthalmology and dentistry, and are held under the auspices of scientific bodies, with logistics organised together with a PCO.
The two cadaveric training laboratories, Sylvius on the first floor and Willis on the second, each have ten surgical stations, giving 20 hands-on stations and two master stations in total. Specimens are prepared with soft-preservation methods such as Thiel for realistic tissue handling, and the stations are fitted with ZEISS and LEICA surgical microscopes, UPSURGEON simulation models and equipment from AESCULAP, SOERING, MEDTRONIC and KLS MARTIN. The seminar room on the top floor, the Perneczky Lecture Room, takes up to 40 participants for lectures and case discussions, and the Penfield, Yasargil and Wernicke lounges on the floors in between complete the facility.
Integrated audiovisual systems carry live 4K video between floors and to external streaming platforms, and the seminar room offers teleconferencing with simultaneous links to the operating theatre and the dissection room, so sessions can be followed remotely and recorded for later use. UPS units, voltage stabilisers and a standby generator keep training running without interruption.
Rooms
| Room | Floor | Area | Set-up | Capacity | Plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd Floor - Willis Cadaver Lab Breakout session | U-shape | 40 | |||
| 3rd Floor - Penfield Lounge Breakout session | 40 | ||||
| 6th Floor - Perneczky Lecture Room Breakout session | Theatre | 40 |