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Did you miss our 2nd ESBS webinar? No worries! It’s now available to watch on:

https://radboudumc.cappagile.com/s/gnsuOFZjsHqSoE76g_qOKg

On Thursday, 26 February, we hosted our first ESBS WEbinar titled: “How to Become a Good Skull Base Surgeon”. It was a fantastic event with more than 150 participants all over the world.

Many thanks to Dr. Fernando Muñoz Hernández, Neurosurgeon, Hospital Sant Pau y Hospital del Mar of Barcelona, Spain and Professor Marcos S. Tatagiba, neurosurgeon, University of Tübingen, Germany for a wonderful moderation and presentation.

Were you unable to attend? You can watch the webinar via this link:  

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During our congress, last December in Zagreb, we said farewell to our president Dirk Kunst. During his term, from 2024 to 2026, he strongly advocated for various important matters, including:

• Continuity society and delivering membership benefits
• Set-up of the ESBS Third Party Funds Foundation
• Maintaining a strong financial position for the society
• The launch of the professionalization process by engaging Lisette Schreuder
• New ESBS website and logo
• The ideas of developing of a knowledge database
• The first steps in initiating an accreditation system for skull base centres
• First corporate sponsor for a 2 year partnership with Bissinger
• Launching the iniciative for Skull Base Guidelines development
• Engaging the patient associations in the ESBS congressess, ensuring the patientperspective becomes an integral part of evey event

Thank you so much, Dirk! We value your ongoing support and expertise within the society! 

Professor Martin Jurlina, born and based in Zagreb, is co‑founder, past president, and current co‑president of the Croatian Skull Base Society. He is a specialist in otolaryngology and maxillofacial surgery, and a subspecialist in head and neck plastic and reconstructive surgery. Currently, he is Head of the Cranial Base Centre and Head of the Division for Traumatology at the Clinical Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia.

His clinical and scientific work centers on sinus and skull base surgery, as well as oncologic, reconstructive, and aesthetic head and neck procedures. He has pioneered several techniques, including the first use of an ultrasonic knife in endoscopic skull base surgery and the introduction of free temporalis fascia grafts for endoscopic reconstruction. He is also advancing hybrid transmaxillary approaches to the anterior, central, and middle skull base.

As the founder of modern skull base surgery in Croatia, Martin introduced both transcranial and endoscopic approaches for anterior cranial fossa tumors and performed the country’s first open transcranial and fully endoscopic cranionasal resections. Today, he is regarded as Croatia’s leading expert in open and endoscopic tumor surgery involving the anterior and central skull base.

Martin Jurlina: "During my ESBS presidency, I want to strengthen the Society’s functioning and bring it closer to its members, with special attention to our younger colleagues. We need to consolidate ESBS, improve communication with national skull base societies, and give an extra boost to those that need renewed energy. Where there is a strong group of interested colleagues, we should support the creation of new societies as well. Internationally, it’s important to maintain, and ideally enhance, our excellent collaboration with NASBS, and to build new bridges with national and regional groups in the Far East. They have been outside our focus so far, yet I believe there is great potential for meaningful cooperation on many levels."

On Thursday, 2 April, we hosted our second ESBS Webinar titled:Anterior Cranial Base Reconstruction” . Again, it was a fantastic event with a lot of participants all over the world.

Many thanks to Professor Martina Jurlina, Head of the Cranial Base Centre and Head of the Division for Traumatology at the Clinical Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia for a nice moderation of our webinar. And of course many thanks to Dr. Raj Sindwani M.D., FACS, FRCS(C), Vice Chairman of the Head and Neck Department at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States of America, and Professor Edward C. Kuan M.D., MBA, FARS, Division Chief of Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery Otolaryngologist and Skull base Surgeon, University of California, United States of America for a wonderful presentation.

Were you unable to attend? You can watch the webinar via this link:

https://radboudumc.cappagile.com/s/gnsuOFZjsHqSoE76g_qOKg

 Our 3rd webinar will be held in June and is entitled: Giant Neuroendocrine Pituitary Tumors: Surgical Management by Dr. Diego Mazzatenta. Stay tuned for more information on our website.