Dear Colleague,

Cerebrovascular and skull base diseases are undergoing a revolution in management options – making clinical decisions every more challenging in the contemporary era.

We continue our tradition of honest introspection, innovation, and debate in the sixth Brigham and Women’s Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Symposium. Fueled by a collective mandate to improve the care provided to patients and their long-term outcomes, creative minds and masters in cerebrovascular and skull base surgery, along with affiliated fields, will congregate in a unified setting to probe how we deliver care, make decisions, manage complications, build comraderies, and learn.

This year, we have partnered with the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) cerebrovascular section to bring an enhanced focus on existing challenges and opportunities locally and globally.

We look forward to welcoming colleagues, meeting new friends, and becoming better together.

Sincerely,

Ali Aziz-Sultan, MD, MBA

Ossama Al-Mefty, MD

Nirav J. Patel, MD, MA

Wenya Linda Bi, MD, PhD

Ekkehard M. Kasper, MD, PhD, WFNS

Ioan Ștefan Florian, MD, PhD, WFNS