Workshops & courses

Neuroendoscopy training course, September 30, 1996 Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

W. Lougheed microsurgical course, October 7-11, 1996, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Sixth Western neuroscience conference.  Makkah, KSA,  13-14 November, 2001

11^th Saudi Neurosciences Symposium and 3^rd annual meeting of Saudi Chapter of Epilepsy, Jeddah, KSA, 5-7 March, 2002

Vascular anastomosis, Jeddah, KSA, 3 April, 2002.

Co-coordinator and presenter in the medical education workshop for Dentistry faculty staff,  7-8 September 2002.  King Abdulaziz University Hospital.

OSCE workshop, Jeddah, KSA, 28-30 October, 2002

Facilitator and presenter of the second evidence-based medicine workshop in Jeddah, KSA,  11-14 May 2003.  Family medicine joint program.

EEG and Epilepsy course, Riyadh, KSA, 12-14 April, 2003.

Facilitator and presenter of the third evidence-based medicine workshop in Jeddah, KSA.

 28-31December 2003.  Family medicine joint program.

Speaker in Advances of  management of Neurovascular diseases 30^th September, 2003 Jeddah , King Faisal specialist hospital.  Cavernous malformation of the CNS.

Speaker in Neurology made easy refresher course, February 18^th –19^th, 2004.

 King Abdulaziz University hospital.  Spinal cord compression.

Study Guides: their use and preparation workshop, Jeddah, KSA 9 March, 2004.

Facilitator in Evidence based medicine course for post-graduate, Obstetric and Gynecology department, Jeddah, KSA.                   28 February – 4^th April, 2005.

Systematic review/meta-analysis, Manamah, Bahrain, 18-19 May, 2005

Endoscope assisted keyhole microsurgery, Mainz, Germany, 4-8 July, 2005.

Facilitator in Evidence based medicine workshop in 8^th Pan Arab Congress of Obstetric and Gynecology and 14^th annual meeting of SOGS, Jeddah, KSA, 5-7 April, 2005.

International Epilepsy Symposium and Workshop, Jeddah, KSA, September 27-29^th 2005.

Recent advances in Fusion and Non-fusion technology for spine surgery, Jeddah, KSA, 5-6 April, 2006.

Second minimally invasive neurosurgery and neuroendoscopy course, Riyadh, KSA, 24^th -25^th April, 2004.

Facilitator and presenter of the fourth evidence-based medicine workshop in Jeddah, KSA,  26-29 April 2004.  Family medicine joint program.

Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery, 6^th international hands-on Workshop.  Naples (Italy), May 22-23, 2006

Presentation at the “Brain Matter” for high school students, what is Epilepsy? Oct 5/ 2006.  University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.

Teaching in Neuroscience course (MDCN 410), Medical students, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Jan 29/2007.

Microsurgical approaches to intrinsic brain tumors, March 2-4/ 2007. Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MI, USA.

75^th American Association of Neurological Surgeons, April 14-19/2007. Washington DC, USA.

Balloon kyphoplasty Training Program, April 28, 2007, Calgary, AB, Canada.

17^th International Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Symposium, June 26-29/2007. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Ohio. USA.

Presentation of Reoperation of temporal lobe epilepsy: Systematic review in Second annual conference: Saudi Association of Neurological Surgery, Riyadh, KSA, 14-15 May, 2008.