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    PRESS RELEASE
    Fund for Armenian Relief's Fellowship Alumni Association
    29 Rubinyants Street,
    Yerevan, Armenia
    Contact: Bella Grigoryan
    FARFAA_Salzburg Medical Program Coordinator
    Tel: (37410) 249677, 541128
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Web: www.farfaa-salzburg.am


    Round -Table on << Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery>>.

    August 3rd, 2006

    Yerevan



    FARFAA (Armenia) together with the Salzburg Fellows on Neurosurgery,
    with the technical support of the <<Arbess>>Rehabilitation Center
    organized Round -Table on <<Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery>>.

    The Round -Table took place on August 3rd and 21 doctors from
    different Yerevan hospitals have participated, most of them were
    neurosurgeons.

    Dr.Hrayr Shahinian (USA) was the invited guest-lecturer.

    Dr H.Shahinian is the director of the Skull Base Institute ( Los
    Angeles, USA(www.skullbaseinstitute.com).

    The Skull Base Institute (SBI), a designated Center of Excellence, is
    the first and only center devoted exclusively to the art of skull base
    surgery. It is the world's premier institute to perform every procedure
    using minimally invasive endoscopic techniques and after pioneering
    completely endoscopic pituitary surgery, the only to do fully endoscopic
    acoustic neuroma, meningioma and microvascular decompression surgery in
    the posterior fossa.

    Dr. Shahinian, and SBI's team uniquely qualified to operate on the
    most complex area of the human anatomy and contributes to the success in
    treating over 2,400 skull base patients.

    The goal of the Round -Table was to present the latest information,
    experience and knowledge of the well known Endoscopic skull base
    surgeon to armenian doctors.

    Dr Shahinian informed local doctors about the advantages of the
    endoscopic surgery, minimal complications and excellent outcome after
    the brain tumors removal endoscopically.

    We wish to acknowledge and to express our deep appreciation to Mr Vahe
    Yakubian and Manushak Yeritzyan for their assistance in organizing
    the event..



    FAR FAA is a non-for-profit organization of medical professionals, aimed
    at improving the health care system of the community and advancing
    medical sciences in Armenia.
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