The “59th Nijmegen Ear Surgery Course” will take place April 20th– 24st 2026 in the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen – The Netherlands. Part of this course will be the minisymposium: “Capita Selecta concerning skull base pathology and surgery”. This will be at April 24st, the last day of the course, however can be attended without course participation. The goal of this day is to share knowledge on a specific topic on the brink of skull base pathology and neurotology. If you are interested, you are cordially invited. The course will be in English.
An application has been made for the 59th Nijmegen Ear Surgery Course to the European UEMS (EACCME®) for the CME/CPD accreditation of this event.
Program
Monday, April 20th, 2026
07.30 Coach service from hotel to the Lecture Hall
07.45 Registration Experience Center, conference room De Snelbinder, route 5
08.15 Emmanuel Mylanus: Introduction to the course
08.20 Thomas Zahnert: Reconstruction of the tympanic membrane
08.50 Discussion
09.00 Presentation of surgical cases
09.15 Live televised surgery: Mylanus & Saeed
Moderators: Delsing & Zahnert
11.45 Thomas Zahnert: Reconstruction of the ossicular chain
12.05 Discussion
12.15 TBD: Middle ear and mastoid aeration pathways
12.35 Discussion
12.45 Lunch
13.30 Corinne Delsing: 3D Temporal Bone Anatomy
13.40 Temporal Bone Dissection
Supervisors: Zahnert, Mylanus, Kunst, Delsing and Saeed
16.00 Coffee/Tea
16.15 Meet the surgeon
16.30 Emmanuel Mylanus and Sjoert Pegge: Imaging of the temporal bone
17.30 Coach service to restaurant
18.00 Dinner at ‘Tante Koosje’
21.00 Coach service to Mercure Hotel
Tuesday, April 21th , 2026
07.40 Coach service from hotel to the Lecture Hall
08.00 TBD: Pediatric cholesteatoma
08.30 Cris Lanting: Clinical audiology
09.00 Presentation of surgical cases
09.15 Live televised surgery: Zahnert – Cals – Somers
Moderators: Mylanus & Saeed
11.45 Wendy Huinck: Cochlear implantation
12.05 Discussion
12.15 Corinne Delsing: Ear surgery a muskuloskeletal challenge!
12.35 Discussion
12.45 Course photograph/Lunch
13.30 Thijs Jansen: Canalplasty
14.45 Emmanuel Mylanus: Cochlear Implantation
16.00 Coffee/Tea
16.15 Meet the surgeon
16.30 Shakeel Saeed: Facial nerve management
17.00 Froukje Cals: Otogenetics
17.30 Coach service to Mercure Hotel
Wednesday, April 22th , 2026
07.40 Coach service from hotel to the Lecture Hall
08.00 Thomas Somers: Canal wall up and bony obliteration technique
08.30 Emmanuel Mylanus: Active middle ear implants
09.00 Presentation of surgical cases
09.15 Live televised surgery: Kunst & TBD
Moderators: Somers & TBD
11.45 TBD: Complications & how to deal with them
12.05 Discussion
12.15 Ronald Pennings: Panel on results 2025
12.35 Discussion
12.45 Lunch
13.30 Temporal Bone Dissection
Supervisors: Kunst, Pennings, Somers and Delsing
16.00 Coffee/Tea
16.15 Meet the surgeon
16.30 Coach service to hotel
18.00 Coach service to Aula Radboud University, Comeniuslaan 2, Nijmegen
18.15 Drinks and snacks
19.00 The 41th W.F.B. Brinkman lecture by TBD
20.15 Buffet
22.30 Coach service to Mercure Hotel
Thursday, April 23th, 2026
07.40 Coach service from hotel to the Lecture Hall
08.00 Arno Janssen: Audiological aspects of implantable devices
08.30 Froukje Cals: Bone conduction devices
09.00 Temporal Bone dissection
Supervisors: Delsing, Somers, Mylanus and Cals
11.45 Thomas Somers: Subtotal petrosectomy
12.05 Discussion
12.15 Participants: Discussing complex cases
12.45 Lunch
13.30 Temporal Bone Dissection
Supervisors: Mylanus, Jansen, Pennings, Delsing and Cals
16.00 Coffee/Tea
16.15 Meet the surgeon
16.30 TBD: Paragangliomas
17.00 Thomas Somers: Superior canal dehiscence syndrom
17.30 Coach service to restaurant
18.00 Course Dinner at ‘De Pelgrim’
21.00 Coach service to Mercure Hotel
Friday, April 24st , 2026
07.40 Coach service from hotel to the Lecture Hall
08.00 Thijs Jansen: Image guided surgical navigation in otology
08.30 TBD: Canalplasty
09.00 Temporal Bone Dissection
Supervisors: Kunst, Jansen, Falcioni, Delsing and Pennings
Program Capita Selecta April 24st
11.oo-11.30 Registration
11.30-11.45 Opening symposium and introduction to Radboudumc Skull Base Centre – Dirk Kunst (ENT, Radboudumc/MUMC+)
TOPIC I – Vestibular schwannoma
11.45 – 12.05 Evolvements and controversies in vestibular schwannoma management – Jerome Waterval (ENT, MUMC+)
12.05 – 12.35 Clinical Anatomy and radiology – Thijs Jansen (ENT, Radboudumc) and Sjoert Pegge (Radiologist, Radboudumc)
12.35 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 13.50 Innovation and future perspectives – Sammy Schouten (ENT resident, Radboudumc)
13.50 – 14.10 Gammaknife for vestibular schwannoma – Jeroen Verheul (Neurosurgeon ETZ)
14.10 – 14.40 Surgical management of vestibular schwannoma – Yasin Temel and Mark Ter Laan (Neurosurgeons, MUMC+ and Radboudumc)
14.40 – 15.00 Coffee / Tea
TOPIC II – Cerebrospinal fluid leakage from the lateral skull base
15.00 – 15.20 Surgical management of lateral skull base CSF leakage – TBD
15.20 – 15.40 Lateral skull base CSF leakage – Dirk Kunst (ENT, Radboudumc/MUMC+)
15.40 – 16.00 Idiopathic intracranial hypertension diagnosis and treatment – L. van den Abbeele (Physician Assistant, Radboudumc)
16.00 Closure and drinks
16.45 Coach to railway station