PIKES 2025: Pancanadian INR KTB Educational Symposium
Canada’s premier symposium on interventional neuroradiology, interventional neurology, and endovascular neurosurgery.
Join us September 25–27, 2025 at Hotel X in Toronto for three days of cutting-edge science, hands-on workshops, recorded 3D-model case demonstrations, lively debates, and world-class keynotes.
Come and celebrate the 25th anniversary of this landmark meeting, honoring Professor Karel Ter Brugge’s pioneering legacy, and help shape the future of our field!
Learning: By attending PIKES 2025, participants will be able to:
- Identify critical venous landmarks and collateral pathways using digital subtraction angiography (DSA), cone-beam CT, and optimized injection protocols for enhanced diagnosis and treatment planning.
- Describe advanced image-guided approaches for dural carotid-cavernous fistulas and other venous disorders.
- Interpret vessel wall imaging and histological features of the subarachnoid, pial, and dural spaces with optical coherence tomography (OCT).
- Evaluate current evidence on brain aneurysms and apply insights from recent clinical trials to patient care.
- Compare new endovascular devices, including flow diverters and embolic agents, assessing their safety and efficacy in complex aneurysm management.
- Understand indications, techniques, and outcomes of MMA embolization for chronic subdural hematomas and brain tumors.
- Analyze molecular and pharmacologic mechanisms in brain and spine AVMs to guide targeted therapies.
- Utilize innovative catheter shaping, embolization, and imaging fusion techniques for improved treatment of AVMs and hypervascular tumors.
- Critically assess pragmatic care trials and real-world data to guide surgical, radiosurgical, and endovascular AVM treatments.
- Discuss controversies and best practices in acute ischemic stroke triage, thrombectomy, and intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD) management.
- Explore advances in spinal neurointerventions, including venous spinal anatomy and novel imaging like photon counting CT.
- Participate in multidisciplinary discussions on the future of neurointerventional care, including brain-computer interfaces, robotic technologies, and next-generation devices.