Dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is my great honor and pleasure to announce a new edition of the EANS hand-on course organized in Romania, taking place in Cluj-Napoca, under the auspices of the “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, between 9th and 12th of November 2023. We kindly invite you to join us at this landmark course in our center.

Klausenburg, Kolozsvar, Cluj-Napoca – three different names describing the same center of culture, education, science and progress. A city where the medical school was founded in 1774, as faculty of Medicine-Surgery during the reign of Maria Teresa. You may note that in this city we have a continuous medical education for almost two and a half centuries, a tradition that cannot be underestimated. We are proud to present ourselves as a University in which tradition is successfully completed by contemporaneity. While the walls of our hospitals and amphitheaters elude history, the constant rush of diverse students and the continuous development of modern facilities, research laboratories ensure constant and diligent progress in the footsteps of our predecessors.

The Neurosurgical Department from Cluj-Napoca is a young one, being founded in the fall of 1949. Despite being less than 75 years old, our Department covers all the neurosurgical pathology from the entire region, from simple cases to complex vascular or skull-base or spine ones, including pediatric pathology. We have more than 20 residents in constant training and perform over 2700 surgeries per year.
Through the facilities and equipment we have at our disposal, the experience of more than 25 years of microsurgical hands on courses conducted by Professor George Dindelegan, we consider that our center is the perfect cradle for an EANS course. Concentrating on the present, for a better future, while never forgetting about the past.

This course was born out of our collaboration established with Erasmus MC Rotterdam which began with our, now classic, Neurosurgical Masterclasses, in 2013. The link was established through Dr. Victor Volovici, who finished his medical studies in Romania and went on to train in The Netherlands. Training to improve, while not severing roots with his native region.

We hope that you will join us in November for the latest microvascular EANS course to be hosted in our city.