// ESPN 2026 Consensus Conference & 7th Refresher Course
Welcome Message
Dear friends and colleagues,
It is with great pleasure that we invite all of you to the 2026 Consensus
Conference and 7th Refresher Course of the European Society for Pediatric
Neurosurgery (ESPN), which will be held in Rome-Italy, at NH
Hotel Roma Centro, few steps from the heart of Rome City Center, from January
22nd to January 24th, 2026.
The topic selected for the Consensus Conference is head and
craniovertebral junction injury. The programme has been structured with five
main topics and questions to answer:
- Which is the role of ICP monitoring and other options of neuromonitoring to enhance outcome
- Which is the state of the art in pediatric cranioplasty
- How to diagnose and manage post-traumatic hydrocephalus
- When and how to assess Craniovertebral junction injuries
- Shaken baby syndrome from the neurosurgeon, the pediatrician and the ethical point of view
The Consensus Conference will be followed by the Refresher Course, which will be dedicated to craniosynostoses this year, focusing in a substantial part on monosutural forms, a topic in which a number of unsolved items still exist. The course will start from a due update on Genetics and Functional outcome of these diseases, soon after deepening on associated CSF and ICP disorders, models for training and different surgical options, including, beyond open and endoscopic techniques, also distraction and springs. The last session will resume actualities in multisutural synostoses and will concentrate on how the management of multisutural craniosynostoses changed in the last decade, ending with a glimpse on experimental models aiming at targeted prevention of this kind of disease, based on genetic modeling.
Large space will be dedicated to discussion fostering cases examples and debates.
We look forward to welcoming as many of you as possible in Rome.
Luca Massimi, Paolo Frassanito, Federico Bianchi and Gianpiero Tamburrini
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Accreditation
The 2026 Consensus Conference of the European Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ESPN), Rome, Italy 22/01/2026-23/01/2026, has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 10.5 European CME credits (ECMEC®s). Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
The 7th Refresher Course on updates and advances on craniosynostosis, Rome, Italy 23/01/2026 - 24/01/2026, has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 8.5 European CME credits (ECMEC®s). Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
About ESPN Consensus Conference & Refresher Course
The Consensus in Pediatric Neurosurgery (CPN) module was developed by Professors Maurice Choux, Concezio Di Rocco and Christian Sainte-Rose, as a mean to reach a consensus in major issues of our subspecialty. It is organized on a biennial basis (traditionally in January - February), as an interim meeting between the ESPN Congresses’ organization, and hosted namely in Rome or Paris.Read more
The Conference will start in:
Key dates & Deadlines
Extended Abstract Submission Deadline
November 1,2025
Abstract Authors Notification
November 30, 2025Authors Registration Deadline
November 17, 2025Early Registration Deadline
December 14, 2025//
