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ANAC was pleased to welcome Dr. Serge Makarenko, Clinical Instructor in the Division of Neurosurgery at the University of British Columbia, for a presentation on Optimizing Surgical Management of Vestibular Schwannoma. His talk highlighted strategies to improve treatment outcomes, including thoughtful surgical selection, the use of intraoperative neuromonitoring, and the role of pre-operative medications.

About the Speaker:  

Serge Makarenko, MD, FRCSC

Clinical Instructor, University of British Columbia; Neurosurgeon, Vancouver General Hospital (Vancouver, BC)

Dr. Serge Makarenko, Clinical Instructor in the Division of Neurosurgery, was born in Lviv, Ukraine. He moved to Vancouver in 1998 with his family and obtained a degree in Honours Physiology and medical degree from UBC. Following his medical training, Dr. Makarenko did neurosurgery residency in Vancouver, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in 2019. He then spent a year as a Clinical Fellow in Skull Base Neurosurgery under the guidance of Dr. William Couldwell in Salt Lake City, Utah. After this, he has returned to Vancouver to join the faculty as a practicing neurosurgeon, specializing in skull base tumors and neuro-oncology.

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