Dear colleagues,

Welcome to the LINC.

LINC represents an ambitious project of our department to establish a unique for our region event that will periodically cover all aspects of vascular neurosurgery. Our aim is to provide trainees with a thorough and up to date review of a different each time subject through theoretical lectures, debates as well as practical video sessions.

Our inaugural course, the LINC2016, has been successfully completed on the 18th and 19th of March 2016. It's main theme being cerebral aneurysms, and with over 50 participants and 20 faculty members from both Europe and the U.S., LINC2016 proved to be a substantial educational experience for us all.

For our next event, which we have scheduled for 2018, we have chosen to concentrate on brain AVMs, a disease that still stirs controversy over what it's management should be. My team and I, we are all looking forward to meeting you in Larissa for what we trust will be - once again - a stimulating meeting.

Kostas N. Fountas MD, PhD
Professor of Neurosurgery
Course Director