WITS NEURORADIOLOGY & NEUROINTERVENTION SYMPOSIUM 2026
Two days on the neurovascular patient
Friday follows the patient with haemorrhagic and complex neurovascular disease — from presentation and imaging through aneurysm and AVM strategy to the difficult case and critical care. Saturday is a dedicated stroke day, following the pathway from first contact to functional recovery. The programme is under faculty development; faculty and registration details will follow.
- Format
- Two days — Friday and Saturday
- Dates
- 20–21 November 2026
- Venue
- Wits School of Public Health Auditorium
- Status
- Programme in development
Why this meeting.
Neurovascular disease is usually taught subject by subject: a lecture on aneurysms, a lecture on stroke imaging, a lecture on thrombectomy. That is not how the patient arrives. This meeting is built the other way round — each day follows a patient through the decisions actually made about them, in the order they are made.
Friday takes the patient with haemorrhage or complex neurovascular disease from presentation and imaging into aneurysm strategy, AVM and dural fistula strategy, the difficult case and bailout, and neurocritical care. Saturday takes the stroke patient from recognition and referral through assessment, imaging and the reperfusion decision, into thrombectomy, complications and post-reperfusion care, and out into rehabilitation and recovery.
The programme is designed so that a core group of local faculty can contribute across sessions and across both days, rather than requiring a separate speaker for every topic. Session titles are working titles; the scientific programme remains under faculty development.
- Two days, roughly ten sessions
- Friday — haemorrhagic and complex neurovascular disease
- Saturday — the stroke pathway, end to end
- Case-based sessions on the difficult case and bailout
- Local faculty, contributing across both days
- Device exhibition alongside the scientific programme
The two days.
Working session titles under faculty development. Individual talks, timings and speakers are assigned once the programme is approved.
DAY ONE · FRIDAY
Haemorrhagic and complex neurovascular disease
Clinical presentation, diagnosis and imaging
Haemorrhagic stroke and subarachnoid haemorrhage; imaging of aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations and dural fistulas.
Aneurysm treatment strategy
Ruptured and unruptured decision-making; endovascular strategy and the surgical interface.
AVM and dural arteriovenous fistula
Angioarchitecture and multimodality selection; dural fistulas and the treatment route.
Difficult cases, complications and bailout
Case-based: what happened, what you would do next, how it was rescued, and when to stop.
Neurocritical care and the periprocedural patient
Physiological management after haemorrhage and after intervention, and escalation.
DAY TWO · SATURDAY
The stroke pathway, from first contact to recovery
Optimising the stroke pathway
Recognition, referral and transfer; door-to-imaging, door-to-needle and door-to-groin.
Emergency assessment and the reperfusion decision
NIHSS; CT and ASPECTS; CTA and collaterals; thrombolysis, and who proceeds to thrombectomy.
Mechanical thrombectomy: strategy and the difficult case
Aspiration, stent retriever and combined technique; tandem and distal occlusions; the failed first pass.
Complications and post-reperfusion care
Haemorrhagic transformation and oedema; monitoring, critical care and escalation.
Rehabilitation, recovery and the multidisciplinary team
Closing panel: early rehabilitation, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, and functional outcome.
Faculty.
The meeting is built around local faculty, with a core group contributing across sessions and across both days. Faculty are described by category only: no individual is named here, and no one is approached, until the scientific leadership directs it and consent to public naming is recorded.
Scientific leadership
Wits academic faculty
Gauteng and national contributors
Multidisciplinary contributors
Practical details.
Date
Friday 20 and Saturday 21 November 2026.
Venue
Wits School of Public Health Auditorium, Johannesburg.
Registration
Registration is not open and no fee has been set. There is no registration route on this platform.
CPD
CPD accreditation is subject to application and approval. Points and administration are not yet confirmed.
Who it is for.
Radiology
Registrars and consultant radiologists, particularly those working in or towards neuroradiology and neurointervention.
Referring specialties
Neurology and neurosurgery, and the physician and surgical teams who share these patients.
Acute care
Anaesthesia, critical care and emergency clinicians who manage the patient around the procedure.
The wider team
Radiographers, stroke and interventional nursing, rehabilitation therapists, medical officers, and interested students if capacity allows.
Industry.
The scientific programme is faculty-led and stays that way.
Device exhibition
Industry would exhibit devices alongside the meeting. No formal practical or hands-on session is assumed.
Faculty control
Faculty set the educational objectives and approve any sponsored content. Competing suppliers are treated equitably.
No sponsor confirmed
No sponsor, partner or exhibitor is confirmed, and none is named on this page until the arrangement is formalised and approved for publication.
What happens afterwards.
With speaker consent only, the meeting would feed the WIRS Education Hub as a post-event capsule mapped to the curriculum pillars.
Approved reading lists
Curated reading tied to the curriculum pillars.
Speaker-approved slides
Shared only where the speaker consents.
Speaker-approved recordings
Shared only where recording permission is granted.
WIRS summaries and diagrams
Original WIRS summaries and diagrams drawn from approved material.
Still to settle.
Published here so that nothing on this page is mistaken for a decision that has been taken.
Programme approval
The two-day architecture above is with the scientific leadership for approval.
Faculty
The core group, mapped to the approved sessions, before anyone is approached.
Registration
Whether there is a fee, and the route by which people register.
CPD
Accreditation, points and administration.
Industry
Which companies exhibit, and on what terms.
Frequently asked questions.
Is this event confirmed?
The dates and venue are confirmed: Friday 20 and Saturday 21 November 2026, at the Wits School of Public Health Auditorium. The scientific programme is under faculty development, and faculty and registration details are still being settled.
When and where is it?
Friday 20 and Saturday 21 November 2026, at the Wits School of Public Health Auditorium in Johannesburg.
Who is speaking?
The meeting is built around local faculty. No individual is named here until the scientific leadership approves the programme, faculty are approached, and consent to public naming is recorded.
How do I register?
Registration is not open, and there is no registration route on this platform. Fees and the registration model have not been decided.
Is there a practical or hands-on session?
No formal practical session is assumed. Industry would exhibit devices alongside the meeting.
Are CPD points available?
CPD accreditation is subject to application and approval. It is not yet confirmed.
While the programme comes together.
Faculty and registration details will be published here once they are confirmed. In the meantime, the Neuroradiology & neurointervention pillar in the Education Hub covers much of the same ground, and WIRS has published registrar guides on mechanical thrombectomy and on becoming a neurointerventionist in South Africa.