1) Simulation technologies: Where are we now, where are we going? (Symposium), Brain Tumour Research Centre, Montreal Neurological Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, October 15, 2009
2) Montreal Neurological Hospital Conference Day, December 2009, The Assessment of Technical Skills in Neurosurgery (Invited Speaker), Nicholas Gelinas-Phaneuf
3) Virtual Reality Simulation: An innovative way to train and assess neurosurgeons (Invited Speaker), Nicholas Gelinas-Phaneuf, Montreal Regional Brain Tumor Interest Group, Montreal, April 30, 2010
4) The Assessment of Technical Skills in Neurosurgery: The development of the Global Assessment of Intraoperative Neurosurgical Skills (GAINS) scale (Poster), Gelinas-Phaneuf, N.; Okrainec, A.; Fried, Gerald M.; Choudhury, N. & Del Maestro, R. Canadian Congress on Medical Education, Saint-John’s, Newfoundland, May 1-5, 2010
5) A novel way to train and assess neurosurgeons: NeuroTouch, a virtual reality simulator (Oral Presentation), Gelinas-Phaneuf, N.; DiRaddo, R. & Del Maestro, R., Canadian NeuroOncology Conference, Niagara-on-the-lake, Ontario, May 14-16, 2010
6) Mechanical Properties of Human Brain and Tumour Tissues (Abstract), Patricia Debergue, Valérie Pazos, Robert DiRaddo, Marie-Christine Guiot, Nicholas Gelinas-Phaneuf, Abdulrazzag Ajlan, Rolando Del Maestro, Montreal Neurological Hospital Fellows’ Day, June 18, 2010, Montreal, Quebec
7) A novel way to train and assess neurosurgeons: NeuroTouch, a virtual reality simulator (Oral Presentation) Gelinas-Phaneuf, N.; DiRaddo, R. & Del Maestro, R. Montreal Neurological Hospital Fellows’ Day, June 18, 2010, Montreal, Quebec
8) Congrès de l’Association de neurochirurgie du Quebec, Bromont, Nov 13 2010.
9) VR-Haptic Simulation for Surgery Requiring High Precision and Acute Perception: Focus on Neurosurgery. Workshop organizer, 11th International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare, January 21 – 26, 2011, New Orleans, Louisiana
10) 6th Annual Top Gun Competition (Tumor Debulking Station), AANS Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, April 9-13, 2011, Invited Booth (NeuroTouch, CNRC)
11) Neurosurgical technical skills: time to develop a training curriculum integrating simulation, National Research Council (Canada), Advisory Committee Meeting, Invited Speaker, May 27th 2011
12) Assessing performance in brain tumor debulking using a novel virtual reality simulator, National Research Council (Canada), Advisory Committee Meeting, Invited Speaker, May 27th 2011
13) Assessing performance in brain tumor debulking using a novel virtual reality simulator (Oral Presentation) Gelinas-Phaneuf, N.; Choudhury, N.; Al-Habib, A.; Cabral, A.; Nadeau, E.; Mora, V.; Pazos, V.; Debergue, P.; DiRaddo, R.; Del Maestro, R. F. Congres de l’Association de neurochirurgie du Quebec, Hotel Sacacomie, Saint-Alexis-des-Monts Nov 2011
14) NeuroTouch-Sim: un simulateur neurochirurgical en réalité virtuelle avec interface haptique. [Neurotouch-sim : a virtual reality neurosurgical simulator with haptic feedback] (oral presentation) Gelinas-Phaneuf, N.; DiRaddo, R. & Del Maestro, R.