Invited Lectures Series: Advanced Techniques in Anterior Endoscopic Cranial Base Surgery, 3D Video Presentation on "Transtemporal Approaches to the Cranial Base”, “Avoidance and Management of Complications in Otologic Surgery” Instructional Course in Surgical Otology and Rhinology September 11-13, 2015. Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Dr. Andrew Fishman and his colleague from Bydgoszcz Children's Hospital Jozef Mierzwinski were invited to the Children's Hospital of Lviv Ukraine. There they performed a repair of a perforated tympanic membrane in a child. The mission was organized to train the regional physicians in the techniques used.

Dr. Fishman was invited to join the faculty as a consultant for anterior cranial base endoscopic surgery and complex head & neck tumors. He travelled to Bydgoszcz Poland in October and spent 3 month on a training mission. He worked at the NATO Military Hospital as well as the Children's Hospital of Bydgoszcz and the Nicolas Copernicus University Hospital. Some of the surgeries he performed included lymphangioma of the parotid gland and neck, deep neck congenital cysts and

Dr. Andrew Fishman was invited to perform surgical removal of an acoustic neuroma. He performed the surgery with Navy surgeons, Commander Arnold Rivera M.D., and Dr. Merrill Severson M.D. The surgery was successfully performed by the middle fossa approach with good preservation of hearing waves monitored during the removal. The procedure was performed using intraoperative image guidance with the Medtronic O-Arm system. This guidance technique was developed by Dr. Fishman a

Dr. Fishman was invited to lecture the Otolaryngology Residents of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on surgery of the facial nerve. During this visit, Dr. Fishman directed a temporal bone dissection laboratory for training the residents in techniques used in acoustic neuroma surgery.

Dr. Fishman moderated and lectured at the National Meeting of the Acedemy of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery. The lecture featured research work done by he and colleagues in the area of cochlear implants. Fishman AJ, Richter CP, Roland JT, Micco AG, Rubenstein J, Svirsky M: Emerging Technologies in Implantable Auditory Prostheses Miniseminar at AAO-HNS Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA, September 12, 2011.