Web Manager

TO: All our Member Societies

Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Fellow Neurosurgeons,

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the WFNS website. In a time when the practice of neurosurgery is rapidly becoming globalized, it is our hope that the WFNS website will become for each and every one of you an essential link to your neurosurgical colleagues and to pertinent professional information.

Please permit me to take you on a tour of this site. You will find the sections listed horizontally across the top of the page. Click on each section for a drop-down menu of section contents. Moving from left to right, the first section is labeled “WFNS.” This includes the Mission Statement, Ethics in Neurosurgery, and the Activities of our organization, a description of the World Federation, and contact information and photographs of the members of the Administrative Council and Executive Committee. Next, you will find the President’s Welcome Page, as and Website Manager’s Welcome Page, which will announce major additions to the web site as they occur. Next is the listing of the WFNS Committees, where you will find links to each Committee. The activities of each Committee will be described on individual pages; see Young Neurosurgeons Forum as an example. An alphabetical listing of the WFNS Member Societies which make up the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies follows, as well as links to those societies’ own web pages. We hope you will find this to be a very useful new feature. This section concludes with a listing of the Constitution and Bylaws of the WFNS (pdf).

The next section, “WFNS Meetings,” provides details for upcoming Meetings of the WFNS, as well as the past and future  World Congress.

Next, follows “News,” which includes People, Honors, Announcements, BookReviews, Obituaries and items of general interest.

The next section, “WFNS Foundation,” provides information about the different WFNS recognized training centers around the world. The List of criteria for requesting Neurosurgical Equipment can also be found under this section.

The following section is labeled “Education.” This very important section includes a description of the WFNS educational Courses held each year throughout the world.
These highly popular and extremely useful courses are organized by the WFNS Education Committee Chairman, Atos Alves de Sousa.

The next section is improved for this newly revised site! This is the “World Calendar” which we hope will become known as the one site where neurosurgeons can find a complete listing of all Major Neurosurgical Meetings Around the World. Please help us keep this highly useful feature vital by providing us with timely information about the dates and locations of your member society meetings.

The next section, “WFNS History,” will be maintained by WFNS Historian and past President, Dr. Armando Basso. This History Section will identify milestones in the evolution of the organization.  This History of the WFNS Logo is also described.

The final topic section is the official WFNS Journal, World Neurosurgery. This publication includes original articles on topics of interest to neuorsurgeons around the world. 

The site concludes with Contact Information.

I look forward to your comments and suggestions and advancing our specialties through our website.

Warm regards,


Gail Rosseau, M.D.
Manager, WFNS Website