| Standing Committees The
President, First Vice-President, Secretary, President-elect (only when
in office) and Coordinator of Committee Activities of the Federation
are ex-officio members of all Committees with the exception of the
Audit and Nominating Committees. Chairpersons
of Standing Committees may serve a maximum of 2 full terms, i.e. 8
years. No member may chair more than 1 Committee. |
Audit Committee |
3 members elected by EC & Chairperson designated by President.
Schleusenweg 2-16, 60528 Frankfurt a/M Germany Tel: +49 (-69) -6301-5295, Fax: +49 (-69) -6301-6322 Email: v.seifert@em.uni-frankfurt.de , Secretary: Katrin.Wilke@kgu.de |
Constitution & Bylaws Committee |
Composed of 5 members and elected by the EC - President shall designate which member shall be Chairman.
Building B, 6th floor Tel: 404-778-4737, Fax: 404-778-4472, Admin Asst: 404-778-5969 Email: noyesik@emory.edu
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Editorial and Federation News Committee |
| Composed of 9 ex-officio members and 2 elected by EC members - one being the Editor of Federation News who is Chairman and the other, Editor of Federation Internet Web. Yücel KANPOLAT, Editor and Committee Chairman Ankara, Turkey Tel: +90 (312) 417 4078, Fax: +90 (312) 419 3684 Email: kanpolat@ada.net.tr |
Finance Committee |
| Composed of 10 Ex-officio members. The Treasurer of the Federation is Chairperson of the Committee.
Carlos Haya University Hospital Avda. Carlos Haya s/n29010-Málaga, Spain Tel : +34 (-951) -291352, Fax : +34 (951) 291470 Email : marraezs@commalaga.com
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Local Arrangements Committee for the Congress |
| Members recommended by the Secretary of the Congress, for election by the EC. Vice-President of Congress is the Chairperson.
17 Haengdang-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 133-792 , Korea Tel: +82-2-2290-8496, Fax: +82-2-2281-0954 Email: osj8495@hanyang.ac.kr
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Membership Committee for the Federation & Congress |
| Members: All members of the Administrative Council (For review of all applications from continental, national, regional and multi-national organizations for membership or affiliate membership of the Federation) |
Nominating Committee |
Composed of 10 members. 9 new members nominated by EC at its 2nd meeting and then elected by EC at its final meeting during Congress. None can be re-elected. The 10th member is the former Chairperson who cannot be re-elected as Chairperson. Nominating Committee elects its own Chair and Vice-chairperson out of the 9 members nominated by EC.
Tel: +40-401-3343026 Fax:+40-401-3347350 Email: rsn@bagdasar-arseni.ro |
Scientific Programme Committee |
The Scientific Programme Director is Chairperson of the Committee.
Kangnam St. Mary's Hospital The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine 505 Banpo-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul 137-701, Korea. Tel: +82-2-590-1343, Fax: +82-2-594-4248 Email: ckpmd@catholic.ac.kr President of the Congress - Hee-Won JUNG Assistant-Secretary of the Congress – Jung Yul PARK Editor of Federation and Congress Publications - Yücel KANPOLAT First Vice-President of the Federation – Takeshi KAWASE Vice-President of the Congress – Suck Jun OH Chairman Cerebrovascular Diseases and Therapy Committee – Hirotoshi SANO Chairman, Hydrocephalus Committee – John D. PICKARD Chairman, Military Neurosurgery Committee – Khalaf Al MOUTAERY Chairman, Neuro-endocrine Committee - Akira TERAMOTO Chairman, Neuromodulation Committee – Damianos SAKAS Chairman, Neuro-oncology Committee – Manfred WESTPHAL Chairman, Neurorehabilitation & Reconstructive Neurosurgery Committee – Jin Woo CHANG Chairman, Neurotraumatology Committee – Alexander POTAPOV Chairman, Neuroendoscopy Committee – Paolo CAPPABIANCA Chairman, Neurosurgical Technology Committee - Amir SAMII Chairman, Pediatric Neurosurgery Committee – Tai Ton WONG Chairman, Peripheral Nerve Surgery Committee – Mario SEQUEIRA Chairman, Spine Surgery Committee – Preman RAMANI Chairman, Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery Committee – Takaomi TAIRA
Coordinator of Committee Activities – Yves KERAVEL |
| Ad-Hoc Committees Committees and Chairpersons appointed by the President. The term of a Committee is the same as the term of the President but the new President may re-appoint the same Committees and Chairmen if he wishes. |
Accreditation Committee |
Madjid Samii, Committee Chairman
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Cerebrovascular Diseases & Therapy Committee |
Hirotoshi SANO, Committee Chairman
Prof. & Chairman, Emeritus Professor, Fujita Health University Vice-Director and Advisor, Shinkawabashi Hospital 1-15 Shinkawa Str. Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaski-city, Kanagawa Pref.
210-0013
Tel: +81-44-222-2111, Fax: +81-44-245-4839 Email: hsano@fujita-hu.ac.jp Secretary: neuro311@i.softbank.jp Vice-Chairman: Christian Raftopoulos (Belgium), Ling Feng (China) Expert Advisory Panel: Robert F. Spetzler (USA), Juha Hernesniemi (Finland), Yuichi Murayama (Japan). Members: Hiroyuki Kinouchi (Japan), Izumi Inaba (Japan), Robert F. Spetzler (USA), Roberto Heros (USA), Issam Awad (USA), Joshua B. Bederson (USA), Michael Lawton (USA), Christopher M. Loftus (USA), Ali F. Krisht (USA), Laligam N. Sekhar (USA), Daniel Barrow (USA), Stanley Barnwell (USA), Robert Rosenwasser (USA), Nick Hopkins (USA), Yoko Kato (Japan), Shigeru Miyachi (Japan), Waro Taki (Japan), Shunro Endo (Japan), Izumi Nagata (Japan), Kazuhiro Houkin (Japan), Kiyohiro Houkin (Japan), Susumu Miyamoto (Japan), Shigeaki Kobayashi (Japan), Pedro Lylyk (Argentina), Bernd Richiling (Austria), Evandro de Oliveira (Brazil), Jizong Zhao (China), Yuhai Bao, Basant Misra (India), Suresh Mathuriya (India), Fernando Vinuela (USA), Suresh Nair (India), Yong-Kwang Tu (Taiwan), Man-Bin Yim (Korea), Qing Lan Lan (Korea), Hankyu Kim (Korea), Helmut Bertalenffy (Switzerland), Ivan Ng (Singapore), Massimo Collice (Italy), Mika Niemela (Finland), Mo To Ko (UK), Tariq Salahuddin (Pakistan), Seung-Kon Huh (Korea), Nabil Abdelrahman (Egypt), Akira Satoh (Japan), Ihsan Solaroglu (Turkey). Ex-officio members: President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities. |
Education & Training Committee |
Basic Rules to Organize WFNS Courses
Expert Advisory Panel: Peter Black (USA), Jacques Brotchi (Belgium), Armando Basso (Argentina), Maurice Choux (France), Madjid Samii (Germany), Atos Alves de Souza (Brazil), Albino Bricolo (Italy).
Members: Yves Keravel (France), R. Rabishong (France), Jean M. Regis (France), R. Fahlbusch (Germany), Christopher C. Getch (USA), Concezio Di Rocco (Italy), Nicolas de Tribolet (Switzerland), A. Valavanis (Switzerland), Basant Kumar Misra (India), Atul Goel (India), Takeshi Kawase (Japan), Hirotoshi Sano (Japan), Yuichi Murayama (Japan), Feng Ling (China), Grigore Zapuhlîh (Moldova), A. El Khamlichi (Morocco), Alexander A. Potapov (Russia), Ivan Ng (Singapore), Wai Ho Ng (Singapore), E.R. Laws (USA), |
Ethics & Medico-Legal Affairs Committee |
Felix Umansky, Committee Chairman Email:mailto:umansky@hadassah.org.il, umansky@netvision.net.il Ex-officio members: President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.
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Fund-Raising Committee |
| Scott Robertson, Committee Chairman 9060 Harmony Drive Suite E Midwest City Oklahoma, OK 73130 USA Email: ScottrobertsonMD@hotmail.com, s.robertson.md@gmail.com Vice-Chairmen: Mohammed Joharji (S.Arabia – for Middle-East/ African regions) Members: M. Apuzzo (USA), A. Alexandre (Italy), S. Beer (USA), Remberto Burgos (Columbia), E. Karol (Argentina), S. Kobayashi (Japan), F. Leblanc (Canada), J. Mendez (Chile), B. Misra (India), J. Morcos (USA), James Palmer (UK), Abbas Ramadan (Kuwait), M. Samii (USA) Ex-officio members: President, Secretary & First Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of WFNS Committee Activities. |
Honorary Presidents Committee |
Armando BASSO, Committee Chairman |
Hydrocephalus Committee |
John D. PICKARD, Chairman Vice-Chairman : Joseph Madsen (USA) Members : Kiyoshi Takagi (Japan) |
Liaison Committee WFNS/WHO |
| Armando Basso, Committee Chairman Instituto de Neurociencias Universidad de Buenos Aires Ayacucho 1342 Buenos Aires (1111), Argentina Tel: +54-11-4806-3635, Fax: +54-11-4806-6531 Email: armandojbasso@aol.com Vice Chairman: Marc Levivier (Switzerland) Members: Jan Joseph (Switzerland), Ignacio Previgliano (Argentina), Ling Feng (China), Franco Servadei (Italy), Yong-Kwang Tu (Taiwan) Ex-officio members: President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities. |
Medals of Honour Committee |
| Jacques BROTCHI, Committee Chairman Université Libre de Bruxelles Hôpital Erasme, 808 Route de Lennik B-1070 Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32-2-5553763 Fax: +32-2-5553755 Email: jb.wfns@erasme.ulb.ac.be Members: Edward R. Laws ( Ex-officio members: President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities. |
Military Neurosurgeons Committee |
| Professor Khalaf Al Moutaery, Chairman Department of Neurosurgery Riyadh Armed Forces Hosp. P.O. Box 7897, 11159 Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Tel: +966 (-1) -4777714, Fax: +966 (1) 4784057 Email: khalaf.moutaery@rmh.med.sa Vice-Chairman: Richard Ellenbogen (USA) Members: Ali Akhaddar ( |
Neuroendocrine Committee |
Akira TERAMOTO, Committee Chairman Email: engelbert.knosp@meduniwien.ac.at; engelbert@knospsmz.magwien.gv.at Members: Dr. Michael Buchfelder (Germany), Dr. Paolo Cappabianca (Italy), Dr. Nelson M. Oyesiku (USA) Dr. Warren Selman (USA), Dr. Brooke Swearingen (USA), Dr. Syro Moreno Luís Vicente (Colombia), Dr. Chandrashekhar E Deopujari (India), Dr. Jong Hyun Kim (Korea), Dr. Akira Matsuno (Japan), Dr. Kazunori Arita (Japan), Dr. Shiguang Zhao (China). Ex-officio members: President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities. |
Neuroendoscopy Committee |
| Paolo CAPPABIANCA, Committee Chairman Department of Neurological Sciences, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Via S. Pansini 5 Napoli 80131 Italy +39 081 746 2559, Fax: +39 081 195 60905 Email: paolo.cappabianca@unina.it Vice-Chairmen: Phillipe Decq (France), Federico di Rocco (France/Italy) Members: Luiz Carlos de Alencastro (Brazil), Yavor Enchev (Bulgaria), Federico di Rocco (France/Italy), Amir Samii (Germany), Spyros Sgouros (Greece), Sandip Chatterjee (India), Shlomi Constantini (Israel), Yoko Kato (Japan), Shizuo Oi (Japan), Takayuki Ohira (Japan), Moody Qureshi (Kenya), Azmi Alias (Malaysia), Enric Ferrer (Spain), Amin Kassam (USA), Benjamin C. Warf (USA), Molina G. Fernandez (Argentine), Cleopatra Charalampaki (Austria), Ramadan Mohamed (Egypt), Takeya Watabe (Japan), Charles Teo (Australia), Takayuki Inagaki (Japan), Fred Gentili (Canada), Chen Ge (China), Qing Lan (China), Ali Ayyad (Germany), Tetsuya Nagatani (Japan), Daniel Prevedello (USA), Samuel T. Zymberg (Brazil), Giuseppe Cinalli (Italy), Davide Locatelli (Italy), Henry Schroeder (Germany), Dieter Hellwig (Germany), Andre Grotenhuis (Netherlands), Philippe Decq (France), John Jane Jr. (USA), James M. Drake (Canada), David F. Jimenez (USA), Americo dos Santos (Brazil), Adam S. Kanter (USA), Richard G. Fessler (USA), Jean Destandau (France), Joachim Oertel (Germany), Masakazu Miyajima (Japan), Tamotsu Miki (Japan), Takayuki Kitamura (Japan), Shoichiro Ishihara (Japan), Chandrashekar Deopujri, Endelbert Knosp. |
Neuro-oncology Committee |
Manfred WESTPHAL, Committee Chairman |
Neuromodulation Committee |
| Damianos E. Sakas, Committee Chairman University of Athens - Medical School, Evangelismos Hospital 4 Marasli Street Athens 106 76 Greece Tel: +30-210-7201704-5, Fax: +30-210-724-9986 Email: sakasde@med.uoa.gr Vice-Chairman: Giovanni Broggi (Italy) Members: Gordon Baltuch (USA), Eduardo Baretto (Brazil), Fiacro Jimenez (Mexico), Athanassios Koulousakis (Germany), Jung-Kyo Lee (Korea), Guamin Luan (China), Roger Melvil (Zambia), Francisco Robaina (Spain), Takaomi Taira (Japan), Peter Teddy (Australia), Brian Simpson (UK), Ioannis G. Panourias (Greece). Ex-officio members: President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities. |
Neurorehabilitation & Reconstructive Neurosurgery Committee |
| Jin Woo CHANG, Committee Chairman Ex-officio members: President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of WFNS Committee Activities. |
Neurosurgical Anatomy Committee |
Saleem ABDULRAUF, Committee Chairman Tel:+ (314) - 577-8849, Fax: + (314) 577-8849
Vice-Chairmen: Al Rhoton (USA) Ex-officio members: President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation.Coordinator of Committee Activities. |
Neurosurgical Technology Committee |
| Amir Samii, Committee Chairman International Neuroscience Institute - Hannover Rudolf-Pichlmayr Str. 4 30625 Hannover, Germany Tel: 0511-27092-400, Fax: 0511-27092-402 Email: a.samii-office@ini-hannover.de, amir@samii.org Vice-Chairmen: N. Martin (USA), Pierre Rabischong (France) Members: Armando Basso (Argentina), Rudolf Fahlbusch (Germany), Shizuo Oi (Japan), E. Paglioli (Brazil), N. Pamir (Turkey), K. Hongo (Japan), Prof. Amir Samii (Germany), Dr. K Kalangu (Zimbabwe) |
Neurotraumatology Committee |
Alexander POTAPOV, Committee Chairman Tel:+7 (495) - 250-01-00, Fax: +7 (499) 972-86-84
Vice-Chairmen: A. David Mendelow (UK), Franco Servadei (Italy) Ex-officio members: President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation.Coordinator of Committee Activities. |
Pediatric Neurosurgery Committee |
| Tai-Tong WONG, Committee Chairman Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery Taipei Veterans General Hospital National Yang Ming University School of Medicine No. 201, Sec. 2, Shih-Pay Rd. Taipei, Taiwan 112, Republic of China Tel: +886-2-28757587, Fax: +886-2-28757587 Email: ttwong@vghtpe.gov.tw Vice-Chairmen: Kyu-Chang Wang (Korea), Gianpiero Tamburrini (Italy) |
Peripheral Nerve Surgery Committee |
Mario G. SIQUEIRA, Committee Chairman Members : Alberto Alexandre (Italy), Daniel H. Kim (USA), B. Indira Devi (India), Eduardo Fernandez (Italy), Gustavo A. de Carvalho (Brazil), José Garcia Cosamalon (Spain), Lukas Rasulic (Serbia), Miroslav Samardzic (Serbia), Rajiv Midha (Canada), Richard J. Moulton (Canada), Shimon Rochkind (Israel), Allan Belzberg (USA), Christopher Winfree (USA), Fernando Henrique M. de Sousa (Brazil), Eric Zager (USA), Flavio Leitão Filho (Brazil), Gabriel Junberg (Argentina), Gregor Antoniadis (Germany), Jose
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Publication and Web Committee |
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Francesco Tomasello, Committee Chairman Clinica Neurochirurgica A.O. Universitaria " G. Martino" 98100 Messina, Italy. Tel: +39 0902937963, Fax: +39 090693714 Email: ftomasel@unime.it Vice-Chairmen: Takeshi Kawase(Japan) Ex-officio members: president, Secretary, Treasurer of the Federation |
Radiosurgery Committee |
| Marc LEVIVIER, Committee Chairman Tel: +41 (21) 314.26.02, Fax: +41 (21) 314.26.05 Email: Marc.Levivier@chuv.ch Vice-Chairman: Julio Antico (Argentina), Motohiro Hayashi (Japan) Members: Jean Regis (France), Andras Kemeny (United Kingdom), Francis Fezeu (Cameroun) |
Skull-Base Surgery Committee |
Necmettin PAMIR, Committee Chairman Vice-Chairman: Ossama Al-Mefty (USA)
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Spine Committee |
Preman Ramani, Committee Chairman
Members: Chun-Kun Park (Korea), Marcos Masini (Brazil), Bong- Soo Kim (USA), Luiz Pimenta (Brazil), Sushil Patkar (India), Carl A.R. Bruce (Jamaica), M. G. Filho (Brazil), Yuri Shulev (Russia), Mehmet Zileli (Turkey), Abbas Amirjamshidi (Iran), Abdul Hafid Bajamal (Indonesia), Enrique Osorio Fonseca (Colombia), Ziya L. Gokaslan (USA), Enrique Kleriga (Mexico), Arnold Menezes (USA), Junichi Mizuno (Japan), Prem Pillay (Singapore), F. Porchet (Switzerland), Ibet Marie Y. Sih (Philippines), David T. F. Sun (Hong Kong), Jung Keun Suh (Korea), Sagun Kaur Tuli (USA), Mohamed Hafez Ramadan (Egypt), Scott Robertson (USA), Kee Park (USA). Ex-officio members: President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities. |
Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Committee |
| Takaomi TAIRA, Committee Chairman Department of Neurosurgery, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku Tel: 813-3353-8111 (ext. 26216) Fax: 813-5269-7599 Email: ttaira@nij.twmu.ac.jp / Taira@mbp.nifty.com Vice-Chairman: Marc Sindou (France) Ex-officio members: President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities. |
WFNS Coordinating Committee for International Initiatives |
Merwyn BAGAN, Committee Chairman Ex-officio members: President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities. |
The William Scoville Award Committee |
Michael APUZZO, Committee Chairman |
Women in Neurosurgery Committee |
| Ling FENG, Committee Chairperson Department of Neurosurgery Beijing XuanWu Hospital 45 Changchun Street, Beijing 100053 China Tel: +86 (-10) -83198836, Fax: +86 (-10) -83198836 Email: Ling-feng@vip.163.com Vice-Chairperson: Chie Mahara (Japan), A-Li LIU (China) Members: Najia Abbadi (Morocco), Miyuki Abe (Japan), Tan Tze Ching (China), B.Indira Devi (India), Tsevegbat Enkhbayar (Mongolia), Isabelle M. Germano (USA), Joan Grieve (Britain); Guyotat (France), Aisha Hajjaj (Canada), Sabine Hancq (Belgium), Gauri Joshi (India), Krisanee Karnchanapandh (Thailand), Meng-Fai Kuo (Taiwan), Aijlie Kwan (Taiwan), Florence Lefranc (Belgium), Ly Ngoc Lien (Vietnam), Feng Ling (China), Lynne Lourdes Navarrete Lucena (Philippines), Aurora Martinez-Rodrigo (Spain), Carolina Martins, Junko Matsuyama (Japan), Chie Mihara (Japan), Alshimaa M. Mokhtar (Eygpt), Anne Moore (Britain), Jamila Murtada (S. Arabia), Irina Ogrezeanu (Romania), Moon Sun Park (Korea), Fabiola Peralta-Olvera (Mexico), Peiyu Pu (China), Rossana Romani (Italy), Gail Rosseau (USA), Isabelle Gabrielle Schackert (Germany), G. Vijaya, Mari-Ann Vonau (Australia), Jeanne PMR Winaktu (Indonesia), Samira Zabihyan (Iran),. Nelci Zanon (Brazil), Graclela Zuccaro (Argentina), Feda Anisah Nakkiyan (Indonesia), Mehrnoush Gorjia (Iran), Krissanll Karnchanapand (Thailand), Yan MA (China), Nada Mohamed (Sudan), Alicia Becerra Zegarra (Peru), J. S. Kanaka (India), Carolina Marins (Brasil), Florence Lefranc (Belgium). Ex-officio members: President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities. |
Young Neurosurgeons Award Committee |
Andrew KAYE, Committee Chairman Email: zviram@tasmc.health.gov.il Vice-Chairman: Necmettin Pamir (Turkey) Email: pamirmn@yahoo.com Members: Peter Dirks (Canada),Charles Liu (USA), Toshiake Abe (Japan), James Palmer (UK), Mitch Berger (USA), Rudolph Fahlbusch (Germany), Helmut Bertalanffy (Switzerland),Yong-Kwang Tu (Taiwan) |
Young Neurosurgeons Forum |
Muhammad Raji MAHMUD, Committee Chairman |
All WFNS Committees
