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.
Committee Chairman, Andrew Kaye
Head, Department of Surgery, The Royal Melbourne Hospital
University of Melbourne, 6th Floor
Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Tel: +61 3 9342 8218, Fax: +61 3 9347 8332
andrew.kaye@mh.org.au

 Members:  Rashiduddin Ahmad (Bangladesh), A.David Mendelow (U.K)

Constitution & Bylaws Committee

Composed of 5 members and elected by the EC - President shall designate which member shall be Chairman.
Committee Chairman, Peter M. Black, MD, PhD
Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115 USA
+ 1 617-525-7796, Fax: +1 617-734-8342
pblack@partners.org, srufo@partners.org

Members:  Rashid Jooma (Pakistan), Yoko Kato (Japan), Jesus La Fuente (Spain), G. Zapuhlih (Moldova)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1^st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

Editorial & 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.
Committee Chairman and Editor of the Federation News, Martin B. Camins (elected by EC)
Neurological Surgery, Suite T 1-C
205 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10021-5835 USA
Tel: +1 212-570-0100, Fax: +1 212-570-0117
martin_camins@msn.com

Editor of Federation Internet Website:  Eduardo Karol (elected by EC)
Ex-officio members:  President, 1st Vice-president, Secretary and all seven 2nd Vice-presidents of the Federation, Secretary of the Congress, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

Finance Committee

Composed of 10 Ex-officio members. The Treasurer of the Federation is Chairperson of the Committee.
Committee Chairman, Nobuo Hashimoto
National Cardiovascular Center
5-7-1 Fujishiro-dai Suita
Osaka 565-8565 Japan
Tel: +81-6-6833-5012, Ext 2101, Fax: +81-6-6833-9865
hashimot@hsp.ncvc.go.jp, nhashimo@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Vice-Chairman:  Miguel Arraez (Spain)  

Ex-officio members:  President, President-Elect, 1st Vice-Pres, Secretary, Asst. Secretary, Asst. Treasurer of the Federation and (Secretary and Treasurer of the Congress,) plus the Treasurer of the Foundation and Coordinator of Committee Activities.

Local Arrangements Committee for the Federation & Congress

Members recommended by the Secretary of the Congress, for election by the EC. Vice-President of Congress is the Chairperson.
Committee Chairman, Arthur L. Day
Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115 USA
Tel +1 (617) 525-7777, Fax: +1(617) 734-8342
aday1@partners.org

Members:  Local members appointed by the Congress/Executive Committee
Ex-officio members:  President of Congress, President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

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.
Committee Chairman, Prof. Dr. Helmut Bertalanffy
Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Zurich
Frauenklinikstrasse 10
CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0) 44-255 2660, Fax: +41 (0) 44-255 4505
helmut.bertalanffy@usz.ch

Members: Antonio G. Carrizo (Argentina, FLANC), Mathew J. Chandy (India, AASNS), Osama El-Ghannam (Egypt, PAANS),
Jose Humberto Mateos Gomez (México, FLANC), Jean-Pierre Kalala Okito (Congo, AFRICA), James Rutka (Canada, AANS), Ray Sawaya (USA, AANS), Marc Sindou (France, EANS), Toshiki Yoshimine (Japan, AASNS)

Scientific Programme Committee

The Scientific Programme Director is Chairperson of the Committee.
Scientific Programme Director & Committee Chairman, Jacques J. Morcos
University of Miami, 1095 NW 14th Terrace - D4-6
Department of Neurological Surgery
Miami, FL 33136 USA
Tel: +1-305-2434675, Fax: +1-305-2433337
jmorcos@med.miami.edu

Vice-Chairman:  Arthur L. DAY (USA)  

Ex-officio members:  (15) or more

President of the Congress - Roberto C. HEROS

Secretary of the Congress - Arthur J. POPP

Assistant Secretary of the Congress - James T. RUTKA

Editor, Congress Publications - Jacques J. MORCOS

Editorial and Federation News - Martin B. CAMINS

Vice-President of the Congress - Arthur L. DAY

Chairman, Cerebrovascular Diseases and Therapy Committee - Bernd RICHLING

Chairman, Neuro-endocrine Committee - Nelson OYESIKU

Chairman, Neuromodulation Committee - Damianos E. SAKAS

Chairman, Neuro-oncology Committee - Raymond SAWAYA

Chairman, Neurorehabilitation & Reconstructive Neurosurgery Committee - Yoichi KATAYAMA

Chairman, Neurotraumatology Committee - Franco SERVADEI

Chairman, Pediatric Neurosurgery Committee - Concezio Di ROCCO

Chairman, Peripheral Nerve Surgery Committee - Eduardo FERNANDEZ

Chairman, Radiosurgery Committee - Douglas KONDZIOLKA

Chairman, Skull Base Surgery Committee - Takeshi KAWASE

Chairman, Spine Surgery Committee – Preman RAMANI

Chairman, Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery Committee - Andres M. LOZANO

First Vice-President of the Federation - Khalaf AL MOUTAERY

All 7 Second Vice-Presidents:  Albino BRICOLO (EANS), Alexandru V. CIUREA (at large), Leo Fernando da Silva DITZEL (FLANC), Tetsuo KANNO (AASNS), Christopher M. LOFTUS (AANS), Jonathan.C. PETER (PAANS), Wai S. POON (at large)

Coordinator of Committee Activities - Abdeslam EL KHAMLICHI

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

Committee Chairman, Madjid Samii
International Neuroscience Institute at Otto-von-Guericke-University
Rudolf-Pichelmayr-Str. 4
Hannover 30625 Germany
Tel. +49-511-27092-700, Fax: +49-511-27092-706
liebermann@ini-hannover.de, samii@ini-hannover.de

Vice-Chairman:  Rudolf Fahlbusch (Germany)

Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

Cerebrovascular Diseases & Therapy Committee

Committee Chairman, Bernd Richling
Paracelsus Private Medical University
Ignaz-Harrer-Str. 79
Salzburg A-5020 Austria
Tel: +43-662-4483 3601, Fax: +43-662-4483 3604
b.richling@salk.at

Vice-Chairman:  Ling Feng (China)

Members:  Yuhai Bao (China), Stanley Barnwell (USA), Daniel Barrow (USA), Massimo Collice (Italy),
Evandro de Oliveira (Brazil), Juha Hernesniemi (Finland), Neil Hopkins (USA), S. Kobayashi (Japan),
Basant K. Misra (India), Mika Niemela (Finland), Axel Perneczky (Germany), Robert Rosenwasser (USA),
Hirotoshi Sano (Japan), Robert Spetzler (USA), Waro Taki (Japan)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

Disaster Reflief & Response Committee

Committee Chairman, Edgar M. Housepian
Columbia University, Neurological Institute
710 W. 168th Street
New York, NY 10032-2603 USA
Tel: +1 212 305-5256, Fax: +1 212 305 -3250
emh4@columbia.edu

Vice-Chairperson:  to be appointed

Members:  A. Barkatullah (Bangladesh), Ehsan Mahmood (Bangladesh), Nick Wetjen (USA)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

Education and Training Committee

Committee Chairman, Atos Alves de Sousa
Faculdade Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais, Santa Casa Hospital & Lifecenter Hospital
Rua Ceara, 600 conj.2 - 30150-310
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais 606-8507 Brazil
Tel: +5531-32263688, Fax: +5531-32263281
sousatos@hotmail.com, atosdesousa@atosdesousa.com

Members:  A. Basso (Argentina), A. Benabid (France), P. Black (USA), A. Bricolo (Italy), J. Brotchi (Belgium), M. Choux (France), P. Courtheoux (France), G. de Chambenoit (France/Ivory Coast), Atos Alves de Souza (Brazil), N. de Tribolet (Switzerland), F.G. Diaz (USA), N. Dorsch (Australia), S. El Gindi (Egypt), A. El Khamlichi (Morocco), R. Fahlbusch (Germany), T. Hori (Japan), M. Joharji (S. Arabia), K. Kalangu (Congo), J.K. Kan (Korea), E. Karol (Argentina), Y. Kato (Japan), T. Kawase (Japan),Y. Keravel (France), N. Knoller (Israel), S. Kobayashi (Japan), A. Konovalov (Russia), E.R. Laws (USA),
J.G. Martin-Rodriguez (Spain), B.K. Misra (India), K. Moutaery (S. Arabia), J.H. Al Najjar (Syria), I. Nyary (Hungary), R. Perrin (Canada), A. Potapov (Russia), R. Rabishong (France), J. Regis (France), H. Rekate (USA), C. Di Rocco (Italy), G. Rodesch (France), G. Rosseau (USA), C. Sainte-Rose (France), M. Samii (Germany), H. Sano (Japan), Bassem Sheikh (S. Arabia),
V. Sonntag (Germany), R. Spetzler (USA), K. Takakura (Japan), D. Thomas (UK), F. Umansky (Israel), A. Valavanis (Switzerland), M. Walker (USA), M. Zerah (France)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1^st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

Ethics & Medico-Legal Affairs Committee

Committee Chairman, Felix Umansky
Department of Neurosurgery, Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center
P.O.Box 12000
Jerusalem 91120 Israel
Tel: +972-2-641-6281, Fax: +972-2-641-6281
umansky@hadassah.org.il, umansky@netvision.net.il

Vice-Chairman:  Peter Black (USA)

Members:  Concezio DiRocco (Italy), Enrique Ferrer (Spain), Atul Goel (India), Ghaus M. Malik (USA), Tiit Mathiesen (Sweden), Ivar Mendez (Canada), James D. Palmer (UK), Jorge Juanotena Rodriguez (Uruguay), Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld (Australia)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

Fund-Raising Committee

Committee Chairman, Scott Robertson
9060 Harmony Drive Suite E
Midwest City
Oklahoma, OK 73130 USA
ScottrobertsonMD@hotmail.com, neurosurgery@coxinet.net

Vice-Chairman:  Michael Gaab (Germany)

Members:  M. Apuzzo (USA), S. Beer (USA), (Germany), Mohamad Joharji (S. Arabia), E. Karol (Argentina), S. Kobayashi (Japan), F. Leblanc (Canada), J. Mendez (Chile), J. Morcos (USA), 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

Committee Chairman, José Martin-Rodriguez
Fresnedillas 2
Madrid 28035 Spain
Tel: +34-91-553-1114, Fax: +34-91-553 3729
neurolog@attglobal.net

Members:  Adelola Adeloye (UK), Armando Basso (Argentina), Maurice Choux (France), Noel Dan (Australia),
Jacques de Villiers (South Africa), Sayed El Gindi (Egypt), John Gillingham (Scotland), Alan Hudson (Canada), Shozo Ishii (Japan), Shigeaki Kobayashi (Japan), Edward Laws (USA), Guy Lazorthes (France), Friedrich Loew (Germany),
Mauro Loyo-Varela (Mexico), Jorge Mendez (Chile), Sean Mullan (USA), Russel Patterson (USA), Fernando Rueda-Franco (Mexico), Mahadeeva Sambasivan (India), Madjid Samii (Germany), Keiji Sano (Japan), Lindsay Symon (UK), Kintomo Takakura (Japan), H. A. van Alphen (The Netherlands), Alphons Walder (The Netherlands)

Liaison Committee WFNS/WHO

Committee Chairman, Armando Basso
Instituto de Neurociencias Universidad de Buenos Aires
Ayacucho 1342
Buenos Aires (1111), Argentina
Tel: +54-11-4806-3635, Fax: +54-11-4806-6531
armandobasso@aol.com

Members:  Michael Apuzzo (USA), Jan Joseph (Switzerland), Ignacio Previgliano (Argentina), Franco Servadei (Italy),
Yong-Kwant Tu (Taiwan)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

Medals of Honour Committee

Committee Chairman, Edward R. Laws, MD, FACS
Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital, PBB3
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115 USA
Tel: +1 617-732-6600, Fax: +1 616-264-5114
elaws@partners.org

Members:  S. Kobayashi (Japan - Asia), T. Ozgen (Turkey-Europe), F. Rueda-Franco (Mexico - South America),
H.A. van Alphen (The Netherlands-Europe)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1^st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

Neuro-Endocrine Committee

Committee Chairman, Nelson M. Oyesiku
Department of Neurosurgery, The Emory Clinic
1365B Clifton Rd.NE, Suite B6200
Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
Tel: +1 404-778-4737, Fax: +1 404-778-4472
noyesik@emory.edu

Members:  Takumi Abe (Japan) Silvia Berner (Argentina), Michael Buchfelder (Germany), Rashid Jooma (Pakistan),
Engelbert Knosp (Austria), Peter Reilly (Australia)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

Neuro-oncology Committee

Committee Chairman, Raymond Sawaya
MD Anderson Cancer Center
1515 Holcombe Blvd. Box 442
Houston, TX 77030-4009 USA
Tel: 001-713.792.2400, Fax: 001-713.794.4950
rsawaya@mdanderson.org

Vice-Chairman:  Dr Fumio Yamaguchi (Japan)

Past President:  James Rutka (ex-officio) Canada
Members:  Abdulrahman Al Anazi (S. Arabia), Ismail H. Aydin (Turkey), A. Basso (Argentina), Yong Gu Chung (Korea), Francesco DiMeco (Italy), Andrew Kaye (Australia), Michael McDermott (USA), Wai Hoe NG (Singapore), Bal Thapa (Nepal), Ricardo Diez Valle (Spain), Ronald Warnick (USA)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1^st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

Neuromodulation Committee

Committee Chairman, Damianos E. Sakas
University of Athens - Medical School, Evangelismos Hospital
4 Marasli Street
Athens 106 76 Greece
Tel: +30-210-7201704-5, Fax: +30-210-724-9986
sakasde@med.uoa.gr

Vice-Chairman:  Brian Simpson (UK)

Members:  Gordon Baltuch (USA), Eduardo Baretto (Brazil), Fiacro Jimenez (Mexico), Athanassios Koulousakis (Germany), Jung-Kyo Lee (Korea), Guomin Luan (China), Roger Melvil (S. Africa), Francisco Robaino (Spain), Takaomi Taira (Japan),
Peter Teddy (Australia)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1^st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

Neurorehabilitation & Reconstructive Neurosurgery Committee

Committee Chairman, Yoichi Katayama
Department of Neurosurgery, Nihon University Hospitals
Itabashi-ku
Tokyo 173 Japan
Tel: +81 3 3972 8111, Fax: +81 3 3554 0425
ykatayam@med.nihon-u.ac.jp

Honorary Chairman:  Klaus von Wild (Germany) 
Email:  vonwild@cereb.com / kvw@neurosci.de

Vice-Chairman:  Wai S. Poon (Hong Kong)

Secretary:  Takamitsu Yamamoto
Members:  Jafri Malin Abdullah (Malaysia), Edwin Ruiz Alarcon (Colombia), Ahmad Ammar, (Saudi Arabia),
Hildo Azevedo-Filho (Brazil), Michael Carey (USA), Wen-Ta Chiu (Taiwan), Alexander Vlad Ciurea (Romania), Philippe Decq (France), Alessandro Ducati (Italy), Adel Eisa (Egypt), A. El Khamlichi (Morocco), Yiu Wah Fan (Hong Kong), Carlos Ferro (Portugal), George Foroglou (Greece), Hector Giocoli (Argentina), Mehmet Hacihanefioglu (Turkey), Jan Haftek (Poland),
R. Heilbronner (Switzerland), Abdel Wahab Ibrahim (Egypt), Ahmed Issa (Egypt), Mohamed Al Joharji (Saudi Arabia),
Rashid Jooma (Pakistan), Vladimir Jovanovic (Serbia), T. Kanno (Japan), Kazadi K. H Kalangu (Congo), Gayrat M. Kariev (Uzbekistan), Eduardo A. Karol (Argentina), Takeshi Kawase (Japan), N.J.S. Khoury (Jordan), Freddie Kieck (South Africa),
Hun Joo Kim (Korea), Gerado D. Legaspi (Philippines), Lambi Leka (Albania), Matej Lipovsek (Slovenia), Trygge Lundar (Norway), Marcos Masini (Brasil), Wolfgang Mauersberger (Chile), Vladimir Mircevski (Macedonia), Van Toan Nguyen (Vietnam), Ole Osgaard (Denmark), Janis Ozolinsh (Latvia), Ahmad Fawad Pirzad (Afghanistan), Jaroslav Plas (Czech Reublic),
Alexander A. Potapov (Russia), Pierre Rabischong (France), Nissim Razon (Israel), Ingunn R. Rise (Norway), Thomas Romel (Germany), Gudrun Seiwald (Austria), K.V.R. Shastri (India), M. Tayo Shokunbi (West Africa), B.M. Soni (UK), Juraj Steno (Slovakia), Diethard S. Steube (Germany), Tadej Strojnik (Slovenia), Vitaliy J. Tsumbaliuk (Ukraine), Hans Van der AA (The Netherlands), Anita Vetra (Latvia), Rimantas Vilcinis (Lithuania), Miroslav Vukic (Croatia), Alexander Dah-Jium Wang (Taiwan), Kahdar Wiriadisastra (Indonesia), Chun-jiang Yu (China), Dott. Paolo Zampieri (Italy)

Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of WFNS Committee Activities.

Neurosurgical Technology Improvement Committee

Committee Chairman, Professor Amir Samii
INI – International Neuroscience Institute
Alexis-Carrel-Strasse, 4, D
Hannover 30625 Germany
amir@samii.org

Vice-Chairman:  Pierre Rabischong (France)

Members:  Sergio Acampora (Italy), Danielle Baleriaux (Belgium), Armando Basso (Argentina), Marcello Bracale (Italy),
Juan Cuadras (Spain), Rudolf Fahlbusch (Germany), Giancarlo Guizzardi (Italy), Yves Keravel (France), Marco Leonardi (Italy), Neil Martin (USA), Shizuo Oi (Japan), Benoit Pirotte (Belgium), J-G Martin Rodriguez (Spain), Ugo Salvolini (Italy)

Neurotraumatology Committee

Committee Chairman, Franco Servadei
Director WHO Neurotrauma Collaborating Centre
Ospedale Maurizio Bufalini
Cesena 47023 Italy
Tel: +39-0547-352-904, Home: +39-0547-645-151
fservadei@ao.pr.it

Vice-Chairman:  Alexander Potapov (Russia)

Members:  L. Atkinson (Australia), W-T Chiu (Taiwan), G. Dohrmann (USA), S. El Gindi (Egypt), R. Firsching (Germany), G.Foroglou (Greece), T. Gennarelli (USA), B. Green (USA), P. Harris (Scotland/UK), J.P. Kalala (Belgium/Rep.Dem.Congo), K.Kalangu (Zimbabwe), A. Maas (Netherlands), G. Pedachenko (Ukraine), T. Pentelenyi (Hungary), L. Pitts (USA), W.S. Poon (Hong Kong), P. Ramani (India), M. Sambasivan (India), Serrato (Colombia), M. Shigemori (Japan), W. Steudel (Germany),
M. K. Tariq (Pakistan), C. Tator (Canada), M. Tawfik (Egypt), G. Teasdale (Scotland/UK), B. Wirjomartani (Indonesia),
A. Yamaura, (Japan)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation.Coordinator of Committee Activities.

Parliamentarian

Appointed by the President of the Federation & can only vote if already a member of the Executive Committee or Honorary President of the Federation.
Russel Patterson, Honorary President of WFNS
146 West 57th Street (Apt. 65A)
New York, NY 10019 USA
Tel: +1 212-586-9237, Fax: + 1 212-315-3877
mail49212@pop.net

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Pediatric Neurosurgery Committee

Committee Chairman, Concezio Di Rocco
Pediatric Neurosurgery Unit, Policlinico Gemelli
Largo Gemelli #8
Rome 00168 Italy
Tel: +39 06 3015-4495, Fax: +39 06 3383 211
cdirocco@rm.unicatt.it

Vice-Chairman:  Tai-Tong Wong (Taiwan)

Members:  J.U. Choi (Korea), Abdessamad El Ouahabi (Morocco), F. Epstein (USA), A. Hockley (UK), J. Kang (Korea),
D.G. McLone (USA), S. Oi (Japan), J. Peter (S. Africa), H. Rekate (USA), C. Sainte-Rose (France), K. Sato (Japan),
T.T. Wong (Taiwan)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of WFNS Committee Activities.

Peripheral Nerve Surgery Committee

Committee Chairman, Eduardo Fernandez
Dept. of Neurosurgery, Policlinico Agostino Gemelli, Catholic University School of Medicine
Largo A. Gemelli 8
Rome 00168 Italy
Tel. +39-06-30155414, Fax: +39-06-8072258
e.fernandez@rm.unicatt.it

Vice-Chairman:  Gustavo A. de Carvalho (Brazil)

Members:  Alberto Alexandre (Italy), José Garcia Cosamalon (Spain), Indira Devi (India), Daniel H. Kim (USA),
Martijn J.A. Malessy (The Netherlands), Rajiv Midha (Canada), Richard J. Moulton (Canada), Lukas Rasulic (Serbia),
Shimon Rochkind (Israel), Miroslav Samardzic (Serbia), Mariano Socolovsky (Argentina), Dr Mario Siqueira (Brazil)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of WFNS Committee Activities.

Radiosurgery Committee

Committee Chairman, Douglas Kondziolka
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Suite B-400, 200 Lothrop Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2598 USA
Tel: +1 (412) 647 6782, Fax: +1 (412) 647 0989
kondziolkads@upmc.edu

Vice-Chairman:  C. Lindquist, (UK/Sweden)

Members:  Marc Levivier (Belgium), Roberto Martinez (Spain), Jean Regis (France), Sait Sirin (Turkey), Masaaki Yamamoto (Japan)

Skull-Base Surgery Committee

Committee Chairman, Takeshi Kawase
Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Keio University
Shinanomachi 35, Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo 160-8582 Japan
Tel: +81 3 3353 1211, Fax: +81 3 3358 0479
kawase@sc.itc.keio.ac.jp

Vice-Chairman:  Ossama Al-Mefty (USA)

Members:  Ryojo Akagami (Canada), Shengde Bao (China), Helmut Bertalanffy (Germany), Luis Borba (Brazil), Albino Bricolo (Italy), Antonio A Carrizo (Argentina), Chun Siang Chen (USA), Alan Crockard (England), Vinko Dolenc (Slovenia),
A. El Khamlichi (Morocco), Rudolf Fahlbusch (Germany), Fred Gentili (Canada), Atul Goel (India), Gerardo Guinto (Mexico), Kazuhiro Hongou (Japan), Hee-Won Jung (Korea), Imaduddin Kanaan (Saudi A.), Andrew Kaye (Australia), Hang Kyu Kim (Korea), Eiji Kohmura (Japan), Kaoru Kurisu (Japan), Jose Alberto Landeiro (Brazil), Kyu Sung Lee (Korea),
Tiit Mathiesen (Sweden), Basant K. Misra (India), Suresh Nair (India), Kenji Ohata (Japan), Necmetin Pamir (Turkey),
Abdel Rahman (Egypt), Ricardo Ramina (Brazil), Kiyoshi Saitoh (Japan), Martin Sames (Czech), Tomio Sasaki (Japan),
Ibrahim Sbeih (Jordan), Volker Seifert (Germany), Laligham N Sekhar (USA), Chandranath Sen (USA), Marcos Tatagiba (Germany), Yong-Kwang Tu (Taiwan), Ugur Ture (Turkey), Felix Umansky (Israel), Kahdar Wiriadisastra (Indonesia),
Ibrahim Ziyal (Turkey), Eduard Zverina (Czech)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1^st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of WFNS Committee Activities.

Spine Committee

Committee Chairman, Preman Ramani
155-A Rama Kunj, Sir Bhalchandra Road
Hindu Colony, Dadar
Mumbai 400 014 India
Tel: +91 (22) 2414 1878, Fax: +91 (22) 2416 6329
ramanis@bom8.vsnl.net.in, psramani@mtnl.net.in

Vice-Chairman:  Motoi Shoda (Japan)

Members:  R. Assaker (France), A.H. Bajamal (Indonesia), Carl A.R. Bruce (West Indies), E. Burgos (Colombia), G. Dohrmann (USA), M. G. Filho (Brazil), M. Hafez (Egypt), B.E. Kleriga (México), A. Menezes (USA), S. Ondra (USA), E. Osorio (Colombia), F. Porchet (Switzerland), Y. Shulev (Russia), A. Weidner (Germany), M. Zileli (Turkey)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery Committee

Committee Chairman, Andres M. Lozano
Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto
399 Bathurst Street/Western Division
Toronto, ON M5T2S8 Canada
Tel: +1 416 603 6200, Fax: +1 416 603 5298
lozano@uhnres.utoronto.ca, lozano@playfair.utoronto.ca

Members:  Ahmed Alkhani (S. Arabia), Abdennebi Benaissa (Algeria), G. Barolat (USA), Y. Katayama (Japan), Krauss (Germany), A. Rezai (USA), M. Sindou (France), D. Spencer (USA), M. Teixeira (Brazil), Tseng Tsai Yeo (Singapore),
F. Velasco (Mexico)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

WFNS Coordinating Committee for International Initiatives

Committee Chairman, Professor Tetsuo Kanno
Fujita Health University
1-98 Dengakugakubo, Kutsukake-Cho
Toyoake, Aichi-Ken 470-1192 Japan
Tel: +81-562-93-9253, Fax: +81-562-93-3118
neuron7@fujita-hu.ac.jp

Vice-Chairman:  David Fairholm  Email:  fairholm@interchange.ubc.ca


Members:  Ahmed Ammar (Middle-East), Russell J. Andrews (USA), Merwyn Bagan (FIENS) , Ghasson Bejjani (AANS), Robert J. Dempsey, (USA), Justo Gonzalez (Cuba), Yuichi Hirose (Japan), Kazadi Kalangu (Congo), Daniel F. Kelly,
Nelson Oyesiku (CNS), M. Necmettin Pamir (Turkey), Gail Rosseau (AANS), Eun-ik SON (Korea), Keki Turel, (India), 
ACNS - Armando Basso, Yoko Kato, José-Gerardo Martin-Rodriguez, Jizong Zhao
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

The William Scoville Award Committee

Committee Chairman, Patrick J. Kelly
Deptartment of Neurological Surgery, New York University. Medical Centre
530 First Avenue, Suite 8R
New York, NY 10016 USA
Tel: +1 212 263-8002, Fax: +1 212 263-8031
kellyp01@med.nyu.edu

Members:  All Second Vice-Presidents of WFNS
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1^st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of WFNS Committee Activities.

Women in Neurosurgery Committee

Committee Chairperson, Yoko Kato
Fujita Health University
1-98 Dengakugakubo, Kutsukake-Cho
Toyoake, Aichi-Ken 470-1192 Japan
Tel: +81-562-93-9253, Fax: +81-562-93-3118
kyoko@fujita-hu.ac.jp, neuron@fujita-hu.ac.jp

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)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

 

Click on the image below to view articles of encouragement from various neurosurgeons

 

Young Neurosurgeons Award Committee

Committee Chairman, Rudolf Fahlbusch
International Neuroscience Institute Hannover
Alexis-Carrel-Str.4
Hannover 30625 Germany
Tel: +49 511 270 92 828, Fax: +49 511 270 92 706
fahlbusch@ini-hannover.de

Members:  Bill Couldwell (USA), Toshio Matsushima (Japan), James Palmer ( U.K - Interim Chairman Young Neurosurgeons Forum Committee), Evandro De Oliveira (Brazil), Madjid Samii (Germany); M. Sambasivan (India), Lalingham Sekhar (USA), C.A.F. Tulleken (Netherlands)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of Committee Activities.

 

The World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies and the Scientific Committee of the
WFNS 2009 World Congress of Neurosurgery are inviting all young neurosurgeons
to submit originalunpublished work related to basic science or clinical work
in neurosurgery.  More...

 

 

Young Neurosurgeons Forum

Committee Chairperson, Gail Rosseau
Chicago Institute of NS and Neuroresearch, 3rd floor Admin.
4501 N. Winchester Avenue
Chicago, IL 60640 USA
Tel: +1-773-250-0500 (office), Fax: +1-773-250-0497
grosseau@neurosource.com, grosseau@cinn.org

Vice-Chairman:  James Palmer (UK) 

Members:  Jafri Malin Abdullah (Malaysia), Alex Alfieri (Switzerland), Arshad Ali (Switzerland), Filippo Angileri (Italy),Sangli Madhosudhan Anil (India), Andri Anugerah (Indonesia), Femi Bankole (Nigeria), Lucia Benvenuti (Italy), Philippe Bijlenga (Switzerland), Vadim Bikmullin (Russia), Wolfgang Borm (Germany), Ahgel Cacon Cleo Charalampaki(Germany),
Nguyen Kim Chung (Vietnam), Cengiz Cokluk (Turkey), George Chater Cure (Columbia), Neermala Dasi (South Africa), Goncalves DeOliveira (Brazil) Ketan Desai (India) Vassilios Dimopoulos (Georgia, USA), Kemal Dizdarevic (Sarajevo),
N.L. Dorward, (UK), K. Drummond, (Australia), Najia El Abbadi (Morocco), Mohamed El Beltagy (Egypt) Dongxia Feng (China), Foad Elahi (Iran), Khaled Mohamed El-Sayed (Egypt), Jim Euklund (DC, USA), Raul Falero (Cuba) Carlos Feltes (Georgia, USA), Chikashi Fukaya (Japan), Venelin Gerganov (Bulgaria), Ashok Gupta (India), Ali Haider (India) Ricardo Hanel (Brazil),
Fatigba Holden (Senegal), Kazuko Kamiya (Japan), Amin Kassam (Pennsylvania, USA), Vladimir Katuch (Slovakia),
Atiq Ahmed Khan (Pakistan) Nadia Khan (Switzerland) Yuichi Hirose (Japan), MoTo Ko (United Kingdom),
Edward Komolafe (Nigeria), Florence LeFranc (Belgium), Jose Maria Leston (Argentina), Marc Levivier (Belgium), Trinh Dinh Loi (Vietnam), Yerbol Makhambetov (Kazakhstan), Junko Matsuyama (Japan), Sanjay Mongia (India), Hugo Mora (El Salvador), Michiharu Morino (Japan), Mike Muhumuza Yoshihiro Muragaki (Japan), Tulio Murillo (Honduras), Nimrod Mwang’ombe (Africa), Narendra Nathoo (South Africa), Farideh Nejat (Iran) Ivan Ng (Singapore), Leonidas Nikolakakos (Georgia, USA), James Palmer (United Kingdom), Mauricio Pedromo (Honduras), Aminur Rahman (Bangladesh), Ali Raja (Arkansas, USA),
Yuldashev Ravshan Swarna Rekha (India), Rossana Romani (Italy), Joshua Rosenow (Illinois, USA), Youssoupha Sakho (Senegal), Duyesenbi Serick (China), Muhammad Shazad Shamin (Pakistan), Alok Sharma (India), Reizo Shirane (India),
O. Sparrow (UK), Krishnamurthy Sridhar (India), Dwarakanath Srinivas (India), Muhammad Zubair Tahir (Pakistan),
Takaomi Taira (Japan), Gianpiero Tamburrini (Italy) Satoshi Tani (Japan), Rokuya Tanigawa (Japan), H. Tedeschi (Brazil),
Jake Timothy (United Kingdom), Ken Tirakotai (Germany), Takashi Tokutomi (Japan), Sami Valid (Georgia, USA)
George Vasilescu (Romania), Bon Verweij (Netherlands), Miroslav Vukic (Croatia), Eka Julianta Wahjoepramono (Indonesia), Mami Yamazaki (Japan), Kareem Zaghloul (Pennsylvania, USA), Xi-Feng Zou (Peoples Republic of China),
Yvan Zunon-Kipre (West Africa)
Ex-officio members:  President, Secretary & 1st Vice-President of the Federation, Coordinator of WFNS Committee Activities.