WFNS Committees

The President, First Vice-President, Secretary, President Elect (only when in office) and the Coordinator of Committee Activities of the Federation are ex-officio members of all committees except the Audit, Constitution and Bylaws, and Nominating Committees.
Chairpersons of Standing Committees may serve a maximum of two (2) full terms (eight (8) years). No member may chair more than one (1) committee (Bylaws of WFNS, ARTICLE VI). Members of all Standing Committees of the Federation shall be elected for four (4) years.

• » Audit Committee

  Committee Chairman	Frederick A. Boop
  Address	Semmes-Murphey Clinic 6325 Humphreys Blvd Memphis, Tennessee 38120 USA
  Tel:	+1 901 259 5321
  Cell:	+1 901 831 7709
  Email:	frederickboop@gmail.com
  Members:	Apio Antunes (Brazil); Isao Date (Japan)

   

• » Constitution & Bylaws Committee

  Committee Chairman	Jacques Morcos
  Address	1095 NW 14th Terrace, Miami, Florida, 33136, USA
  Tel:	+1 305 2434572
  Cell:	+1 78 62670999
  Email:	jmorcos@med.miami.edu
  Members:	Alberto Delitala (Italy);Ioan Ștefan Florian (Romania);Kantha Rasalingam (Malaysia);Panagiotis Selviaridis (Greece)

   

• » Publication and Web Committee

  Committee Chairman	Marco M. Fontanella
  Address
  Tel:
  Cell:
  Email:	marco.fontanella@unibs.it
  Members:	Hiroyuki Takao (Japan)
  Ex-officio members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Finance Committee

  Committee Chairman	Amir Samii
  Address	International Neuroscience Institute - Hannover Rudolf-Pichlmayr-Str. 4, 30625 Hannover, Germany
  Tel:	+49 511 27092 400
  Email:	a.samii-office@ini-hannover.de
  Ex-officio members:	President;President-Elect;First Vice-President;Secretary;Asstant-Secretary;Treasurer;Asstant-Treasurer;Secretary and Treasurer of the Congress;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Local Arrangements Committee for the WFNS World Congress 2021

  Committee Chairman	Enrique Osorio-Fonseca
  Address	Colombia
  Tel:	+57 315 3334024
  Email:	eosoriof@yahoo.es
  Members:	Local members appointed by the Congress/Executive Committee
  Ex-officio Members:	President of the Congress;President;Secretary;First Vice-President; Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Membership Committee for the Federation and the Congress

  Committee Chairman	Franco SERVADEI
  Address	Department of Neurosurgery Humanitas University and Research Hospital Milano Italy
  Tel:	+39 02 8224 5422
  Fax:	+39 3356690853
  Email:	franco.servadei@gmail.com
  Members:	All members of the Administrative Council

   

• » Nominating Committee

  Committee Chairman	Sherif Ezzat
  Address
  Tel:
  Email:	drshezzat@hotmail.com
  Members:	Shekar N. Kurpad (AANS); Praveen V. Mummaneni (AANS); Nobuhiro Mikuni (AASNS); Suresh Nair (AASN); John Ouma (CAANS); Şükrü Çağlar (EANS); Roberto Delfini (EANS); Fernando García Colmena (FLANC); Pablo Pereda (FLANC)

   

• » Scientific Programme Committee

  Committee Chairman	Alfredo PEDROZA
  Address	Carrera 1 Oeste No 7-17 Cali-Colombia
  Tel:	+57 2 888 9983
  Cell:	+57 314 682 8652
  Email:	alpedrozac@gmail.com
  Members	President of the World Congress: Enrique Osorio Scientific Program Director: Alfredo Pedroza Scientific Program Co-Directors: Tito Perilla Cepeda, Adolfo Cumplido Secretary of the Congress: Andrés Rubiano Escobar Secretary of Scientific Program: Alejandro Ramos, Juan Fernando Ramon Assistant-Secretary of the Congress: Fernando Hakim Vice-President of the Congress: Hernando Cifuentes-Lobelo SecondVice-Presidents of the Congress: Antonio Montoya Casella, Marco Fonseca

   

• » Cerebrovascular Diseases & Therapy Committee

  Committee Chairman	Talat KIRIŞ (Turkey)
  Email:	talatkrs@gmail.com
  Committee Chairman	Shalva ELIAVA (Russia)
  Address	16,4th Tverskaya-Yamskayastr., 125047 Moscow, Russia
  Tel:	+7 499 972 8626
  Cell:	+7 985 991 4774
  Email:	eliava@nsi.ru
  Members:	Nazih Assad (Australia);Matteo Baccanelli (Argentinia);Mustafa Baskaya (USA);Anne Laure Bernat (France);Deniz Belen (Turkey);Carlo Bortolotti (Italy);Marco Cenzato (Italy);Fady Charbel (USA);Evandro de Oliviera (Brazil);Miki Fujimura (Japan);Roberto Heros (USA);Yoko Kato (Japan);Louis Kim (USA);Shigeaki Kobayashi (Japan);Hasan Kocaeli (Turkey);Aij-Lie Kwan (Taiwan);Giuseppe Lanzino (USA);Michael Lawton (USA);Loch Macdonald (Canada);Torstein Meling (Norway);Basant Misra (India);Abdelhalim Morsli (Algier);Yoshiaki Shiokawa (Japan);Robert Spetzler (USA);Peter Vajkoczy (Germany);Peter Winkler (Austria);Bin-Xu (China)
  Ex-officio Members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Complications in Neurosurgery

  Committee Chairman	Keki TUREL
  Address	India
  Email:	kekitureliccn2017@gmail.com
  Members:	Ammar Ahmed (Saudi Arabia);Osama Al-Mefty (USA);Mario Ammirati (USA);Miguel Arraez (Spain);Hildo Azevedo (Brazil);Abdul Hafid Bajammal (Indonesia);Sanjay Behari (India);Vladimir Benes (Czech Republic);Giovanni Broggi (Italy);Iype Cherian (Nepal);Mikhail Chernov (Japan);Kishor Choudhari (UK);Maurice Choux (France);Shlomi Constantini (Israel);Andrey V Dubovoy (Russia);Kasper Ekkehard (USA);Amr El Shawarby (Jordan);Ling Feng (China);Stephan Florian (Romania);Enrique Fonseca (Colombia);Atul Gawande (USA);Fred Gentili (Canada);Isabelle Germano (USA);Pablo Gonzalez (Spain);Andrey Yu. Grigoriev (Russia);Dmitry A Gulyaev (Russia);Kazuhiro Hongo (Japan);Fusao Ikawa (Japan);Pavel I Ivanov (Russia);Imad Kanaan (Saudi Arabia);Andrew Kaye (Australia);Eiji Kohmura (Japan);Kaoro Kurisu (Japan);Ian McCutcheon (USA);Maximillian Mehdorn (Germany);B K Misra (India);Jacques J. Morcos (USA);Ramesh Nair (UK);Anil Nanda (USA);Sujit Prabhu (USA);Mahmood Qureshi (Kenya);Ivan Radovanovic (Canada);Ricardo Ramina (Brazil);Harry Rappaport (Israel);Lukas Rasulic (Serbia);Scott Robertson (USA);Madjid Samii (Germany);Amar Saxena (UK);Volker Seifert (Germany);Franco Servadei (Italy);Marc Sindou (France);Ihsan Solaroglu (Turkey);Uwe Spetzger (Germany);Marcos Tatagiba (Germany);Allan Taylor (South Africa);Charles Teo (Australia);Francesco Tomasello (Italy);Yong-Kwang Tu (Taiwan);Ugur Ture (Turkey);Enrique Urculo (Spain);Eka Wahjoepramono (Indonesia);Xinyu Yang (China);Mehmet Zileli (Turkey)

   

• » Coordinating Committee for International Initiatives

  Committee Chairman	Robert DEMPSEY
  Address	Department of Neurological Surgery 600 Highland Ave., K4/866 Madison, WI 53792
  Tel:	608-265-5967
  Cell:	608-263-1728
  Email:	Dempsey@neurosurgery.wisc.edu
  Committee Chairman:	Yoko Kato (Japan)
  Cell:	+81 90 3258 5646
  Email:	kyoko@fujita-hu.ac.jp
  Members:	David Adelson (USA);Merwyn Bagan (USA);Jose Piquer Belloch (Spain);Ling Feng (China);Mojgan Hodaie (Canada);Anil Nanda (USA);Kee Park (USA);Richard Perrin (Canada);Mubashir Mahmood Qureshi (Africa);Scott Robertson (USA);Gail Rosseau (USA)
  Ex-officio Members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Education & Training Committee

  Committee Chairman	Isabelle GERMANO (USA)
  Address	5 East (8th Street, 7th floor, New York NY 10029, USA
  Tel. Clinic:	+1 212 241 9638
  Fax:	+1 914 523 3526
  Email:	isabelle.germano@mountsinai.org
  Committee Chairman	Hiroyuki KINOUCHI (Japan)
  Email:	hkinouchi@yamanashi.ac.jp
  Members:	Africa (5 members): Khaled Boukhaled (Lebanon) Youssef Bouzoubaa (Morocco) Muhammad Raji Mahmud (Nigeria) Peter Ssenyonga (Uganda) Souheil Tliba (Algeria)   Asia-Australia (9 members): Kate Drummond (Australia) Atul Goel (India) Michihiro Kouno (Japan) Satoshi Kuroda (Japan) Ying Mao (China) Reizo Shirane (Japan) Takaomi Taira (Japan) Toshiyuki Takahashi (Japan) Julianta Wahjoepramono (Malaysia)    Europe (6 members): Adrian Casey (England) Gilbert Dechambenoit (France) Joao Paolo Farias (Portugal) Christian Matula (Austria) Alexander Potapov (Russia) Tanju Ucar (Turkey)    North America (5 members): Richard W Byrne (US) William Couldwell (US) Michael M. Haglund (US) Moji Hodaie (Canada) Edjah Nduom (US) Barbara Nettel (Mexico)   South America (4 members): Mario Izurieta (Ecuador) Jean Goncalves de Oliveira (Brazil) Alejandra Rabadan (Argentina) Gueider Salas (Bolivia)

   

• » Ethics & Medico-Legal Affairs Committee

  Committee Chairman	Stephen HONEYBUL (Australia)
  Address	20A Princess street, Doubleview, Perth Western Australia 6018
  Tel:	+61 434 069 564
  Email:	stephen.honeybul@health.wa.gov.au
  Committee Chairman	Tiit MATHIESEN (Sweden)
  Email:	tiit.mathiesen@sll.se
  Members:	Ahmed Ammar (Saudi Arabia);Mario Ammirati (USA);Naci Balak (Turkey);Shengde Bao (China);Juan Barcia (Spain);Jannick Brennum (Denmark);Marike Broekman (Netherlands);Ignatius Esene (Egypt);Zeev Feldman (Isreal);Graham Fieggen (South Africa);Raimund Firsching (Germany);Atul Goel (India);Patrick Kamalo (Malawi);Kyusung Lee (South Korea);Boleslav Lichterman (Russia);Akira Matsumura (Japan);Ivar Mendez (Canada);Jacques Morcos (USA);James Palmer (UK);Jeffrey Rosenfeld (Australia);Martin Sames (Czech republic);Karl Schaller (Switzerland);Timothy Smith (USA);Magnus Tisell (Sweden)
  Ex-officio members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Fund-Raising Committee

  Committee Chairman	Anil NANDA
  Address	USA
  Email:	ananda@lsuhsc.edu
  Ex-officio members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Honorary Presidents Committee

  Committee Chairman	Madjid SAMII
  Address	International Neuroscience Institute - Hannover Rudolf-Pichlmayr-Str. 4, 30625 Hannover, Germany
  Email:	madjid@samii.org
  Members:	Adelola Adeloye (United Kingdom);Hildo Azevedo-Filho (Brazil);Armando Basso (Argentina);Jacques Brotchi (Belgium);Maurice Choux (France);Noel G. G. Dan (Australia);Jacques C. de Villiers (South Africa);Abdeslam El Khamlichi (Morocco);Nobuo Hashimoto (Japan);Roberto C. Heros (USA);Alan R. Hudson (Canada);Hee-Won Jung (Korea);Tetsuo Kanno (Japan);Takeshi Kawase (Japan);Shigeaki Kobayashi (Japan);Alexander N. Konovalov (Russia);Edward R. Laws (USA);Friedrich Loew (Germany);Mauro Loyo-Varela (Mexico);José-Gerardo Martin-Rodriguez (Spain);Jorge Mendez (Chile);Russel Patterson (USA);Leonidas M. Quintana (Chile);Fernando Rueda-Franco (Mexico);Mahadeeva Sambasivan (India);Madjid Samii (Germany);Robert F. Spetzler (USA);Lindsay Symon (United Kingdom);Kintomo Takakura (Japan);Francesco Tomasello (Italy)

   

• » Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Committee

  Committee Chairman	Francesco SALA
  Address	Institute of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Verona, Italy
  Tel:	+39 0458122695
  Cell:	+39 3477450520
  Email:	francesco.sala@univr.it
  Members:	Miguel Arraez (Spain);Djamila Benderbous (Egypt);Sandip Chatterjee (India);aVincenzo Esposito (Italy);Tony Figaji (South Africa);Hong Seok Ho (Korea);Helco Hoving (Holland);Kunihiko Kodama (Japan);Karl Kothbauer (Switzerland);Nobuhito Morota (Japan);Vedantan Rajsekhar (India);Emmanuel Wegoye (Uganda);

   

• » Liaison Committee WFNS/WHO

  Committee Chairman	Gail ROSSEAU
  Address	USA
  Cell:	+1 773 580 1175
  Email:	gailrosseaumd@gmail.com
  Members:	Ahmed Ammar (Qatar);Hildo Azevedo (Brazil);Armando Basso (Argentine);Mark Bernstein (Canada);Jacques Brotchi (Beligum);Nasser El Ghandour (Egypt);Ling Feng (China);William Harkness (UK);Marc Levivier (UK);Muhammad Raji Mahmud (Nigeria);Kee Park (USA);Alexander Potapov (Russia);Moody Qureshi (Kenya);Andres Rubiano (Colombia);Karl Schaller (Switzerland);Ugur Ture (Turkey);Eka Wahjoepramono (Indonesia)
  Ex-officio members:	Walter Johnson (USA)

   

• » Mass Casualties in Neurosurgery

  Committee Chairman	Michiyasu SUZIKI
  Address	1-1-1 Minamikogushi Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8505 Japan
  Tel. Clinic:	+81 836 222 293
  Fax:	+81 90 3368 9020
  Email:	michi@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp
  Members:	Russell J Andrews (USA);Muhammad Ehsan Bari (Pakistan);Anthony Figaji (South Africa);Kee Park (USA);Peter Reilly (Australia);Jeffrey V Rosenfeld (Australia);Eiichi Suehiro (Japan);Teiji Tominaga (Japan);Leonidas Quintana (Chile)

   

• » Medal of Honour Committee

  Committee Chairman	Yong-Kwang TU
  Address	Department of Neurosurgery National Taiwan University Hospital 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan
  Email:	yktu@ntu.edu.tw
  Ex-officio members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President

   

• » Military Neurosurgeons Committee

  Committee Chairman	Rocco ARMONDA (USA)
  Email:	rocco.armonda@gmail.com
  Committee Chairman	Antonio BELLI (UK)
  Address	Neurotrauma and Ophthalmology Institute of Inflammation and Ageing Robert Aitken Building University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
  Tel:	+44 121 414 4497
  Cell:	+44 795 867 5901
  Email:	A.Belli@bham.ac.uk

   

• » Neuroendoscopy Committee

  Committee Chairman	Mahmood QURESHI (Kenya)
  Tel:	03834 86-6162
  Cell:	+254 73 362 0679
  Email:	moody_qureshi@yahoo.com
  Committee Chairman	Chandrashekhar DEOPUJARI (India)
  Cell:	+91 7198 198 31736
  Email:	cdeopujari@hotmail.com
  Members:	Africa (3 members): Beverley Cheserem (Kenya);Nasser El Ghandour (Egypt);Mohamed Sisabir (Algeria)   Asia (9 members): Waleed Azab (Kuwait);Alias Azmi (Malaysia);Chen Ge (China);Imad Kanaan (Saudi Arabia);Nishiyama Kenichiro (Japan);Hyeun Sung Kim (Korea);Salman Sharif (Pakistan);N.K. Venkatarama (Bangalore);Tadashi Watanabe (Japan)   Europe (5 members): Andre Grotenhuis (Netherlands);Joachim Oertel (Germany);Jose Piquer (Spain);Henry Schroeder (Germany);Albert Sufianov (Russia)   America (4 members): Samir Elbaba (Orlando);Carlos Gagtrandi (Argentina);Tenoch Herrada-Pineda (Mexico);Abhaya Kulkandi (Canada)

   

• » Neuro-Oncology Committee

  Committee Chairman	Yoshitaka NARITA (Japan)
  Email:	yonarita@ncc.go.jp
  Committee Chairman	Colin WATTS (UK)
  Email:	cw209@cam.ac.uk
  Ex-officio Members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Neurorehabilitation & Reconstructive Neurosurgery Committee

  Committee Chairman	H. Maximilian MEHDORN (Germany)
  Address	Sternwartenweg 1a, 24105 Kiel, Germany
  Tel:	+49 431 371866
  Cell:	+49 171 5236885
  Email:	prof@mehdorn-consil.de
  Vice-Chairperson	Massimiliano VISOCCHI (Italy)
  Email:	massimiliano.visocchi@unicatt.it
  Members:	Jim Woo Chang (South Korea);Alessandro Ducati (ItalyIch);Ling Feng (China); Tariq Khan (Pakistan);Joachim Krauss (Germany);Shi-Ting Li (China);Alessandro Olivi (Italy);Wai Song Poon (China);Moody Qureshi (Kenia);Andrews Russell (Andrews);V.D. Sinha (India);Eka J. Wahjoepramono (Indonesia);Takamitsu Yamamoto (Japan);Jun Zhong (China) Secretary: Marco Fontanella (Italy)   Honorary members: Klaus von Wild (Germany)
  Ex-officio members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Neurosurgical Anatomy Committee

  Committee Chairman	Vladimir BENES (Czech Republic)
  Address	Dept Neurosurgery, Charles Univ ÚVN-VFN Střešovice U nemocnice 1200 16902 Prague, Czech Republic
  Email:	vladimir.benes@uvn.cz
  Committee Chairman	Imad N. KANAAN (Saudi Arabia)
  Address	KFSH&RC, MBC 76, P.O.B 3354, 11211 KSA, Saudi Arabia
  Cell:	+966 506409616
  Email:	dr.imad.kanaan@gmail.com
  Members:	Iype Cherian (Nepal);Roy Daniel (Switzerland);Christophe Destrieux (France);Ekkehard Kasper (USA);Pablo Gonzáles Lopéz (Spain);Igor Lima Maldonado (Brazil, Executive);Victor Hugo Perez (Mexico);Thomas Santarius (United Kingdom);Eka Julianta Wahjoepramono (Indonesia)
  Ex-officio members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Neurosurgical Technology Committee

  Committee Chairman	Kazuhiro HONGO
  Address	3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto 390-8621, Japan
  Tel:	+81 263 372 687
  Cell:	+81 90 3303 9223
  Email:	khongo@shinshu-u.ac.jp, oliver.bozinov@usz.ch
  Vice-Chairperson	Oliver BOZINOV
  Members:	Asra Fauzi (Indonesia);Kazadi Kalangu (Zimbabwe);Kaoru Kurisu (Japan);Akio Morita (Japan);Yoshihiro Muragaki (Japan);Yasser Orz (Saudi Arabia)

   

• » Neurotraumatology Committee

  Committee Chairman	Tariq KHAN (Pakistan)
  Address	Northwest School of Medicine , Phase 5 , Hayatabad , Peshawar , Pakistan
  Cell:	+00 92 333 9103747
  Email:	tariqhashimkhan@hotmail.com
  Committee Chairman	Peter HUTCHINSON (UK)
  Address	Professor of Neurosurgery NIHR Research Professor Director of Clinical Studies Robinson College University of Cambridge Box 167 Academic Division of Neurosurgery Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge CB2 0QQ UK
  Tel:	+44 1223 336946
  Cell:	+07778 177080
  Email:	pjah2@cam.ac.uk
  Members:	David Adelson (USA);Serik Akshulakov (Republic of Kazakhstan);Alfonso Alfonso (Spain);Andras Buki (Hungary);Yung-Hsiao Chiang (Taiwan);Kyoung-Suok Cho (Korea);Anthony Figaji (South Africa);Marcelo Zenteno Grosz (Bolivia);Corrado Iaccarino (Italy);Kazadi Kalangu (Zimbabwe);Alexey Krivoshapkin (Russia);Esene Lgnatius (Cameroon);Wilco Lilco (Netherland);Niklas Marklund (Sweden);Aaron Musara (Zimbabwe);Eugene Pedachenko (Ukraine);Wai Sang Poon (China);Alexander Potapov (Russia);Virendra Sinha (India);Wolf-Ingo Steudel (Germany);Toshiki Yoshimine (Japan);Andres  (Colombia);Michiyasu  (Japan);Mohamed  (Egypt)   Honorary members:  M. Ross Bullock (USA);George Dohrmann (USA);Raimund Firsching (Germany);Thomas Gennarelli (USA);Andrew IR Maas (Belgium);Maximilian Mehdorn (Germany);Alexander David Mendelow (UK);Prem Ramani (India);Jeffrey Rosenfeld (Australia);Franco Servadei (Italy);Charles H Tator (Canada);Beny Atma Wirjomartani (Indonesia);Yang Shu Yuan (China)
  Ex-officio Members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Pediatric Neurosurgery Committee

  Committee Chairman	Zeev FELDMAN (Israel)
  Address:	24 Hagai St.Hod Hasharon, Israel 45262
  Tel:	+972 3 530 3062
  Cell:	+972 526666379
  Email:	zfeldman@sheba.health.gov.il
  Committee Chairman	Neici ZANON (Brazil)
  Email:	nelcizanon@terra.com.br
  Hydrocephalus Task Force Chairman:	Concezio DI ROCCO (Germany) profconceziodirocco@gmail.com
  Members:	Essam Alshail (Saudi Arabia);Liana Beni-Adani (Israel);Maya Bhattachan (Nepal);Jorge Bizzi (Brazil);Deopujari Chandrashekhar (India);Sandip Chatterjee (India);Chidam Baram Chidam Baram (India);Marcia Cristina Da Silva (Brazil);Deema Sehli (Saudi Arabia);Federico Di Rocco (France);Concezio Di Rocco (Germany);Mohammed El Beltagy (Egypt);Samer Elbabaa (USA);Eylem Eylem (USA);Federico Auad Federico Auad (Argentina);Serge Gorelyshev (Russia);Eduardo Jucá (Brazil);Jie Ma (China);Elaia Magalhaes Paiva (Brazil);Wirginia Maixner (Australia);Beatriz Mantese (Argentina);Luca Massimi (Italy);Martina Messing (Germany);Tatiana Protzenko (Brazil);Pueyoredon Pueyoredon (Argentina);Shaun Rodgers (USA);Guirish Solanki (UK);Zulma Tovar Spinoza (USA);Alison Wray (Australia);Michel Zerah (France)

  Ex-officio Members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Peripheral Nerve Surgery Committee

  Committee Chairman	Mariano SOCOLOVSKY
  Address	University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine La Pampa 1175 torre 2 5ª, Buenos Aires, 1428, Argentina
  Tel:	549 11 6588 1565
  Email:	marianosocolovsky@gmail.com
  Vice-Chairperson:	B. Indira Devi bidevidr@gmail.com (India) Debora Garozzo debora.garozzo@nshdubai.com (Italy) Fernando Guedes neuroguedes@yahoo.com.br (Brazil) Roberto S Martins rsnervo@gmail.com (Brazil) Rajiv Midha rajmidha@ucalgary.ca (Canada) Lukas Rasulic lukas.rasulic@gmail.com (Serbia) Shimon Rochkind rochkind@zahav.net.il (Israel)
  Members:	Zarina Ali (USA);Gregor Antoniades (Germany);Gonzalo Bonilla (Argentina);Gilda di Masi (Argentina);Miguel Dominguez Paez (Spain);Hesham El-Sobkey (Egipt);Mohammadreza Emmamhadi (Iran);Ricardo Gonzalez Estrada (Colombia);Wilson Faglioni (Brazil);Eduardo Fernandez (Italy);Stefano Ferraresi (Italy);Leandro Flores (Brazil);Luciano Foroni (Brazil);Kare Fugleholm Buch (Denmark);Jose Garcia Cosamalon (Spain);Ricardo Gepp (Brazil);Christian Heinen (Germany);Marjeanne Hockmuller (Brazil);Alberto Isla (Spain);Line Jacques (USA);Daniel Kim (USA); Michel Kliot (USA);Thomas Kretschmer (Germany);Kartik Krishnan (Germany);Flavio Leitao Filho (Brazil);jiang-tao Liang (China);Mark A. Mahan (USA);Martijn Malessy (Netherlands);Jose Augusto Malheiros (Brazil);Fernando Martinez Benia (Uruguay);Romulo Melo (Chile);Vicenzo Paternó (Germany);Maria Teresa Pedro (Germany);Willem Pondaag (Netherlands);Wilson Zachary Ray (USA);Javier Robla (Spain);Carlos Alberto Rodríguez Aceves (Mexico);Zoran Roganovic (Serbia);Fernando Romero Prieto (Guatemala);Stephen Russel (USA);Miroslav Samardzic (Serbia);Sumit Sinha (India);Marco Sinisi (UK);Mario Gilberto Siqueira (Brazil);Fernando Henrique Sousa (Brazil);Robert Jay Spinner (USA);Paulo Tavares (Brazil);Christopher Winfree (USA);Linda Yang (USA);Eric Zager (USA)
  Ex-officio Members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Radiosurgery Committee

  Committee Chairman	Roberto MARTINEZ-ALVAREZ
  Address	Spain
  Tel:	+34 915 773 182
  Cell:	+34 696 956 654
  Email:	rob.martinez@telefonica.net
  Vice-Chairperson:	Mojgan HODAIE mojgan.hodaie@uhn.ca (Canada)
  Members:	Antonio A.F.DeSalles (Brazil, USA);Mikhail Chernov (Russia, Japan);Paul Eldridge (United Kingdom);Krishan Ganapathy (India);Motohiro Hayashi (Japan);Mark Levivier (Switzerland);Bodo Lippitz (Germany);Roman Liscak (Czech Republic);Kral Moutaery (Saudi Arabia);Sun Ha Paek (South Korea);Dheerendra Prasad (USA);Vedantam Rajshenkhar (India);Jean Régis (France);Michael Schulder (USA);VP Sing (India)
  Ex-officio Members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Skull-Base Surgery Committee

  Committee Chairman	Sebastien FROELICH (France)
  Email:	sebastien.froelich@lrb.aphp.fr
  Committee Chairman	José Alberto LANDEIRO (Brazil)
  Tel. Clinic:	+55 21 3502 3274
  Fax:	+55 21 999 956617
  Email:	jalandeiro@gmail.com
  Members:	North America (15 members): Saleem Abdulrauf (USA);Ossama Al-Mefty (USA);Ryojo Akagami (Canada);Mario Ammirati (USA);Mustafa Başkaya (USA);Franco DeMonte (USA);Fred Gentili (Canada);Gerardo Guinto (Mexico);Amin Kassam (USA);Ali Krisht (USA);James K. Liu (USA);Harry van Loveren (USA);Jacques Morcos (USA);Laligham N Sekhar (USA);Chandranath Sen (USA)   South America (4 members): Louis Borba (Brazil);Antonio A Carrizo (Argentina);Jose Alberto Landeiro (Brazil);Ricardo Ramina (Brazil)   Asia (31 members): Shengde Bao (China);Atul Goel (India);Sunil Kumar Gupta (India);Mitsuhiro Hasegawa (Japan);Kazuhiro Hongo (Japan);Hee-Won Jung (Korea);Imaduddin Kanaan (Saudi Arabia);Takeshi Kawase (Japan);Han Kyu Kim (Korea);Eiji Kohmura (Japan);Kaoru Kurisu (Japan);Kyu Sung Lee (Korea);Gilberto KK Leung (Hong Kong);BasantK. Misra (India);Zainal Muttaquin (Indonesia);Suresh Nair (India);Kenji Ohata (Japan);Wai S Poon (Hong Kong);Kiyoshi Saito (Japan);Tomio Sasaki (Japan);Ibrahim Sbeih (Jordan);Yoshinobu Seo (Japan);Ashish Suri (India);Yong-Kwang Tu (Taiwan);Keki Turel (India);Felix Umansky (Israel);Eka Wahjoepramono (Indonesia);Kahdar Wiriadisastra (Indonesia);Bao Yuhai (China);Liwei Zhang (China);Jun-Ting Zhang (China)   Australia-New Zealand ( 1 member): Andrew Kaye (Australia)   Europe (19 members): Miguel A. Arraez (Spain);Helmut Bertalanffy (Germany);Savaş Ceylan (Turkey);Alan Crockard (England);Vinko Dolenc (Slovenia);Rudolf  Fahlbusch (Germany);Sébastien Froelich (France);Nurperi Gazioğlu (Turkey);Türker Kılıç (Turkey);Engelbert Knosp (Austria);Christianto B Lumenta (Germany);Ibrahim M.Ziyal (Turkey);Tiit Mathiesen (Sweden);Necmetin Pamir (Turkey);Martin Sames (Czech republic);Volker Seifert (Germany);Marcos Tatagiba (Germany);Ugur Türe (Turkey);Eduard Zverina (Czech republic)   Africa ( 3 members): Nabil Abdel-Rahman (Egypt);Mohammed E. El-Fiki (Egypt);A. El Khamlichi (Morocco)
  Ex-officio Members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Spine Committee

  Committee Chairman	Michael FEHLINGS (Canada)
  Email:	Michael.Fehlings@uhn.ca
  Committee Chairman	Daniel HOH (USA)
  Email:	daniel.hoh@neurosurgery.ufl.edu
  Committee Chairman	Mehmet Zileli (Turkey)
  Address	1416 sok No:7 Kahramanlar, Izmir 35230 Turkey
  Tel:	+90232 421 3348
  Cell:	+90532 342 2599
  Email:	zilelim@gmail.com
  Members:	Óscar Luís Alves (Portugal);Marcos Gustavo Baabor Aqueveque Aqueveque (Chile);Başar Atalay (Turkey);Abdul Hafid Bajamal (Indonesia);Miguel Berbeo (Colombia);George Dohrmann (USA);Adel El Hakim (Egypt);Richard G. Fessler (USA);Enrique Osorio Fonseca (Colombia);Maurizio Giovanni Carlo Fornari (Italy);Feng Zeng Jian (China);Bong-Soo Kim (USA);Se-Hoon “Sean” Kim (Korea);Nikolay Konovalov (Russia);Jesus Lafuente (Spain);Marcos Masini (Brazil);J.K.B.C. Parthiban (India);Sushil Patkar (India);Wilco C. Peul (Netherlands);João Luiz Pinheiro-Franco (Brazil);Prem S. Ramani (India);Scott C. Robertson (USA);Ben Roitberg (USA);Krešimir Rotim (Croatia);Salman Sharif (Pakistan);Nobuyuki Shimokawa (Japan);Ibet Marie Y. Sih (Philippines);José Antonio Soriano-Sánchez (Mexico);Jung Keun Suh (Korea);Juan Uribe (USA);   Honorary members: Ziya L. Gokaslan (USA); Arnold Menezes (USA); Junichi Mizuno (Japan); Chun Kun Park (Korea); Luiz Pimenta (Brazil); Motoi Shoda (Japan)
  Ex-officio Members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Committee

  Committee Chairman	Philippe CORNU (France)
  Cell:	+33 6 6076 11208
  Email:	pr.cornu@gmail.com
  Committee Chairman	Marc SINDOU (France)
  Address	Department of Neurosurgery University of Lyon 1 Hôpital Neurologique P. Wertheimer Groupement Hospitalier Est 59, boulevard Pinel 69003 Lyon - France
  Tel:	+33 4 72 11 89 01
  Cell:	+33 6 71927367
  Email:	marc.sindou@orange.fr
  Ex-officio Members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » The William Scoville Award Committee

  Committee Chairman	Leónidas M. QUINTANA
  Address	Libertad 1405-office 301- Vina del Mar, Chile
  Tel:	+56 32 268 3860
  Cell:	+56 9 5648 3175
  Email:	leonquin@gmail.com
  Members:	All Second Vice-Presidents;President;Secretary;1st Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities
  Ex-officio Members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Women in Neurosurgery Committee

  Committee Chairman	Souad BAKHTI
  Address	Neurosurgery Department EHS Ali Ait Idir Bd Abderrezak Hahad 16022 Allgiers, Algeria
  Tel:	+213 21962403
  Cell:	+21 36614 11881
  Email:	bak-sou@hotmail.com
  Members:	Pinar Akademir Özisik (Turkey);Romina Arganaraz (Argentina);Fahmida Azab Mallah (Pakistan);Hajar Bechri (Morocco);Mouna Bougrine (Morocco);Najia El Abbadi (Morocco);Soha Elomar (Saudi Arabia);Evelyne Emery (France);Ling Feng (China);Isabelle Germano (USA);Claire Karekezi (Rwanda);Yoko Kato (Japan);Aminath Kelani (Niger);Samira Khailia (Algeria);Lynne Loudes Lucena (Phillipines);Gail Rosseau (USA);Sally Rothemeyer (South Africa);Nabila Tighilt (Algeria);Tatiana Vilasboas (Brazil);Sarah Woodrow (USA);Samira Zabihyan (Iran);Nelci Zanon (Brazil)
  Ex-officio Members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Young Neurosurgeons Award Committee

  Committee Chairman	Paulo PEREIRA
  Address	Rua Doutor Emilio Peres, 57 H - 3º Portugal
  Te:	+351 919 904 160
  Email:	pereira.paulom@gmail.com
  Members:	Iype Cherian (Nepal);Mohamed El-Fiki (Egypt);Graham Fieggen (South Africa);Jose Hinojosa (Spain);Yoko Kato (Japan);Joao Pinheiro Franco (Brazil);Bernardo Ratilal (Portugal);Sergio Salvador (Mozambique);Michael Steinmetz (USA);Onur Yaman
  Ex-officio Members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Young Neurosurgeons Forum

  Committee Chairman	Amro AL HABIB
  Address	Neurosurgery Division, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine- King Saud Univeristy - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  Tel	+966 114671595
  Cell	+966 506661582
  Email:	amro.alhabib@gmail.com
  Members:	Ahmed AlAhmari;Bagher Alexander Alamri;Amro Al-Habib;Hosam Al-Jehani;Waleed Alqurashi;Iype Cherian;Angelos Kolias;Shashwat Mishra;Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar;Antonio Romano;Nicolás Samprón;Tsegazeab Laeke Teklemariam;Kerry Vaughan
  Ex-officio Members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS
  Young Neurosurgeons Forum - Mission Statement