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
  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
  Tel:	+57 315 3334024
  Email:	eosoriof@yahoo.es
  Members:	*Officers of WFNS XVII Congress* Honorary President: Tito A. Perilla Vice-President: Hernando Cifuentes Lobelo 2nd Vice-President: Antonio Montoya Casella Secretary: Andres Rubiano Escobar Assistant secretary: Fernando Hakim Treasurer: Victor Hugo Bastos Assistant Treasurer: Juan Carlos Benedetti Chairman, Scientific Program Committee: Alfredo Pedroza
  Ex-officio Members:	President of the Congress;President;Secretary;First Vice-President; Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS
  Sub-Committee: 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-Director: Tito Perilla Scientific Program Co-Director: Adolfo Cumplido Secretary of the Congress: Andrés Rubiano Secretary of Scientific Program: Juan Fernando Ramón Secretary of Scientific Program: Alejandro Ramos Assistant-Secretary of the Congress: Fernando Hakim Vice-President of the Congress: Hernando Cifuentes Second Vice-President of the Congress: Marco Fonseca Second Vice-President of the Congress: Antonio Montoya

   

• » 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
  Cell:	+39 3356690853
  Email:	franco.servadei@gmail.com
  Members:	All members of the Administrative Council

   

• » Nominating Committee

  Committee Chairman	Sherif Ezzat
  Email:	sherifezzat10@gmail.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)

   

• » Cerebrovascular Diseases & Therapy Committee

  Committee Chairman	Talat KIRIŞ (Turkey)
  Email:	talatkrs@gmail.com
  Co-Chairman	Shalva Eliava(Russia)
  Address:	16,4th Tverskaya-Yamskayastr., 125047 Moscow, Russia
  Tel:	+7 499 972 8626
  Cell:	+7 985 991 4774
  Email:	npestovskaya@nsi.ru
  Members:	Matteo Baccanelli (Argentinia);Loch Macdonald (Canada);Nazih Assad (Australia);Mustafa Baskaya (USA);Deniz Belen (Turkey);Carlo Bortolotti (Italy);Marco Cenzato (Italy);Fady Charbel (USA);Evandro de Oliviera (Brazil);Sebastien Fröhlich (France);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);Basant Misra (India);Abdelhalim Morsli (Algier);Yoshiaki Shiokawa (Japan);Robert Spetzler (USA);Peter Vajkoczy (Germany);Peter Winkler (Austria)

   

• » Complications in Neurosurgery

  Committee Chairman	Keki TUREL
  Email:	kekitureliccn2017@gmail.com

   

• » Education & Training Committee

  Committee Chairman	Isabelle GERMANO (USA)
  Address:	5 East (8th Street, 7th floor, New York NY 10029, USA
  Tel:	+1 212 241 9638
  Cell:	+1 914 523 3526
  Email:	isabelle.germano@mountsinai.org
  Co-Chairman	Satoshi Kuroda
  Address:	Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
  Tel:	+81 76 434 7348
  Email:	skuroda@med.u-toyama.ac.jp
  Members:	Africa (4 members): Youssef Bouzoubaa (Morocco) Raji Mahmud (Nigeria) Souhil Tliba (Algeria) Jeff Ntalaja (Democratic Republic of Congo) Asia-Australia (8 members): Atul Goel (India) Michihiro Kohno (Japan) Kaoru Kurisu (Japan) Hiroyuki Nakase (Japan) Takaomi Taira (Japan) Eka Julianta Wahjoepramono (Indonesia) Bin Xu (China) Shinichi Yoshimura (Japan) Europe (7 members) : Gilbert Dechambenoit (France) Kate (Katharine) Drummond (Australia) Jao Paolo Farias (Portugal) Christian Matula (Austria) Avelino Parajon (Spain) Alexander Potatov (Russia) Tanju Uçar (Turkey) Middle East (1 member) : Amr El Shawarby (UAE) North America (6 members) : Richard Byrne (USA) William Couldwell (USA) Michael Haglund (USA) Mojgan Hodaie (Canada) Edjah Nduom (USA) Bárbara Nettel-Rueda (México) South America(4 members) : Jean De Oliveira (BRAZIL) Francisco Mery (Chile) Alejandra Rabadán (Argentina) Mario Izurieta (Ecuador)

• » Ethics & Medico-Legal Affairs Committee

  Committee Chairman	Stephen HONEYBUL (Australia)
  Address:	20A Princess street, Doubleview, Perth Western Australia 6018
  Cell:	+61 434 069 564
  Email:	stephen.honeybul@health.wa.gov.au
  Co-Chairman	Ahmed Ammar
  Tel:	+966 13 896 6666 ext. 1612
  Cell:	+966506806381
  Email:	ahmed@ahmedammar.com
  Ex-officio members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Fund-Raising Committee

  Committee Chairman	Anil NANDA
  Email:	an651@rwjms.rutgers.edu
  Ex-officio members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Global Neurosurgery Committee

  Committee Chairman	Kee Park
  Email:	keebpark@gmail.com
  Website:	https://globalneurosurgery.org/
  Co-Chairman:	Abdessamad El Ouahabi
  Tel:	+212537775966
  Cell:	+212661141052
  Email:	elouahabi.a@hotmail.fr
  Members:	Mbaye Thioubm (Senegal);Jeff Ntalaja (DRC);Salihy Sidi Mohammed (Mauritania);Coceka Mfundisi (South Africa);Claire Karekezi (Rwanda);Ignatius Esene (Cameroon);Mahmood Qureshi (Kenya);Andreas Rubiano (Colombia);Hildo Acevedo (Brazil);Amro Al Habib (Saudi Arabia);Tariq Khan (Pakistan);Ronnie Baticulon (Philippines);Yoko Kato (Japan);Vycheth IV (Cambodia);Kyi Hlaing (Myanmar);Indira Devi (India);Walter Johnson (USA);Robert Dempsey (USA);Angelos Kolias (UK);Gail Rosseau (USA);Isabelle Germano (USA);William Harkless;Seow Wan Tew (Singapore

   

• » 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. Dan (Australia);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);Russel Patterson (USA);Leonidas M. Quintana (Chile);Fernando Rueda-Franco (Mexico);Robert F. Spetzler (USA);Lindsay Symon (United Kingdom);Francesco Tomasello (Italy);Yong-Kwang Tu (Taiwan); Uğur Türe (Turkey)

   

• » 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
  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:	+81 836 222 293
  Cell:	+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;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Neuroendoscopy Committee

  Committee Chairman	Chandrashekhar Deopujari
  Cell:	+91 7198 198 31736
  Email:	cdeopujari@hotmail.com
  Co-Chairman	Mahmood Qureshi
  Address:	P.O. Box 76553-00508, Nairobi, Kenya
  Cell:	+254 73 362 0679
  Email:	moody_qureshi@yahoo.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	Jorg-Christian Tonn
  Address:	Chairman and Professor Dept. Neurosurgery LMU Campus Grosshadern Marchioninistr. 15 D-81377 Munich http://neurochir.klinikum.uni-muenchen.de
  Cell:	+49 89 440072591
  Email:	Joerg.Christian.Tonn@med.uni-muenchen.de
  Co-Chairman:	Yoshitaka Narita
  Email:	yonarita@ncc.go.jp
  Members:	Beng Ti ANG (Singapore);Fernando García COLMENA (Argentina);Sunit DAS (Canada);Clemens DIRVEN (Netherlands);Nicolas FOROGLOU (Greece);Rachel GROSSMAN (Israel);Ramez KIROLLOS (UK);Fred LANG (USA);Vairavan NARAYANAN (Malaysia);Wai Hoe NG (Singapore);Soichi OYA (Japan);Florian RINGEL (Germany);Tom SANTARIUS (UK);Philippe SCHUCHT (Switzerland);Shahzad SHAMIM (Pakistan);Ghazaleh TABATABAI (Germany);Andrea TALACCHI (Italy);Gabriel VARGAS (Colombia);Mike VOGELBAUM (USA);Colin WATTS (UK);Michael WELLER (Switzerland);Manfred WESTPHAL (Germany);Gelareh ZADEH (Canada)
  Ex-officio Members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

• » Neurorehabilitation & Reconstructive Neurosurgery Committee

  Committee Chairman	Virendra Deo Sinha
  Address:	53, Moji Colony, Pradhan Marg, Malviya Nagar-Jaipur, India (302017)
  Tel:	+91-141-2523100 (R),+91-141-2518805-6 (O)
  Cell:	+91 9829053230 (M)
  Email:	sinhavd@yahoo.com
  Co-Chairman	Massimiliano Vissouchi (Italy)
  Email:	massimiliano.visocchi@unicatt.it
  Members:	Amit Agrawal (India);Amit Chakrabarty (India);Jim Woo Chang (South Korea);Alessandro Ducati (ItalyIch);Ling Feng (China);Mrinal Joshi(India);Shashank Kale (India);Tariq Khan (Pakistan);Joachim Krauss (Germany);Shi-Ting Li (China);H. Maximilian Mehdorn (Germany);Alessandro Olivi (Italy);Wai Song Poon (China);Moody Qureshi (Kenia);Andrews Russell (Andrews);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
  Co-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:	Matias Baldoncini;Roy Daniel;Pablo Gonzalez;Sanjeeva Jeyaretna;Kazadi kalangu;Ekkhard Kaspar;Yoko Kato;Igor Maldonado;Ramesh Nair;Victor Hugo Perez;Mahmoud Qureshi;Thomas Santarius;Henry Schroeder;Salman Sharif;Iype Sherian;Albert Sufianov;Keki Turel;Eka Wahjoepramono
  Ex-officio members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Neurosurgical Technology Committee

  Committee Chairman	Oliver Bozinov
  Address:	Dep of Neurosurgery Universitätsspital Zürich Frauenklinikstrasse 10 8091 Zürich Switzerland
  Tel:	+41 44 255 9321
  Email:	oliver.bozinov@usz.ch
  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
  Co-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
  Sub-Committee: Military Neurosurgeons Committee
  Committee Chairman	Tony Belli
  Email:	A.Belli@bham.ac.uk

   

• » Pediatric Neurosurgery Committee

  Committee Chairman	Nelci Zanon
  Email:	nelcizanon@terra.com.br
  Sub-Committee: Hydrocephalus Task Force
  Committee Chairman	Ezio Di Rocco
  Email:	profconceziodirocco@gmail.com
  Ex-officio members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Peripheral Nerve Surgery Committee

  Committee Chairman	Lukas Rasulic
  Address	Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade Clinic for Neurosurgery, Clinical Center of Serbia Visegradska 26, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
  Tel:	+381 63 205 591
  Email:	lukas.rasulic@gmail.com
  Continental Vice-Chairperson:	Africa: Hesham El-Sobkey (Egypt) Asia & Australia: Debora Garozzo (Dubai);B. Indira Devi (India);Mohammadreza Emmamhadi (Iran);Bassam Addas (Saudi Arabia); Ketan Desai (India) Europe: Shimon Rochkind (Israel);Thomas Kretschmer (Germany);Stefano Ferraresi (Italy); Christian Heinen (Germany);Javier Robla (Spain); North America & Canada: Rajiv Midha (Canada);Allan Belzberg (USA);Linda Yang (USA);Eric Zager (USA) Central & South America: Fernando Guedes (Brazil);Roberto S Martins (Brazil);Carlos Alberto Rodríguez Aceves (Mexico);Wilson Faglioni (Brazil); Fernando Martinez Benia (Uruguay)
  Members:	Zarina Ali (USA); Gregor Antoniades (Germany); Gonzalo Bonilla (Argentina); Gilda di Masi (Argentina); Miguel Dominguez Paez (Spain); Ricardo Gonzalez Estrada (Colombia); Leandro Flores (Brazil); Luciano Foroni (Brazil); Kare Fugleholm Buch (Denmark); Jose Garcia Cosamalon (Spain); Ricardo Gepp (Brazil); Marjeanne Hockmuller (Brazil); Alberto Isla (Spain); Line Jacques (USA); Daniel Kim (USA); Michel Kliot (USA); Kartik Krishnan (Germany); Flavio Leitao Filho (Brazil); jiang-tao Liang (China); Martijn Malessy (Netherlands); Jose Augusto Malheiros (Brazil); Romulo Melo (Chile); Christopher Winfree (USA); Vincenzo Paternó (Germany); Maria Teresa Pedro (Germany); Willem Pondaag (Netherlands); Wilson Zachary Ray (USA); Fernando Romero Prieto (Guatemala); Stephen Russel (USA); Miroslav Samardzic (Serbia); Sumit Sinha (India); Marco Sinisi (UK); Mark A. Mahan (USA); Fernando Henrique Sousa (Brazil); Robert Jay Spinner (USA); Paulo Tavares (Brazil); Chandan Mohanty (India), Hafidh Himeur (Algeria), Natalia Denisova (Russia), Roman Kovalenko (Russia), Prabin Shrestha (Nepal)
  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
  Co-Chairman	José Alberto LANDEIRO (Brazil)
  Tel:	+55 21 3502 3274
  Cell:	+55 21 999 956617
  Email:	jalandeiro@gmail.com
  Members:	North America (16 members): Saleem Abdulrauf (USA);Ossama AI-Mefty (USA);Ryojo Akagami (Canada);Mario Ammirati (USA);Arturo Ayala Arcipreste (Mexico);Mustafa Başkaya (USA);Franco DeMonte (USA);Fred Gentili (Canada);Gerardo Guinto (Mexico);Amin Kassam (USA);Ali Krisht (USA);Moujahed Labidi (Canada);Jacques Morcos (USA);Laligham N Sekhar (USA);Chandranath Sen (USA);Harry van Loveren (USA) South America (4 members): Louis Borba (Brazil);Ricardo Ramina (Brazil);Antonio A Carrizo (Argentina);Pablo M. Ajler (Argentina) Asia (33 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);Lou Meiqing (China);Basant K. 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);Jie Tang (China);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 (21 members): Miguel A. Arraez (Spain);Helmut Bertalanffy (Germany);Michael Bruneau (Belgium);Sükrü Caglar (Turkey);Savaş Ceylan (Turkey);Alan Crockard (England);Vinko Dolenc (Slovenia);Rudolf Fahlbusch (Germany);Nurperi Gazioğlu (Turkey);Türker Kılıç (Turkey);Engelbert Knosp (Austria);Christianto B Lumenta (Germany);Tiit Mathiesen (Sweden);Necmetin Pamir (Turkey);Federico Pessina (Italy);Martin Sames (Czech republic);Volker Seifert (Germany);Marcos Tatagiba (Germany);Andrew Kaye (Australia);Ibrahim M.Ziyal (Turkey);Eduard Zverina (Czech republic) Africa (4 members): Nabil Abdel-Rahman (Egypt);Lotfi Boublata (algeria );A. El Khamlichi (Morocco);Mohammed E. El-Fiki (Egypt)
  Ex-officio Members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS

   

• » Spine Committee

  Committee Chairman	Mehmet Zileli
  Address:	Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Dept.of Neurosurgery, Bornova, Izmir 35100 TURKEY
  Tel:	+90 232 3904516 or 3905322
  Cell:	+90 532 3422599
  Email:	zilelim@gmail.com
  Co-Chairman	Salman Sharif
  Address:	Chief of Neurosurgery, Liaquat National Hospital, President, Pakistan Society of Neurosurgeons, Karachi, Pakistan
  Tel:	+92 21 4412464/ 2706
  Cell:	+92 334 3399601
  Email:	sharifsalman73@gmail.com
  Co-Chairman	Maurizio Fornari
  Email:	maurizio.fornari@yahoo.it
  Members:	Ben Roitberg (USA);George Dohrmann (USA) Bong-Soo Kim (USA);Richard G. Fessler (USA);Scott C. Robertson (USA);Marcos Masini (Brazil);Francisco Sampaio (Brazil);Enrique Osorio-Fonseca (Colombia);José Antonio Soriano-Sánchez (Mexico);Wilco C. Peul (Netherlands);Joachim Oertel (Germany);Maurizio Fornari (Italy);Francesco Costa (Italy);Jesus Lafuente (Spain);Oscar Luís Alves (Portugal);Nikolay Angelov Peev (United Kingdom);Krešimir Rotim (Croatia);Mehmet Zileli (Turkey);Onur Yaman (Turkey);Nikolay Konovalov (Russia);Nobuyuki Shimokawa (Japan);Toshihiro Takami (Japan);Jung Keun Suh (Korea);Se-Hoon Kim (Korea);FengZeng Jian (China);Zan Chen (China);Prem S. Ramani (India);J.K.B.C. Parthiban (India);Salman Sharif (Pakistan);Krishna Sharma (Nepal);Abdul Hafid Bajamal (Indonesia);Ibet Marie Y. Sih (Philippines)
  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:	+00 336 6076 11208
  Email:	pr.cornu@gmail.com
  Co-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
  Sub-Committee: Radiosurgery Committee
  Committe Chairman	Roberto Martin Alvarez
  Tel:	+34 915 773 182
  Cell:	+34 696 956 654
  Email:	rob.martinez@telefonica.net
  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

   

• » The William Scoville Award Committee

  Committee Chairman	Leonidas 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
  Co-Chairman	Svitlana lytvak
  Email:	dr.lytvak@gmail.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 (Atos Alves de Souza)

  Committee Chairman	Paulo PEREIRA
  Address:	Rua Doutor Emilio Peres, 57 H - 3º Portugal
  Cell:	+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	Angelos Kolias
  Email:	angeloskolias@gmail.com
  Ex-officio Members:	President;Secretary;First Vice-President;Coordinator of Committee Activities of WFNS