WFNS May 2024 Newsletter

Newsletter

MAY 2024

Message from the
Editors

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Dear Colleagues –

This Newsletter follows the usual order: WFNS reports followed by reports of recent conferences followed by announcements of upcoming conferences.

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Ukrainian Neurosurgery: Experience with Three 2023 and 2024 RAZOM Co-Pilot Endovascular Neurosurgical Missions to Ukraine

Peter Kim Nelson, Maksim Shapiro, Yuriy Cherednichenko, Andrii Netliukh, Victor Salo, Oleksander Holub, Oleh Kobyletskyi, Myhailo Kostiuk, Dmytro Scheglov, Oleksandr Komarov, Mykola Vyval, Nina Isbydska, Andriy Regush, Roksolana Vaskul, Kalyna Leshchuk, Rocco Armonda, Andriy Sirko, Jonathan Forbes, Luke Tomycz

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WFNS Education Survey Results & Courses 2024

Chair, WFNS Education & Training Committee

Recently, the WFNS Education & Training Committee conducted a survey on the education needs of neurosurgeons worldwide. There were 438 respondents. 16% of the respondents were female, and 43% were below 40 years old. The regions of the respondents were South America (42.4%), Asia (20.3%), Europe (16.6%), the Middle East (12.3%), North America (4.3%), and Africa (3.9%).

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WFNS Committee Chair Messages, Facebook+Instagram Pages, Research Committee, AC in Prague

Messages from WFNS Committee Chairs

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Digital Health Technologies in Traumatic Brain Injury Call for Participation

Dear All,

I am Orla Mantle, a graduate student in the Global Health Research Group on Acquired Brain and Spine Injuries at the University of Cambridge. For my Master's research I am looking at how digital health technologies can be integrated in the care pathway for patients with TBI.

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The Future of Global Neurosurgery: Invest in People, Not Projects

Robert Dempsey

Global neurosurgery has become an increasingly important imperative in the future of the field of neurosurgery and neurosurgery is a leader in the area of global health. The 2015 Lancet Report on essential surgery worldwide shows a huge deficit in low- and middle-income countries. Access to essential surgical care, including neurosurgical is absent for 5.5 billion people in the world. It is imperative that this must be solved.

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The Global Alliance for Prevention of Spina Bifida (GAPSBiF) – From World Health Assembly Resolution to Implementation

S. Hassan A. Akbari, Anastasia Arynchyna-Smith, Gail Rosseau, Jeffrey P. Blount

Since 1991, we have known that folic acid deficiency contributes to the vast majority of neural tube defects (NTDs)1 . Soon thereafter, it became clear that food fortification with folic acid was the most effective and safe method in reducing the rate of NTDs, leading to over 60 countries mandating folic acid fortification of staple foods.

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InterSurgeon: A dynamic virtual mapping platform to facilitate and support global surgical partnerships

Martina Gonzalez Gomez, Alexandra Jarram, James Johnston

InterSurgeon (https://www.InterSurgeon.org) is an online platform designed to facilitate and support global surgical partnerships. The main aim of the site is to allow all members of the surgical team and surgical care stakeholders find each other, interact, and help coordinate various facets of surgical care collaboration, including clinical care assistance, teaching, training, research, and infrastructure.

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APRIL 8 - WORLD NEUROSURGEONS’ DAY

Oluwamayowa Opara

April 8, 1869 Harvey Williams Cushing was born. He is widely regarded as the Father of Modern Neurosurgery due to the immense work he did in studying neurosurgical conditions and refining surgical techniques for approaching brain tumours as well as his influence in making neurosurgery an autonomous surgical discipline. April 8 is now dedicated to celebrating Neurosurgeons the world over.

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Contribute to Neurosurgery with an Opinion or Op-Ed

Russell Andrews

In January of this year, the journal Nature published a piece entitled, “Opinion Writing is a Win-Win: Sharing your perspective and ideas can benefit general readers and your career”.1 During the April 15 webinar of the WFNS Research Committee, Anil Nanda made the point that young neurosurgeons – especially those in LMICs with limited opportunities for traditional research publications – should write about other topics of interest to fellow neurosurgeons. As an example, he suggested writing a history of neurosurgery in their home country (assuming this has not been published previously).

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International Conference on Recent Advances in Neurotraumatology ICRAN 2024, February 29 – March 4, Jaipur, India.

Andrew Reisner, Immediate Past Chair, WFNS Neurotrauma Committee

ICRAN 2024 (ICRAN 2024 Jaipur), held in the historic city of Jaipur, was endorsed at inception in 2022 by both the Asian Australasian Society of Neurosurgeons (AASNS) led by Kate Drummond (Australia) and the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) led by Andrew Reisner (USA), Andrés Rubiano (Colombia) and Laura Lippa (Italy).

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Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS) Spring 2024, Edinburgh, Scotland, 17-19 Apr

The SBNS Spring 2024 meeting was held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, in the heart of Scotland’s capital and was a great success both academically and socially

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Establishing the Neurotrauma Society and the Second Philippine Neurotrauma Bootcamp, Baguio City, the Philippines, 1-2 May

The Neurotrauma Committee of the Asian Australasian Society of Neurological Surgeons (AASNS), presently chaired by Dr Lynne Lourdes N Lucena, together with the Academy of Filipino Neurosurgeons Inc (AFNI) and the organizers led by Dr Roel Anthony Domingo and Dr Sixto Ordoño, both neurosurgeons from the Northern Luzon Integrated Neurosurgical Consortium, successfully concluded the second Philippine Neurotrauma Bootcamp May 1-2, 2024 at the Hotel Supreme in Baguio City, the summer capital of the Philippines.

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Venezuelan Congress of Neurosurgery, Caracas, Venezuela, 28 May – 1 Jun

The XXI Venezuelan Congress of Neurosurgery

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Indonesian Neurosurgical Society (INS) SD City (Jakarta), Indonesia, 6-9 Jun

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we have the pleasure of informing you that The 16th Asian-Oceanian International Congress on Skull Base Surgery, in conjunction with the 28th Annual Meeting of the Indonesian Neurosurgical Society (INS) and the 3rd Asian Congress of Neurosurgical Nurses, to be held on June 6th – 9th, 2024 at International Convention Exhibition (ICE) BSD, Tangerang City, Banten and Faculty of Medicine, Pelita Harapan University, Karawaci, Tangerang City

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FIENS Webinar with WFNS President Najia El Abbadi, 15 Jun

Please join us for the next FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION IN NEUROLOGİCAL SURGERY (FIENS) Global Virtual Visiting Professor Webinar! The session topic is World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies - Beyond 2023.

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NeuroTrauma2024, Cambridge, UK, 2-5 Sep

The conference will take place in the heart of Cambridge over two venues; The Corn Exchange, built on a site dated back to 1224 and the Guildhalls.

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Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS) Conference, Birmingham UK, 24-27 Sep

Society of British Neurological Surgeons Conference Birmingham

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Southeast Europe Neurosurgical Society (SeENS) Congress, Budapest, Hungary 9-11 Oct

25th Congress of the Hungarian Neurosurgical Society Budapest, 9-11 October 2024

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European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), Sofia, Bulgaria, 13-17 Oct

European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS2024)

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Latin American Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (CLAN), Santiago, Chile, 20-25 Oct

Every two years, the Latin American Federation of Neurosurgery Societies (FLANC) organizes the Latin American Congress of Neurosurgery (CLAN), the largest meeting of the specialty in Latin America and Latin-speaking European countries

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Serbian Neurosurgical Society (SNSS) Belgrade, Serbia, 31 Oct - 3 Nov

Dear colleagues and friends,

It is our pleasure to announce the 10th SNSS Annual Meeting with international participation - Pediatric Neurosurgery in the 21st Century: Challenges and opportunities, which will be held at the Hotel Crowne Plaza, Belgrade, from October 31st to November 3rd, 2024.

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Asian-Australasian Society of Neurological Surgeons (AASNS), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 7-10 Nov

17^th Asian Australasian Congress of Neurological Surgeons

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Continental Association of African Neurosurgical Societies (CAANS), Kinshasa, DRC, and Brazzaville, Congo Republic, 26-30 Nov

The Continental Association of African Neurosurgical Societies (CAANS) has selected Kinshasa and Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Republic of Congo (RC) respectively, as host for the 5th CAANS Congress 24th and 25th November (Pre-Congress Workshop on Vascular and Spine) and 26th to 28th November at Fleuve Congo Hotel and Tours Jumelles de Brazzaville. This biannual international congress, previously held in Algiers (Algeria), Cape Town (South Africa), Abuja (Nigeria) and most recently Nairobi (Kenya), is a significant continental health sector event that attracts Neurosurgeons from the entire globe. In line with prior meetings, we expect 350 delegates from all the continents and strong participation of other sister international organizations.

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Asian Congress of Neurological Surgeons (ACNS), Cairo, Egypt, 18-20 Dec

In collaboration with the world federation of neurosugical societies (WFNS)

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Upcoming Events

May 2024

WFNS Education Course

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July 2024

Hands-on Dissection Course Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

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Sept 2024

Clinical Observer Course

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Nov 2024

The 14th PANARAB NEUROSURGICAL SOCIETY Conference

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Nov 2024

4th International Rhoton Society Meeting

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