ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL President: Yong-Kwang Tu Past-President: Takeshi Kawase President-Elect: Franco Servadei First Vice-President: Hildo Azevedo-Filho Secretary: Basant Misra Assistant-Secretary: Gail Rosseau Treasurer: Christopher Loftus Assistant-Treasurer: Amir Samii President of the XVI Congress: U gur Türe OFFICERS OF THE FEDERATION Second Vice-Presidents: Jacques Morcos (AANS) Akira Teramoto (AASNS) Francesco Tomasello (EANS) Marco Molina (FLANC) Abdessamed El Ouahab (CAANS) Eugeny Pedachenko (at large) Sherif Ezzat (at large) Historian: 2013-2017 Edward Laws Publication and Web: 2013-2017 Alexander Potapov Web Manager: 2013-2017 Merwyn Bagan Coordinator of Committee Activities: 2013-2017 Miguel Arraez
OFFICERS OF WFNS CONGRESS 2017 President: U gur Türe Honorary President: Ethem Bekonakl Vice-President: Mehmet Zileli 2nd Vice President: Murad Bavbek
WORLD FEDERATION OF NEUROSURGICAL SOCIETIES
Secretary: Yusuf Zci Assistant Secretary: Baar Atalay Treasurer: Feridun Acar Assistant Treasurer: Zerk Okutan Chair, Scientific Committee: Ihsan Solarolu
HONORARY PRESIDENTS
WORLD NEUROSURGERY Peter M. Black, Founder Jacques Brotchi, Co-founder
Adelola Adeloye Armando Basso Jacques Brotchi Maurice Choux Noel G. Dan Sayed El Gindi Roberto C. Heros Alan R. Hudson Shozo Ishii Hee-Won Jung Tetsuo Kanno Abdeslam El Khamlichi Shigeaki Kobayashi Alexander Konovalov Takeshi Kawase Yves Keravel
Edward R. Laws Friedrich Loew Mauro Loyo-Varela José-Gérardo Martin-Rodriguez Jorge Mendez Sean Mullan Russel Patterson Fernando Rueda-Franco Leonidas Quintana Mahadeeva Sambivasan Robert F. Spetzler Madjid Samii Atos A. de Sousa Lindsay Symon Kintomo Takakura Jacques C. de Villiers
Michael L.J. Apuzzo, Founding Editor-inChief and Editor Emeritus
Mission Statement -
To facilitate the personal association of neurological surgeons throughout the world.
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To aid in the exchange and dissemination of knowledge and ideas in the field of neurological surgery.
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To encourage research in neurological surgery and allied sciences.
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To address issues of neurosurgical demography.
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To address issues of Public Health.
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To implement, improve and promote the standards of neurosurgical care and training worldwide.
Membership Services (www.wfns.org) Teresa Chen Hsiao-Hui (Teresa) Chen Office Manager, WFNS Central Office World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies 5 Rue du Marché 1260 Nyon, Vaud, Switzerland Tel: +41 (0) 22 3624303 Fax: +41 (0) 22 3624352 Email:
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