Oral Presenters

UAE

Dr. Jinhwa Eum is Consultant Neurosurgery in UAE and Korean board certified neurosurgeon who has performed spine surgeries for over 30 years. Beginning PELD in 1995, he has performed about 5,000 biportal endoscopic spine surgeries for 25 years (55% lumbar discectomy, 30% decompression for stenosis, 10% endoscopic TLIF, 5% cervical discectomy). He has also taught many aspiring spine surgeons from India,China, Japan, Taiwan, Mexico, Greece and USA through lectures and cadaver workshops. Since 2016, he has published multiple articles about unilateral biportal endoscopic spine surgery, with his most recent being “Endoscopic extreme transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion with large spacer” in May-Jun, 2022 on Orthopedics. Currently, he is the executive director of KOMISS and KOSESS and the chairman of Korea UBE (Unilateral Biportal Endoscopy) Society.

Serbia

Asst. Prof. Dr. Vladimir Papic is a leading neurosurgeon consultant, Head of Neurosurgical department at Institute for Health Care of Child and Youth of Vojvodina Province in Novi Sad, Serbia. He is also renowned Assistant Professor for Neurosurgery at Department for Surgery at Medical faculty, University of Novi Sad, where he was educated. In addition, he works as neurosurgeon consultant at Atlas general hospital in Belgrade, Serbia and General hospital New Hospital in Novi Sad, Serbia. His international experiences is presented working in Saudi Arabia for one year. Dedicated to continuous education and professional development, he improves and polishes his skills in different training and courses. His well-recognized expertise in cranial base, vascular and spine surgeries, is result of training that took place in Mainz and Trier Germany, Zurich Switzerland and Paris France, in fields of minimally invasive, endoscopic and cranial base surgeries, respectively; vascular surgery he trained in Athens Greece and Torino Italy and spine surgery training he completed in Porto Carras Greece, Zagreb Croatia and Vienna Austria. Finally, Dr. Papic successfully conducted 3rd Hands-on Course of Brainstem Anatomy for Neurosurgeons in Zurich Switzerland and Microvascular hands-on workshop in Athens in November 2019. Thanks to Dr. Vladimir Papic stereotaxis, and minimal invasive cranial and spine surgery has been implemented at Clinic for neurosurgery in Novi Sad, Serbia. His research capacity is well known through his work as study coordinator in several international projects in field of cerebrovascular and spine surgery. He is also an active reviewer for World Neurosurgery journal.

Ethiopia

Dr Bethelehem Yesehak Worku is a neurosurgeon currently working as an Assistant professor in Neurosurgery devision, Department of surgery at College of health sciences in Addis Ababa University. She is a fellow by examination at College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa and a member of American College of Surgeons. Dr Bethelehem is currently involved in multiple research activities in pediatrics neurosurgery. She also works as General Manger voluntarily in a local based NGO known as Gojo Ethiopia Accomodation and temporary shelter for patients in need.

Ethiopia

Dr.Dagnachew studied medicine at Gondar University, Ethiopia and graduated as medical doctor in 2013. He then joined department of surgery at Dilla university school of medicine and referral hospital. He also worked as medical director and practical training director of the same hospital. After 5 years of postdoctoral training in neurosurgery at Addis Ababa University Black Lion Hospital and observership at Christian Medical college – Vellore, India, under Prof. Ari G. Chako, he obtained the position of Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital.

Ethiopia

Abdul-Aziz Abdellah is a Neurosurgery assistant professor at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital (HUCSH). He earned his first degree from HUCSH and his neurosurgery certification from Addis Ababa University's Tikur Anbessa Comprehensive Specialized Hospital. He is a mentor, teacher, scientist, and published author. He is highly interested in mentoring, advanced problem-solving research, skull base and spine surgery, collaboration with national and international organizations to improve neurosurgical care in Ethiopia, and global neurosurgery.

Israel

MD

• Director of Stroke and Interventional Neuroradiology Unit, Soroka university Medical Center (SUMC), Beer-Sheva, Israel.
• Director of Vascular Neurology Fellowship.

Established the Stroke and Interventional Neuroradiology Unit in SUMC (which serves a population of over one million) in 2014 and has been running it since.

Elected board member of the Israeli Stroke society, involved in writing of treatment guidelines and in improving stroke and endovascular treatment in Israel.

Clinical practice main objective: medical and endovascular treatment of stroke and neurovascular diseases.

Actively involved in student, resident, and fellow education, as well as research.

Current studies focused on pathophysiology and endovascular treatment of Idiopathic Intracranial hypertension (Pseudotumor cerebri).

Education & Training

• MD, Semmelwise university, Budapest, Hungary.
• Neurology residency: SUMC.
• Stroke fellowship: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).
• Interventional Neuroradiology fellowship: UPMC.
• Specialized Areas of Clinical, Research and/or Educational Interests.
• Research: Stroke, cerebral veins, Carotid diseases, and genetics of cerebral vascular pathologies.
• Clinical: Pseudotumor cerebri, Pulsatile tinnitus,Stroke thrombectomy, Cerebral aneurysms, and AVMs.
• Education: Fellow, resident and student education in stroke and cerebral vascular pathologies management.

Recent Publications

Horev A, Zlotnik Y, Borodetsky V, Biederko R, Star M, Zvenigorodsky V, Shelef I, Ifergane G. Adjunctive treatment with low dose intra-arterial eptifibatide and intravenous aspirin during carotid stenting: A case series. J Clin Neurosci. 2021 Feb; 84:29-32

Horev A, Honig A, Cohen JE, Goldbart A, Dizitzer Y, Star M, Gomori JM, Zlotnik Y, Ifergane G, Borodetsky V, Shelef I, Leker RR. Overestimation of carotid stenosis on CTA - Real world experience. J Clin Neurosci. 2021 Mar; 85:36-40. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2020.12.018. Epub 2021 Jan 8. PMID: 33581787.

Horev A, Serlin Y, Eshel R, Leker R, Star M, Honig A, Ifergane G. The Value of Neurological Assessment for Prediction of Subtle Cerebral Infarction. Can J Neurol Sci. 2021 Mar;48(2):275-277. doi: 10.1017/cjn.2020.164.

Serlin Y, Ofer J, Ben-Arie G, Veksler R, Ifergane G, Shelef I, Minuk J, Horev A, Friedman A. Blood-Brain Barrier Leakage: A New Biomarker in Transient Ischemic Attacks. Stroke. 2019 May;50(5):1266-1269. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.119.025247.

Saudia Arabia

MBBS. Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellow, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Nigeria

I graduated with MBChB in 2007 from the College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife. I obtained MSc in Anatomy from the same institution. I had postgraduate professional training at Memfys Hospital for Neurosurgery Enugu, Department of Surgery and Department of Neurological Surgery, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. I have extensive exposures in the management of both cranial and spinal pathologies. I operate both elective and emergency neurosurgical cases with excellent outcome. I have been involved in the training of medical students, house officers, and resident doctors. Iwas a WFNS fellow at P D Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre Mumbai. My research interests include awake craniotomy, neurological surgical site infections,neuro-oncology, paediatric neurosurgery, skull base surgery

Nepal

• Currently working as the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery and the Director of Researc, Institute of Medicine, Nepal.
• Past President (2017~2019) of Nepalese Society of Neurosurgeons.
• Founder Editor-in-chief (2004-2015) of Nepal Journal of Neuroscience.
• Has Published>105 articles in peer reviewed journals.
• Book- Principles of Health Science Research.
• Special interests in Cerebrovascular (~ 600 aneurysms surgery) and skull base surgery, Neurosurgical education, Research and publications, Global neurosurgery.

UAE

Prof.h.c. Dr. Dr.h.c. Nils D. Haberland PhD is German spine and brain surgeon with over 35 years of experience in the management of all spinal and brain pathologies.

He is an expert in minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) and the pioneer of spine navigation with intraoperative computed tomography (CT).

This technique is state of the art in image guided spine surgery and was first published worldwide in 2000 in the United States by himself.

He was also one of the first in Germany who performed brain robotic surgeries. He developed the Spongioplasty procedure for percutaneous vertebral body stabilization in osteoporotic /pathological fractures.

Dr. Nils Haberland, who has authored more than 20 research publications (h-index 8) on spine and brain surgery with navigation and robotics on a wide range of topics including intracranial and spinal tumors.

Prior to moving to Dubai, Dr. Nils Haberland was the former Chief of Neurosurgical Department at BGU-Hospital in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Apart from his clinical work, Dr. Nils is active faculty member and international lecturer in many international spine conferences and educational events of spine and neurosurgery.

Italy

Neurosurgeon - Skull base fellow at San Filippo Neri Hospital - Rome.

Russia

I am Ekaterina Nikolaevna Kabaeva, born on 07/09/1987, neurologist, Ph.D. I work at the Peoples' Friendship University as an assistant professor.

Areas of Scientific Interest - Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neurobiology, Manual Therapy.

Hobbies - Painting, Writing Poetry

Sudan

MBBS, MSC, MRCSEd, DRME, MD assisstant professor of neurosurgery - University of Khartoum Specialist Neurosurgeon - Soba University Hospital

Czech Republic

Professor Pavel Haninec was born in 1958 and graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague in 1983 with honors. In 1989 he finished Ph.D. Thesis dealing with developmental morphology of peripheral nerves and spinal cord sheaths and began his life-long investigations of brachial plexus surgery and regeneration of peripheral nerves. In 1996 he defended Associate Professor Thesis addressing mechanism of axonal guidance to target structures and their possible clinical application in the regeneration of the nerve in important locations. In 2002 he was promoted Professor of Surgery at Charles University in Prague. Between 2002 and 2010 he was Vice Dean of 3rd Faculty of Medicine. He is an investigator or co-investigator of many research grants and his work has repeatedly received major awards of Czech Neurosurgical Society. In present he is Chairman of Department of Neurosurgery 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Member of Neurosurgery Residency Program, Member of Scientific Board of Neurosciences in Charles University and Visiting Professor at Saint Barnabas Medical Center Neurosurgical Residency Program, New Jersey.

Nepal

I, Dr Amit Bahadur Pradhanang, am a faculty Neurosurgeon at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital. My interest is in spinal surgery. I also serve as a Joint secretary of Nepalese Society of Neurosurgeons.

Italy

I'm Luciano Mastronardi, Neurosurgeon. Since July 2010 I have been the Head of the Neurosurgery Department of the San Filippo Neri Hospital in Rome (ASL Roma1).

In addition to daily clinical and surgical activities, I carry out tutor functions for Italian and foreign neurosurgeons in training who attend my hospital and the theoretical and practical courses in microneurosurgical dissection that I help direct in Italy, Europe and the United States.

My surgical experience consists of over 4000 interventions, mostly skull base tumors and acoustic neuromas.

Portugal

Alma mater at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil, specialized in Infectious Diseases and Intensive Care Medicine in São Paulo, Brazil, dedicated to Neurointensive Care since 2007 (fellowship at Hospital Sirio-Libanes, São Paulo, Brazil). MBA-certified since 2015, with focus on Lean Thinking and Agile. Based in Portugal since 2009, dedicating to intensive care in general with focus on spreading the importance of Neurointensive care as a vector of quality in the critical care.

Egypt

Egyptian Neurosurgery consultant - subspecialized in neuro-oncology and epilepsy surgery, experienced in glioma surgery, brain mapping techniques, awake craniotomies, resective epilepsy surgery and neuromodulation techniques in epilepsy.

India

I, Dr. Vanisha Tamling, currently working as a resident in Department of Neurosurgery in Central Referral Hospital, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences, SMU in Gangtok, Sikkim, India.

I completed my high school education from Holy Cross School, Tadong, Gangtok, Sikkim. During my high school days I was enthusiastic in curricular as well as co-curricular activities such as cultural performances, debate, singing, art and crafts, sports.

My Bachelors in Medicine and Bachelors in surgery (MBBS) graduation was done from Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi University. LHMC is one of the top medical universities in India and I’m highly grateful to have received such a privilege of being a part of the institution.

During my university days I actively participated in community services, conducted multiple health education and awareness camps in overcrowded, slums in peripheral areas of Delhi.

In the year 2020, amidst of the pandemic I worked with “Bhavishya Bharat, India- a national programme which provides health care access to remote poorly accessible areas of hilly mountainous Himalayan regions of Sikkim, India. The programme provided a mobile health care van thereby allowing people in inaccessible areas to seek medical services. There were number of patients who were known case or undiagnosed cases of lifestyle diseases like hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, who had discontinued their medications due to poor accessibility, financial constraints, social stigmas/norms, poor transport facilities and social distancing protocols levied at the moment. I participated in conducting healthcare campaigns on topics like “lifestyle diseases, importance of exclusive breast feeding, immunization of newborn and children, importance of handwashing and personal hygiene during covid.

I joined Sikkim Manipal institute of medical sciences, Central Referral Hospital, Gangtok, Sikkim, India and completed post-graduation basic Neurotrauma course from department of Neurosciences, SMIMS.

After joining the department I have written e-newspaper articles on various topics like “Aneurysm and brain hemorrhage”, “Ischemic stroke-a matter of great concern”, “cervical spondylosis” and so on. I have presented and attended various seminars and webinars on topics like “Status epilepticus”, “newer generation anti-seizure medications”.

I have recently attended and presented a poster presentation on the topic “MANAGEMENT OF UNCONTROLLED EPILEPSY IN LMICS” World Society of Stereotactic and Functional neurosurgery 2022 (WSSFN) held on September 2022 in Incheon, South Korea.

I look forward to continue contributing to better healthcare and providing my services to all the people in need. My goal would be able to serve my community and make healthcare accessible even at the most remote inaccessible areas of my state of Sikkim, India.

Italy

Doctor Silvana Tumbiolo was born in Palermo the 19th of November in 1965. She obtained a degree at the University of Palermo in 1989 and specialization in Neurosurgery at the University of Pavia in 1994. She has worked in Palermo at the Neurosurgery Department of ""Villa Sophia"" Hospital since 1994 until now.Since 2018 she is the head of the Department.

During her training she attended many national and international courses and conferences, sometimes as faculty member. She has attended specialization’s courses in Neuroendoscopy, Cadaver Lab, Cranio-Vertebral-Junction Master, Minimally invasive Spine Surgery, Head Skull Base dissection and Approaches to Skull Base, Midas-Rex Hands-on, Hydrocephalus, Damage Control System, Cranial and Spinal Injury.

She has done about 3.300 surgical interventions and some of these have been in paediatric and neonatal patients for the treatment of Spina bifida and Hydrocephalus. In adults, she has been treated all type of pathology: tumoral, vascular, traumatic, degenerative and malformation as with microsurgery as with endoscopy. She has also made several publications in both national and international journals.

Italy

PhD Candidate,

Neurosurgeon, MD Sant'Andrea University Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome

- M.D. (Cumlaude)

University of Pavia, Italy 2005-2012

- Research Fellowship in Neuro-Oncology

Neurosurgery Hunterian Neurological Research Laboratory

Department of Neurosurgery,

Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland (USA) 2012-2016

Department of Neurosurgery,

Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Neurologico C. Besta Milan

- Internship Neurosurgery Training 2010-2012/ 2019-2022

Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of

Rome

Neurosurgery

Residency

(Cum laude) 2016-2021

A. Personal Statement

I am responsible of the TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH NEUROSURGICAL DISEASES Laboratory at Sapienza University, where recently a new Research Building has been builded up near by Sant’Andrea Hospital where I work as Neurosurgeon. In and out the OR my field of interest is Neurooncology. I study brain tumors from an imaging, clinical and basic science perspective to improve patient safety and maximize the efficacy of current treatments for brain tumors. I have productively worked at the Hunterian Neurosurgical Laboratory where we have published extensively on both gene and drug delivery for brain tumors therapy . The main focus of my translational research has been the development of nano-based drug delivery systems for the treatment of brain tumors. I have led pioneering preclinical studies in this field, all published in journals of high impact factor and conducted in close collaboration with international teams in the United States and Europe. My contributions to the field range from in vivo experiments on the efficacy of gene therapy using local delivery PBAEs to studies on the selective intratumoral delivery of molecules using dendrimers-based formulations after systemic delivery. I have also published the first in vivo studies on a new pectin-galactin complex that targets overexpressing Gal-3 neuroinflammation cells. My other projects have aimed at developing and testing a new formulation for local interstitial chemotherapy using polymeric wafers to deliver new repurposed drugs against glioma

B. Selected Honors
2014
Harvey Cushing Award Johns Hopkins School of medicine

2015
Earl Walker Outstanding International Fellow Award Johns Hopkins School of medicine Patents/Inventions
September 2014
Kannan Rangaramanujam, Betty Tyler, Fan Zhang, Panagiotis Mastorakos, Manoj K Mishra, Antonella Mangraviti. Approaches for Systemic Targeting of Tumor Macrophages in Brain Tumors.

December 2018
Antonella Mangraviti, Betty Tyler, Henry Brem, Alessandro Olivi, Tula Raghavan. Acriflavine, Biodegradable CCP:SA Polymers for the Treatment Of Malignant Glioma.

C. Selected Peer-reviewed Publications (H-index: 20; ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2843-0718) Most relevant to the current application

Mangraviti A, Tzeng SY, Kozielski KL, Wang Y, Jin Y, Gullotti D, Pedone M, Buaron N, Liu A, Wilson DR, Hansen SK, Rodriguez FJ, Gao GD, DiMeco F, Brem H, Olivi A, Tyler B, Green JJ. Polymeric Nanoparticles for Non-Viral Gene Therapy Extend Brain Tumor Survival In Vivo. ACS Nano. 2015 Feb 24;9(2):1236

Editor Choice in Science Translational Medicine -#1 most read/downloaded ACS Nano paper of 2015 2 months after publication

Highlighted by ACS Chemical Research in Toxicology -Press releases on Science Daily, Bioportfolio, Eurekalert,Newswise, PhyNews, NIH.gov

Zhang F, Mastorakos P, Mishra MK, Mangraviti A, Hwang L, Zhou J, Hanes J, Olivi A, Brem H, Tyler B, Kannan RM. Uniform Brain Tumor Distribution and Tumor Associated Macrophage Targeting of Systemically Administered Dendrimers, Biomaterials, in press, 2015.

Antonella Mangraviti, Stephany Y Tzeng, David Gullotti, Kristen L Kozielski, Jennifer E Kim, Michael Seng, Sara Abbadi,Paula Schiapparelli, Rachel Sarabia-Estrada, Angelo Vescovi, Henry Brem, Alessandro Olivi, Betty Tyler, Jordan J Green,Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa. Non-virally engineered human adipose mesenchymal stem cells produce BMP4, target brain tumors, and extend survival. Biomaterials 2016 Sep 21;100:53-66. Epub 2016 May 21.

Jennifer E Kim*, Mira A Patel*, Antonella Mangraviti, Eileen S Kim, Debebe Theodros, Esteban Velarde, Ann Liu, Eric Sankey,Ada Tam, Haiying Xu, Dimitrios Mathios, Christopher M Jackson, Sarah Harris-Bookman, Tomas Garzon-Muvdi, Mary Sheu, Allison M Martin, Betty M Tyler, Phuoc T Tran, Xiaobu Ye, Alessandro Olivi, Janis M Taube, Peter C Burger, Charles G Drake, Henry Brem, Drew M Pardoll, Michael Lim. Combination therapy with anti-PD-1, anti-TIM-3, and focal radiation results in regression of murine gliomas.Clin Cancer Res 2016 Jun 29. Epub 2016 Jun 29.

Dimitrios Mathios*, Jennifer E. Kim*, Antonella Mangraviti, Jillian Phallen, Chul- Kee Park, Christopher M. Jackson, Tomas Garzon-Muvdi, Eileen Kim, Debebe Theodros, Magdalena Polanczyk, Allison M. Martin, Ian Suk, Xiaobu Ye, Betty Tyler, Chetan Bettegowda, Henry Brem, Drew M. Pardoll, Michael Lim. Anti-PD-1 Anti-Tumor Immunity is Enhanced by Local and Abrogated by Systemic Chemotherapy in GBM. Sci. Transl. Med December 2016.

Mangraviti A, Raghavan T, Volpin F, Skuli N, Gullotti D, Zhou J, Asnaghi L, Sankey E, Liu A, Wang Y, Lee DH, Gorelick N, Serra R, Peters M, Schriefer D, Delaspre F, Rodriguez FJ, Eberhart CG, Brem H, Olivi A, Tyler B. HIF-1α- Targeting Acriflavine Provides Long Term Survival and Radiological Tumor Response in Brain Cancer Therapy.Sci Rep. 2017 Nov 2

Kevin Liaw, Fan Zhang, Antonella Mangraviti, Sujatha Kannan, Betty Tyler, Rangaramanujam M. Kannan Dendrimer size effects on the selective brain tumor targeting in orthotopic tumor models upon systemic administration. Bioeng Transl Med. 2020

Nitsa Buaron, Antonella Mangraviti, Francesco Volpin, Ann Liu, Mariangela Pedone, Eric Sankey, Dina Aranovich, Itay Adar, Fausto J. Rodriguez, Abraham Nyska, Riki Goldbart, Tamar Traitel, Henry Brem, Betty Tyler, Joseph Kost. Pectic Galactan Polysaccharide Based Gene Delivery System for Targeting Neuroinflammation. Advanced Functional Materials. June 2021

Serra R, Mangraviti A, Gorelick NL, Shapira-Furman T, Alomari S, Cecia A, Darjee N, Brem H, Rottenberg Y, Domb AJ, Tyler B. Combined Intracranial Acriflavine, Temozolomide and Radiation Extends Survival in a Rat Glioma Model. Eur J Pharm Biopharm. 2021.

Piazza A, Rosa P, Ricciardi L, Mangraviti A, Pacini L, Calogero A, Raco A, Miscusi M. Circulating Exosomal-DNA in Glioma Patients: A Quantitative Study and Histopathological Correlations-A Preliminary Study. Brain Sci. 2022

Silvia Chiesa,* Antonella Mangraviti,* Maurizio Martini,* Tonia Cenci , Ciro Mazzarella, Simona Gaudino, Serena Bracci, Antonella Martino, Giuseppe M. Della Pepa, Martina Offi, Marco Gessi, Rosellina Russo, Matia Martucci, Francesco Beghella Bartoli, Luigi M. Larocca, Liverana Lauretti, Alessandro Olivi, Roberto Pallini, Mario Balducci, Quintino Giorgio D’Alessandris. Clinical and NGS predictors for response to regorafenib of in recurrent glioblastoma. Sci Rep 2022.

UAE

An active Lead and Senior Neurosurgeon with over 17 years of experience (UK- GMC Specialist Register Italian & European Board Certified, DHA license) currently serving the Dubai Oasis Area as Lead Consultant of the Unit of Neurosurgery at Fakeeh University Hospital. He worked previously in the Central Italian Region and City of Rome as a Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon at Policlinico Gemelli University HospitalIRCSS of Rome, Italy. Managed over 3500 complex neurosurgical brain and spinal procedures (adult and pediatric cases), including minimally invasive spine, complex trauma cases, neuro-oncology, and neuromodulation.

Holding an academic position as Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery at the Catholic University of Rome and Lead of Functional and Epilepsy Group. Policlinico Gemelli University Hospital IRCSS has one of the largest Neurosurgical Unit in Italy and Europe, which covers over 3000 neurosurgical elective cases per year (both Private and Public)

Consultant and principal investigator in ongoing European clinical trials (Abbott, Boston Scientific) in Functional Neurosurgery and collaborations with foreign universities, including Instituto Neurologico de Curitiba INC (Brazil), Sirio-Libanes Hospital of Sao Paolo (Brazil), Walton Centre Institute (UK).

Residency program in neurosurgery completed under the direction of the world-renowned neurosurgeon Profesor C.Di Rocco at the Catholic University of Rome with a specific interest in Pediatric Neurosurgery.

Contributed to 30 articles (author/co-author) for publications relating to neurosurgery, neurology and neuroscience. Organized national and international meetings about neuromodulation and was elected in 2019 to International Neuromodulation Society Board, Italian Chapter. Invited as a speaker 24 international conferences & seminars worldwide for presentations on neuromodulation, and 3 webinars in 2020, with 21 abstracts and 19 posters presented at International neurosurgical and neurology meetings. Principal investigator of 3 European DBS registries (Boston Scientific and Abbott Registry Study).

UAE

Alhareth Ma'aya is a neurosurgeon in Ain Alkahleej Hospital he has a special interest in skull base and minimal invasive neurosurgery. His most recent publication was : Surgical occlusion of middle meningeal artery in treatment of chronic subdural haematoma: anatomical and technical considerations, Acta Neurochirurgica

Czech Republic

Dr Libor Mencl is a Czech neurosurgeon specialized in peripheral nerve surgery. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague in 2007. In 2015 he finished Ph.D. thesis dealing with neurosurgical reconstruction of obstetrical brachial plexus injury.

Ethiopia

Dr. Mulualem W. Mengesha is a fellow of COSECSA and a dedicated young neurosurgeon working at St. Paul Hospital Millennium medical college. He has served as the department head for the past two years.

Saudia Arabia

- 2006: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research centre Riyadh ,Kingdom of Saudia Arabia

Resident of Neurosurgery Board.

- 2015: Complete of Neurosurgery Residency training.

- 2017: Fellow of European Board of Neurosurgery, Prague.

- 2018: Acting consultant at King Abdulaziz Hosipital Makkah.

- 2019: Consultant and Head of Neurosurgery Dept ,King Abdulaziz Hospital Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

India

I, Dr Kunzang Palmo Serdup, a Resident surgeon of The Department of Neurosurgery at Central Referral Hospital (CRH), Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences (SMIMS), Sikkim in North Eastern region of India am proud to be a part of Emirates International Neurosurgical Conference 2022.

Having my roots in this culturally diverse country, I have spread my wings to absorb and assimilate global experiences. During my sophomore year in school in Northern India, I was selected for a student exchange program and attended high school at New Hampshire, United States of America (USA). There I studied classical music and attained proficiency in the flute and guitar and performed for the school music band. On returning back to my country I volunteered in social upliftment programs to help the underprivileged, and participated in the Model United Nations debate.

After graduation I attended my undergraduate medical training in Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China. During my stay in the country I got the opportunity to learn Mandarin Chinese and got exposed to their vibrant culture. Additionally, I can communicate in English, Nepali, and Hindi as well.

I realized my passion for Neurosurgery during my medical training and decided to pursue it as a specialization career. On returning to my motherland, and joined the prestigious Manipal University Hospital which has been selflessly providing medical services to Sikkimese people. The Department of Neurosurgery is headed by the young and dynamic female Neurosurgeon Dr.Sukirti Chauhan who has motivated, nurtured, and cared for my professional development. Neurosurgical training is challenging and I have had the opportunity to clerk outpatients, attend to inpatients, assist in neurosurgical procedures, and attend ER on calls.

I have taken an active participation in public awareness of brain death, coma, organ donation, road safety, dementia, and brain tumors in my State. I have actively participated in one of the first seminars on ‘Organ Donation’ in the State of Sikkim, which inspired me and plan to work in the field of Deceased Organ Donation in my country. I have been trained in basic and advanced life support. I train undergraduate medical students in traumatic brain damage.

I aspire to be a neurosurgeon and specialize in spinal surgery. I am in the initial phases of my career and with the support and encouragement from my parents and mentors, I promise to serve humanity to the best of my ability.

Egypt

Associate professor of Neurosurgery Mansoura University Egypt.

Subspecialty: peripheral nerve surgery.

Previous continental chairperson of Africa WFNS peripheral nerve surgery Committee.

Italy

I was born in a small village close to Florence, my father was a trader and my mother a housewife.

If I had been born male I would not have become a neurosurgeon because the first born male in the family was designated for continuing the trade business of my father. My family did not consider me for that job because of my gender, thus my gender was the real cause of my freedom in choosing my profession.

I decided to become a neurosurgeon when I was fourteen , after my sister died because of Hydrocephalus following meningitis. During her long and painful disease I met Professor Sergio Briani, Chief of the Neurosurgical Department of Florence, who a few years later become my teacher in neurosurgery. After completing the University Medical School in Florence , I pursued my training in neurosurgery under the leadership of professor Briani who offered equal training and career opportunities to all medical doctors attending his department, regardless of their gender. I’m deeply indebted to this great teacher not only because he evaluated my possibilities and performances without any discrimination but also because he induced and required the same unprejudiced attitude from all his other coworkers . Since then , I’ve regarded simply as a neurosurgeon not as a woman doing neurosurgery.

At the same time I have had a pretty normal personal life. I created my own family and I had a wonderful daughter who has been and still is my strenuous supporter. Of course I have had to spend a lot of energies in both my professional and family life, trying to maintain the correct balance and sometimes this resulted really tiring.

At present I’m retired from the hospital and I spend lot of time with my beautiful grandchildren , a girl and a boy who represent the center of my present life. In the remaining time I’m doing private practice and I keep myself updated. Furthermore I dedicate some time to my hobbies with are languages study and travel.

UAE

European Board certified, Iraqi Board certified Neurosurgeon with 22 years’ experience in brain and spine surgery, including Paediatric Neurosurgery; working in Canadian Specialist Hospital, Dubai, since 2010, conducting all brain/ spine/ peripheral nerves related operations, using most advanced minimal invasive surgery techniques.

Dominican Republic

University studies at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, coordinator of the UNESCO chair of anatomy in the Russian federation, area of interest, 3D printing, vascular surgery and cranial base surgery, MBA in university Rey Juan Carlos, Msc in University Miguel De Cervantes.

India

Dr. Agarwal - A proud Pioneer in bringing the latest O Arm Robotic Technology in the city of Bareilly, U.P, to advance the method of Spine and Orthopedic Surgeries.

With 8+ years of expertise in happily healing patients and performing and assisting 1500+ orthopedic surgeries, I currently hold a prominent office as an Associate Professor at the prestigious Rohilkhand Medical College (RMC) and Hospital at Bairelly, Uttar Pradesh.

I’ve also successfully established 1st fully equipped cadaveric training lab in Uttar Pradesh at RMC Hospital. I strongly believe in a Patient-First approach while framing a treatment protocol.

Along with orthopedic surgeries, my area of expertise includes performing complex surgeries such as:

• Open spinal surgeries including laminectomy and laminotomy.
• Endoscopic spine surgery.
• Cervical discectomy and fusion.
• Anterior and Posterior Cervical Spine fixations.
• Posterior cervical laminectomy and laminoplasty.
• Keyhole Tube retractor based surgeries – MIS TLIF, OLIF, XLIF.
• Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty.
• Navigated Spine surgeries – O-arm and stealth station.
• Scoliosis and Spine deformity correction.
• Complex CVJ surgeries.

I’ve also been credited for doing MINIMALLY INVASIVE surgeries and have received a prestigious award at MISSICON 2018 for presenting Research Paper on Cervical Pedicle Screw Instrumentation.

During my resident term at the most prestigious medical institute of India- AIIMS, I’ve had a strong experience of treating accident and traumatic cases and doing emergency surgeries of nailing/plating of fractured limbs, pelvis, and other joints.

I always believe in learning the latest medical advances, practices and have attended about 60+ conferences ➕ workshops in across the world.

Being a sought after speaker and educator, I’ve also coordinated various conferences such as-

• Medtronic Webinar on Kyphoplasty and spine surgery, 2020.
• NAVESCON 2019.
• UPORTHCON 2019, CADAVERIC SHOULDER COURSE, 2017.
• Regular Speaker & faculty @ National and International conferences and workshops.

Algeria

• Neurosurgeon - Mustapha Pas ha Hospital Algiers Algeria.
• Professor University, From Algiers.
• Member of the Society of Stereotaxic and Functional Neurosurgery of the Middle East.
• Member of the WFNS of Stereotaxic and Functional Neurosurgery.
• Full member of the French-speaking Neurosurgery Society.
• Past treasurer of the Algerian society of neurosurgery.
• Past secretary general of the Algerian Society of Neurosurgery current treasurer of the Panarab Neurosurgery society.

Algeria

• Chef service de neurochirurgie chu Setif.
• Vice president de la société algérienne de l hypophyse.
• PDG de l établissement prive abulcasis.
• Chirurgie des tumeurs cérébrales.
• Chirurgie de la base du crane.
• Chirurgie vasculaire anévrisme.
• Pathologie Dégénératif du rachis.

India

Dr. Sunil Kumar B S professor of neurosurgery and deupty mediacl superindentent govermant medical college thiruvananthapuram.

Russia

Zokhidov Zokirzhon Utkurovich – Phd-neurosurgeon, State Budgetary Healthcare Institution “Morozov Children's Clinical Hospital of the Children's Health Department of Children's Health Department”, postgraduate student of the Department of Nervous Diseases and Neurosurgery of the Medical Institute, RUDN University.

2011-2017 Graduated from Avicenna Tajik State Medical University, Dushanbe, Republic of Tajikistan

2017-2019 Completed residency in neurosurgery at Department of Nervous Diseases and Neurosurgery, Medical Institute, Рeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russia

2019-2022 Completed postgraduate studies in neurosurgery from the Department of Nervous Diseases and Neurosurgery, Medical Institute, Рeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russia

From 2017 to 2022 I work as a resident in the primary center for pediatric stroke in of the Morozov Children's Clinical Hospital of the Children's Health Department of Children's Health Department.

I am actively engaged in science and practice, as well as teaching activities.

I have published several articles in international journals and I am an active speaker at international conferences.

Egypt

"Dr. Ahmed sarhan, Ass. Lecturer of neurosurgery.

Canada

• Associate Prof Dalhousie University.
• Head of neurosurgery division in Saint John regional hospital.
• Canadian Fellowship trained and certified Neurospine surgeon.
• Practicing general neurosurgery , spine surgery with special interest in Neurotrauma ,spinal cord injury, Complex spinal surgery ,Minimally invasive spine surgery, endoscopic spine surgery.

India

I am a Neurosurgeon with 15 years of experience in public as well as private sector in India, with special interest in complex spine surgeries. Trained in India's prestigious medical schools including Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute, Trivandrum, Christian Medical College, Vellore and NIMHANS, Bengaluru, I did my fellowship in advanced spine surgery at AIMS, Kochi- an AO spine recognized training centre. A speaker of national and international conferences and author of several international publications, I have vast surgical expertise in the field of brain and spine surgery. Currently working as academic faculty in SCTIMST Trivandrum, India I am involved in many extramurally funded research projects in the field of spine surgery. I have been a mentor to several Neurosurgery Post graduates and is also involved in academic training of Neurosurgery Residents. Special areas of interest include minimally invasive spine surgery, spine deformity surgery, Neurosurgical Oncology and spine tumor surgery.

Kazakhstan

Iroda Mammadinova is a 3rd year neurosurgical resident at the National Center for Neurosurgery in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Russia

Polina Ochirova was born in 1987 in Russia, in Kurgan.

Scientific Secretary, Ph.D., traumatologist-orthopedist, vertebrologist.

Member of the federal experts in the treatment of patients with orphan, systemic genetic pathology.

Education:

In 2011 she graduated from Rostov State Medical University specialty ""Pediatrics"".

In the Federal State Budgetary Institution ""National Ilizarov Medical Research Centre for Traumatology and Ortopaedics"" Ministry Healthcare, Russian Federation:

from September 2011 to July 2013 in clinical residency;

from September 2013 to August 2016 in the postgraduate course of the Ilizarov Center.

In 2017, Polina Vyacheslavovna defended her Ph.D. thesis on the topic:

«Surgical treatment of patients with vertebral syndromes on the background of genetic diseases.""

Publications:

Co-author of 20 scientific papers in journals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission.

Area of scientific and practical work:

• Surgical treatment of congenital and acquired spinal deformities, including number of multiple and combined anomalies.
• Surgical treatment of anomalies (malformations) of the spinal canal and spinal brain.
• Pathology of the spine in children with genetic diseases:
  Various variants of spinal dysplasia: (spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, achondroplasia, Knist's disease, Jansen's chondroplasia, Olier's dychondroplasia, imperfect osteogenesis)
• Storage diseases: Mucopolysaccharidosis of all types: MPS type IH (Hurler syndrome), MPS type IS (Scheie syndrome), MPS type IH/S (Gurler-Scheie syndrome), MPS type II (Hunter syndrome), MPS type III (Sanfilippo syndrome), MPS type IV (Morkio syndrome), MPS type VI (Maroteau-Lami syndrome), MPS type VII (Sly syndrome)
• Chromosomal: neurofibromatosis, Down syndrome, Marfan, Ehlers-Danlos, Sotos (syndrome of cerebral gigantism), Freeman-Sheldon (cranio-carpo-tarsal dysplasia), Goldenhar (oculo-auriculo-vertebral dysplasia), Larsen, Shereshevsky-Turner, Noonan syndrome, VACTERL-syndrome, Langer-Gidion (tricho-rhino-phalangeal syndrome).

On October 20–24, 2019 Ochirova P.V. represented Russia at the international pediatric neurosurgical conference in Birmingham (47TH ANNUAL MEETING, BIRMINGHAM, UK - ISPN 2019) with a report on the features of surgical treatment of patients with various types of mucopolysaccharidosis.

Awards:

• 2020 – Laureate of the Kurgan Region Governor’s Prize in the nomination “For high achievements in professional activity.
• 2021 - the winner of the League of Lecturers competition of the Russian society ""Knowledge"".
• 2021 - winner of the first educational award ""Knowledge"" in the nomination ""For contribution to education in the field of ""Science and Technology.

Speciality: Consultant Neurosurgeon and Paediatric Neurosurgeon for last 14 years
Qualifications: MBBS, FRCS, FCPS, FRCS (Surgical Neurology)
Fellowships: Paediatric Neurosurgery Spinal Surgery Intercollegiate Examination of Neurosurgery, United Kingdom College of Physician and Surgeon of Pakistan
Specialist Membership: British society of Neurosurgeon Walter E Dandy Neurosurgical Society USA Emirates society of Neurosurgeon British Association of Spine Surgeon A O Neurosurgery and Spine International Award Zenith Global Award for Health 2017, London UK Examiner for HAAD license for Neurosurgery
Consultant Specialist (2019 - 2021) Employment
Al Jalila Children Speciality Hospital, Dubai 15th August 2022 uptil now
Consultant Pediatric Neurosurgeon Sheikh Khalifa Medical City Abu Dhabi March 2014 till July 2022
Consultant Neurosurgeon & Pediatric Neurosurgeon Thornbury & Claremont Hospitals, Sheffield &
Consultant Neurosurgeon& Spinal Neurosurgeon Barl borough NHS Treatment Centre, Chesterfield
Consultant Neurosurgeon& Spinal Neurosurgeon Sept2012 to March 2014 Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen
Consultant Neurosurgeon & Spinal Neurosurgeon (Sep2011 - Aug2012) Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad
Consultant Neurosurgeon & Pediatric Neurosurgeon (May2010 - Sep2011) University Hospital of North Staffordshire
Consultant Neurosurgeon& Spinal Neurosurgeon (Dec2008 - May2010) University Hospital Cardiff
Consultant Neurosurgeon& Pediatric Neurosurgeon Jan2008 - October2008
UAE

After gaining enough clinical and leadership skills, I came to UK in 1996 and retrained myself as Neurosurgeon. My higher surgical training in Neurosurgery was undertaken at Kings College Hospital London, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford and in Birmingham Children Hospital. where I completed my fellowship in Paediatric and Spinal Neurosurgery in University hospital of North Staffordshire, stoke on Trent. Acquired extensive experience in treating patients with Paediatric Neurosurgery and spine diseases and has successfully managed patients in NHS setup and performed simple and complex general Neurosurgery, spinal and paediatric Neurosurgical procedures.

Since January 2008, Working as a Consultant Neurosurgeon with a special interest in Paediatric Neurosurgery.After working for last 8 years as consultant Neurosurgeon. I came as Consultant Neurosurgeon and Paediatric Neurosurgeon in SKMC Abu Dhabi UAE, since March 2014 till July 2022, in SKMC ,now presently working as Senior Consultant Pediatric Neurosurgeon at Al Jalila Children speciality Hospital is 300 beds hospital with all modern Facilities with 22 beds Paediatric ICU and 10 beds NICU and High dependant Unit, My primary responsibility is as Paediatric Neurosurgeon.Manage patients with brain tumours, complex hydrocephalus,craniofacial, Epilepsy surgery congenital skull and spine diseases.

In previous responsibility was managing serious head Injury in our PICU according to Trauma foundation guideline and saved many paediatric patients and prevent serious morbidity and poor outcome.we are also supporting a very busy Neonatal ICU with a capacity of 80 cots, especially premature babies with IVH and complex hydrocephalus and myelomeningocele.

I have a excellent academic and teaching background and has presented papers at National and International meetings, taught under graduate medical and nursing students and post graduate doctors in Neurosurgery and Spinal surgery.

I was faculty for FRCS Neurosurgery Exams course in Aberdeen and participated in the European Spine Diploma Course and MENA region VNS workshop as instructor has gained extensive knowledge in minimally invasive and image guided surgery.

I am a Graduate of Dow Medical College,Karachi. After my Residency in General Surgery from Aga Khan University Hospital I took the responsibility as Consultant General Surgeon with concept of comprehensive Surgeon in a rural set up of Northern Pakistan who could manage Acute General Surgery, Gyne and Obstetrics, Urology and Orthopaedics which was the service demands for nearly 250,000-300,000 populations. The medical centre had 30 bedsfacilities with one Operating theatre and functioning Laboratory radiology dept with ultra sound and routine Xray machine which was funded and supported byAga University hospital and Aga Khan health support(AKHS).

During my stay over two years we reduced the maternal mortality from 10-12 per year to 1per year and infant mortality reduction to 30 % less from the period when I took the responsibility. Because of this facility we could provide timely intervention and treatment in a rural setup and lack of medical facilities in the region.

My second responsibility was as In charge in Ghana in a 70 Bed Missionary hospital for Acute Medical,Surgical and gynaecological diseases,where I was the main General and obstetrics Surgeon, my experienced of northern Pakistan help me to run this hospital in Sub Sarah Desert area with almost none medical facilities, with my team and my stay over 1 yrs I used to see 100-150 patients per day in OPD and performed more than 500 major and minor surgical and Obstetrics procedures which saved many life’s and prevent serious morbidity due to timely intervention.

UAE

Dr. Mohamed Arnaout is associate professor and faculty member in Neurosurgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt. Neurosurgeon in Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

He worked as a clinical and/or research fellow in some countries as Italy and United States of America.

In addition to the plenty of conferences and workshops, He was a faculty member for WFNS congress. He served as a faculty and organizing committee for the Skull base and vascular bypass course 2019& 2021 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

He is a peer reviewer for many prestigious international journals, besides the national and international publications. His main research interests are; general neurosurgery, traumatology, endoscopic skull base, pituitary and other minimal invasive cranial and spine surgeries in addition to pediatric neurosurgery.

Ethiopia

After graduating from Jimma university medical school, I have served at Jimma University in the Department of Surgery as a lecturer for six months after which I joined Black Lion Hospital, Addis Ababa University for specialization program in neurosurgery. I completed neurosurgery residency program at black lion , Addis Ababa University in Dec. 2015. After graduation I have established and run a neurosurgical service at Hawasa University for two years from 2016 and 2017 operating on more than one thousand cases both emergency and elective. From 2017- 2021 I have established and served at Bahir Dar university as an assistant professor of neurosurgery , teaching surgery residents and operating more than a thousand elective and emergency cases. Currently serving as case team leader for neurosurgery service at the level of expert neurosurgeon at Zewditu hospital.

Ethiopia

Dr Yemisirach Bizuneh Akililu is a consultant neurosurgeon at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia since 2019G.C. She has been a fellow graduate of COSECSA(ECSA) since 2018G.C. In addition to this, she has been involved in different research activities. Besides her surgical career, she has an interest in participating on outreach programs organized by different institutions.

You can reach her at Yemisirachbizuneh@gmail.com

UAE

Dr. Thaer Darwish is a German board certified consultant neurosurgeon with an MD (Medical Doctor) Degree recognition from the USA, research experience at Harvard Medical School, and extensive work experience with various hospitals in Germany, where he did his neurosurgical specialization. Dr. Darwish's rich work experience includes positions held at Bochum University hospital, Bergmannsheil & Children Hospital in Gelsenkirchen, and Paderborn Spinal Centre, Georg-August University, Göttingen in Germany.

Dr. Darwish performs simple and complex procedures, including minimall invasive lumbar, cervical and thoracic spine surgeries - both endoscopic and microscopic, trans-thoracic (thoracoscopic) or microscopic approaches for thoracic spine, retroperitoneal approaches for lumbar spine and percutaneous minimal invasive spinal fixation of spine.

He is an expert at tumour surgery of the spine and spinal cord (microscopic approaches), peripheral nerve surgeries, brain tumour surgeries (microscopic), traumatic brain injury surgery (sub/epidural haematoma, skull fractures, skull base injury), intracerebral/intraventricular haemorrhage surgery, brain anomalies surgeries and brain & spine vascular surgeries (aneurysms, AV-malformations, cavernomas, etc.). Dr Darwish also provides conservative pain management for all spinal issues and treatment of all spinal degenerative changes.

Dr. Darwish has an extensive experience in robotic spine surgeries.

Dr Darwish is a member of numerous professional associations related to his specialisation, including the Medical Association of Germany, the American Association of Neurological Surgery AANS, the German Society of Neurosurgery, (DGNC), ECFMG USA, GMC UK.

In addition to his work, Dr Darwish makes time to pursue his passion for travel, sports and music. He is fluent in Arabic, English and German

United Kingdom

After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Mr Demetriades completed his basic surgical training on the prestigious Basic Surgical Rotation at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals and at Queen Square, London. He entered the Higher Surgical Training programme on the South London circuit and trained as a Senior Registrar at King’s College Hospital, St. George’s Hospital, and Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals. He then completed fellowships in skull base surgery with Professor Kawase in Tokyo, and in complex spine surgery with Professor Meyer in Munich. Furthermore, he undertook another Complex Spine Fellowship with the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Oxford.

He is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Royal Infirmary of the University of Edinburgh.

He has previously served as the Secretary of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), Chairman of the EANS Young Neurosurgeon’s Committee, and Chair of the Individual Membership Committee, with contributions to several other EANS committees.

His main research interests are outcome studies in clinical neurosurgery, including traumatic brain injury, spinal trauma; polytrauma; Trigeminal neuralgia; and history of neuroscience.

He currently serves as President of the EANS.

MD, FAAP, FAANS, FACS
United States

Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery and the Director of Leon Pediatric Neuroscience Center of Excellence at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, Florida. He serves as Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Central Florida (UCF) College of Medicine.

South Africa

Graham Fieggen studied medicine at the University of Cape Town and completed an MSc in neuroscience in London before specialising in neurosurgery at UCT. He received an MD for work done with a multidisciplinary team of biomedical engineers, land surveyors and neurosurgeons developing a novel stereotactic surgical device, the Cape Town Stereotactic Pointer.

He trained further in paediatric neurosurgery and ran the service at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital for 10 years before being appointed as Helen and Morris Mauerberger Chair and Head of the Division of Neurosurgery at UCT in 2008. He is currently Head of the Department of Surgery and inaugural Director of the interdisciplinary UCT Neuroscience Institute.

His clinical and research interests span functional and paediatric neurosurgery, as well as global surgery, with a focus on epilepsy, spasticity, hydrocephalus and neural tube defects. He served as president of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery and the Society of Neurosurgeons of South Africa and chairs the 18th WFNS World Congress of Neurosurgery to be held in Cape Town in December 2023.

India

Young neurosurgeon aspiring to attain quality in skills and knowledge,passionate in the field of spine surgery. Presently fellow in minimal access and advanced spine surgery in a prestigious institution in the south of India.

Professor and Head of Neurosurgery, Peshawar
Pakistan

UAE

Dr. Derek Mendonca is British and American trained Board Certified Plastic Surgeon [FRCS Plastic Surgery] at Al Jalila Children’s Hospital. He is also an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Mohammed Bin Rashid University for Health and Medical Sciences (MBRU). Dr. Derek specializes in Paediatric Plastic and Craniofacial Surgery.

He was the first surgeon to introduce endoscopic craniosynostosis surgery to South Asia. Dr. Derek is the author of the textbook: Childrens Plastic Surgery. He has 2 patent pending inventions in the field of cleft and craniofacial surgery, which are being further developed by the University of Cambridge.

MD PhD,
UAE

Chief of the Neurological Institute and Department Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi since it’s inception in 2014.

Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Dr. Roser served as Chief of Staff in the Department of Neurosurgery and is holding the position of Full Professor of Neurosurgery at the Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen in Germany. Additionally, he serves as Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, US.

Dr. Roser has authored over 120 peer-reviewed articles and has presented more than 170 invited lectures worldwide. He is Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery and Editor (Spine) of World Neurosurgery (both Elsevier Journals). Furthermore, Dr. Roser has received several research grants from prestigious research institutions, for basic molecular research on meningioma tissue, clinical research on diagnostics in Syringomyelia and technical innovations in surgical anatomy. Since May 2017 Dr. Roser is Adjunct Professor at Biomedical Engineering Faculty at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi.

Dr. Roser is a graduate of the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany, and studied Medicine in Morgantown, West Virginia, US, as well as in Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed his residency in the prestigious Department of Neurosurgery, Klinikum Hannover Nordstadt.

Israel

Started neurosurgical career in 1981 in Russia. Additional Neurosurgical residence in Israel (1992-1997), senior neurosurgeon (2000-2010), director of Skull Base Unit (2010-2019) –Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital. Senior lecturer (2001-2015) and associate professor (2016-2019) of Medical School of Hebrew University. Currently –Director of Neurosurgical center at Assuta Hospital, Tel-Aviv, clinical professor of Ben Gurion University of Negev.

Skull Base Fellowships – OHSU (Oregon Health Sciences University) USA, open skull base and neurovascular surgery (1998-1999), endoscopic skull base surgery (2010).

Interests – skull base surgery, endoscopic surgery, neurovascular surgery, neurooncology.

Iran

I am a Professor of Neurosurgery and the Director of the Skull Base Surgery Fellowship and Endoscopic Center at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, which is one of the best medical universities in Iran and West Asia. I am the Founder and Director of a Multidisciplinary Pituitary Surgery Center established in 2009; Besides teaching and mentoring medical students, and performing complex brain and spine surgeries, I am an innovative researcher. I have Co-founded a number of Research Centers in Iran including the Iran Neurospine Society which is the first skull base research centre in Iran. I was the Deputy for Research of Neurosurgery Ward at Loghman Hospital from 2006 to 2019. I have attended many important training courses in prestigious neurosurgery centres around the world including USA and Italy. I am a member of the Congress of Neurosurgical Surgeons in the US.