NEUROSURGERY Publications Board Members & Staff

ALGERIA

Benaissa Abdennebi
Clinique El Hilal Larbatache
Algiers, Algeria

ARGENTINA

Armando Basso
University of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina

AUSTRALIA

Andrew H. Kaye
Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centre
Melbourne, Australia

AUSTRIA

Engelbert Knosp
Retired
Vienna, Austria

BELGIUM

Christian Raftopoulos
University Hospital St-Luc; Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
Brussels, Belgium

Dirk Van Roost
Ghent University Hospital
Ghent, Belgium

BRAZIL

Apio Antunes
Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre Medical School
Porto Alegre, Brazil

Luis A. B. Borba
Federal University of Parana
Curitiba, Brazil

Raul Marino Jr
Instituto Neurológico de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil

CANADA

Michael Fehlings
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

J. Max Findlay
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

R. Loch Macdonald
University of California San Francisco, Fresno Campus
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rajiv Midha
Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

James Rutka
University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

CHILE

Jaime Pinto
Universidad de Concepcion, Clinica Biobio
Concepción, Chile

CHINA

Juha A. Hernesniemi
"Juha International Center for Neurosurgery", Henan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Zhengzhou
Henan, China

Yuan-Li Zhao
Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University
Beijing, China

CROATIA

Krešimir Rotim
University Hospital Center Sisters of Mercy, School of Medicine University of Osijek
Zagreb, Croatia

CZECH REPUBLIC

Vladimir Benes
Institute of Clinical Neurodisciplines, Central Military Hospital Prague, Charles Univ Prague
Prague, Czech Republic

DENMARK

Tiit Mathiesen
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet
Copenhagen, Denmark

EGYPT

Mohamed El-Fiki
University of Alexandria
Alexandria, Egypt​

Nasser El-Ghandour
Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt​

Adel E Hakim
Ain Shams University
Cairo, Egypt

FINLAND

Mika Niemelä
HUS Neurocenter, Helsinki University
Helsinki, Finland

FRANCE

Philippe Coubes
Gui de Chauliac Hospital, Montpellier University Medical Center
Montpellier, France

Philippe Menei
University Hospital of Angers, Angers University – INSERM
Angers, France

Jean Regis
Aix Marseille University
Marseille, France

Marc Sindou
University of Lyon
Lyon, France

GERMANY

Michael Buchfelder
University Hospital Erlangen
Erlangen, Germany

Rudolf Fahlbusch
International Neuroscience Institute
Hannover, Germany

Maixmilian Mehdorn
University Clinics Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Mehdorn-Consilium Private Practice
Keil, Germany

Bernhard Meyer
Technical University of Munich
Munich, Germany

Viet Rohde
University of Goettingen
Gottingen, Germany

Joerg-Christian Tonn
LMU, Campus Grosshadern
Munich, Germany

Manfred Westphal
University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf
Hamburg, Germany

GREECE

Kostas Fountas
University of Thessaly Larisa
Larisa, Greece

INDIA

Basant Misra
P D Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Center
Mumbai, India

Suresh Nair
Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences & Technology
Trivandrum, India

INDONESIA

Eka Wahjoepramono
Siloam Hospitals Lippo Village
Tangerang, Indonesia

ISRAEL

Nachshon Knoller
Chaim Sheba Medical Center
Tel Hashomer, Israel

Zvi Ram
Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine
Tel Aviv, Israel

ITALY

Giovanni Broggi
Fond Istituto Neurologico C, M Cecilia Hospital GVM, Ist. Citta di Pavia, Fond I.E.N. Milano
Milan, Italy

Fabio Calbucci
Maria Cecilia Hospital
Bologna, Italy

Paolo Cappabianca
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Naples, Italy

Francesco Tomasello
HUMANITAS, Istituto Clinico Catanese, University of Messina
Messina, Italy

JORDAN

Ibrahim Sbeih
Farah Medical Campus
Amman, Jordan

KOREA

Sun Ho Kim
Yonsei Brain Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine
Seoul, Korea

MEXICO

Jesus Ramiro del Valle Robles
Médica Sur Hospital
Mexico City, Mexico

Gerardo Guinto-Balanzar
Centro Neurológico ABC
Mexico City, Mexico

Blas E. Lopez-Felix
Hospital de Especialidades, Centro Medico Nacional Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexico del Seguro Social, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico

Rodrigo Ramos-Zúñiga
Institute of Translational Neurosciences, University of Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Mexico

MOROCCO

Naija El Abbadi
Abulcasis International University of Health Sciences
Rabat, Morocco

NETHERLANDS

Ronald H.M.A. Bartels
Radboud University Medical Center
Nijmegen, Netherlands

NIGERIA

Temitayo Shokunbi
College of Medicine, University of Ibadan
Ibadan, Nigeria

Olawale A.R. Sulaiman
RNZ Neurosciences
Lagos, Nigeria

NORWAY

Morten Lund-Johansen
Haukeland University Hospital, University of Bergen
Bergen, Norway

Einar O. Vik-Mo
Oslo University Hospital
Oslo, Norway

PAKISTAN

Rashid Jooma
The Aga Khan University Medical College
Karachi, Pakistan

ROMANIA

Alexandru Vlad Ciurea
Sanador Clinical Hospital Bucharest
Bucharest, Romania

SAUDI ARABIA

Imad N. Kanaan
KFSH & Research Center, Alfaisal University - College of Medicine
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

SERBIA

Lukas G. Rasulić
Clinic for Neurosurgery
Clinial Center of Serbia
Belgrade, Serbia

SLOVAKIA

Juraj Steno
Comenius University
Bratislava, Slovakia

SOUTH AFRICA

Graham Fieggen
Neuroscience Institute
Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa

SPAIN

Miguel A. Arraez
Carlos Haya University Hospital, University of Malaga
Malaga, Spain

Enric Ferrer
Hospital CLINIC and Hospital Sant Joan de Déu
University of Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain

SWEDEN

Niklas Marklund
Lund University
Lund, Sweden

Mikael Svensson
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden

SWITZERLAND

Karl Schaller
Geneva University Medical Center
Geneva, Switzerland

TAIWAN

Young-Kwang Tu
Naitonal Taiwan University Hospital
Taipei City, Taiwan

TURKEY

Nejat Akalan
Medipol University Hospitals
Istanbul, Turkey

Necmettin Pamir
Acibadem University, School of Medicine
Istanbul, Turkey

Uğur Türe
Yeditepe University School of Medicine
Istanbul, Turkey

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Mohammad Al-Olama
Rashid Hospital, Dubai Health Authority
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

UNITED KINGDOM

Neil Kitchen
The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
London, United Kingdom

R. J. Laing
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Cambridge, United Kingdom​​​​​​​

ZIMBABWE

Kazadi Kalangu
University of Zimbabwe
Harare, Zimbabwe

J. Timothy Greenamyre
Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Fadi Nahab
Emory University, Emory Healthcare
Atlanta, GA, USA

David Schiff
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, USA

Kevin Sheth
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA

M. Beatriz Lopes
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, VA, USA

Suzanne Penna
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA

Jason W. Allen
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA

Girish M. Fatterpekar
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA

Benjamin Huang
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Otto Rapalino
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard
Boston, MA, USA

Lubdha M. Shah
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Maria Vittoria Spampinato
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC, USA

Emine Bayman
College of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA, USA

Bo Cai
Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC, USA

Jeffrey Dawson
University of Iowa College of Public Health
Iowa City, IA, USA

Courtney McCracken
Center for Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Georgia
Atlanta, GA, USA

Songfeng Wang
Wells Fargo & Company
West Des Moines, IA, USA

Julian Wolfson
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Jiajia Zhang
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC, USA

David F. Bauer
Baylor College of Medicine; Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, TX, USA

Andrew P. Carlson
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Albuquerque, NM, USA

Maribeth H. Johnson
Retired
Augusta, GA, USA

Michael Maia Schlüssel
Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom

Beverly C. Walters
Retired
Ormond Beach, FL, USA

Ollie Burton
Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick
West Midlands, United Kingdom

Luis Alberto Domitrovic
Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

Brandon Smith
University of Cambridge
London, United Kingdom

Staša Tumpa
School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

2020-2021 NEUROSURGERY
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Tarek El Ahmadieh
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York NY, USA

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Resident Fellow

Matthew J. McPheeters
State University of New York
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY, USA

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Owoicho Adogwa
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, TX, USA

Rushna Ali
Spectrum Health
Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Justin Mascitelli
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX, USA

Carolyn Quinsey
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Olabisi Sanusi
Lansing Neurosurgery, A Subdivision of Compass Health
Lansing, MI, USA

John H. Shin
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA

Martina Stippler
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA, USA

Chengyuan Wu
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Isaac Yang
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Najib El Tecle
St. Louis University Hospital
St. Louis, MO, USA

Christina Jackson
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA

Martin Piazza
University of North Carolina Hospitals
Chapel Hill, NC USA

Nabiha Quadri
St. Louis University Hospital
St. Louis, MO, USA

Laura K. Reed
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center/Texas A&M College of Medicine
Temple, TX, USA

David J. Segar
Harvard Medical School
Brigham & Women's Hospital & Boston Children's Hospital,
Boston, MA USA

Jasmine Thum
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Jorge F. Urquiaga
St. Louis University Hospital
St. Louis, MO, USA

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Jessica Striley
NEUROSURGERY Publications
Schaumburg, IL, USA

Contributors

Sergey Abeshaus
Galilee Medical Center, Bar-Ilhan University
Nahariya, Israel

Georges Abi Lahoud
Sainte-Anne University Hospital, Paris Descartes University
Paris, France

Francesco Acerbi
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico, C. Besta Milano
Milan, Italy

Fadi Al-Saiegh
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Ali Alaraj
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA

Carlos Alarcon
Hospital Universitari Mutua de Terrassa
Barcelona, Spain

Ahmed M. Alkhani
King Abdulaziz Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Cargill H. Alleyne, Jr
University Neuroscience Augusta Back
Augusta, GA, USA

Joao Paulo C. Almeida, Jr
State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
Fortaleza, Brazil

Carlos E. Alvarez
Instituto de Cerebro y la Columna Vertebral
Lima, Peru

José Luís Alves
Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra
Coimbra, Portugal

Masaru Aoyagi
Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Tokyo, Japan

Kenichiro Asano
Hirosaki University
Hirosaki, Japan

Luis Ascanio-Cortez
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA, USA

William W. Ashley
Sinai Hospital and LifeBridge Health System
Baltimore, MD, USA

Oluwakemi Aderonke Badejo
College of Medicine, University of Ibadan
Ibadan, Nigeria

Juan Barges Coll
National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Mexico City, Mexico

Daniele Bongetta
Ospedale Fatebenefratelli e Oftalmico
Milan, Italy

Michael Bruneau
Erasme Hospital
Brussels, Belgium

Alvaro Campero
Hospital Zenón Santillán, San Miguel de Tucumán
Tucumán, Argentina

Francesco Cardinal
Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital
Milan, Italy

Rodrigo Carrasco
Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal
Madrid, Spain

Alfredo Conti
Charité Universitätsmedizin
Berlin, Germany

Danilo De Paulis
Sea Hospital
Naples, Italy

Marcos Dellaretti
Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Roberto Jose Diaz
Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Ricardo Diez Valle
Clinica Universidad de Navarra
Pamplona, Spain

Hugo Leonardo Doria-Netto
CNC-Centro de Neurociência
São Paulo, Brazil

Zhuoying Du
Huashan Hospital, Fudan University
Shanghai, China

Mohamed El Beltagy
Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt

Nasser M.F. El-Ghandour
Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt

Toshiki Endo
Tohoku University
Sendai, Japan

Alejandro Enriquez-Marulanda
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA, USA

Mikhail Gelfenbeyn
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA

Alexiou A. Georgios
University Hospital of Ioannina
Ioannina, Greece

George Georgoulis
General Hospital of Athens "G. Gennimatas"
Athens, Greece

Toshiaki Hayashi
Sendai City Hospital
Sendai, Japan

Yoshinori Higuchi
Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine
Chiba City, Japan

Maurizio Iacoangeli
March Polytechnic University, Umberto I General Hospital
Ancona, Italy

Tomoo Inoue
Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
Sendai, Japan

Xiaochun Jiang
Yi Ji Shan Hospital (the First Affiliated Hospital), Wannan Medical College
Wuhu, China

Ariel M. Kaen
Hospital Virgen del Rocío
Sevilla, Spain

Tae Gon Kim
Bundang CHA Hospital
Seongnam, Republic of Korea

Hidehito Kimura
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine
Kobe, Japan

Ryu Kurokawa
Dokkyo University Hospital
Tochigi, Japan

Francisco Alberto Mannará
Fernández Hospital
Buenos Aires City, Argentina

Stavros Matsoukas
Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, NY, USA

Yoshikazu Matsuda
Showa University, Fujigaoka Hospital
Kanagawa, Japan

Edouard Mazerand
University of Angers
Angers, France

Charbel Moussalem
American Univeristy of Beirut Medical Center
Beirut, Lebanon

Jun Muto
Keio University, School of Medicine
Tokyo, Japan

Elizabeth Ogando-Rivas
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, USA

Soichi Oya
Saitama Medical Center/University
Saitama, Japan

Sun Ha Paek
Seoul National University, College of Medicine
Seoul, Republic of Korea

Themistoklis Papasilekas
University of Athens Medical School
Athens, Greece

Suguna Pappu 
Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood, IL, USA

Hye Ran Park
Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital
Seoul, Republic of Korea

Kawngwoo Park
Gachon University Gil Medical Center
Incheon, Republic of Korea

Keun Young Park
Yonsei University College of Medicine
Seoul, Republic of Korea

Ramiro Antonio Pérez-de la Torre
Angeles Hospital
Mexico City, Mexico

Carlos Pérez-López
University Hospital La Paz
Madrid, Spain

Marina Pitsika   
Royal Victoria Infirmary
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

Eduardo Carvalhal Ribas
Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo Medicine School (HC-FMUSP),  and Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
São Paulo, Brazil

Michele Rizzi
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico "Carlo Besta"
Milan, Italy

Andrea Ruggeri
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Rome, Italy

Igor Paredes Sansinenea
University Hospital "12 de Octubre"
Madrid, Spain

Ibrahim Sbeih 
Farah Hospital
Amman, Jordan

Vsevolod Shurhkhay
Burdenko Institute of Neurosurgery
Moscow, Russia

Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye
Faculty of Medicine, Université Technologique Bel Campus
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Mohamed Amin Solima
Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt

Lin Song
Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University
Beijing, China

Hailiang Tang
Huashan Hospital, Fudan University
Shanghai, China

Natalia P. Timchenko
Sklifosovsky Scientific Research Institute of Emergency Medicine
Moscow, Russia

Christos P. Tsitsipanis
University Hospital of Heraklion
Heraklion, Greece

Kunal Vakharia
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL, USA

Junjie Wang
Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology
Beijing, China

Kai Wang
Weihai Central Hospital
Weihai, China

Andreas Zigouris
University Hospital of Ioannina
Ioannina, Greece

Xiang Zou
Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University
Shanghai, China

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Brandon J. Fiedor

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Caitlyn E.M. Trautwein

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Rachel J. Lowery

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Jessica L. Striley

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Erica L. Bryant

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Elizabeth Perill

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Regina Shupak

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Mark N. Hadley

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Edward Laws Jr (Editor Emeritus)
Ralph G. Dacey
Vincent N. Traynelis

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Robert Wilkins (1977-1982)
Clark Watts (1982-1987)
Edward Laws Jr (1987-1992)
Michael Apuzzo (1992-2009)

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Nicholas C. Bambakidis

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Elad l. Levy

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Alex A. Khalessi

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Martina Stippler

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Brian L. Hoh

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