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International & Local Faculty
 | Rick Abbott
USA
Born in New York, Rick Abbott spent his
childhood in Illinois and graduated from Colorado College in 1972. He completed a four-year tour of duty with the United States
Air Force following which he attended Baylor College of Medicine where he remained for Internship and Residency. In 1986 he served
as clinical fellow in Paediatric neurosurgery under Dr. Fred J. Epstein at New York University Medical Center and remained on the faculty
until he left in 1996 to help establish the Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. Since 2004
he has been Professor of Clinical Neurosurgery at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore. Dr Abbott has held numerous posts in national
and international Paediatric neurosurgery, including the AANS/CNS Joint Section, ASPN and ISPN and serves as Chairman of the
Credentials Committee of the American Board of Paediatric Neurological Surgery. Rick is blessed to have been supported by his wife
Lainy throughout his medical education and career. They have two grown boys, Richmond and John and a daughter-in-law, Tenille who
are a source of pride and joy to them. |
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 | David Adelson
USA
David Adelson is the A. Leland Albright Professor of Neurosurgery/ Paediatric Neurosurgery and Vice Chairman for Research for
the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. He is also the Director of the Center
for Injury Research and Control (CIRCL) and Paediatric Neurotrauma. Dr. Adelson received his B.A. and M.D. from Columbia University in
New York in 1986 and completed the neurosurgical residency program at UCLA in 1993. Following a fellowship in Paediatric
neurosurgery at Children's Hospital of Boston and Harvard Medical School, he joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh. He
maintains active basic science laboratory and clinical research programs in his areas of special interest, neural recovery and plasticity
in children. He has received multiple awards, including The Best Doctors in America, Young Investigator Award (Brain Injury Association)
and Congress of Neurological Surgeons Clinical Investigation Award and is President-elect of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. |
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 | Eric Bouffet
Canada
Eric Bouffet is Professor of Paediatrics, University of Toronto and Head of the Neuro-oncology Section at The Hospital for Sick Children,
Toronto. He graduated in 1980 at the University of Lyon where he started his Neuro-oncology career, becoming Head of the Department of
Neuro-oncology, Centre Leon Berard from 1992 - 1995. He then moved to the United Kingdom as a Consultant Paediatric Oncologist at the
Hospital for Sick Children, Bristol and then the Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton. In 2000, Dr. Bouffet was recruited to The Hospital for Sick
Children in Toronto to develop and head a multi-disciplinary paediatric Neuro-oncology Program within the Division of Haematology/
Oncology. Dr. Bouffet was Chairman of the Brain Tumour Committee of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) from
1998 - 2001. His research interests are in the area of novel treatments and clinical trials in children with brain tumours. Dr. Bouffet is author
of over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts and author/co-author on numerous book chapters in the field of Neuro-oncology. |
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 | Grant A. Bateman
Australia
Grant A. Bateman MBBS FRANZCR, is a neuroradiologist
and is the Director of Magnetic Resonance Imaging at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, Australia. He has an interest
in cerebral hydrodynamics, which is the movement of fluids into and around the cranial cavity. He uses an MRI based flow
quantification technique as a way of measuring both the bulk and dynamic flow characteristics of blood and CSF into and out of the brain.
Dr Bateman has published in the areas of hydrocephalus, intracranial hypertension and senile dementia. |
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 | Ross Bullock
USA
Ross Bullock is a Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of Clinical Neurotrauma at the University of Miami, and Jackson Hospital,
Miami. He is the only physician to have served as both President of the US National Neurotrauma Society, and later as Chairman
of the Trauma Section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He has been PI of an NINDS program Project grant
(Mitochondrial dysfunction in TBI), has an RO1 on Endogenous Stem cell regeneration in TBI and has generated over $11M in research
support for TBI. He obtained his medical training in Birmingham UK, and completed his residency training in Durban, South Africa, and
Glasgow, Scotland. He was Deputy Editor of the Journal of Neurotrauma for 14 years, and is a reviewer for thirteen other journals. Research
interests include pathomechanisms of TBI, neuroprotection trials, neuromonitoring and the role of stem cells in regeneration and repair.
He has co-authoured four sets of management guidelines, four books and over 250 papers. |
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 | Ann-Christine Duhaime
USA
Ann-Christine (Tina) Duhaime is Director of Paediatric Neurosurgery and Paediatric Neuroscience at the Children's Hospital at
Dartmouth, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA, and is Professor of Neurosurgery at Dartmouth Medical
School. She is Chair-Elect of the AAPNS/CNS. Dr. Duhaime received her neurosurgical training at the University of Pennsylvania and at the
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where she was an attending neurosurgeon until moving to Dartmouth in 2001. There she directs a general
academic Paediatric neurosurgical practice and has a special focus on epilepsy surgery, as well as being the Co-Director of the Paediatric
Trauma Program. Her research on traumatic brain injury during immaturity is funded by the National Institutes of Health and investigates
age-dependent differences in injury response and repair, as well as mechanisms of accidental and inflicted injuries. |
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 | James T. Goodrich
USA
Following undergraduate work at the University of California, Irvine and graduate work at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of
Columbia University, Dr Goodrich received a Masters and Doctorate of Philosophy. He received his Doctorate of Medicine from
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York and completed internship and residency at the Presbyterian
Hospital in the City of New York and the New York Neurological Institute. Dr. Goodrich is director of the Division of Paediatric Neurosurgery
at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore and is Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery, Paediatrics, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is also Professor Contralto of Neurological Surgery at the University of Palermo in Italy. Dr. Goodrich
recently received a Doctor of Science (honoris causa) and the neurosurgical team at the Children's Hospital of Montefiore received the
"Mayor's Award in Science and Technology", given at City Hall by Mayor Bloomberg, for the neurosurgical separation of the Aguirre
craniopagus twins. |
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 | Graham Fieggen
South Africa
Graham Fieggen succeeded Jonathan Peter as Helen and Morris Mauerberger Professor and Head of Neurosurgery at the University
of Cape Town in 2008. A descendent of the 1820 Settlers, he was born and raised in Port Elizabeth and studied Medicine at UCT. His
early student years were spent in Driekoppen Residence where the warden, Dr Warwick Peacock, inspired many with his enthusiasm
for his discipline. This was cemented by an elective in Neurosurgery spent at UCLA and an MSc (Neuroscience) in London in 1990.
After two years of General Practice in Canada, Graham was drawn back to South Africa by the exciting changes taking place and returned
to Cape Town to specialize in neurosurgery. Appointed consultant neurosurgeon at Red Cross Children's Hospital in 1997, his interests
include congenital conditions, hydrocephalus, stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. Heand Karen have two sons, Joshua and Liam. |
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 | Richard Hewlett
South Africa
Born & educated in East Africa, Dr Hewlett graduated MBChB at the University of Cape Town, following which he completed a
doctorate in comparative neuroanatomy. He trained in neuropathology with Dr Betty Brownell at Frenchay Regional Neurological
Center, Bristol, UK. He currently works as a consultant in neuropathology in the National Health Laboratory Service and the National
Forensic Service. His academic appointment in Anatomical Pathology at the Stellenbosch University Faculty of Health Sciences enables
him to pursue his major interests which include correlating pathology with MRI, CNS infection (especially neurotuberculosis) and forensic
neuropathology. |
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 | David F. Jimenez
USA
David F. Jimenez, M.D., F.A.C.S. grew up in Philadelphia, where he attended Temple University. He received his B.A. in Psychobiology
in 1980 and his medical degree at the Temple University School of Medicine in 1985. He completed his general surgery internship
in 1986 and neurosurgery residency at Temple University Hospital in 1991. Further training included a fellowship in Paediatric
neurosurgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center in New York. He has been a diplomate of the American
Board of Neurological Surgeons since 1995. He joined the staff of the University of Missouri in 1992, where he eventually became Professor
of Neurosurgery as well as Residency Program Director. He moved to San Antonio, Texas in July 2004 to assume his current position as Professor,
Chairman and Residency Program Director at UT Health Science Center San Antonio. With his wife, Constance M. Barone, M.D, Dr. Jimenez
pioneered minimally invasive surgery for the treatment of infantile craniosynostosis. |
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 | Patricia Kirby
USA
After completing Medical School at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1979, Dr Kirby specialised in Pathology at the University
of Stellenbosch, where she discovered a fascination for Neuropathology. Under the guidance of two of South Africa's leading
neuropathologists, Richard Hewlett and Stuart Rutherfoord, she undertook further training in this field; an MMed(Anat Path) was followed by
MRCPath (Nu) in 1993 and FRCPath in 2001. Dr Kirby worked at Red Cross Children's Hospital from 1994-1996 and then took up a joint
appointment in the Departments of Pathology and Ophthalmology at the University of Iowa. |
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 | Arnold Menezes
USA
Arnold Menezes is Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Iowa College of Medicine in Iowa
City, Iowa. His main areas of interest have been Paediatric and spinal neurosurgery as well as the posterior skull base. He has been active
in furthering these sections of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons as well as the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and
is a founding member of the North American Skull Base Society. He has authored over 175 peer-reviewed publications, 102 book chapters
and serves on seven editorial boards. His major textbooks include the first textbook on Craniovertebral Junction Abnormalities and
Principles of Spinal Surgery. He has made over 850 scientific presentations, including 56 visiting professorships throughout the United States
and abroad. He was instrumental in setting up spinal neurosurgery programs and fostering specialty education in Asia, Africa, Europe
and South America. Dr. Menezes was the honored guest of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in 2004 and is the president-elect of
the Neurosurgical Society of America. |
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 | Alvin Ndondo
South Africa
Married and blessed with three sons, Dr Alvin Ndondo grew up in Port Elizabeth and attended Medical School at the Medical
University of Southern Africa (MEDUNSA). Following Internship at the Cecilia Makiwane Hospital in Mdantsane (East London) and a
period working in the Departments of Medicine and Paediatrics, he specialised in Paediatrics at the King Edward VIII Hospital in Durban (Natal
University) and obtained the FCPaed (SA) in 1995. He worked in Neonatology and General Paediatrics in Durban and the Eastern Cape
before sub-specialising in Paediatric Neurology at the Red Cross Children's Hospital. Dr Ndondo received the Paediatric Neurology certificate in
2005 and currently works as a consultant at the Red Cross Children's Hospital where he has a special interest in Neurometabolic conditions
and is involved in a number of multi-disciplinary clinics, including the neurocutaneous and neuromuscular disease clinics. |
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 | Dachling Pang
USA
Dachling Pang graduated MD from the University of Toronto, Canada in 1972 and stayed there for residencies in General Surgery
and Neurosurgery. Following a fellowship in Paediatric Neurosurgery at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto in 1979, he joined
the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh as assistant professor of paediatric neurosurgery and in 1987 became Professor and Chief of
Paediatric Neurosurgery at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. In 1993 he moved to be Professor and Chief of Paediatric Neurosurgery at
University of California, Davis and is now also Chief of the Regional Centre of Paediatric Neurosurgery of Northern California Kaiser
Foundation Hospitals. His publications largely reflect his main research interests which include neuroembryology, paediatric spinal
injuries, spinal cord congenital malformations and craniopharyngioma. |
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 | Warwick Peacock
USA
Warwick Peacock completed his medical school training at the University of Cape Town and his neurosurgical residency at Groote
Schuur and Red Cross Hospitals in Cape Town. His fellowship in Paediatric neurosurgery was done at The Hospital for Sick Children in
Toronto. He became an associate professor in Cape Town before moving to Los Angeles and finally to the University of California at
San Francisco where he now teaches as Professor Emeritus. During his many years as a Paediatric neurosurgeon his main interests
were the management of movement disorders in children with cerebral palsy and the surgical treatment of intractable childhood epilepsy.
His laboratory research dealt with spasticity, epilepsy, hydrocephalus and spinal cord injury and has led to 150 scientific publications. Apart
from running a spasticity clinic and teaching residents he has retired from clinical practice and lives in Los Angeles where he does portrait
painting and plays the piano. |
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 | Harold Rekate
USA
Harold Rekate trained in neurosurgery and Paediatric neurosurgery at the University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve
University where he became an assistant professor of neurosurgery and Paediatrics. With grants from the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration and the National Institutes of Health he developed a cooperative relationship with the engineering school at
CWRU to study hydrocephalus and intracranial pressure. He was appointed adjunct professor of Systems and Design Engineering and his
group developed a mathematical model of ventricular volume regulation resulting in a systematic method for studying enigmatic
conditions of hydrocephalus. Dr. Rekate was board certified in Neurosurgery in 1980 and in Paediatric neurosurgery when the
American Board of Paediatric Neurosurgery was established in 1996. He has served as the Chairman of the AANS/CNS joint section and
President of ASPN and ISPN. |
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 | Paul Steinbok
Canada
Paul Steinbok was born in Barbados, completed medical school at the University of the West Indies in 1971 and residency in Neurosurgery in
Vancouver at the University of British Columbia. He is Head of the Division of Neurosurgery and Medical Director of the Neurosciences
program at BC Children's Hospital. Major areas of clinical interest include the surgical treatment of children with spastic cerebral
palsy, craniosynostosis, and epilepsy surgery. Dr. Steinbok is a full Professor at the University of British Columbia, in the Department of Surgery.
He has over 200 publications in peer reviewed journals and chapters in textbooks. He serves on the executive of the ASPN and ISPN of the
AANS/CNS joint section. He has a major interest in international education of Neurosurgeons in the field of Paediatric Neurosurgery and
has organised and participated in international courses in Argentina, Singapore, India, Morocco, Colombia and China. |
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 | Waney Squier
England
Waney Squier is a Consultant Neuropathologist to the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals and Honorary Clinical Lecturer in the University of Oxford.
She trained at the Institute of Psychiatry and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children and has specialised in the pathology of
the developing brain in the fetus and neonate. Dr Squier has edited a book "Acquired Damage to the Developing Brain: Timing and Causation"
and in the last ten years her experience with infant brain pathology has extended to many forensic cases of sudden unexpected
death in infancy where non-accidental injury is suspected. She is a member of the British Neuropathological Society and the British
Paediatric Neurology Association as well as a fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Pathologists. She loves
to travel and is a member of the Association de la Jurade de St Emilion, Treasurer of the Brillat- Savarin Dining Society in Oxford and has visited
many vineyards in South America, Australia, New Zealand and Europe, even in Oxfordshire. |
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 | Christopher Vaughan
South Africa
Christopher (Kit) Vaughan has held the Hyman Goldberg Chair in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cape Town since 1996, and
currently serves as Director of the Medical Imaging Research Unit and Deputy Dean for Research and Postgraduate Affairs in the
Faculty of Health Sciences. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health in the USA and involves two areas of
interest, the biomechanics of human gait, especially the locomotor function of children with cerebral palsy and the development of a
novel mammography system, based on digital X-rays, to detect breast cancer. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the International Academy
for Medical and Biological Engineering. |
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 | Matthieu Vinchon
France
Professor Matthieu Vinchon was born in France in 1962, studied medicine at Lille Catholic University, and completed his residency in
neurosurgery in Paris, graduating from University Lariboisière in 1992. He became a consultant in 1996, and has practiced neurosurgery in
Paris, Rouen and at Lille university hospitals. His training in Paediatric neurosurgery included residency in Necker and in Lille, the ESPN postgraduate
course between 1996 and 1998, and close collaboration with his mentor Patrick Dhellemmes during the last ten years, before
becoming his successor. Since 2004, he has been part of the faculty for the ESPN postgraduate course. He is a regular attendant of
the ESPN and ISPN meetings, and a member of the editorial board of Child's Nervous System since 2005. His practice covers all fields of
Paediatric neurosurgery but he has a particular interest in head injuries in infants and also the outcome of Paediatric patients in adulthood. |
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 | Marion Walker
USA
Marion (Jack) Walker was born in Columbia, Mississippi and attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where he played
football. Following medical school at the University of Tennessee, he pursued neurosurgical residency at the Barrow
Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, spending a year as a fellow at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Dr Walker was recruited
to the University of Utah where he established the Division of Paediatric Neurosurgery. He served as Division Chief for 28 years building
the service into one of the busiest in North America. Dr. Walker has been instrumental in the development of Paediatric neurosurgery
as a subspecialty and has been invited as a Visiting Professor to numerous centers around the world. He has been the AANS/CNS Joint
Section and President of the ASPN and ISPN. He has just completed his term as Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Journal of
Neurosurgery: Paediatrics and currently serves as Chairman of the Accreditation Council for Paediatric Neurosurgery Fellowships. |
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 | Jo Wilmshurst
South Africa
Associate Professor Jo Wilmshurst is Head
of Paediatric Neurology at the Red Cross Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town.
She completed her undergraduate studies at Guy's Hospital, in London, UK and has attained specialisation in paediatrics and subspecialisation
in paediatric neurology in the UK and South Africa. She has worked and trained in paediatric neurology units in the UK (Guy's
Hospital, King's College Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children) and Australia (The Children's Hospital in Westmead).
Her areas of interest, and peer reviewed publications, include epilepsy in childhood, neurophysiology of childhood disorders
and neuromuscular disorders of childhood. Professor Wilmshurst is a member of the executive committee of PANDA-SA (Paediatric Neurology and Development Association of
Southern Africa) and the executive board of the International Child Neurology Association. |
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 | Michel Zerah
France
Michel Zerah was born in 1956 in Paris where
he did his medical studies. He graduated in Mathematics and Computer Engeneering and has a PhD in Statistics. From 1985 to
1994 he was consultant in the department of Neurosurgery in Bicêtre where he worked with Pierre Lasjaunias. Since 1998 he is Professor
of Paediatric Neurosurgery in Necker Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris where he has been director of the Department of Paediatric
Surgery from 2000 - 2006. He is Chairman of the European Course of Paediatric Neurosurgery. He is specially involved in spinal and spinal
cord, genetic and metabolic and vascular diseases in children. |
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