Invited Speakers from Overseas
The 76th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neurosurgical Society Invited Speakers from Overseas
Christopher P. Ames
Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery and
Orthopaedic Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
Lorenzo Bello
Head of Neurosurgical Oncology Unit
Humanitas Neuro and Cancer Center
Humanitas Research Hospital
Università degli Studi di Milano
Milano, Italy
Helmut Bertalanffy
Director - Vascular Neurosurgery
International Neuroscience Institute – Hannover
Hannover, Germany
Marco Catani
Professor
Neuroanatomy & Psychiatry
The head of the NatBrainLab
Institute of Psychiatry
Psychology and Neuroscience
King's College London
London, UK
P. Sarat Chandra
Professor of Neurosurgery
Department of Neurosurgery
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India
Steven D. Chang
Robert C. and Jeannette Powell Professor
Vice Chairman Neurosurgery, Strategic Development and Innovation
Director, Stanford Neurogenetics Oncology Program
Co-Director, Stanford Cyberknife Program
Department of Neurosurgery
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA, USA
René Chapot
Alfried-Krupp Krankenhaus Hospital
Department of Intracranial Endovascular Therapy
Essen, Germany
Fady T. Charbel
Professor and Head
Richard L. and Gertrude W. Fruin Professor
Chief of Neurovascular Section
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA
Federico Di Rocco
Professor of Neurosurgery
Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery
Neurological and Neurosurgical Hospital
Civils de Lyon
Lyon Bron Cedex, France
Ann-Christine Duhaime
Director, Pediatric Neurosurgery
Director, Neurosurgical Trauma and Intensive Care
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
Sebastien Froelich
Professor and chairman
Department of Neurosurgery
Lariboisière Hospital, Paris
Paris, France
Howard J. Ginsberg
Assistant Professor of Division of Neurosurgery
University of Toronto
St. Michael’s Hospital
Toronto, Canada
Mayank Goyal
Professor, University of Calgary
Director of Research, Department of Diagnostic Imaging
Seaman Family MR Research Centre
Calgary, Canada
Nikolai Hopf
Director NeuroChirurgicum
Center for Endoscopic and Minimal Invasive Neurosurgery
Stuttgart, Germany
Jeong Eun Kim
Professor
Seoul National University Hospital
Seoul National University, College of Medicine
Seoul, Republic of Korea
Michael Morgan
Professor of Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery
Macquarie University Hospital
Macquarie University
New South Wales, Australia
Bart Nuttin
Full professor of KU Leuven
Research Coordinator Group of
Biomedical Sciences KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
Hideho Okada
Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
Antonio M. Omuro
Neuro-oncologist
Department of Neurology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, USA
Arie Perry
Professor of Pathology and Neurological Surgery
Department of Pathology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
James T. Rutka
R.S. McLaughlin Professor Chair
Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Nader Sanai
Director, Division of Neurosurgical Oncology
Director, Barrow Brain Tumor Research Center
Barrow Neurological Institute
Phoenix, AZ, USA
David Sandeman
Southmead Hospital in Bristol, UK
Franco Servadei
Director
Neurosurgery Neurotraumatology
Maggiore Hospital, University of Parma
Parma, Italy
Bhawani Shanker Sharma
Professor & Head
Department of Neurosurgery and Gamma Knife
Neurosciences Centre
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India
Adnan H. Siddiqui
Vice-Chairman & Professor of Neurosurgery
Director, Neuroendovascular Fellowship Program
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY, USA
Greg Sorensen
Executive Chairman
IMRIS Inc.
USA
Michael D. Taylor
Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Hospital for Sick Children
Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning (PGCRL)
Toronto, Canada
Peter Vajkoczy
Professor
Charité-Univsersitätsmedizin Berlin
Campus Virchow-Klinikum
Neurochirurgische Klinik der Charité
Berlin, Germany
David C. Van Essen
Alumni Endowed Professor
Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences
Washington University, St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA