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The International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN) seeks to promote the health of children throughout the world by encouraging the ethical transmission and exchange of neuroscientific information and techniques related to Pediatric Neurosurgery.

The Official Journal of the Society is Child's Nervous System

Child’s Nervous System encompasses all aspects of the pediatric neurosciences: development and growth, degenerative disorders, hereditary diseases, neurology, neurosurgery, neurooncology, neurophysiology, and trauma.

The 40th Annual Meeting of the ISPN will take place at The four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks, Sydney Australia from September 9th to 13th 2012.

The meeting will be unique in many ways, as it will mark several “firsts” for the ISPN. Firstly, it will be the first time Sydney has hosted the meeting. Having

successfully hosted the Olympic Games in 2000, the WFNS in 2001, World Youth Day in 2008 and Oprah Winfrey in 2010, Sydney has all the infrastructure and vision to give the ISPN Annual Meeting, the backdrop it deserves. Secondly, the scientific program will be devoted to a single theme, Complications. This is the first

time a meeting has concentrated on a single topic and the first time that the subject of Surgical Complications has held center stage. Thirdly, the Organisation Committee has identified neurosurgeons from developing countries as those in most need of continuing education and professional interaction with... Continue reading