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You can now register for episode VII of our ISPN Clash of the Titans webinar series: Open surgery is preferred over endoscopic techniques in surgery for craniosynostosis, to be held on Friday 4 September from 1PM GMT. Titans Federico di Rocco (France) and Mark Proctor (USA) will confront each other on this topic. To join our webinar, register […]

You can now register for our next, 6th in the series, ISPN Clash of the Titans webinar: Post pandemic the idea of global neurosurgery is irrelevant, to be held on Friday 21 August from 1PM GMT. Titans and former ISPN Presidents Graham Fieggen (South Africa) and William Harkness (UK) will confront each other on this topic. […]

Registration is now open for our fifth Clash of the Titans webinar:  Intracranial pressure monitoring is very useful in pediatric head injuries. Titans Anthony Figaji (South Africa) and Artur da Cunha (Brazil) will confront each other on this topic. The session will be moderated by Nelci Zanon (Brazil), Co-chair of the ISPN Education Committee. The […]

You can now register for our next, 4th in the series, ISPN Clash of the Titans webinar: ETV without CPC does not fulfil its purpose, to be held on Friday 17 July from 1PM GMT. Titans Abhaya Kulkarni (Canada) and Conor Mallucci (UK) will confront each other on this topic. The discussion will be moderated by […]

You are invited to join our next, 3rd in the series, second ISPN Clash of the Titans webinar: Bony decompression alone is enough for symptomatic Chiari malformation with syrinx in a child of 10 years, to be held on Friday 3 July from 1PM GMT. Titans Dominic Thompson (UK) and Gianpiero Tamburrini (Italy) will confront […]

The ISPN Education Committee invites you to join the second ISPN Clash of the Titans webinar: Fortification of cereals with folic acid is absolutely needed for the prevention of open neural tube defects, to be held on Friday 19 June from 1PM GMT. Titans Adrian Caceres (Costa Rica) and Wan Tew Seow (Singapore) will confront […]

As a professional organization whose primary focus is the delivery of the highest quality paediatric neurosurgical care to children all over the world, the ISPN has noted the current wave of protests around the world sparked by ongoing anger over discrimination based on race, and both the specific events as well as the cumulative history [...]

The ISPN Education Committee invites you to join the first ISPN Clash of the Titans webinar, to be held on Friday 5 June from 1PM GMT. Titans Shlomi Constantini (Israel) and Michel Zerah (France) will confront each other on the topic ‘In pediatric neurosurgery prenatal radiological investigations do not serve any use‘. The discussion will […]

Due to the global uncertainties and travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ISPN Executive Board had made the very difficult decision to postpone the 48th Annual Meeting, originally scheduled to be held in Singapore in October 2020.  The Annual Meeting will still take place in Singapore, at the same venue (Marina Bay Sands […]

We are greatly saddened to report that James T. Goodrich passed away early this morning. He has stricken with the COVID-19 virus last week and had been undergoing treatment at our hospital since his admission last Wednesday. We deeply appreciate all your thoughts during the last few days and know you share our deep sense […]

We are very saddened to announce the passing of Robin Humphreys on March 18, 2020. Robin was Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto and Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the Hospital for Sick Children from 1996 until his retirement in 2003. He was a titan of pediatric neurosurgery, and held the positions of […]

The ISPN supports different scholarships each year, in order to provide the younger generation, and mainly those from low and lower-middle income countries (per World Bank classification), with an opportunity to increase their knowledge in the field of pediatric neurosurgery. You can now apply for the ISPN 2020 Meeting Attendance Scholarship! The ISPN Meeting Attendance Scholarship […]