Welcome to the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Web site. President's Address Dear Colleagues and Friends It is a great honour to be elected as President of the WSSFN. Our field of work is amongst the most exciting in medicine and science. Our society is vibrant and in a period of growth and prosperity. This spirit was captured at the WSSFN quadrennial meeting held in Rome, June 13-17, 2005 under President Brian Brophy and with Mario Meglio serving as the principal meeting organizer. Approximately 400 WSSFN members and guests participated in a program that highlighted innovations in surgery for psychiatric disorders, movement disorders, epilepsy and pain. These were complemented by important presentations on advances in basic sciences related to imaging and cellular neurophysiology. There were over 100 oral presentations and 150 poster presentations with over two dozens plenary lectures. The Spiegel and Wycis awards were presented to two luminaries in our field, Alim-Louis Benabid and Patrick Kelly. They join a long and distinguished list of pioneers who have previously been so-recognized. Two talented fellows, Drs Temel Yasin and Talamoni Fonoff were recognized and received awards for their outstanding papers. It is wonderful to know that there are so many talented young neurosurgeons in our field that are active in our society... Click here to read the full President's Address Yours sincerely, Andres M. Lozano, MD, PhD, FRCSC President New Newsletter On Its Way A 2007 WSSFN newsletter is currently being assembled. If you have topics of interest to the society that you would like included in the newsletter please contact the newsletter editor, Dr. Michael Oh. Click here to view the latest WSSFN newsletter. Shanghai Hosts WSSFN 2006 Interim Meeting Last July, Shanghai hosted the 2006 WSSFN interim meeting. The meeting, sponsored by WSSFN and hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University Rui Jin hospital, covered surgical treatment for movement disorders, pain, psychiatric disease, and epilepsy. Dr. Andres M. Lozano was the meeting chairman, and Drs. Benabid, Keplit, Kruss, Schulder, Taira, Delong, Chang, Aziz, Broggi, and Zhang were among those who gave the 36 plenary lectures. It was the first time that WSSFN meeting was held in Asia. Attendees from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong were joined by 250 WSSFN members from 15 other countries throughout the world. The event was considered a tremendous success by those who attended.

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