(Formerly International Neurosurgery)

Chair, Co-Chair: Ekkehard Kasper, MD and Kate Drummond, MD
Members:  Anandh Balasubramanian, MD, James Balogun, MD,  Dominik Cordier, MD, Ather Enam, MD, Sameh Elmorsy Hassan, MD, Lindy Jeffree, MD, Francesco DiMeco, MD, Okezie Obasi Kanu, MD, Ricardo Komatar, MD, George Samanduras, MD, Fumio Yamaguchi, MD, Jose Valerio, MD, Colin Watt, MD and Manfred Westfal, MD

The Global Neurosurgery Committee is looking forward to 2023 with the now well-established return of face-to-face meetings. This allowed us to put up a first and remarkably successful mini symposium at the recent CLAN/FLANC meeting in Miami, November 2022: Modern Aspects of Tumour Surgery for the Ventricles.  To plan future activities, the committee met by zoom in late November for which we would particularly like to thank Professor Syed Ather Enam, Pakistan, Professor Fumio Yamaguchi, Tokyo, Dr Alessandro Perin, Milan (representing Professor Francesco DiMeco) and Professor John Kuo, Taiwan for their active participation. At the meeting, we deliberated on the optimal pathway to fulfill our remit – building bridges to advance the surgical care of brain and spine tumor patients across the globe.  While webinars are an easy answer, all of the participants agreed that they are plentiful already and as a result sometimes poorly attended.

Therefore, we plan mixture of more innovative on-line interactions, hopefully filling gaps in already an already full program. Our upcoming activities will include Grand Rounds, neuro-oncology case discussions with the full multidisciplinary team, and webinars aimed to promote neuro-oncology research and clinical trial capacity. Of course, there will also be a presence at face-to-face symposiums, for which we have confirmed Serbia’s Centennial Meeting in Belgrade 2023, Taiwan in 2024 (at the AASNS Congress), and several others which are still in the pipeline. A promising idea is that of creating opportunities for mentoring, both electronically and in-person, for young neurosurgeons in LMIC interested in neuro-oncology and we will be discussing this further in 2023.

We welcome suggestions to these activities.