Celebrating 30 Years of Women in Neurosurgery (WINS)
This year brings an exciting time to WINS and the neurosurgery community with the historic 30th anniversary of WINS. Since its establishment, WINS has fostered an environment and community centered around its mission: to educate, inspire and encourage...
Virtual Cocktail Party and Premiere of WINS Celebration Video
2020 marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of WINS. To celebrate, WINS held a virtual cocktail party on the audiovisual interactive Zoom platform. The event, held virtually on October 22, 2020, was a fun-filled evening celebrating a historic...
WINS Series on the Neurosurgery Blog
2020 marks the 30th anniversary of WINS and to celebrate this historic event the Neurosurgery Blog is featuring a series of articles and contributions highlighting the goals of the WINS Section: to educate, inspire and encourage women neurosurgeons in...
Someone Who Looks Like Me
As a medical student preparing to enter residency, I thought that I knew a lot of the qualities that would be important and that I would value in a training program. The list was long: clinical exposure, case mix, case volume, total number of cases by...
Women in Neurosurgery Local Events: Connecting Medical Students, Residents and Women Surgeons during a Pandemic
Unprecedented during our modern times, the advent of the COVID-19 global pandemic in 2020 has seen cancellations of in-person events. However, using audiovisual platforms, groups of women neurosurgeons continue to strive to connect to build and continue...
Spotlight on WINS: Awards and Announcements
WINS 2020 Louise Eisenhardt Award Winner
Congratulations to the
2020 Louise Eisenhardt Awardee
Siri Sahib Singh Khalsa, MD
Abstract: “Automated Intraoperative Frozen Diagnosis of Brain Tumors Using Machine Learning"
Book Corner: A Look Back at Previous WINS Celebrations
With the 30th Anniversary of WINS, we offer a look back at previous WINS publications throughout the years, focusing on the book, “Heart of a Lion, Hands of a Woman: What Women Neurosurgeons Do,” which was undertaken as a celebration of WINS' 20th ann...
WINS Online and on Social Media
Join WINS online and on social media for the latest updates and news! We hope to see you there! Website http://www.neurosurgerywins.org/ Twitter https://twitter.com/WINSneurosurge1 Facebook https://m.facebook.com/WomenInNeurosurgery/ Instagram...
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank all our contributors and editorial team for the current version of the newsletter. Editors Alia Hdeib, MD, FAANS Editorial Team Stephanie Cowart, AANS Communications Specialist