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| March 3 , 2005 | |
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The first ISRN Congress is scheduled for September 1-3, 2005 in Seoul, Korea. Congress President: Jin Woo Chang M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea: Tel: 82-2-361-5624 , Fax: 82-2-393-9979 , E-mail: jchang@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr |
New! International Society of Reconstructive Neurosurgery (ISRN) |
| The great international success of the WFNS Committee on the fascinating new area of Neurosurgical Re-engineering of the Damaged Brain and Spinal Cord has induced to the establishment of this new society, which will promote world-wide the multidisciplinary cooperation on the field of re-enginneering. Its aim will be the development and clinical support of recent bio and computer technologies. The foundation of the ISRN will take place in Nagoya, under the presidency of the AMN Academician Professor Yoichi Katayama, Tokyo.
More information under www.isrn.or.kr |
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March 20 , 2005 |
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AMN Honorary Members from Italy and Japan To Honorary Members of the World AMN were unanimously elected the two AMN Founding Vice Presidents Giorgio A. Brunelli and Tetsuo Kanno. They were honoured on March 19, 2005, "for recognition of their contribution to neurotrauma and the establishment of the AMN" because of their farsighted conceptional visions of a multidisciplinary co-operation in the areas of Neurotraumatology, in the congresses of the AMN organized by them, the 1st in Brescia/Italy and the 3rd in Nagoya/Japan in co-operation with other scientific high-ranking conferences. Because of their outstanding achievements, Brunelli and Kano are internationally recognized as prestigious scientists and clinicians. |
| March 22 , 2005 | |
| New AMN Executives and Advisory Board Members elected in Nagoya On the occasion of the Third AMN Congress, March 10, 2005 at the Marriott Hotel, Nagoya in Toyoake Aichi, Japan, the following new AMN executives were elected by the AMN academicians: 2nd Vice President - Yoichi Katayama , Tokyo, AMN founding member. Registrar - Wai S. Poon , Hong Kong, AMN founding member. Deputy Treasurer - Yoko Kato , Associate Professor of the Department of Neurosurgery, Fujita Health University. The members of the AMN Advisory Board will represent the field of neurotraumatology of the different regions of the world in the following way: Advisory Board Member to represent Eastern Europe : Alexander Potapov , Vice Chair WFNS Committee of Neurotraumatology, Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sience. Advisory Board Member to represent Western Europe : Volker Hömberg , Düsseldorf, Congress President of the 5th AMN. Advisory Board Member to represent South America : Armando Basso , Honorary and Past World President WFNS (Argentina), and Lucia Willadino Braga , Congress President of the 6th AMN. Advisory Board Member to represent North America : Donald Stein (Emory, USA) Advisory Board Member to represent Near East and Northern Africa : Ibrahim Sbeih , Amman, President Pan-Arab Neuroscience Society Advisory Board Member to represent Asia : Rashid Jooma , WFNS Neurorehabilitation Committee, Karachi (Pakistan) Advisory Board Member to represent Japan : Minoru Shigenmori , Japanese Coma Trauma Bank. |
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