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ISPN Virtual Meeting 2020: Cutting-edge Science in Pediatric Neurosurgery – 6-8 November

Please join us for the premier meeting of the international community of pediatric neurosurgeons in 2020. There have been many online webinars, courses, and round tables from various sources this year, but this is the main event in the 2020 calendar, so donā€™t miss out! If there is one pediatric neurosurgery event you want to […]

Register now for our next Clash of the Titans webinar

Join us for the next ISPN Clash of the Titans webinar ‘Second look surgery is useful in pediatric brain tumours‘ on Friday 2 October 1PM GMT. Titans ISPN President-Elect Frederick Boop (USA) and Sergey Gorelyshev (Russia) will confront each other on this topic. The discussion will be moderated by Chandrashekhar Deopujari (India), ISPN Past President. […]

Corpus callosotomy is the topic of our next Clash of the Titans – Register today!

Registration is open for our next Clash of the Titans webinar: Corpus callosotomy is a dying and underutilized procedure in pediatric epilepsy surgery. This webinar will be episode 8 in ourĀ ISPN Clash of the Titans webinar series and will take place on Friday 18 September 1PM GMT. Titans Jeffrey Blount (USA) and Wirginia Maixner (Australia) […]

Registration for our next webinar is open!

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

Register now for our next Clash of the Titans webinar on Friday 21 August

You can now register for our next, 6th in the series, ISPN Clash of the Titans webinar:Ā 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. […]

Clash of the Titans 5: ICP monitoring is very useful in pediatric head injuries

Registration is now open for our fifth Clash of the Titans webinar:Ā  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 […]

Announcing our fourth ISPN Clash of the Titans webinar: ETV without CPC does not fulfil its purpose

You can now register for our next, 4th in the series, ISPN Clash of the Titans webinar:Ā 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 […]

Webinar 3 Clash of the Titans – Register today!

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 […]

Register now for our 2nd Clash of the Titans webinar

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 […]

ISPN Statement on diversity, race and tolerance

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 [...]

Join our first Clash of the Titans webinar on 5 June!

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 […]

ISPN 2020 Annual Meeting postponed

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.Ā  The Annual Meeting will still take place in Singapore, at the same venue (Marina Bay Sands […]