WSSFN – World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
WSSFN – World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Speakers
Dr. Ido Strauss
Director of the functional neurosurgery unit in the neurosurgical department at the Tel-Aviv Medical Center. Specialise in movement disorder surgery, epilepsy surgery and neurosurgical procedures to modulate or disconnect pain pathways in the central nervous system.
Co-director of the inter-disciplinary clinic for refractory pain in cancer patients. The clinic evaluates cancer patients from all over Israel, who have failed all other “conventional” treatments and are suffering from intractable pain due to cancer. Appropriate patients are offered innovative neurosurgical interventions to disconnect the pain pathways in the spinal cord or modulate the pain perception in the brain neural-networks.
> Cordotomy for Cancer Pain
Dr. Harith Akram
Prof. Akram is a consultant neurosurgeon and associate professor at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (UCLH) and the Unit of Functional Neurosurgery (UCL) in Queen Square. His scope of practice comprises brain and spine surgery.
Mr Akram completed his specialist neurosurgery training at the London School of Surgery (Heath Education England). He was awarded the Norman Dott Gold Medal for the highest mark in the FRCS exam (Royal College of Surgeons, 2012). As a trainee, he was awarded the Cutlers’ Surgical Prize (Royal College of Surgeons, 2010), one of the most prestigious annual prizes for original innovation in the design or application of surgical instruments. He completed clinical fellowships at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen Square (UCLH), London and at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona and was the recipient of the Marjorie Newsome Fellowship (Barrow Foundation, 2013).
Prof. Akram is a regularly invited keynote speaker and lecturer at various national and international neurological and neurosurgical conferences. He is the Editor-in-chief of the World Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFNS) newsletter.
Prof. Akram’s research interests are in advanced computational neuroimaging and connectomic neurosurgery. His PhD degree on ‘The Application of Advanced MRI connectivity in Functional Neurosurgery’, awarded by UCL, received the Queen Square Symposium PhD Prize (2018). He has ongoing work to develop translational methods in MRI brain connectivity, in addition to his involvement in various clinical trials to improve the safety and efficacy of existing therapies, and explore new and emerging applications.
> Cingulotomy for Cancer pain
Moderated by Dr Nico Enslin
Consultant neurosurgeon
Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and Constantiaberg
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa