The third Annual Neurosurgery Research Symposium is being held before the lecture.
Programme
- 17:00 - 18:00: Sir Victor Horsley Memorial Lecture given by Dr Kee Park, Director of Policy and Advocacy, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Lecturer on Global Health, Harvard Medical School : "Global Neurosurgery, Why it Matters"
The nascent field of Global Neurosurgery is transforming the fundamental nature of modern neurosurgical practice. The talk will describe its genesis and progress, definitions, key events and actors, and what the future holds for the pursuit of neurosurgical equity.
- 18:00 - 19:30 : Wine Reception
Dr Kee Park
Director of Policy and Advocacy, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Lecturer on Global Health
Harvard Medical School
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In 2016, he established the global neurosurgery initiative. The research team has produced some of the seminal and foundational papers in global neurosurgery and continues to fill the large knowledge gaps in the global public health practice of neurosurgery.
From 2019 to 2023, he served as the inaugural chair of the Global Neurosurgery Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. The committee implemented a global neurosurgery action plan aimed at institutionalizing the field of global neurosurgery within the neurosurgery profession.