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Sir Victor Horsley Lecture 2025 : Dr Kee Park

13 February 2025, 5:00 pm–7:30 pm

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Global Neurosurgery, Why it Matters.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Morium Ali

Location

Basement Lecture Theatre
33 Queen Square
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
London
WC1N 3BG
United Kingdom

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

About the Speaker

Dr Kee Park

Director of Policy and Advocacy, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Lecturer on Global Health at Harvard Medical School

Dr Kee Park
Dr. Park practiced private neurosurgery for 12 years in the US before spending the next decade teaching neurosurgery in Nepal, Ethiopia, Cambodia, and North Korea. He returned to the US to obtain his MPH and complete a global surgery fellowship at Harvard. He then joined the faculty of the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change where he now oversees the global surgery policy and advocacy work.

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.