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Professor Souad Bakhti was born on January 12, 1965, in Algiers. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine -the University of Blida in 1988, then began her specialty in neurosurgery at Mustapha Pacha hospital in Algiers.
She became the first woman president of a national neurosurgical society in Africa when she became president of the Algerian Society of Neurosurgery (SANC). In 2017, she was appointed as Head of Department (HOD) in neurosurgery at the Specialized Hospital Ali Ait Idir in Algiers. At a continental level, she was the only female neurosurgeon present during the creation of the Continental Association of African Neurosurgical Societies (CAANS) in Cape Town in 2012, where she served as treasurer and second vice president for North Africa. In addition, she served as the chair of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) Women in Neurosurgery Committee and secretary of the Pan Arab Neurosurgical Society (PANS).
She was married and the mother of an extraordinary girl, Lilia.
Her career has been enriched with honorary titles:
- General Secretary of the Algerian Society of Neurosurgery (SANC) 2011-2014;
- 2nd Vice President of Continental Association of African Neurosurgical Societies (CAANS), 2012;
- President of Algerian Society of Neurosurgery (SANC), for 2 mandates 2014-2017, 2017-2021;
- Past President of Mediterranean Association of Neurological Surgeons (MANS), 2015
- Professor of Neurosurgery Medical School University Algiers 1, 2017;
- Head of Department of Neurosurgery Ali Ait Idir, Specialized Hospital in Neurosurgery located in Algiers, 2017;
- Secretary of Panarab Neurosurgical Society (PANS), 2018;
- Chairman of the WFNS-Women in Neurosurgery Committee (WIN), 2018-2021;
Her perseverance and rigor in work have earned the respect and trust of her colleagues and her patients. Her courage and tenacity have earned her admiration of female neurosurgeons around the world. She dedicated her life to neurosurgery and especially to pediatric neurosurgery. She has been instrumental in mentoring the next generation of female leaders in the field of neurosurgery on the continent and beyond, a legacy that all will follow for generations to come.
On August 4th 2021, she passed away at the age of 56 after battling a severe disease. May Her Soul Rest in eternal peace.
Najia El Abbadi, Claire Karekezi, Nabila Tighilt and African Women in Neurosurgery (AWIN)
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Dr JEANNE P.M.R.WINAKTU, first female neurosurgeon in Indonesia passed away on the 02/04/2020 due to the Covid-19 virus. The WFNS-WIN committee sends its sympathy to the indonesian Neurosurgical Society in this difficult period.
May her soul rest in peace
This 30th of march 2020, marks the loss of New York neurosurgeon, James Goodrich, MD, PhD. He was an outstanding pediatric and adult neurosurgeon at Montefiore, NYC. He was known to be an expert in complex craniofacial anomalies, a leader, a mentor, and a dear friend to us in neurosurgery. May he rest in peace.
WOMEN NEUROSURGEONS IN BEIJING, September 2019
Symposium chaired by Professor Souad Bakhti, WFNS-WIN Chair
WOMEN IN NEUROSURGERY SYMPOSIUM IN BEIJING, September 2019
Dr Claire Karekezi, have been designated as Chair of the WIN Chapter of CAANS
Dr. Karekezi is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Rwanda Military Hospital, Kigali Rwanda. She graduated as an MD from the University of Rwanda, College of Medicine and Health sciences in 2009. She completed her Residency program in Neurosurgery and graduated as a Neurosurgeon in 2016 from the Mohamed V University, World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS)-Rabat Training Center for African Neurosurgeons, in Rabat, Morocco. After her residency in Neurosurgery, Dr Karekezi further enrolled in several neurosurgical fellowships with a special interest in Neuro-Oncology and Skull Base Surgery: at the Brigham and Women Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA as an International Visiting Surgeon Fellow (IVSF) in Neurosurgery/Neuro-Oncology (April-July 2016) and later completed a Clinical Fellowship in Neuro-Oncology & Skull Base Surgery (July 2017-July 2018) at the University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada. She has been the Recipient of The Fall 2013 AANS/CNS Women In Neurosurgery (WINS) Greg Wilkins-Barrick Chair Visiting International Surgeon Award, served as the coordinator of the WFNS-WIN activities (2013-2017), and is a current board member.
Upon her return home to Rwanda in July 2018, after her Fellowship in Toronto, Dr Karekezi became Rwanda’s First Female Neurosurgeon.
WIN Session Arab Pediatric Neurosurgery Society & 8th Maghrebian Federation of Neurosurgery Join Conference Tangiers June 2019
We have had a WIN Session during the 3rd Arab Pediatric Neurosurgery Society & 8th Maghrebian neurosurgery joint conference in Tangiers June 19th-22nd. It was the first WIN Session during a congress of Arab pediatric neurosurgery society. This session was purely scientific
OTHER ACTIVITIES
A WhatsApp group for female neurosurgeons have been created by a member of our committee Professor Nelci Zanon. The members can ask for everything such as training, Congresses…… The senior neurosurgeons (Nelci Zanon, Zulma Tovar, Deborah Garrozo….) provide to them publications and e-books and this is very helpful for them because a lot of them are from developing countries. Currently the number of members of this group is 251 (residents and neurosurgeons) and more than 100 articles and e-books were disseminated to the members.
The WIN-WFNS Committee also contributed to disseminate by e-mails and whatsapp group 2 surveys about women in neurosurgery around the world conducted by Dr Zulma Tovar Spinoza and Sarah Woodrow
Dr Teresa Somma talk. WIN Session WFNS Meeting Belgrad March 2019
WIN Session WFNS Meeting Belgrad March 2019
WIN Session Program at the WFNS Meeting Belgrad March 2019
Professor Najia El Abbadi, first Woman to be elected President of the Panarab Neurosurgical Society
Marrakesh, October 2018
WFNS-WOMEN IN NEUROSURGERY (WIN) SESSION
Date: October 19th 2018,
Place: Hotel Atlas Asni, Marrakesh Morocco
Chair: Souad Bakhti (Algeria, WFNS-WIN Chair)
The 12th Pan Arab Meeting took place in Marrakech, Morocco from 18-20th October; this meeting was preceded on the 17th of October 2018, by the 9th Course of the WFNS-RTC for African Neurosurgeons in conjunction with the WFNS Education and Training Committee course. Several Eminent neurosurgeons coming from all over the world, among them WFNS Officers: the current president of the WFNS, Professor Franco Servadei and the WFNS Education, Training Committee Chair Professor Isabelle Germano attended this Meeting with several other international Neurosurgeons and the Chairman of the WFNS Foundation Professor Miguel A. Arraes
It was also an excellent occasion for WFNS Women in Neurosurgery to gather and meet over a scientific session.
PARTICIPANTS: 35 among them 15 men
PANEL:
· Prof Souad Bakthi: WFNS-WIN Chairperson, Algiers (Algeria)
· Prof Miguel A. Arraes: Chairman of the WFNS Foundation
MEETING AGENDA: 5 Presentations all by women Neurosurgeons from different countries with a discussion at the end
WFNS-WIN SESSION, MARRAKECH OCTOBER, 2018
T. S. Kanaka or Thanjavur Santhanakrishna Kanaka, also known as Tanjore Santhana Krishna Kanaka, (31 March 1932 to 14 November 2018) is Asia's first female neurosurgeon and one of the world's first few female neurosurgeons. Kanaka was one of the world's first female neurosurgeons; having qualified with a degree (MCh) in Neurosurgery in March 1968; after Diana Beck (1902-1956), and Aysima Altinok who qualified in November 1959.
She was associated with Madras Medical College, Tamilnadu, India for many years and she has been a mentor for many of the present neurosurgeons in Tamilnadu. She as a member of B. Ramamurthi and his team, became the earliest team in India to perform stereotaxic procedures since 1960. She pioneered in functional neurosurgery in India and presented many research papers in international conferences. She retired as a surgeon in 1990. After the retirement, under her parents’ name, she ran Sri Santhanakrishna Padmavathi Health Care and Research Foundation, which offered free healthcare to the needy, located near her house at Chromepet in Chennai.
She was a great inspiration to many women neurosurgeons in India and she was the reason behind the formation of Women In Neurosurgery India in 2016. Her main interest was in fabricating deep-brain-stimulation kits in India by Indian biomedical engineers at an affordable price. May her soul Rest In peace
https://www.wfns.org/news/54/obituary-prof-thanjavur-santhanakrishna-kanaka
Dr Sarah Olson is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons trained in Brisbane, Auckland and Victoria. She has an active interest in research, having completed a Masters of Philosophy in 2006.
Her special interests include brain and pituitary tumours, endoscopic surgery, trigeminal neuralgia and functional Neurosurgery.
Congratulation to Dr Sara Olson for being the second Woman President of the Australian Society of Neurosurgery.
WIN IN BRAZIL, SEPTEMBER 2018
This is a report on the WIN (women in neurosurgery) section meeting in Porto Alegre during the CBN 2018 – the XXXIII meeting of the Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery. This is a bi-annual meeting and 2018 was the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the SBN – Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery.
This meeting had a record number of attendees -2037 and 48 international invited speakers shared their expertise with those present.
This event was also the inauguration of the WIN-Brasil Committee of SBN. In attendance at the session, there were staff neurosurgeons, residents and medical students interested in the field of neurosurgery. We were delighted to have as our special invited speaker Prof Dr Souad Bakhti, from Algeria, the chairperson of WIN Committee, WFNS. Not only did she presented the attendees with an overview of the panorama of women in neurosurgery around the world, but she also shared with us her knowledge of orbital tumors, their surgical approach and outcome.
We also had the privilege of hosting a seminar of the writer Lela Almeida, who brought to the audience the mysteries of being a woman through the generations.
Besides the scientific event, we had elections for more two years. . The WIN Brasil, was reelected, myself, Mariangela Gonçalves and other 4 representative member. Two indicated by the presidente of SBN. Two indicated by the Deliberative Counseling and two elected directly bay the neurosurgeons, members of our society. The vote was eletronic, by internet, during 24 hours.
The new WIN Brasil 2018-2020 are:
Nelci Zanon
Mariangela Gonçalves
Roberta Rehder
Amanda de Oliveira Lopez
Denise Marques de assis
Tatiana Vilasboas
WFNS-WINS Symposium 2018 with inaugural chapter of ACNS-WINS
Malaisia, August 2018 (full minutes in the Meeting Minutes Section)
Professor Yoko Kato announced the Board members of the ACNS-WINS chapter as the following:
Chairperson - Dr. Dhivya Palanisamy (India)
Vice chairperson - Dr. Sharon Casilda Theophilus (Malaysia)
Secretary - Dr. Aneela Darbar (Pakistan)
Treasurer - Dr. Soha Alomar (Saudi Arabia)
Education committee Chair - Dr. Abhidha Shah (India)
Website committee - Dr. Hira Burhan (Pakistan)
Senior Advisory member: Prof. Ling Feng (China)
International advisory members:
Prof. Najia el Abbadi (Morocco)
Prof. Souad Bakhti (Algeria)
Prof. Gail Rosseau (USA)
Women In Neurosurgery in Abuja, Nigeria during the 2018 CAANS Congress
July, 2018
First WIN Session, during the 7th Maghrebian Congress in NOUAKCHOTT
March 2018
PROFESSOR NAJIA EL ABBADI addressing her speech on 'Mentorship' to the attendees of the first WIN Session, during the 7th Maghrebian Congress in NOUAKCHOTT
Dr AMINATA DIOP, First female Mauritanian, Neurosurgeon
The first female neurosurgeon from Mauritania gave a presentation during the First WIN session during the 7th Maghrebian Congress of Neurosurgery in Nouakchott (March 2018). The session was mainly scientific and a lot of participants join this session though there was another parallel session.
Shelly D. Timmons, MD, PhD, FACS, FAANS, is Professor of Neurosurgery at Penn State University (PSU) Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
She is Vice Chair for Administration of the PSU Department of Neurosurgery, as well as the Director of Neurotrauma. She currently serves as President of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and she is the First Female Neurosurgeon to occupy that position. While Dr. Timmons performs many types of neurosurgical procedures, her specialty is in neurotrauma and neurocritical care. She has been a researcher and educator in the field for over two decades. Dr. Timmons has published and lectured extensively on a variety of topics related to TBI, neurocritical care, blunt vascular injury and trauma systems.
Congratulations to her on behalf of the WFNS-WIN Commitee
Women in Neurosurgery(WINS) Breakfast, New Orleans 2018.
Congratulations to Dr. Shelly D. Timmons, First Female Neurosurgeon to act as President of the AANS
Dr Souad Bakhti:WFNS-WIN Chair (Algeria), Dr Claire Karekezi (Rwanda), Dr Shelly DTimmons: AANS presidentElect
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African Women Neurosurgeons, 2nd CAANS Continental Congress 2016 and 25th SNSA Scientific Meeting, July 29th 2016. Cape Town, South Africa
WIN in Essaouira, Morocco, May 2016
WFNS WIN Committee meeting
The Department of Neurosurgery and the Department of Neuroradiology of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat/Hopital des Specialités de Rabat in collaboration with WFNS Foundation organized on May 11th and 12th 2016, a Live Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Seminar with pratical hands-on coiling exercises on simulation platforms and microanastomosis techniques: an outstanding initiative for the training of the young neurosurgeons.
Pr Yoko Kato (WFNS Fund rising Committee Chair, past WIN Chair), Pr Naoya Kuwayama (University of Toyama, Japan), Pr Abdessamad El Ouahabi (WFNS Vice-President to the CAANS), Pr Najia El Abbadi (WFNS Win Chair), young Neurosurgeons and residents
Professor Nelci Zanon, Past WIN Vice-President
The Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery (WWW.sbn.com.br) was created in 1957, with more than 2000 neurosurgeons, the women number was only 6% for more than three decades. After 2010, women in the neurosurgery residency increased in number progressively and today achieved more than 11% women in the Brazilian Society, including the active members and fellows.
In September 2016, during the Brazilian meting (http://neurocirurgia2016.com.br) will be created officially the first women department in the Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery.
Congratulations to the Brazilian Women In Neurosurgery
WFNS-WIN METTING, Rome 9th September, 2015
Najia El Abbadi Win Chair (Morocco), Nelci Zanon Win Vice president (Brazil), Ling Feng past Win Chair (China), Isabelle Germano (USA)
Pr Souad Bakhti (Algeria) sharing the experience of the African Woman in Neurosurgery. Rome, 2015
WFNS WIN Committee Meeting
22nd May, 2015, Hyatt Legend Casablanca
The 24th Annual Moroccan Congress of Neurosurgery combined with the 65th Congress of the French-Speaking Society of Neurosurgery
WIN in Rabat, 2015
Conference of Professeur Isabelle GERMANO
ADVANCES IN TREATMENT OF GLIOBLASTOMA “FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE”
Rabat, June, 24th, 2015
Women in Neurosurgery Advancing their agenda for developing countries
WFNS-WIN meeting In Rabat, March 2014.
The WFNS Women in Neurosurgery (WIN) committee has become a part of every Woman Neurosurgeon’s life. This first WFNSWIN symposium of the 2013-2017 mandate took place in Rabat on March 28th 2014 during the Rabat VIth WFNS conference for African Neurosurgeons. Many distinguished delegates were present and among them were: Yong Kwang Tu, past WFNS President and Yoko Kato, past WFNSWIN Chairperson along with Najia El Abbadi, WIN Chair.
23th National Congress of Neurosurgery and the First Mediterranean meeting of neurosurgery
23-26 April, 2014 - Tetouan, Morocco
Win in Mongolia, 2011
WIN in Spain, 2010
WIN in Boston, 2009
WIN in Uruguay, 2008
WIN SCIENTIFIC SESSION, PANARAB MEETING, MARRAKECH, OCTOBER 2018
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