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President's Column

WCN 2023 and WFN Activities

Here’s a preview of the upcoming World Congress of Neurology (WCN) 2023 in Montreal as well as an update on some WFN activities.

Join Us at the XXVI World Congress of Neurology

Montreal plays host to the WCN 2023 Oct. 15-19.

New Workplaces, New Opportunities to Mitigate Neurological Disability

Workplace disease-specific education and management programs to increase awareness, diagnosis, management, and productivity

Editor-in-Chief's Column

From the Editors

We’d like to welcome all readers to the August 2023 issue of World Neurology. The issue begins with the President’s Column, where WFN President Dr. Wolfgang Grisold updates us on the upcoming World Congress of Neurology (WCN) Oct. 15-19 in Montreal and the many exciting new initiatives of the WCN, as well as other global [...]

History

John Hughlings Jackson and Thomas Laycock: Brain and Mind

Two historical neurology figures played huge roles in understanding functions of the brain and mind.

Report of the EFNR-WFNR Eastern Europe Regional Meeting in Conjunction with the Bistrița Clinical Neuroscience Conference and Report of the National Neurology Forum

Update on two meetings in Bistrița, Romania.

WFN Educational Days

The World Federation of Neurology has been working with regional organizations and a collaboration of international organizations to create free e-learning days for neurologists, residents in neurology, and other health care professionals.

The WFN Committees and Specialty Groups

The Nominating Committee

Raad Shakir, CBE, FRCP, current chair of the WFN Nominating Committee, provides a history and goals of the Nominating Committee.

Candidate Statements

Three candidates vie for WFN treasurer and three compete for WFN elected trustee in the upcoming elections.

Candidate Statement for Treasurer: Marianne de Visser

My name is Marianne de Visser. I am an adult neurologist and (emeritus) Professor of Neuromuscular Diseases at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I would like to apply for the position of treasurer. I have been committed to the good cause of the WFN for several decades. I have served under inspiring presidents. First, [...]

Candidate Statement for Treasurer: Barbara Tettenborn

My name is Barbara Tettenborn. I am professor of neurology in Switzerland and Germany with both citizenships. I was born in Halle/Saale in East Germany, spent my later childhood and youth in West Berlin, studied medicine in Germany, England, and Ireland, and passed my neurological residency at the University Hospital in Mainz in Germany (Head [...]

Candidate Statement for Treasurer: Morris Freedman*

I am honored to be nominated for WFN treasurer. This position comes with great responsibility to the WFN and its member societies, and requires in-depth knowledge of the WFN, as well as the experience, judgment, ethical character, equitable approach, and transparency, which are essential for managing the WFN’s finances. Moreover, in the currently uncertain financial [...]

Candidate Statement for elected Trustee: Lawrence Tucker

It is an immense honor to be nominated for the position of WFN trustee. After completing a laboratory-based, neuroscience PhD in Cambridge as a young doctor in 1993, I returned to train as a neurologist in sub-Saharan Africa where neurologists to general population average one per five million. I now head of neurology at Groote [...]

Candidate Statement for Elected Trustee: Mohammad Wasay

I am currently Alicharan Endowed Professor of Neurology at Aga Khan University Karachi, past president of the Pakistan Society of Neurology and Pakistan Stroke Society, president of the Neurology Awareness and Research Foundation and distinguished scholar of COMSTECH (OIC). I have also served as a director of World Stroke Organization (WSO) and am currently serving [...]

Candidate Statement for Elected Trustee: Prof. Tissa Wijeratne

What an exciting time to be in the WFN. It is an incredible honor to have been nominated for the trustee position in the upcoming election this year. Brain health is in peril globally. One in three of us has a brain disorder. Every one of us will experience disability (temporary or permanent) during our [...]