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President's Column

WFN Targets Advocacy and Teaching in 2025

Wolfgang Grisold, WFN president, offers a preview of upcoming WFN projects and goals for the year.

World Brain Day

World Brain Day 2025: Brain Health for All Ages

This year’s global initiative for World Brain Day is promoting the theme of “Brain Health for All Ages.”

From the Editors

From the Editors

Highlights from this issue include statements from WFN election candidates, updates on World Brain Day, and reports on the Brain House at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Looking Back on Past World Brain Days

A reflection on more than a decade of progress and global advocacy.

The Brain House at Davos 2025

A global platform to highlight the critical link between brain health and economic growth was introduced at the 2025 World Economic Forum.

Nerve Ultrasound Training

A report on Neuromuscular Ultrasound in Taiwan, a two-day learning course offering training in ultrasound imaging and hands-on skills.

Brain Health Is Brain Wealth

Greater productivity, resilience, and well-being in the Brain House at the 2025 World Economic Forum.

History

Charcot, Impressionism, and Functional Dyschromatopsia

Prof. Peter J. Koehler explores the connection between neurology’s past and the 19th century artistic movement known as Impressionism.

Candidate Statement

Meet the WFN 2025 Candidates

Get to know the candidates for president, first vice president, and trustee in their own words.

Candidate Statement

Candidate Statement for President: Prof. Steven Lewis

It has been a privilege serving as secretary general, and previously as acting secretary general and elected trustee, of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN). In these and other roles, I am thankful for the opportunities to use my skills as a general clinical neurologist, academician, educator, and editor to help achieve the WFN mission. [...]

Candidate Statement

Candidate Statement for President: Dame Pamela Shaw

I am Prof. Dame Pamela Shaw, professor of neurology at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. I am also director of the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), where we were honored to be awarded the Queen’s Anniversary prize, the highest national honor for U.K. universities, for improving outcomes for patients with conditions [...]

Candidate Statement

Candidate Statement for First Vice President: Prof. Riadh Gouider

My dedication to neurology began with my training in both Tunisia and Europe. This diverse educational foundation instilled in me a deep appreciation for global neurological collaboration and shaped my commitment to advancing neurology worldwide. Since attending my first World Congress of Neurology in Vancouver (1993), I have remained engaged with the World Federation of [...]

Candidate Statement

Candidate Statement for First Vice President: Tissa Wijeratne

Thank you sincerely for the trust you placed in me as an elected trustee of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN). It has been an honor to serve our global neurology family, united by one shared vision — better brain health for all. Today, I humbly seek your support once again — this time as [...]

Candidate Statement

Candidate Statement for WFN Elected Trustee: Chandrashekhar Meshram

I am grateful to the Indian Academy of Neurology and the World Federation of Neurology (WFN) for considering me worthy for the position of elected trustee. I am indebted to WFN for giving me the opportunity to serve as co-opted trustee, elected trustee, and president of the Tropical and Geographical Neurology Specialty Group (TGNSG). In [...]

Candidate Statement

Candidate Statement for WFN Elected Trustee: Ghazaleh Tabatabai

My name is Ghazaleh Tabatabai. I am a neurologist, a physician scientist, and a professor of neurology and neuro-oncology at the University of Tübingen in Germany. I am honored to be nominated as a candidate for elected trustee of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN) by the German Society of Neurology. My work in different [...]

Candidate Statement

Candidate Statement for WFN Elected Trustee: Mayela Rodriguez-Violante

I am honored to be considered for the role of elected trustee of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN). As a movement disorder neurologist and head of the Clinical Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery in Mexico City, I have dedicated my career to improving the care of individuals [...]