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01-10-2019 | Pediatric Neurosurgery | Presidential Address

ISPN presidential address 2018. Paediatric neurosurgery: Africa is our future

Author: Anthony Graham Fieggen

Published in: Child's Nervous System | Issue 10/2019

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It is the greatest honour of my career to stand before you in the presidential poncho for this, the 46th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Paediatric Neurosurgery. I would like to start by thanking you all for being here, and thank our host and Annual Meeting Chair, Professor Shlomi Constantini and the local organizing committee, as well as our Scientific Chair, Professor Anthony Figaji (Tony) and the ISPN scientific committee. It is a big enough task to put together a meeting such as this, made even more challenging by the record number of abstracts received this year, but they have given us a program that showcases our specialty at its finest, so please join me in congratulating them for a job very well done. …

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Title: ISPN presidential address 2018. Paediatric neurosurgery: Africa is our future
Author: Anthony Graham Fieggen
Publication date: 01-10-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword: Pediatric Neurosurgery
Published in: Child's Nervous System / Issue 10/2019
Print ISSN: 0256-7040
Electronic ISSN: 1433-0350
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-019-04337-3

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