Authors and Editors for The ISPN Guide to Pediatric Neurosurgery - The ISPN Guide to Pediatric Neurosurgery

Editor-in-Chief

Director, Surgical Neuro-oncology, Children's Hospital at Montefiore

Professor Neurosurgery and Pediatrics
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Department of Neurosurgery
Montefiore Medical Center
111 E. 210th St
Bronx, NY 10467
USA

Telephone: 001 718 920-8512

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Bio:

Editor-In-Chief: The ISPN Guide

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Rick Abbott MD, is a Clinical Professor in the Leo M. Davidoff Department of Neurological Surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and practices pediatric neurosurgery at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in Bronx, New York (Rick Abbott MD).

Rick has held positions on committees for in chairman appointments and academic advancement committees at his institution, has served as a Director for The American Board for Pediatric Neurological Surgery, Chairman of the Pediatric Section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurosurgeons, President of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons and President of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery. He has been a reviewer and editor for the journals Neurosurgery and Child’s Nervous System and currently is the Editor-in-Chief of The ISPN Guide to Pediatric Neurosurgery.

Rick has been The Bruce Hendricks Lecturer at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, The Sanat Bhagwati Lecturer for the Indian Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, The Fred Epstein Lecturer for the International Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology and The Kenneth Till Memorial Lecturer at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. He has spoken at regional, national and international scientific conferences in addition to participating as an instructor at national and international continuing educational courses for physicians on pediatric neurosurgical topics. He has edited books on spasticity and endoscopy, contributed chapters to 19 books and authored over 75 peer-reviewed articles on pediatric neurosurgical topics.

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