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HARVARD SCIENCE

Peter Black, MD, PhD, Franc D. Ingraham Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and founding chair of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Neurosurgery has been elected President-Elect of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS), a professional and scientific nongovernmental organization composed of five continental associations, 89 national neurosurgical societies and six affiliate societies representing approximately 25,000 neurosurgeons worldwide.

After serving two years as President-Elect, Black, Director of the Brain Tumor Research Laboratory at the BWH, will serve as President for four years, and then past-President for two additional years.

With Ferenc Jolesz, Peter Black helped develop the world’s first intraoperative MRI at BWH, and has used this device to improve brain tumor treatment. Working with Steven Haley, founder of the Brain Science Foundation, Black created the Meningioma Center of Excellence at BWH. Black is a trustee of and medical advisor to the Brain Science Foundation. His special surgical interests include brain tumor surgery; image-guided minimally invasive neurosurgery; skull base surgery; and brain mapping.

Read the full article on the Harvard Science website