1. General information

1) The name of meeting is International Conference on Cerebrovascular Surgery (ICCVS)

2) Secretariat will be at Department of Neurosurgery,Tohoku University,and assistant secretariat will be Dr.Hirotoshi Sano at Department of Neurosurgery,Sogo Sinkawabashi Hospital(Address:1-15,Shinkawa street, Kawasaki ward, Kawasaki city) .

2. Purpose and assignments

3) Our main purpose to have this meeting, is to exchange the knowledge of improving surgical techniques of CVD and further exchange with world view.

4) We will hold this meeting every two years to achieve the above goals.

3. Membership

5) The member must agree to our purpose and he/she must show positive willingness to participate in the meetings.

6) President will decide about the speakers every time.

4. Board members

7) Executive members: Past Presidents, Emeritus Presidents, Founder members
Committee members:
Faculty members: Each president can determine them with flexibility in selection process.

8) Candidates of Next Presidents should show his/her willingness to be the president and it will be decided by voting at Executive committee meeting.

9) The secretariat is able to employ some secretaries who will be admitted by representative of secretariat.

10) The President will be decided/selected by the active members. The candidate needs to hand in their CV and Recommendation letter from at least one executive member.

11) If the board member will not attend any meeting, they will lose their qualification.

5. Meeting

12) The executive committee meeting will be held during the congress.
Next president will be decided by voting in the meeting.
All decisions of the Board Meeting shall be made by a majority of the attendees
(Include the letter of proxy)
Chief executive Member has a right to held temporary Executive committee meeting.

13) Minutes will be made by the secretariat. The retiring president will make a report.
Next president will be requested to give presentation while showing a theme.

6. Account

14) The retiring/immediate past president will perform a statement of accounts at the executive board meeting.

15) The rules can be revised at the executive board meeting.

Brief History of ICCVS

The 1 st International Workshop on Intracranial Aneurysms

April 2-4, 1986 in Tokyo

President: Haruhiko Kikuchi

Honorary President: Charles G. Drake

The 2 nd International Workshop on Intracranial Aneurysms

April 5-7, 1989 in Nagoya

President: Kenichiro Sugita

Honorary President: Thoralf M. Sundt, Jr.

The 3 rd International Workshop on Cerebrovascular Surgery

October 17-19, 1992 in Tokyo

President: Kintomo Takakura

Honorary President: Bryce K. A. Weir

The 4 th International Workshop on Cerebrovascular Surgery

June 11-14, 1995 in Chicago

President: James I. Ausman Honorary

President: Kenichiro Sugita

The 5 th International Workshop on Cerebrovascular Surgery

March 3-5, 1997 in Fukuoka

President: Masashi Fukui Honorary

President: Haruhiko Kikuchi

The 6 th International Workshop on Cerebrovascular Surgery

June 4-7, 2000 in Seoul

President: Kyu Chang Lee Honorary

President: M. Gazi Yasargil

The 7 th International Workshop on Cerebrovascular Surgery

September 5, 2002 in Kyoto

President: Namio Kodama Honorary

President: James I. Ausman

The 8 th International Conference on Cerebrovascular Surgery

November 30-December 3, 2006 in Taipei

President: Yong-Kwang Tu Honorary

President: Robert Heros

The 9 th International Conference on Cerebrovascular Surgery

November 11-13, 2009 in Nagoya

President: Hirotoshi Sano Honorary

President: Robert Spetzler

The 10 th International Conference on Cerebrovascular Surgery

2011 in Beijing

President: Ling Feng Honorary

President: Hirotoshi Sano

The 11 th International Conference on Cerebrovascular Surgery

2014 in Indonesia Jakarta

Aryaduta Lippo Hospital Banten

President: Eka Julianta Wahjoepramono

The 12 th International Conference on Cerebrovascular Surgery

February28,2016 in Mumbaim India

President: BK Misura

The 13 th International Conference on Cerebrovascular Surgery

October 27-29,2017 in Nagoya

President: Yoko Kato Honorary President: Takashi Yoshimoto, Michael T. Lawton

The 15 th International Conference on Cerebrovascular Surgery

“Neurosurgery Week at Barrow Neurological Institute”
President: Michael T. Lawton, MD

Professor & Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery
President & CEO, Barrow Neurological Institute
Chief of Vascular & Skull Base Neurosurgery
Robert F. Spetzler Endowed Chair in Neurosciences

Barrow Neurological Institute
2910 N. 3rd Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85013
Clinical Office: 602/406-3489
E-mail: Michael.Lawton@BarrowBrainandSpine.com

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