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Journal of Neurosurgery
	CHAIRMAN William T. Couldwell, M.D. Dr. Couldwell received his M.D. from McGill University, where he also completed his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Neuroimmunology. He completed his neurosurgical residency at the University of Southern California. He is currently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Utah. He has clinical interests which include skull base, vascular and functional neurosurgery. His basic science research interests are primarily focussed upon intracellular and intercellular signal transduction, and mechanisms of apoptosis in pituitary tumors, meningiomas and gliomas. He has served on the Editorial Board since 2000
	CHAIRMAN, FINANCE COMMITTEE Edward R. Laws, Jr., M.D. Dr. Laws received his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In 1992, he joined the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center as Professor of Neurosurgery and Professor of Medicine. Dr. Laws has extensive medical and surgical experience in the management of pituitary tumors and epilepsy and peripheral nerve disorders. He is Past President of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Laws has been a member of the Editorial Board since 1992.
	M. Sean Grady, M.D. Dr. Grady received his M.D. from Georgetown University and trained in neurological surgery at the University of Virginia. He is currently the Charles Harrison Frazier Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of interest include: traumatic brain injury, spinal disorders, cerebrovascular disease and minimally invasive techniques in neurosurgery. His NIH sponsored research has focused on the anatomic, physiologic and behavioral consequences of experimental traumatic brain injury, as well as mechanisms of recovery from TBI. Dr. Grady joined the Editorial Board in 2000.
	Mitchel S. Berger, M.D. Mitchel S. Berger obtained his BA in 1975 from Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his MD in 1979 from the University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida, where he received awards for both clinical and academic excellence. From 1979-1985, he performed his residency in neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and, in 1983, was awarded an American Cancer Society (ACS) Clinical Fellowship in neuro-oncology. After his residency, he undertook a further fellowship with the Brain Tumor Research Center at UCSF, serving also as Clinical Instructor in Neuro-Oncology. In 1985, he accepted a fellowship in Pediatric Neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Hospital for Sick Children of the University of Toronto, Canada. In 1986, Dr. Berger was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, with concomitant appointments as Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgical Oncology at the Children's Hospital and Medical Center and Chief of the Northwest Neuro-Oncology Research & Therapy Section. He was appointed Associate Professor in 1990 and Professor in 1996. In 1997, he returned to UCSF as Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery and Director of the Neurosurgical Research Laboratories, including the internatioanlly acknowledged Brain Tumor Research Center. Dr. Berger's principal clinical interests lie in adult and pediatric neurosurgery, in particular the treatment of brain and spinal cord tumors, and in mapping the brain to achieve maximal resection of brain tumors for adults and children. Coupled with preoperative magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, mapping the cortex and subcortical brain to detect language and motor areas and epilepsy, as it pertains to brain tumor surgery, permits more radical removal of brain tumors than is otherwise possible and effective surgical treatment of the epilepsy in selected caese. Dr. Berger's contributions to the neurosurgical community include his work with The Children's Cancer Group, for which he chairs the Neurosurgery Committee. He has also chaired the State Legislative Committee of the American Association for Cancer Research and served as President of the North Pacific Society of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. He is on the Board of Directors of the Society for Neuro-Oncology. He has contributed to the biomedical literature in peer-reviewed journals and texts, as Guest Editor of Neurosuurgery Clinics of North America, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, and as principal editor with Charles B. Wilson of the Textbook of Gilomas. He has served on the Editorial Board since 2001.
	Roberto C. Heros, M.D. Roberto C. Heros was born in 1942 in Havana, Cuba. He left Cuba for exile after the Communist takeover in 1960. He participated as a paratrooper platoon commander in the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. After 2 years in prison, he was released as part of an exchange with the United States government. He attended medical school at the University of Tennessee where he graduated, first in his class, in 1968. Following an internship and 1st year general surgery residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, he joined the US Air Force for 2 years with the rank of Major. Dr. Heros did his neurosurgical residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital. After completion of his residency in 1977, he moved to the University of Pittsburgh as an Assistant Professor. In 1980, he moved back to the Massachusetts General Hospital to become Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery. He moved through the academic ranks at Harvard to reach full professorship in 1989. At that time, he moved to the University of Minnesota as the Lyle A. French Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery. In 1995, Dr. Heros moved to the University of Miami as professor and Co-Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery. He developed and was the founding Director of the University of Miami International Health Center. Dr. Heros' major clinical, academic, and research interest has been in cerebrovascular surgery, although during the last 5 years, he has developed a substantial interest and experience in skull base approaches and the surgical treatment of complex tumors of the skull base. He has authored or coauthored four textbooks and has published approximately 120 refereed articles and 70 textbook chapters dealing with cerebral aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, experimental cerebral ischemia, and skull base surgical approaches. His research has been in the area of cerebral protection from ischemia, particularly hemodilution; he held NIH funding as primary investigator in this area for 12 years. He has been Visiting Professor at more than 50 institutions in this country and abroad and he has given over 500 invited national and international presentations. He holds honorary memberships in several Latin American and European neurosurgical societies. Dr. Heros has been Chairman of the Editorial Board of Neurosurgery. He served as Vice-President of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and was founding Chairman of the Brain Attack Coalition. Currently, he serves as Chairman of the Neurovascular Committee of the World Federation of Neurological Surgeons, President of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery and President-Elect of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Heros joined the Editorial Board in 2001.
	Fredric B. Meyer, M.D. Dr. Meyer is a graduate of Deerfield Academy and the University of Pennsylvania. He received his M.D. degree from Boston University School of Medicine. Upon completion of his neurosurgical residency training and fellowship at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, he joined the faculty at the Mayo Clinic and is currently Professor of Neurosurgery. His clinical interests focus on cerebrovascular diseases (extracranial occlusive disease, aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations), intracranial neoplasms (stereotactic glioma resections, skull base, pituitary), epilepsy surgery, and intraoperative brain mapping. His National Institutes of Health-supported laboratory studies brain pHi and mitochondrial metabolism during focal cerebral ischemia utilizing in vivo fluorescence technology. He joined the Editorial Board in 2002.
	Warren R. Selman, M.D. Dr. Selman received his M.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1977. He completed his neurosurgical training at University Hospitals of Cleveland and joined the Department of Neurological Surgery in 1984. He is the Director of the Center for Stroke and Vice Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at University Hospitals of Cleveland. He holds the academic title of Professor of Neurological Surgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He holds society memberships with The American Academy of Neurological Surgery, The American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), The Stroke Council of the American Heart Association, The American Medical Association, The American Society of Neurologic Investigation, The Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), The AANS/CNS Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery, The AANS/CNS Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care, The Ohio State Medical Association, the Neurological Research Society, The Neurosurgical Society of America, and The Society of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Selman served as Vice President of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons from 1997-1998. He has served as a member of the Executive Council of the AANS/CNS Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery since 1994, and currently serves as the Chairman Elect of this professional joint section. He co-chaired the SMART Program for Cerebrovascular Disease, a national stroke education program jointly sponsored through the AANS and CNS. He is a member of the National Metro Stroke Task Force of the American Heart Association, and also serves as an at-large member of the Executive Committee of the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association. He is the AANS liaison to the Brain Attack Coalition of the National Institute of Neurologic Diseases and Stroke (NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health. Since 1998, Dr. Selman has served as an Ad Hoc Reviewer for the Brain Disorders and Clinical Neuroscience-3 Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Selman served as Editor of Clinical Neurosurgery from 1990 to 1993, and his current editorial responsibilities include the journals, Neurosurgery, Perspectives in Neurological Surgery, and Techniques in Neurosurgery. He joined the Journal of Neurosurgery Editorial Board in 2002.
	Kim J. Burchiel, M.D., F.A.C.S. Dr. Burchiel earned his B.S, at University of California, Davis and his medical degree at University of California, San Diego, Medical School. Dr. Burchiel completed his residency in Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington. He remained on the faculty at the University of Washington from 1982 through 1988. In 1988, Dr. Burchiel was appointed head of the Division of Neurosurgery, Oregon Health & Science University and under his guidance in 1998, the Division of Neurosurgery was granted full departmental status within the School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University. He is currently the John Raaf Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Burchiel's major clinical interest is in the area of functional neurosurgery, comprising the surgical treatment of pain, epilepsy and movement disorders. His research interests involve the physiology of neuropathic pain, including trigeminal neuralgia, and the physiology of Parkinson's disease, essential tremor and other movement disorders. He has published approximately 200 papers in refereed journals, and has edited 3 textbooks, including "Surgical Management of Pain" (Thieme), a textbook compendium of pain physiology, pain diagnoses, and techniques of pain surgery. He served as co-editor for the publication Spinal Cord Injury Pain: Assessment, Mechanisms, Management", which provides a state-of-the-art assessment of the clinical characteristics, central mechanisms, and treatment strategies of the most common SCI pain states. It recommends future directions of clinical and basic research to improve our understanding and treatment of SCI pain syndromes. Dr. Burchiel is currently a Director of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, President-Elect of the Society of University Neurosurgeons. He joined the Editorial Board in 2003.
	E. Antonio Chiocca, MD PhD Columbus, Ohio Dr. Chiocca was born in Padua, Italy. After finishing high school in his hometown, he attended college at the University of Texas at El Paso. He then obtained his MD and PhD degrees from the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. His neurosurgical residency training was at the Massachusetts General Hospital In Boston, which he completed in 1995. He then remained as a staff member of the Neurosurgical Service at MGH where he was promoted as Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School in 1998. In 2004, Dr. Chiocca became Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery and the Dardinger family Endowed Professor of Oncologic Neurosurgery at the Ohio State University Medical Center. Dr. Chiocca’s recent honors include elected membership to the American Society for Clinical Investigators. He is member of several editorial boards and is an “ad hoc” member of the Developmental Therapeutics NIH Study section, member of the parent committee of NCI-D and has participated in several other NCI and NINDS study section. He has also been a member of the American Cancer Society molecular genetics and Oncogenes study section and is a member of the executive council of the Tumor Section for AANS/CNS. Dr. Chiocca has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and has published in journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, and Cancer Research. He has had continuous NIH funding since 1992. His current research funding includes three NIH R01 or R01-equivalent grants. His current research laboratory is composed of approximately 15 fellows and junior scientists. His funded research interests include understanding the effects of immunity on gene and viral therapies in CNS tumors, studying in vitro and in vivo models of glioma invasion, and determining the effects of polymorphisms in genes involved in neurodegeneration. He has been also the principal investigator on gene and viral therapy trials for recurrent malignant gliomas. Dr. Chiocca’s clinical interest involve nervous system tumors and peripheral nerve disorders.
	Andres M. Lozano, M.D. Dr Lozano attended undergraduate and medical school at the University of Ottawa. He completed neurosurgical training at McGill University in 1990. While at McGill, he obtained a PhD in Neurobiology. He completed post-doctoral training at Queen Square in London and with Prof. Ron Tasker in Toronto. Dr. Lozano was appointed to the neurosurgical faculty at the University of Toronto in 1991 and became full Professor in 1999. He is currently Professor and RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery and holds a Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience at the University of Toronto. He also serves as Head of Applied and Interventional Research at the Toronto Western Hospital Research Institute. Dr Lozano’s work focuses on Functional Neurosurgery. His research focuses on understanding the cellular pathogenesis and developing novel treatments for neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and dystonia and for psychiatric disorders including depression. His work has appeared in over 230 peer-reviewed publications, 70 chapters and he has edited 2 books on Functional Neurosurgery. He has been invited lecturer or visiting professor throughout the world and holds honorary membership in Neurosurgical Societies in Europe and South America. He is currently president of both the American and the World Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. He is also chair of the Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery section of the World Federation of Neurosurgery. Dr Lozano serves on the board or executive of several international organizations including The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the Dystonia Research Foundation and the Movement Disorder Society. He serves the international editorial board of 10 journals and is Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. He has received a number of awards including the Gold Medal of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Wilder Penfield Award from the Canadian Congress of Neurosciences. He has had the privilege of training several extremely talented young neurosurgeons in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery who have gone on to become leaders in this field.
Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine
	CHAIRMAN Paul C. McCormick, M.D. Dr. McCormick received his MD degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Master's degree in Clinical Outcomes and Effectiveness from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He performed his neurosurgical residency at the New York Neurological Institute and completed a spine surgery fellowship at The Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. McCormick is Professor of Neurosurgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. His clinical and scientific interests include disorders of the spine and spinal cord and outcomes research. He has served on the Editorial Board since 2001.
	Michael G. Fehlings, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.S.(C) Dr. Michael Fehlings is a Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto, Director of the Krembil Neuroscience Centre, and Head of the Spinal Program at the University Health Network as well as the Krembil Chair in Neural Repair and Regeneration at the Toronto Western Research Institute. He received his M.D. (1983) and Ph.D. (1989) in Neuroscience from the University of Toronto. After completing a residency in neurosurgery at the University of Toronto and receiving fellowship certification (FRCSC) in 1990, Dr. Fehlings undertook postdoctoral research and clinical training in spinal cord injury and complex spinal surgery at New York University Medical Center. Dr. Fehlings has been on Faculty at the University of Toronto since 1992. He combines a focused clinical interest in spinal cord injury and complex spinal disorders with a basic and clinical research program in these areas. Dr. Fehlings is a Career Scientist of the Ontario Ministry of Health and a recipient of the Royal College Gold Medal in Surgery for excellence in research. His laboratory research dealing with the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying spinal cord injury is supported by peer-reviewed funding from a number of sources including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, North American Spine Society, Heart and Stroke Foundation and the PSI Foundation. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and abstracts, chiefly in the area of spinal cord injury and complex spinal surgery. Dr. Fehlings is active in many medical societies and journal editorial boards including Journal of Neurotrauma and Spine, where he holds the position of Deputy Editor. Dr. Fehlings joined the Editorial Board of the Journal of Neurosurgery in 2004.
	Vincent C. Traynelis, M.D. Dr. Traynelis received his M.D. from West Virginia University. He is currently Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Iowa. Dr. Traynelis has a significant research interest in cervical spinal kinematics and the biomechanics of cervical spinal instrumentation and motion-sparing reconstructive spinal surgery. He has an active clinical practice that is heavily weighted toward spinal and skull base surgery. He is a past chairman of the Joint Section of Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves and is the current President of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He is also the vice-president of the Cervical Spine Research Society. Dr. Traynelis joined the Editorial Board in 2004.
	Christopher I. Shaffrey, M.D. Christopher I. Shaffrey obtained his B.S. in 1982 from The Citadel and his M.D. in 1986 from the University of Virginia. He completed residencies in both Neurological Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Virginia and subsequently completed a fellowship in pediatric and adult reconstructive spinal surgery. He is currently a Professor of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Virginia. Dr. Shaffrey's clinical interests include adult and pediatric spinal neurosurgery, in particular the treatment of congenital, idiopathic and degenerative spinal deformity. His research includes evaluation of treatment outcomes in spinal deformity, spinal trauma, spinal cord injury and innovative methods of managing degenerative spinal disorders. He has numerous publications related to his clinical and basic science research. Dr. Shaffrey joined the Editorial Board in 2004.
	Dennis Vollmer, M.D. Houston, Texas Dr. Vollmer was appointed Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery in September, 2004. He joined our practice as a Professor in 2003 after serving seven years as Head of the Division of Neurosurgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio where he also served as Director of the Neurosurgery Residency Program. Dr. Vollmer received his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical School in San Antonio. He went on to complete his residency at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, serving a year at Freedom Fields Hospital in Plymouth, England. Dr. Vollmer is board certified in neurological surgery and specializes in cerebrovascular neurosurgery and stereotactic radiosurgery. He also serves as Director of the Comprehensive Center for Cerebrovascular Surgery and as the Medical Director of the Gamma Knife Facility at Memorial Hermann Hospital.
	Alexander Vaccaro, M.D. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dr. Vaccaro attended Boston College where he was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Epsilon Delta, and Order of the Cross and Crown Arts and Sciences Honor Societies. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1983 with a B.S. in Biology. He received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine where he was promoted with "Distinction" (top 15% of class) during his pre-clinical years. He earned membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Society and graduated in 1987 cum laude. Dr. Vaccaro completed a year of surgical internship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. He completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at Thomas Jefferson University in 1992. He did a Spine fellowship at the University of San Diego in California and became a member of the department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University in 1993. Currently, Dr. Vaccaro is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University and the Rothman Institute in Philadelphia, PA. He is also the Co-Director of the Spine Fellowship program at Thomas Jefferson University and is responsible for teaching residents and fellows the principles of spinal care. He is a board certified orthopaedic surgeon and licensed to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and California. He specializes in the management and treatment of disorders of the spine. Dr. Vaccaro is Co-Director of the Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of the Delaware Valley, one of the largest tertiary referral centers for spinal cord injuries in the nation. Dr. Vaccaro holds numerous society memberships including the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the Philadelphia Orthopaedic Society, the Philadelphia College of Surgeons, the Cervical Spine Research society, the North American Spine Society, the Scoliosis Research Society, the American Orthopaedic Association and the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine. In 2000, he was selected to be an AOA-Japanese Orthopaedic Traveling Fellow where he toured various academic universities in Japan. In the summer of 2003 he toured Europe as a Scoliosis Research Society traveling fellow. Dr. Vaccaro has done extensive research on numerous topics related to spinal disorders. He has published well over 400 peer-review and non-peer review articles. He has authored over 180 book chapters and edited over 10 textbooks. His current research projects include the timing of surgery after traumatic spinal cord injury, the use of alternative bone grafts substitutes including recombinant tissue engineering and the study of the concentration of osteoprogenitor stem cells in various locations of the skeletal system.
	Ziya Gokaslan, M.D. Baltimore, Maryland
	Atul Goel, M.D. Mumbai, India Dr. Atul Goel is professor and head of the Department of Neurosurgery at King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth G. S. Medical College, as well as chief neurosurgeon at TATA Memorial Hospital and Cancer Research Institute in Parel, Mumbai, India. In addition to being a member of the Journal of Neurosurgery editorial board, he is a member of the international advisory board of Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica and the editorial boards of Surgical Neurology, the Journal of Clinical Neurosciences, Spinal Surgery (Japan), and the Korean Neurosurgery Journal; and is editor of both the Journal of Postgraduate Medicine and Neurology India. A nationally (India) lauded teacher of medicine, Dr. Goel is the vice president of the Asian Society of Neurosurgery and a past president of the Skull Base Society of India. He serves on two committees of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. He has published 280 articles in peer-reviewed journals and coauthored the book, Neurosurgery of Complex Tumors and Vascular Lesions.
Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics
	CHAIRMAN Harold L. Rekate, M.D. Phoenix, Arizona Dr. Harold L. Rekate Is Chairman of Pediatric Neurosciences at the Barrow Neurologic Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, director of the pediatric neurosurgical training program there and Clinical Associate Professor of the University of Arizona School of Medicine in Tucson. Dr.Rekate Attended Duke University graduating in 1966 with a BSc in Chemistry. He received his M. D. degree from the Medical College of Virginia in 1970. His training in Neurologic Surgery at the University Hospitals of Cleveland (Case Western Reserve University) was interrupted by a two year tour in the US Army where he was a major in the Medical Corps. He completed neurosurgical training in 1978 and joined the faculty at Case where he directed the pediatric neurosurgical program. He became board certified in Neurological surgery in 1980. In 1985 he moved to the Barrow Neurologic Institute and became the first pediatric neurosurgeon in Arizona. His research work has focused on the use of mathematical modeling to drive basic science research and clinical decision making in the field of hydrocephalus. He has served as Chairman of the Joint Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgeons of the AANS and CNS and president of both the American Society of Pediatric Neurological Surgeons and the International Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery. Within Arizona he has served on the board of directors of Catholic Healthcare West Arizona. In 1992 he received the prestigious Pudenz Award for excellence in CSF Physiology.
	W. Jerry Oakes, M.D. Birmingham, Alabama
	Tae Sung Park, M.D. Dr. Park received M.D. from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea and trained in neurosurgery at Yonsei University in and the University of Virginia. He received additional training in pediatric neurosurgery at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto. He has held various neurosurgery faculty positions at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, University of Southern California, and University of Virginia. He was appointed Professor of Neurosurgery at Washington University in St. Louis in 1989 and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief of the St. Louis Children's Hospital in 1990. He was appointed Shi H. Huang Professor of Neurosurgery in 1997. He is also Professor of Pediatrics, and Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University in St. Louis. His clinical and research interests include general pediatric neurosurgery, spastic cerebral palsy, birth brachial plexus, pediatric epilepsy surgery, craniofacial surgery, and laboratory investigation of cerebral microvascular injury. His research has been continuously funded for 22 years by NIH. He has served as a member of Neurology A study section, and Brain Disorder and Clinical n-1 study section of NIH. He was awarded Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from NIH in 1999. He has published over 150 journal articles, 35 book chapters, and edited three books. He is proud of establishing a comprehensive pediatric neurosurgery program at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. Dr. Park joined the Editorial Board in 2004.
	Joseph H. Piatt, M.D. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dr Piatt is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After an undergraduate education at Swarthmore College, he earned his medical degree in 1979 at the University of Pennsylvania. Clinical training followed at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Duke University Medical Center, and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. After a brief tour on active duty in the United States Army at Ft Lewis, Washington, in 1989 Dr Piatt joined the faculty of the Department of Neurosurgery at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon, and served as the pediatric neurosurgeon to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital and the Portland Shriners’ Hospital for Children. In 2000 he relocated to Philadelphia to become Chief of the Section of Neurosurgery at St Christopher’s Hospital for Children. Although his clinical activities span the entire scope of pediatric neurosurgery, his publications focus predominantly on hydrocephalus, the management of spasticity in childhood, and brachial plexus birth injury. He has edited a textbook of pediatric neurosurgery. He is a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Hydrocephalus Association. From 1998 onward he has served, first, as a member of the Steering Committee and, subsequently, as a member of the Executive Committee of the Section on Neurological Surgery in the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is currently Chair of the Section.
	Frederick A. Boop, M.D. Memphis, Tennessee Dr. Frederick Boop obtained his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Arkansas in 1978. He received his Medical Degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He completed his Internship and Neurosurgical Residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center. Dr. Boop also completed a Fellowship in Epilepsy and Functional Neurosurgery at the University of Minnesota, and a Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. He is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery. Dr. Boop is currently an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee and is Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at LeBonheur Children’s Hospital, and practices at Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute. His areas of special interest include pediatric and adult neuro-oncology, epilepsy surgery and craniosynostosis. Dr. Boop has served on many professional societies, including being past President of the Southern Neurosurgical Society, past Chairman of the Council of State Neurological Surgeons and Current Health Policy Fellow for American College of Surgeons/AANS.
	James T. Rutka, M.D. Ph.D. Toronto, Ontario, Canada Dr. Rutka received his M.D. from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario and his Ph.D. in experimental pathology form the University of California, San Francisco. He also holds the F.R.C.S. (C) designation in neurosurgery for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Division of Neurosurgery and Director of the Brain Tumor Research Laboratory , University of Toronto; consultant neurosurgeon at Hugh MacMillan Rehabilitation Centre, Toronto and is a staff neurosurgeon at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario. His areas of special interests include pediatric oncology and pathology, brain injury, and cell growth and differentiation. He has published extensively in the neuroscience and well as oncology literature. Dr. Rutka has been a member of the Editorial Board since 1997.
	Thomas Pittman, M.D. Lexington, Kentucky Dr. Thomas Pittman attended Albany Medical College. He completed his neurosurgical residency at St. Louis University and remained on the faculty there for several years. He then moved to the University of Kentucky where he directs the Pediatric Neurosurgery Section. His primary interests are brain tumors and epilepsy surgery. Dr. Pittman has been a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics since 2004.
	Ian F. Pollack, M.D. Dr. Pollack is the Walter Dandy Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and co-director of the Brain Tumor Center of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. He has more than 170 publications on a variety of topics in neurosurgery, has edited two monographs on childhood brain tumors, and is co-editor of the recently published book, Principles and Practice of Pediatric Neurosurgery, and its accompanying atlas. His primary research interests focus on identifying and evaluating innovative strategies for treating malignant brain tumors, improving the treatment of children with brain tumors, and optimizing the management of childhood craniofacial disorders. He currently chairs the Central Nervous System Tumor Committee of the Children's Cancer Group, is institutional principal investigator in the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC), and chair of the Drug Delivery Committee of the PBTC. He joined the Editorial Board in 2003.
	John R. W. Kestle, M.D. John Kestle was educated at the University of Western Ontario (BSc Biology 1980; MD 1984) and at McMaster University (MSc, Epidemiology and Biostatistics 1989). He trained in neurosurgery and pediatric neurosurgery at the University of Toronto. After six years on faculty at the University of British Columbia, he joined the faculty at the University of Utah (1988) and is currently Professor of Neurosurgery, Director of the Residency Training Program and Chief of the Division of Pedaitric Neurosurgery. His clinical practice has been exclusively in pediatric neurosurgery with a specific interest in pediatric epilepsy surgery. His research is in clinical trials methodology and he has developed a multi-center network for running clinical trials in pediatric neurosurgery.