Honored Guests

Herbert Olivecrona
1952, Chicago

Herbert Olivecrona began his brilliant career in the surgical department of Serafimer Hospital. He e ... Read Full Biography.

Sir Geoffrey Jefferson
1953, New Orleans

Sir Geoffrey Jefferson was born April 10, 1886. His father was a general practitioner and surgeon. J ... Read Full Biography.

Kenneth G. McKenzie
1954, New York

After his return from the trenches on the western front in World War I, Kenneth G. McKenzie set up a ... Read Full Biography.

Carl W. Rand
1955, Los Angeles

Carl Wheeler Rand was born in Monson, Massachusetts on April 8, 1886, the son of Jenny Peck Rand and ... Read Full Biography.

Wilder G. Penfield
1956, Chicago

Dr. Penfield was a man of many facets. To the reader of this book an enumeration of his medical acco ... Read Full Biography.

Francis Grant
1957, Washington DC

Francis C. Grant, the distinguished guest of honor in 1957, was born in Philadelphia, November 9, 18 ... Read Full Biography.

A. Earl Walker
1958, San Francisco

A. Earl Walker, the distinguished guest of honor in 1958, was born in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1907. He ... Read Full Biography.

William J. German
1959, Miami

Our honored guest, Dr. William John German, comes to us as a beloved teacher and respected investiga ... Read Full Biography.

Paul C. Bucy
1960, Chicago

Dr. Paul C. Bucy, the honored guest of the 1960 meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, is ... Read Full Biography.

Eduard A. V. Busch
1961, New York

When it was decided to invite Dr. Eduard Busch as our honored guest for the meeting in New York in 1 ... Read Full Biography.

Bronson S. Ray
1962, Houston

Our honored guest in 1962, Dr. Bronson Sands Ray, clinical professor of surgery (neurosurgery), Corn ... Read Full Biography.

James L. Poppen
1963, Denver

James L. Poppen embarked upon his neurosurgical career in 1933 when he joined the staff of the Lahey ... Read Full Biography.

Edgar A. Kahn
1964, Miami

Our distinguished guest, Dr. Edgar A. Kahn, whom we honored in 1964, was held in high esteem and aff ... Read Full Biography.

James C. White
1965, Chicago

The career of Dr. James Clarke White was marked by a long productive period during which he devoted ... Read Full Biography.

Hugo Krayenbühl
1966, San Juan

Neurological surgery as it exists in Switzerland today owes its high level of competence to its foun ... Read Full Biography.

W.James Gardner
1967, San Francisco

Two unforeseen events helped to shape and direct the career of W. James Gardner, M.D., the honored g ... Read Full Biography.

Norman M. Dott
1968, Toronto

Of Scottish-Huguenot descent, Norman McOmish Dott, our distinguished guest of honor in 1968, was bor ... Read Full Biography.

Wallace B. Hamby
1969, Boston

An early interest in vascular problems related to the central nervous system was evidenced by our ho ... Read Full Biography.

Barnes Woodhall
1970, St. Louis

Barnes Woodhall was born in Rockport, Maine, on January 22, 1905. His father, Charles H. Woodhall, w ... Read Full Biography.

Elisha S. Gurdjian
1971, Miami

In 1971, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons honored one of the giants of neurosurgery, a man who ... Read Full Biography.

Francis Murphey
1972, Denver

Francis Murphey was born on the 24th of December 1906, in Macon, Mississippi, the son of Edwin Mason ... Read Full Biography.

Henry G. Schwartz
1973, Honolulu

Henry Gerard Schwartz, our distinguished honored guest, was born in New York City in 1909. In 1928 h ... Read Full Biography.

Guy L. Odom
1974, Vancouver

Judging by the number of times his advice is sought each day by his residents, his associates at the ... Read Full Biography.

William H. Sweet
1975, Atlanta

William Herbert Sweet was born on February 13, 1910 in Kerriston, Washington, the center of the timb ... Read Full Biography.

Lyle A. French
1976, New Orleans

Lyle A. French was born in Worthing, South Dakota, March 26, 1915. His early years were spent in Len ... Read Full Biography.

Richard C. Schneider
1977, San Francisco

Richard Coy Schneider was born in 1913 to Dr. and Mrs. Louis Schneider in Newark, New Jersey, where ... Read Full Biography.

Charles G. Drake
1978, Washington DC

Charles George Drake was born on July 21, 1920, and received his early education in Windsor, Ontario ... Read Full Biography.

Frank H. Mayfield
1979, Las Vegas

Frank Henderson Mayfield was born on June 23, 1908, and spent his early years on a farm in Garnett, ... Read Full Biography.

Eben Alexander, Jr.
1980, Houston

Dr. Eben Alexander, Jr., was born on September 14, 1913, to Dr. and Mrs. Eben Alexander, Sr., of Kno ... Read Full Biography.

J. Garber Galbraith
1981, Los Angeles

James Garber Galbraith was born in 1914 in Anniston, Alabama. He was the first son of Mr. and Mrs. S ... Read Full Biography.

Keiji Sano
1982, Toronto

Dr. Keiji Sano was born on June 30, 1920, in the quiet and scenic town of Fujinomiya in Shizuoka Pre ... Read Full Biography.

C. Miller Fisher
1983, Chicago

The remarkable accomplishments of C. Miller Fisher, astute observer and describer of clinical phenom ... Read Full Biography.

Hugo V. Rizzoli
1984, New York

Hugo Victor Rizzoli was born in Newark, New Jersey, on August 20, 1916. He received his A.B. degree ... Read Full Biography.

Walter E. Dandy
1984, New York

Walter E. Dandy was born on April 6, 1886 in Sedalia, Missouri. His father was an engineer on the Mi ... Read Full Biography.

Sidney Goldring
1985, Honolulu

Sidney Goldring was born April 2, 1923, in Kremnitz, Poland. His family immigrated to the United Sta ... Read Full Biography.

M. Gazi Yasargil
1986, New Orleans

Mahmut Gazi Yasargil was born July 6, 1925, in Lice, a village in eastern Turkey, approximately 200 ... Read Full Biography.

Thomas W. Langfitt
1987, Baltimore

Thomas William Langfitt was born on April 20, 1927, in Clarksburg, West Virginia, the son of Dr. Fra ... Read Full Biography.

Lindsay Symon
1988, Seattle

Professor Lindsay Symon, the honored guest of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) for 1988, ... Read Full Biography.

Thoralf M. Sundt, Jr.
1989, Atlanta

The honored guest for the 1989 meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons was Dr. Thoralf M. S ... Read Full Biography.

Charles B. Wilson
1990, Los Angeles

Charles Byron Wilson was born August 31, 1929, in Neosho, Missouri in the heart of the Ozarks. Known ... Read Full Biography.

Bennett M. Stein
1991, Orlando

Bennett Mueller Stein is a man of many talents spanning neurosurgery, teaching, research, scholarshi ... Read Full Biography.

Robert G. Ojemann
1992, Washington DC

It is a special privilege to have Doctor Robert Ojemann serve as the Honored Guest of the Congress t ... Read Full Biography.

Albert L. Rhoton, Jr.
1993, Vancouver

Albert L. Rhoton, Jr., was born and raised in Kentucky. He graduated from Washington University Scho ... Read Full Biography.

Robert F. Spetzler
1994, Chicago

Robert F. Spetzler attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois from 1963 to 1967 and graduated cum ... Read Full Biography.

John A. Jane
1995, San Francisco

John Anthony Jane, MD, PhD, FRCS(C), FACS, was born and raised in the Chicago area. He received his ... Read Full Biography.

Peter J. Jannetta
1996, Montreal

Peter Joseph Jannetta, MD, DSc(hon), FACS, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Ha ... Read Full Biography.

Nicholoas T. Zervas
1997, New Orleans

The Congress of Neurological Surgeons is delighted to have Nicholas T. Zervas, MD, as the Honored Gu ... Read Full Biography.

John M. Tew, Jr.
1998, Seattle

John McLellan Tew, Jr., MD, FACS was born and raised on a farm in eastern North Carolina. He graduat ... Read Full Biography.

Duke Samson
1999, Boston

Duke S. Samson was born January 16, 1943, in Odessa, Texas. His father was an officer in the US Army ... Read Full Biography.

Edward R. Laws, Jr.
2000, San Antonio

Edward R. Laws was born in New York City on April 29, 1938, the son of a physician and a teacher/edi ... Read Full Biography.

Michael L.J. Apuzzo
2001, San Diego

Michael L.J. Apuzzo was born in New Haven Connecticut, the son of a fine craftsman/precision machini ... Read Full Biography.

Volker K.H. Sonntag
2002, Philadelphia

Volker K.H. Sonntag, MD “Discovery of the Spine Specialist: Instrumentation for the Cervical Spine”, ... Read Full Biography.

Julian T. Hoff
2003, Denver

Julian Hoff was born in Boise, Idaho on September 22, 1936. He grew up in Caldwell, Idaho. He atten ... Read Full Biography.

Arnold H. Menezes
2004, San Francisco

Arnold Menezes was born in Bombay, India, where he attended the Topiwala National Medical College at ... Read Full Biography.

Roberto C. Heros
2005, Boston

Roberto C. Heros was born in 1942 in Havana, Cuba. After the Communist takeover in 1960, he left Cub ... Read Full Biography.

Peter M. Black
2006, Chicago

Dr. Peter Black was born in Canada and grew up in Northern Ontario. While in high school, he became ... Read Full Biography.

L. Dade Lunsford
2007, San Diego

Dr. Lawrence Dade Lunsford is the Lars Leksell Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University o ... Read Full Biography.

William F. Chandler
2008, Orlando

Dr. William Chandler is the Richard C. Schneider Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University ... Read Full Biography.

James T. Rutka
2009, New Orleans

Born in Toronto, and educated at Princeton University (1975-1977), and Queen's University Medical Sc ... Read Full Biography.

Daniel L. Barrow
2010, San Francisco

Daniel Louis Barrow, MD, graduated magna cum laude from Westminster College and received his medical ... Read Full Biography.

H. Hunt Batjer
2011, Washington, DC

H. Hunt Batjer, MD, is the Michael J. Marchese Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurological ... Read Full Biography.