Sir Victor Horsley Lecture 2025 - Dr Kee Park

UCL Event page: Sir Victor Horsley Lecture 2025 : Dr Kee Park | UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology - UCL – University College London

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About Dr Kee Park

Dr. Park practiced private neurosurgery for 12 years in the US before spending the next decade teaching neurosurgery in Nepal, Ethiopia, Cambodia, and North Korea. He returned to the US to obtain his MPH and complete a global surgery fellowship at Harvard. He then joined the faculty of the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change where he now oversees the global surgery policy and advocacy work.

In 2016, he established the global neurosurgery initiative. The research team has produced some of the seminal and foundational papers in global neurosurgery and continues to fill the large knowledge gaps in the global public health practice of neurosurgery.

From 2019 to 2023, he served as the inaugural chair of the Global Neurosurgery Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. The committee implemented a global neurosurgery action plan aimed at institutionalizing the field of global neurosurgery within the neurosurgery profession.

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About Victor Horsley

Horsley (1857-1916) was the first neurosurgeon appointed to the National Hospital Queen Square, and was known worldwide as the ‘Father of Neurosurgery’. He was also a brilliant experimentalist, elected as FRS at the age of 29 years for his work on cerebral localization and comparative anatomy. He pioneered neurosurgery for epilepsy, tumours, abscesses, head injuries, spinal and pituitary diseases, and trigeminal neuralgia. He devised a stereotactic frame and a variety of new surgical techniques and technologies.

His work was not limited to neurosurgery: he made significant contributions to the understanding of rabies, thyroid disease, vaccines, antisepsis, anaesthesia, and military medicine. He was an iconoclast and social reformer, active in the Temperance Movement, a supporter of female suffrage, health care of the working class, vivisection, and medical reform. He stood for Parliament and served as president of the British Medical Association and was on the General Medical Council. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Society, and was knighted in 1902. He worked to reform the medical services of the British Army and died on active duty, the only casualty of the First World War amongst the National Hospital senior staff.

REGISTRATION

All are welcome, and the event is free.

PROGRAMME

17:00 - 18:00

Sir Victor Horsley Memorial Lecture given by Dr Kee Park, Director of Policy and Advocacy, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Lecturer on Global Health, Harvard Medical School

"Global Neurosurgery, Why it Matters"

The nascent field of Global Neurosurgery is transforming the fundamental nature of modern neurosurgical practice. The talk will describe its genesis and progress, definitions, key events and actors, and what the future holds for the pursuit of neurosurgical equity.

18:00 - 19:30

Wine Reception

If you have any queries, please contact Morium Ali ([email protected])

Dr Kee Park