Xin Mei won the 2017 WFNS Young Neurosurgeons Award

The WFNS XVI. World Congress of Neurosurgery has been held August 20-25, 2017 in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded in 1955, The World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) is a professional, scientific, non-governmental organization comprising of 130 member societies, consisting of 5 Continental Associations, 119 National Neurosurgical Societies and 6 Affiliate Societies, representing over 30,000 neurosurgeons worldwide.The WFNS aspires to promote global improvement in neurosurgical care. The mission of the WFNS is to work together with our member societies to improve worldwide neurosurgical care, training and research to benefit our patients.

      WFNS will offer 5 awards for Young Neurosurgeons every 4 years. Xin Mei is the Awardee of 2017 WFNS Young Neurosurgeons Awards. In close ceremony, Xin Mei donated 1500 USD to the WFNS foundation for supporting the neurosurgeon training center in Africa. This Chinese young doctor shows  the world knowledgeable and sentiment.

    Successive WFNS Young Neurosurgeons Awardees were famous in National Neurosurgical Societies and made great contribution to the development of the world neurosurgery. Some has even been the president of WFNS. They are the newly emerging forces of the world neurosurgery societies. 

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The brief introduction of XinMei

      Xin Mei, Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. Dr. Xin Mei earned his medical degree from Sun Yat-Sen University cancer center.  There he was supported by Sun Yat-Sen University cancer center fellowship.  Since 2011, he came to Guangzhou for a researcher in neuro-oncology at State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, focusing on vasculogenic mimicry in glioblastoma. He has been continually educated and get Good Clinical Practice (GCP) certificate. During this time, Dr. Xin Mei received excellent conference papers of the 4th Guangzhou International Symposium on Oncology and of the 2015 CSNO. He has 6 papers which focus on increasing the survival time of glioblastoma patients and looking for the precision diagnosis and treatment of them.

Writter：Department of Neurosurgery

Editor: the Office of International Affairs and the CPC Committee Office, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University