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Accomplishment

For the past nine (9) years since its foundation, the NPAF has presented numerous teaching programs in Peru. These programs were developed under the NPAF with the guidance and support of FIENS, FIND, CNS and IC-CNS including participation by the Neurosurgical Division and the Neurobiology Department of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of California at Irvine (UCI), California USA, the Medical Center of Cedars Sanai, Los Angeles California, USA.


SOME OF THE MOST RECOGNIZED PROGRAMS ARE:

International “Hands On course”  Surgery in the Cervical Column at the VIII Peruvian congress of Neurosurgery South Regional Chapter of the Peruvian Society of Neurosurgery, Arequipa, Peru in October 1997.

The development of practical teaching on "Base of the Skull laboratory" in selected hospitals of Lima, Peru. This program has flourished under the Direction of Dr. Antonio Bernardo along with auspices of FIENS and the help of reputable instrumentals companies.

 “Hands-On" courses in Neurosurgical techniques were presented by accomplished American and European neurosurgeons in Lima and Arequipa, Peru.

Conferences and “hand on” workshops during Spinal and base of the Skull  International Congress  of the Sociedad Peruana de Nerurocirugia, Northen Chapter in  Trujillo, Peru, during July 2005 by Dr. Patrick Johnson Director of the Institute of Spinal and Peripheral Nerves Disorders, Dr. W. Putnam Wolcott., Doctor Keith Black Director of the Dunnitc  Neurological Services, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA, and Doctor Anselmo Pineda, Associate Professor University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) Division of Neurosurgery.

 

Scholarships for two Peruvian Neurosurgeons, one in Neuro-endovascular interventional Neurosurgery and the other in general Neurosurgery and Spinal Surgery at the University of California Los Angeles UCLA.

 

The Foundation through FIND has encouraged the donation of equipment and neurosurgical instruments including three (3) Zeiss microscopes in selected hospitals in various part of Peru.

Donations of Instrument and educational materials have been given to various National Hospital and University in Peru.

 

Has established a bank of Cerebral Aneurysm clips.

 

HAS established a Bank of Intracranial Shunts for hydrocephaly

 Established under the sponsorship of the NPAF the creation of the first Chapter in Peru of "Think First". The Chapter was established in December of 2003, under the leadership of Dr. Federico Valencia, a Peruvian Neurosurgeon, practicing in Lima, Peru. Dr. Valencia being the President  of the Sociedad Peruana de Cirugia Vertebral and a Professor at the National University of Cayetano Heredia traveled to San Diego, California, USA to take the specific training with the international section of "Think First".  He will be working with the Sociedad Peruana de Neurocirugia and Asociacion Peruana de Cirugia Vertebral and the Rotary Club of Barranco.

During the past decade the NPAF was able to promote and encourage renowned Neurosurgeons to attend and share their knowledge by  participating in numerous Congress of Neurosurgery in Peru and in various provinces

 

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