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Mehmet Turgut, MD, PhD, is Professor of Neurosurgery at Aydin Adnan Menderes University School of Medicine, Aydin, Turkey. He graduated from the Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey and later specialized in neurosurgery in Hacettepe University Hospitals, Ankara, Turkey. In 2004, he received the PhD degree from the Department of Embryology and Histology, Ege University Health Sciences Institute, Izmir, Turkey. His fields of expertise and research interests are broad and include developmental neuroscience, pediatric neurosurgery, infectious diseases of the central nervous system, and peripheral nerve surgery. Dr. Turgut is an editorial board member for 25 international journals including European Spine Journal, Surgical Neurology International, Journal of Neurological Surgery Part A: Central European Neurosurgery, Journal of Spine, Journal of Pediatric Neurology, Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury, Journal of Spine & Neurosurgery, and Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice and a reviewer for a wide range of international journals and research programs. Dr. Turgut is the lead or co-author of more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and about 65 book chapters and he is one of the editors in 15 books including Pituitary Apoplexy, Hydatidosis of the Central Nervous System: Diagnosis and Treatment, Complications of CSF Shunting in Hydrocephalus: Prevention, Identification and Management, The Chiari Malformations, The Sutures of the Skull: Anatomy, Embryology, Imaging, and Surgery. Ali Akhaddar, MD, IFAANS, is Full Professor of Neurosurgery at the Medical School, Mohammed V University in Rabat (Morocco) and Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at Avicenne Military Hospital of Marrakech (Morocco) since 2013. He was an Expert Member of the Scientific Committees of the National Scientific and Technological Research Center of Morocco (CNRST) from 2011 to 2017. Dr Akhaddar is an International Fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), the French speaking society of Neurosurgery (SNCLF), and the Rusian Academy of Natural History (RANH). His fields of expertise and research interests include central nervous system infections, spinal surgery, pituitary tumors, stereotactic surgery, history of medicine, and medical writing. He has received many awards during his career, including from the Moroccan Society of Neurosurgery (2007), the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies [Traveling Fellowship Award: Nagoya 2007, Boston 2009 and Seoul 2013], the University of Mohammed V in Rabat (2011 and 2017) and the French Society of Hospitals' History (SFHH) (2014). In 2020, he was awarded the COMSTECH Best Scientific Book award by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Dr Akhaddar is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of Surgical Neurology International [Infection]. He is a reviewer for many medical journals including World Neurosurgery, Headache, BMC Infectious diseases, BMC Pediatrics, BMC Surgery, Scientif Reports, International Journal of Spine Surgery, Journal of Pain Research, Childs Nervous System, Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice. He is the author of ten previous books (five with Springer* and one translated into Chinese); and has authored and co-authored more than 300 papers published in peer-reviewed journals (189 indexed in PubMed*) (221 indexed in Scopus* Author ID: 22978603700, ORCID iD: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5743-2777) and eighteen book chapters. Walter A. Hall, M.D., MBA is Professor of Neurosurgery at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. Prior to his arrival in Syracuse in 2007, he was a Professor of Neurosurgery, Radiation Oncology, and Radiology at the University Of Minnesota School of Medicine and the Shelly N. an
