Francesco SalaFrancesco Sala is Professor and Chair of Neurosurgery at the University of Verona, in Italy. His main clinical and research interests are Pediatric Neurosurgery and Intraoperative Neurophysiology. In 1998-1999 he was Clinical Fellow in IntraoperativeNeurophysiology, under the supervision of Dr. Vedran Deletis, at the Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery in New York. Upon his return to Italy, he established the Intraoperative Neurophysiology Unit at the Institute of Neurosurgery in Verona where, in the past twenty years, more than 3000 elective neurosurgical procedures have been performed under neurophysiological guidance. In 2005 he was one of the co-founders of the International Society for Intraoperative Neurophysiology, where he has served as Secretary (2009-2011), Chairman of the Education Committee (2011-2013), and President (2013-2015). Prof. Sala is particularly committed to the training of young neurosurgeons and the development of intraoperative neurophysiology in the global neurosurgical community. Since 2010 he teaches at the Training Courses of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), and he’s currently an Executive Board member of the EANS. In 2016 he was appointed as first Chair of the Neuromonitoring Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. Read More Read Less