From 26 to 28 September 2026, the 10th Biennial Conference of the World Academy of Neurological Surgery (WANS) was held in Taormina, Italy, at the Hotel Capotaormina, in conjunction with the 75th National Congress of the Italian Society of Neurosurgery (SINch) in Catania.
WANS, founded in 2005 as a non-profit honor academy, brings together the world’s leading neurosurgeons with the mandate to share scientific knowledge, promote international education, advanced practice and humanitarian action, and to recognize the pioneers of the specialty.
The scientific programme, released by the Executive Committee on 1 August 2026, covered in three days of intensive sessions the major topics of current neurosurgery: spine and cranio-vertebral junction surgery, meningiomas, skull base and cranio-cervical junction, vascular neurosurgery and bypass, neuro-oncology, epilepsy and functional neurosurgery, endoscopy and brainstem surgery.
In this academic setting of the highest level, Dr. Miguel A. Arraez participated as Past President of WANS, contributing his institutional experience and his historical vision of the Academy, and in the scientific debate sessions, where his role was to counterpoint, qualify and enrich the presentations with critical questions, analysis of the evidence and personal surgical experience, especially in brainstem and skull base tumours.
The previous meeting of this prestigious academy was held in Malaga in 2024, during the presidency of Dr. Arraez.
In the photo, with other Past Presidents of the World Academy (Drs. Knosp, Kanaan, Caldwell) and the current President, Dr. Mathiesen.