Federico Di Rocco is full Professor of Neurosurgery and Chairman of the neurosurgical residency program at the University of Lyon 1 (France). He is Chairman of the Pediatric Neurosurgical Department at the Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant of Lyon and Co-Chairman of the of the Pediatric Neurosurgical Department at the China International Neuroscience Institute, Beijing . He is member of the Executive Board of International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN), European Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ESPN), the Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française (SNCLF) and the Pediatric Committee of the Wolrd Federaion of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) and of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS). He is currently the Director of the French National Referral Center for Craniosynostosis of Lyon, member of the European Rare Disease Network ERN-CRANIO and past Secretary of the European Society of Craniofacial Surgery (ESCFS). Prof Di Rocco is author of more than 250 articles published in peer reviewed international journals and chapters in neurosurgical textbooks. John R. W. Kestle is a pediatric neurosurgeon and clinical researcher in craniosynostosis and pediatric hydrocephalus. He trained in Neurosurgery in Toronto and in Clinical Epidemiology at McMaster University. He began his career at the University of British Columbia in 1992. In 1998, he joined the faculty at the University of Utah and Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, where he became Professor of Neurosurgery, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery and Neurosurgery Residency Program Director. He has served as Treasurer and as Scientific Chair of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Chair of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Neurosurgery:Pediatrics, and as Chair American Board of Pediatric Neurosurgery. His clinical practice focuses on hydrocephalus and craniosynostosis. His research is in craniosynostosis and hydrocephalus and he founded and Chaired the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network (hcrn.org) and the Synostosis Research Group (SynRG). He is currently Professor of Neurosurgery and Vice Chair, Clinical Research in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Utah, USA.
