CONTENTS
Mission Statement
Greetings from the President
Board Members（Directors・Inspectors）
Councilors
Scientific Committee
Various Committees
Honorary members
Future JSPN Meetings
History of JSPN Annual Meetings
Mission StatementGreetings from the PresidentBoard Members（Directors・Inspectors）CouncilorsScientific CommitteeVarious CommitteesHonorary membersFuture JSPN MeetingsHistory of JSPN Annual Meetings
The Japanese Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (JSPN) is dedicated to promoting the development of pediatric neurosurgery and progress in related medicine and to enhancing education and training in pediatric neurosurgery.
JSPN also aims to encourage broad communication and friendship among its members and with other related organizations in Japan and abroad.
JSPN also aims to encourage broad communication and friendship among its members and with other related organizations in Japan and abroad.
On assuming the position of President of the Japanese Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery
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President, Japanese Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery Masahiro NONAKA Department of Neurosurgery, Kansai Medical University |
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I am Masahiro Nonaka, and I have been appointed as the Chairman of the Japanese Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery starting from
June 2023. Following in the footsteps of my predecessor, Dr. Isao Date,
I am committed to striving for the smooth operation and development of our society with the support and guidance of its members.
Our society was established in 1972 as a research association and transitioned to a board of director system in 2012. Dr. Hajime Arai served as the inaugural Chairman, followed by Dr. Hiroaki Sakamoto in 2015, and Dr. Isao Date in 2019. Now, in 2023, I have been honored to assume the role of the fourth Chairman. During this period, we introduced the pediatric neurosurgery certification system in 2016 and officially became a general incorporated association in 2017.
Japan is facing a demographic challenge of population decline, and pediatric neurosurgery, as a subcommittee of the Japanese Neurosurgery Association, is expected to experience this decline at the fastest and most significant rate. When our society was founded, the birthrate in Japan exceeded 2 million, but by 2022, it had sharply decreased to 770,000. Examining the total fertility rate by prefecture, Okinawa, Shimane, and Miyazaki prefectures are ranked as the top three, all with fertility rates exceeding 1.6. In contrast, Tokyo, at the bottom of the list, has a rate of 1.13. This indicates that while fertility rates are declining in urban areas, they remain relatively high in rural regions, ensuring a reasonable number of children are being born. Therefore, I believe that maintaining and enhancing the level of pediatric care in rural areas will be a significant challenge in the future.
Patients with conditions that can be managed on a non-urgent basis but are complex to treat can be referred to experienced medical facilities in large cities. However, patients requiring urgent treatment, such as those with traumatic injuries or acute hydrocephalus, should have access to standardized medical care anywhere in Japan. To achieve this, we are working to establish treatment guidelines and to ensure the presence of as many board-certified pediatric neurosurgeons as possible in major cities across Japan.
Additionally, we consider academic activities in pediatric neurosurgery to be a major challenge. As mentioned earlier, the declining birthrate will limit the number of cases that can be experienced at a single institution. Currently, numerous English-language papers on pediatric neurosurgery are published in Japan, but most of them are case reports. Unfortunately, the number of English-language journals that publish case reports is decreasing. In order to continue publishing high-quality English-language papers in the future, we believe that multicenter collaborative research should be more actively conducted. Currently, the Japan Neurosurgical Society is leading a shunt registry in which we are actively registering cases, and we intend to leverage this experience to support and promote multicenter collaborative research on other clinical issues in the future.
Our society was established in 1972 as a research association and transitioned to a board of director system in 2012. Dr. Hajime Arai served as the inaugural Chairman, followed by Dr. Hiroaki Sakamoto in 2015, and Dr. Isao Date in 2019. Now, in 2023, I have been honored to assume the role of the fourth Chairman. During this period, we introduced the pediatric neurosurgery certification system in 2016 and officially became a general incorporated association in 2017.
Japan is facing a demographic challenge of population decline, and pediatric neurosurgery, as a subcommittee of the Japanese Neurosurgery Association, is expected to experience this decline at the fastest and most significant rate. When our society was founded, the birthrate in Japan exceeded 2 million, but by 2022, it had sharply decreased to 770,000. Examining the total fertility rate by prefecture, Okinawa, Shimane, and Miyazaki prefectures are ranked as the top three, all with fertility rates exceeding 1.6. In contrast, Tokyo, at the bottom of the list, has a rate of 1.13. This indicates that while fertility rates are declining in urban areas, they remain relatively high in rural regions, ensuring a reasonable number of children are being born. Therefore, I believe that maintaining and enhancing the level of pediatric care in rural areas will be a significant challenge in the future.
Patients with conditions that can be managed on a non-urgent basis but are complex to treat can be referred to experienced medical facilities in large cities. However, patients requiring urgent treatment, such as those with traumatic injuries or acute hydrocephalus, should have access to standardized medical care anywhere in Japan. To achieve this, we are working to establish treatment guidelines and to ensure the presence of as many board-certified pediatric neurosurgeons as possible in major cities across Japan.
Additionally, we consider academic activities in pediatric neurosurgery to be a major challenge. As mentioned earlier, the declining birthrate will limit the number of cases that can be experienced at a single institution. Currently, numerous English-language papers on pediatric neurosurgery are published in Japan, but most of them are case reports. Unfortunately, the number of English-language journals that publish case reports is decreasing. In order to continue publishing high-quality English-language papers in the future, we believe that multicenter collaborative research should be more actively conducted. Currently, the Japan Neurosurgical Society is leading a shunt registry in which we are actively registering cases, and we intend to leverage this experience to support and promote multicenter collaborative research on other clinical issues in the future.
July 2023
| President： | Masahiro NONAKA |
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| Directors： | Takuya AKAI |
| Akira GOMI | |
| Mihoko KATO | |
| Atsufumi KAWAMURA | |
| Jun KURIHARA | |
| Young-Soo PARK | |
| Shoko SHIMOKAWA | |
| Tetsuya YAMAMOTO | |
| Inspectors： | Toru IWAMA | Masakazu MIYAJIMA |
| Yasuo AIHARA | Takuya AKAI | Yasuhiko AKIYAMA | Takashi ARAKI | Yasuyoshi CHIBA | Motoharu FUJII | Akira GOMI | Atsuko HARADA | Naoya HASHIMOTO | Toshiaki HAYASHI | Yasuhiko HAYASHI | Satoshi IHARA | Koji IIHARA | Ryuji ISHIZAKI | Toru IWAMA | Mihoko KATO | Takakazu KAWAMATA | Atsufumi KAWAMURA | Haruhiko KISHIMA | Toshihiro KUMABE | Jun KURIHARA | Satoshi KURODA | Kazuhiko KUROZUMI | Keishi MAKINO | Nobuhiro MIKUNI | Tomoru MIWA | Tadashi MIYAGAWA | Masakazu MIYAJIMA | Ai MUROI | Kenichi NISHIYAMA | Sadahiro NOMURA | Masahiro NONAKA | Naoyuki OE | Hideki OGIWARA | Tatsuki OYOSHI | Young-Soo PARK | Nobuhito SAITO | Ryuta SAITO | Jun SAKUMA | Kazuaki SHIMOJI | Shoko SHIMOKAWA | Kenichi USAMI | Tetsuya YAMAMOTO | Kazuhisa YOSHIFUJI | Atsuo YOSHINO |
| Nobuyuki AKUTSU | Ryo ANDO | Kentaro CHIBA | Ayataka FUJIMOTO | Kimiaki HASHIGUCHI | Daisuke HIROKAWA | Masaki IWASAKI | Shinji IWATA | Naoki KAGAWA | Masahiro Kameda | Hiroyuki KATANO | Tomomi KIMIWADA | Maya KONO | Junji KOYAMA | Noritsugu KUNIHIRO | Michihiro KURIMOTO | Shigeo KYUTOKU | Yosuke MIYAIRI | Keisuke MIYAKE | Takeshi MIYAZAKI | Michiharu MORINO | Nobuya MURAKAMI | Hirokazu NAKATOGAWA | Masahiro OISHI | Shigeki ONO | Yutaka OOTSUBO | Hirokatsu OSAWA | Kyoung-hon Poo | Mari SASANO | Takafumi SHIMOGAWA | Ichiro SUGIYAMA | Koichiro SUMI | Mayu TAKAHASHI | Ikkei TAMADA | Hidekazu TANIGUCHI | Kyoji TSUDA | Takehiro UDA | Tetsuji UEMURA | Takafumi WATAYA | Junji YAMADA | Takamichi YAMAMOTO | Takumi YAMANAKA | Fumiyuki YAMASAKI | Junichi YOSHIMURA | Fumitaka YOSHIOKA |
■Editorial Committee
■Education Committee
■International Committee
■External Relations Committee
■Public Relations Committee
■Certification Committee
■Academic Research Committee
1. Multicenter study
2. Guidelines
■COI Committee
■Medical Safety Committee
■Insurance Medical Committee
■Finance Committee
■General Affairs Committee
| Chairperson： | Tetsuya YAMAMOTO |
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| Vice Chairpersons： | Hideki OGIWARA |
| Kazuhiko KUROZUMI |
■Education Committee
| Director in Charge： | Mihoko KATO |
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| Chairperson： | Kazuhiko KUROZUMI |
■International Committee
| Director in Charge： | Young-Soo PARK |
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| Chairperson： | Ai MUROI |
■External Relations Committee
| Director in Charge： | Mihoko KATO |
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| Chairperson： | Kazuhisa YOSHIFUJI |
■Public Relations Committee
| Director in Charge： | Shoko SHIMOKAWA |
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| Chairperson： | Keishi MAKINO |
■Certification Committee
| Director in Charge： | Takuya AKAI |
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| Chairperson： | Atsuko HARADA |
■Academic Research Committee
1. Multicenter study
| Chairperson： | Hideki OGIWARA |
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2. Guidelines
| Chairperson： | Toshiaki HAYASHI |
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■COI Committee
| Director in Charge： | Young-Soo PARK |
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| Chairperson： | Sadahiro NOMURA |
■Medical Safety Committee
| Director in Charge： | Shoko SHIMOKAWA |
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| Chairperson： | Yasuo AIHARA |
■Insurance Medical Committee
| Director in Charge： | Jun KURIHARA |
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| Chairperson： | Kazuaki SHIMOJI |
■Finance Committee
| Director in Charge： | Atsufumi KAWAMURA |
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| Chairperson： | Tomoru MIWA |
■General Affairs Committee
| Director in Charge： | Jun KURIHARA |
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| Chairperson： | Satoshi IHARA |
| Hajime ARAI | Isao DATE | Hiroaki DATE | Shunro ENDO | Yukihiko FUJII | Hiroshi ITO | Namio KODAMA | Akira MATSUMURA | Koreaki MORI | Kouzou MORITAKE | Nobuhito MOROTA | Masato NAGASAKA | Tatsuya NAGASHIMA | Hiroshi NISHIMOTO | Shizuo OOI | Kiyoshi SAITO | Toshisuke SAKAKI | Hiroaki SAKAMOTO | Kiyoshi SATO | Osamu SATO | Hiromi SATO | Hiroaki SHIGETA | Reizo SHIRANE | Michiyasu SUZUKI | Tatsuya TANAKA | Akira YAMAURA | Akira YOKOTA |
The JSPN 52st Annual Meeting will be held in Toyama, Japan.
June 7-8, 2024
President： Takuya Akai (Toyama University)
Theme： Treatment Strategies, Challenges and to the World
URL：http://jspn2024.jp/
Mail：jspn2024@nex-tage.comp
June 7-8, 2024
President： Takuya Akai (Toyama University)
Theme： Treatment Strategies, Challenges and to the World
URL：http://jspn2024.jp/
Mail：jspn2024@nex-tage.comp
| Year |
Date |
Venue |
Chairperson |
Theme |
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| 1st | 1973 | May 6 | Osaka | Junichi Kawabuchi | Spina bifida cystica, congenital hydrocephalus, and chronic subdural hematoma (effusion) in infant |
| 2nd | 1974 | June 1 | Kobe | Satoshi Matsumoto | Brain and spinal tumors in children |
| 3rd | 1975 | June 14 | Tokyo | Norio Nakamura | Long-term outcomes of diseases associated with pediatric neurosurgery in Japan |
| 4th | 1976 | June 18-19 | Osaka | Syurou Nishimura | Surgery for anomalies of the central nervous system |
| 5th | 1977 | July 14-15 | Tokyo | Tetsuro Miwa | Infection in the central nervous system |
| 6th | 1978 | May 19-20 | Gifu | Kazuki Sakata | 1) Pediatric brain trauma 2) Pediatric cerebrovascular disease |
| 7th | 1979 | May 25-26 | Yokohama | Takeo Kuwabara | 1) Medulloblastoma 2) Craniopharyngioma 3) Rare brain tumors in children |
| 8th | 1980 | May 22-23 | Nagasaki | Kazuo Mori | Hydrocephalus–its mechanism and treatment |
| 9th | 1981 | May 28-29 | Chiba | Hiroyasu Makino | Intracranial hemorrhage in children (traumatic and nontraumatic) |
| 10th | 1982 | April 1-2 | Kumamoto | Yasuhiko Matsukado | Plasticity of the pediatric central nervous system in neurosurgical treatment |
| 11th | 1983 | June 9-10 | Tokyo | Osamu Sato | Anomalies of the central nervous system in children |
| 12th | 1984 | May 24-25 | Toyama | Akira Takaku | Vascular diseases in pediatric central nervous system |
| 13th | 1985 | May 16-17 | Tsukuba | Yutaka Maki | Pediatric brain tumors |
| 14th | 1986 | March 26-28 | Kochi | Koreaki Mori | Late congenital anomaly in the central nervous system |
| 15th | 1987 | March 12-14 | Tokyo | Kiyoshi Sato | Fundamentals and Clinics of Pediatric Hydrocephalus |
| 16th | 1988 | May 11-13 | Kurume | Shinken Kuramoto | Treatment and long-term outcomes for neural tube defects |
| 17th | 1989 | May 17-19 | Tokyo | Isao Hayakawa | Advances and problems in pediatric neurosurgery |
| 18th | 1990 | June 6-8 | Asahikawa | Yukichi Yonemasu | 1) How far have we progressed in the treatment of pediatric malignant brain tumors? 2) Epilepsy treatment in children |
| 19th | 1991 | May 9-11 | Tokyo | Takashi Tsubokawa | 1) Pediatric hydrocephalus–Its pathogenesis and treatment 2) Pediatric head injury–Its characteristics and pathogenesis |
| 20th | 1992 | March 25-27 | Kagoshima | Tetsuhiko Asakura | 1) Neurology and neurosurgery in embryonic and neonatal periods 2) Brain tumor in infants 3) Chronic subdural effusion in infants |
| 21st | 1993 | March 31-April 2 | Gifu | Hiromu Yamada | Recent advances in pediatric neurosurgery and its limitations 1) Congenital anomaly 2) Tumors 3) Vascular disease 4) New treatment |
| 22nd | 1994 | May 12-13 | Fukushima | Namio Kodama | Pediatric cerebrovascular disease |
| 23rd | 1995 | May 18-20 | Mtsue | Kouzo Moritake | Pediatric neurosurgery, a challenge but a dream and an inspiration 1) Surgery for childhood-onset intractable epilepsy 2) Skulbase surgery in childhood 3) Multimodal treatments for pediatric cerebrospinal tumors |
| 24th | 1996 | May 23-25 | Tokyo | Hiroshi Ito | 1) Pathophysiological analysis of hydrocephalus: basic and clinical research 2) Pathophysiological analysis of syringomyelia and hydromyelia with Chiari malformation 3) Adjuvant therapy for medulloblastoma (including PNETs) |
| 25th | 1997 | May 29-31 | Kurume | Takashi Hayashi | Creation, expansion, and development–advances in diagnosis, management, and treatment in pediatric neurosurgery |
| 26th | 1998 | June 18-20 | Chiba | Akira Yamaura | Prologue to the 21st century: Development, growth, and plasticity of the brain; hydrocephalus; head injury; epileptic surgery; etc. |
| 27th | 1999 | May 13-15 | Kitakyushu | Akira Yokota | Abnormalities in the brain and cranial development Pediatric neurosurgery |
| 28th | 2000 | September 15-17 | Awaji | Shizuo Oi | Pediatric neurosurgery in Japan from a global perspective–Challenges and dreams for the 21st century |
| 29th | 2001 | September 6-8 | Shizuoka | Hiromi Sato | Pediatric neurosurgery in the new century, fact, and perspectives |
| 30th | 2002 | June 6-8 | Asahikawa | Tatsuya Tanaka | Advances in functional pediatric neurosurgery into the 21st century |
| 31st | 2003 | July 2-4 | Niigata | Ryuichi Tanaka | Long-term outcomes of pediatric neurosurgical diseases, brain growth, and development |
| 32nd | 2004 | May 27-29 | Saitama | Hiroshi Nishimoto | Re-evaluation of surgical indications and treatments of pediatric neurosurgical diseases |
| 33rd | 2005 | May 25-27 | Nara | Toshisuke Sakaki | Neurosurgery for children’s future |
| 34th | 2006 | May 31-June 1 | Sapporo | Yoshinobu Iwasaki | Collaboration with other fields in pediatric neurosurgery |
| 35th | 2007 | May 31-June 2 | Kisarazu | Hiroaki Date | For the healthy development and growth of children–How can pediatric neurosurgeon contribute? |
| 36th | 2008 | May 29-30 | Tokyo | Hajime Arai | Pediatric neurosurgery in the new era |
| 37th | 2009 | June 11-12 | Osaka | Hiroaki Sakamoto | Theory and practice for total care |
| 38th | 2010 | June 4-5 | Toyama | Shunro Endo | Role of the neurosurgeon in perinatal and pediatric medicine |
| 39th | 2011 | Cancellation of scientific meetings due to the Great East Japan Earthquake | |||
| 40th | 2012 | June 7-8 | Okayama | Isao Date | Contribution of surgery to pediatric neurosurgical disorders |
| 41st | 2013 | June 7-9 | Osaka | Mami Yamasaki | Pediatric neurosurgery’s contribution to society–All for the smiles and future of children |
| 42nd | 2014 | May 29-30 | Sendai | Reizo Shirane | Science of pediatric neurosurgery |
| 43rd | 2015 | June 12-13 | Shimonoseki | Michiyasu Suzuki | Realities and challenges of pediatric neurosurgery |
| 44th | 2016 | June 23-24 | Tsukuba | Akira Matsumura | Treatment and evaluation–Our balance and children’s balance |
| 45th | 2017 | June 2-3 | Kobe | Tatsuya Nagashima | Treatment of pediatric brain tumors as childhood cancers |
| 46th | 2018 | June 8-9 | Tokyo | Nobuhito Morota | Pediatric neurosurgery: challenge and complication avoidance |
| 47th | 2019 | June 14-15 | Niigata | Yukihiko Fujii | Treatment of pediatric brain tumors with a focus on life and growth |
| 48th | 2020 | November 22-23 | Matsumoto | Hiroaki Shigeta | Saving the children’s future–Pediatric neurosurgical procedure and team medicine |
| 49th | 2021 | June 4-5 | Fukushima | Kiyoshi Saito | Collaboration with other fields opens up possibilities in pediatric neurosurgery |
| 50th | 2022 | June 10-11 | Gifu | Toru Iwama | Challenges and prospects for pediatric neurosurgery: Considerations at the 50-year milestone |
| 51th | 2023 | June 9-10 | Utsunomiya | Akira Gomi | JSPN The Next Step -Towards the world beyond the 50th anniversary |
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