Introduction to Robotics in Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery (PDF)

through 8th editions of Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy, and is editor-in-chief of Clinical Anatomy, the official journal of the American and British Associations of Clinical Anatomists. Dr. Tubbs is chair of the Federative International Programme on Anatomical Terminologies.



Dr Ali Ayyad is a Senior consultant neurosurgeon currently working in Hamad General Hospital Doha, Qatar. He is also an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Saarland University, Homburg-Germany. His interests encompass skull base, cerebrovascular, minimal invasive neurosurgery and Neuro endoscopy. Dr Ayyad holds the portfolio of Director of Research at Department of Neurosurgery in Hamad General Hospital Doha. He has to his credit, a number of publications in leading neurosurgical journals and has also co-authored multiple book chapters. He has been invited as distinguished faculty to numerous regional and international conferences and his services as a neurosurgery instructor and tutor at a plethora of workshops including microneurosurgery and neuro endoscopy speak volumes of his keen interest as an educationist in neurosurgery.



Prof. Goto is one of the world's leading neurosurgeons in the field of robotics. He has published more than a 100 research. He and his colleague have developed many robotics surgery systems in Neurosurgery; NeuRobot (1996-2006): master-slave manipulator in endoscopic neurosurgery, iArmS® (2008-2016): robotics controlled freely movable armrest, SCOT® (2016-Present): IoT operating room for neurosurgery. Prof. Goto trains neurosurgical residents and medical students as a part of his job at St. Marianna University.

Prof. Marrouf has authored more than 120 research papers, all published in the best leading neurosurgical journals. He has also made many conferences presentations. Prof. Marrouf has written many chapters contributing to major textbooks in neurosurgery. He trains neurosurgical residents and medical students at the University of Cologne, as part of his job as professor of stereotaxis and functional neurosurgery. Prof. Marrouf is one of the world's leading authors in the field of robotics in neurosurgery and he has many publications in this regard.