Spinal Dysraphic Malformations / Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery Bd.47 (PDF)

Widely acclaimed internationally for his pioneering work on disorders of the paediatric spine especially in the field of spinal dysraphism and other congenital malformations, Dachling Pang is Professor of Paediatric Neurosurgery at the University of California, Davis, and was conferred an Adjunct Professorship from the Nanjing Medical University, China, an Honorary Professorship from Sun Yat-Sen University, China, and Visiting Professorship from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is also an honorary member of the Neurosurgical Society of Hong Kong. He has been an invited speaker on over 410 occasions to many countries, and was also guest surgeon in many places including Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Beijing, Nanjing, Guangzhou in China, Taiwan, South Africa, and Thailand.

With research interests encompassing neuroembryology, paediatric spinal injuries, spinal cord congenital malformations, embryology and bony malformations of the craniovertebral junction, intraoperative neurophysiology monitoring, and neuroendocrinology, he has been the principle recipient of a National Institute of Health RO-1 Grant on intraventricular haemorrhage in a canine model, and a Centre Project Grant from the University of Pittsburgh on the induction of precocious puberty using a non-invasive balloon in the third ventricle in a primate model. His published list includes over 200 refereed articles and chapters, many of which are landmark publications.



Kyu-Chang Wang graduated in Medicine at the Seoul National University, where he completed his internship and his residency in neurosurgery in 1984. In 1987, he became a member of the faculty of the Department of Neurosurgery in the College of Medicine at SNU.



From 1990 to 1992, Kyu-Chang Wang worked as a research fellow under the guidance of Dr. David G. McLone at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He observed clinical activities in pediatric neurosurgery and when he returned to Korea,