The Warf method (ETV/CPC) has been performed over 10,000 times over the past 20 years. It has been researched, studied and the results published in many prestigious scientific journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine. Most major children’s hospitals in the United States offer this service. But it begs the question, why is the…
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Changing practice, Changing lives
For the first time ever, flexible endoscopy was used to treat hydrocephalus in South America. This short video explains more. With the launch of our partnership in São Paulo, the NeuroKids team is now actively mentoring surgeons in North Africa, Southern Africa, South America, and soon, in West Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.…
Preventing Newborn Infections
If you are a poor woman living in the tropics, you are more likely to have a baby with hydrocephalus. That’s according to a group of research scientists who published their findings in the Lancet’s Global Health. Last year, there were an estimated 200,000 new cases of infant hydrocephalus in sub-Saharan Africa alone. The vast…
#4: Amman, Jordan
On the heels of returning from São Paulo, Brazil to train Dr. Giselle in the Warf method (ETV/CPC), we are excited to announce NeuroKids’ newest partner, Dr. Anas Said and Al Basheer Hospital in Jordan. Dr. Said is a pediatric neurosurgeon in Amman, where he graduated from medical school at Jordan University of Science and…
#2: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Neuro Kids has been invited to partner with Dr. Giselle Coelho, a pediatric neurosurgeon, to develop a training and treatment center for children with hydrocephalus in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This gives us the incredible opportunity to introduce Dr. Warf’s ETV/CPC procedure to Brazil and the rest of South America. Conservative estimates suggest there are more…
#3: Enugu, Nigeria
We are thrilled to introduce our newest partner, Dr. Enoch Uche and the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), in Enugu, Nigeria. Dr. Uche is a professor of neurosurgery and director of the neurosurgery residency training program at UNTH in Enugu, as well as a member of the West African College of Surgeons (WACS) and…
Saving Kids’ Lives
It is a great honor to announce that we are partnering with Dr. Steven Schiff to track down what makes babies sick around the world and find ways to prevent the devastating consequences of newborn infections. Such infections continue to take the lives of nearly a million babies a year globally, and in the survivors…
#1: Ain Shams, Cairo
Last year we set out to create a novel enterprise that would enable neurosurgeons around the world to come alongside their peers working in places where the needs are great and the resources few. We focus training on the ETV/CPC procedure in order to reduce the burden of shunt-dependance, optimizing the treatment of hydrocephalus and…
Neuro Kids Turns One on 2/22/22
Today, over a thousand babies will either be born with or acquire hydrocephalus. The vast majority are in lower income countries, and without some kind of surgical intervention, most of them will not survive past their second birthday. There is a profound sense of urgency to equip and support the surgeons and their teams on…
Center #1- Cairo, Egypt
We are a month out from launching our first training center. The decision to start in Cairo goes back a few years. Dr. Osama Aglan completed a pediatric neurosurgical fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital in 2019, where he had the privilege to work alongside Dr. Ben Warf, the founder and chairman of Neuro Kids. While…