The Society of Neurological Surgeons (SNS) was founded in 1920 and is composed of neurosurgical department chairs, residency program directors and other senior educational leaders in America.
The president of the SNS is E. Sander Connolly, Jr., MD.
(Columbia University Irving Medical Center)[1] The SNS began as a professional travel club "that held meetings twice a year with the goal that the small number of physicians who had chosen to be neurosurgeons would learn from one another".
[3] The society holds as its principal mission the design of curriculum and implementation of neurosurgical residency and fellowship education in North America.
The purpose of the society is to continue the traditions of the founding members that include: Notable members of the society include the neurosurgeons Paul Bucy M.D., Eben Alexander Jr M.D, Ludwig G. Kempe M.D.