Abbreviation | ISCoS |
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Formation | 1961 |
Type | INGO |
Purpose | humanitarian |
Headquarters | Aylesbury, United Kingdom |
Location | |
Coordinates | 51°47′59″N 0°48′08″W / 51.79965°N 0.80235°W |
Region served | worldwide |
Membership | over 1000 Clinicians and Scientists from 87 countries |
Official language | english |
President | Prof Fin Biering-Sørensen |
Main organ | The Officers of ISCoS |
Website | http://www.iscos.org.uk/ |
The International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS) was founded in 1961 as the International Medical Society of Paraplegia. It is an INGO, whose purpose is to study all problems relating to lesions of the spinal cord.
The International Medical Society of Paraplegia was founded in 1961. The first President was Sir Ludwig Guttmann.
In September 2001, at the General Meeting in Nottwil, Switzerland, it was agreed another name of the Society: The International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS).
1961–1970 | Prof. Sir Ludwig Guttmann | Founder and First President[1] |
1970–1973 | Dr Herb Talbot | ![]() |
1973–1977 | Dr Albert Tricot | ![]() |
1977–1980 | Prof. Volkmar Paeslack | ![]() |
1980–1984 | Sir George Bedbrook | ![]() |
1984–1988 | Prof. Alain Rossier | ![]() |
1988–1992 | Dr Ed Carter | ![]() |
1992–1996 | Dr Paul Dollfus | ![]() |
1996–2000 | Dr Hans Frankel | ![]() |
2000–2004 | Prof. Takaaki Ikata | ![]() |
2004–2008 | Prof. W Donovan | ![]() |
2008–2010 | Mr W El-Masry | ![]() |
2010–2012 | Prof Fin Biering-Sørensen | ![]() |
2012–2014 | Associate Prof Doug Brown | ![]() |
2014–2018 | Prof Jean-Jacques Wyndaele | ![]() |
SPINAL CORD is the monthly publication of the International Spinal Cord Society.
The Editorial Office is at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in UK. The Editor-in-Chief is Professor Lisa Harvey, University of Sydney, Australia.