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AANS elects Rosseau as the first woman to its executive committee
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SAN FRANCISCO — Gail L. Rosseau, MD, FAANS, will serve as the 2015-2016 vice president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
Rosseau will join president Robert E. Harbaugh, MD, FAANS; president elect H. Hunt Batjer, MD, FAANS; treasurer Alex B. Valadka, MD, FAANS; secretary Frederick A. Boop, MD, FAANS; and immediate past president William T. Couldwell, MD, PhD, FAANS, on the 2015-2016 American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Executive Committee.
Rosseau, director of cranial base surgery at Northshore University HealthSystem in Chicago, is one of 300 female neurosurgeons in the United States. Among her many accomplishments, standouts include serving on the executive board of the AANS/Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Joint Section on Women in Neurosurgery; a leadership role with the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies; and that she was considered for the position of U.S. Surgeon General in 2008.
“I am delighted to have the opportunity to serve organized neurosurgery and the AANS,” she stated in an AANS press release. “The colleagues with whom I’ve worked on the AANS board of directors are some of the finest, most intelligent, and most committed individuals that I have ever had the pleasure to know. It is an honor to have this opportunity to continue to work with them to advance the needs of our patients and our profession.”
Rosseau is the first woman to be named to the AANS executive committee since AANS was founded in 1931.