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Biography: Frederick A. Boop MD

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Dr. Boop is the president of the 48th annual meeting of the ISPN. He has served Semmes-Murphey Clinic as a member of the Board of Directors, Chief of the pediatric neurosurgery division, and as pediatric neurosurgery fellowship director. He has held the JT Robertson endowed chair from The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) Department of Neurosurgery residency training program and the St. Jude endowed chair in pediatric neurosurgery where he is currently a member of the St. Jude Global Program. He is currently Emeritus Chair at UTHSC.

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Abbreviations

3C:

Continuing Certification Committee

AANS:

American Association of Neurological Surgeons

ABMS:

American Board of Medical Specialties

ABNS:

American Board of Neurological Surgeons

ABPNS:

American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgeons

ACS:

American College of Surgeons

AMA:

American Medical Association

ASPN:

American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons

CSNS:

Council of State Neurosurgical Societies

ISPN:

International Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery

RUC:

Relative value update committee

SNS:

Southern Neurosurgical Society

WFNS:

World Federation of Neurological Surgeons

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I would like to thank Mr. Andrew Gienapp for preparing the manuscript.

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  1. International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, New York, NY, USA

    Frederick A. Boop

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN, USA

    Frederick A. Boop

  3. Semmes-Murphey Clinic, Memphis, TN, USA

    Frederick A. Boop

  4. St. Jude Global Program, St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA

    Frederick A. Boop

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Boop, F.A. Biography: Frederick A. Boop MD. Childs Nerv Syst 38, 2259–2261 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-022-05757-4

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