Dear colleagues,
I would like to cordially invite you to the 76th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Neurosurgery in Hanover from 1 to 4 June 2025. We have chosen the Hannover Congress Centrum as venue, a place that offers many options for our scientific sessions, training events and poster sessions. The Hannover Congress Centrum is easily accessible by all means of transport and offers a very pleasant atmosphere due to its proximity to Hannover City Park. We will put together a highly attractive scientific programme that presents the entire spectrum of neurosurgery, including our many super specialities. The motto of our congress in Hanover is “Balancing between the poles research and patient care". In an increasingly difficult environment, it is a challenge for all of us to maintain a balance between excellent research and highly specialised, but also attentive, patient care. It is also important to identify and expand the interfaces between our discipline and other disciplines and the basic subjects.
Our society’s last congress in Hanover took place in 1998 and we are very pleased that after more than two decades Hanover has now been chosen as the venue again. Hanover is a dynamic, multinational and open city with a rich academic and cultural life. What many people don't realise is, that Hanover is also one of the greenest cities in Germany with the Eilenriede forest area in the city centre, which stretches right through the city. The surrounding area offers a wide range of leisure activities with excursions to the Harz Mountains, the Steinhuder Meer, the Lüneburg Heath, the Deister and the River Leine.
Our partner society will be the French Society for Neurosurgery (SFNC). We have a long-standing friendship with the French Society of Neurosurgery, and many of you will certainly remember the congress of the German Society of Neurosurgery in 2005, when our annual meeting was held as part of a joint meeting in Strasbourg, France. We are expecting many of the top leaders of French neurosurgery in Hanover. We have also invited other international speakers from various countries and continents. The support of the company Conventus will ensure a smooth and perfect congress organisation.
Together with my conference team, I hope that we will be able to welcome many of you to Hanover in the early summer of 2025. The pandemic already seems almost forgotten. Join us in shaping the programme of the annual meeting with your abstract submissions and an outlook on both academic and clinical neurosurgery.
Prof Joachim K. Krauss, MD
Conference President of the 76th Annual Meeting of the DGNC