Inspirational Women in Surgery: Professor T. S. Kanaka, MS, PhD, Asia's First Woman Neurosurgeon

Ganapathy, Krishnan; Barreto, Savio George

doi:10.1007/s00268-021-06286-y

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“…Thanjavur Santhanakrishna Kanaka (1932Kanaka ( *-2018, Neurosurgeon Thanjavur Santhanakakrishna Kanaka (Figure 3) was a neurosurgeon born in Chennai, India in 1932. She finished her medical studies in 1954 at the Madras Medical College where she continued specializing in neurosurgery and became the first female neurosurgeon of India in 1968 (Ganapathy and Barreto, 2021).…”

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Women in Neuromodulation: Innovative Contributions to Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Heiden¹,

Pieczewski²,

Andrade³

2022

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Stereotactic neurosurgery emerged in the mid-20th century following the development of a stereotactic frame by Spiegel and Wycis. Historically women were underrepresented in clinical and academic neurosurgery. There is still a significant deficit of female scientists in this field. This article aims to demonstrate the career and scientific work of some of the most important women who contributed to the development of stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. Exceptional women from all over the world, represented in this review, assisted the evolution of modern stereotactic and functional neurosurgery as neurosurgeons, neuropathologists, neurologists, neurophysiologists and occupational therapists. Fortunately, we could conclude that in the last two decades the number of female researchers has increased significantly.

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Section: Movement Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%