Nathan Rifkinson Society

The Nathan Rifkinson Society is a non profit society founded in 2003 for the purpose of stimulating and promoting education and the acquisition of knowledge in the medical field of neurosurgery. Dr. Nathan Rifkinson was the chairman of the Section of Neurological Surgery at the School of Medicine of the University of Puerto Rico for thirty years. He has left a legacy of excellence in the training of neurosurgeons in Puerto Rico, and goodwill among neurosurgeons the world over who ever associated with him.

The objectives of the Society are to make available a gathering place in the Caribbean region for clinical and basic neuroscientists to present their scientific findings, and to share with colleagues from different parts of the world their ideas and therapeutic concepts.

Membership of the Society is constituted by the entire current faculty and resident staff of the Section of Neurological Surgery of the University of Puerto Rico, as well as by former residents and invited physicians.

Founded in Puerto Rico, an Island of United States sovereignty bounded by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the Society is situated advantageously between the two continents of the Americas with their rich milieu of cultures of native, European, African, and Asiatic descent. Being a multicultural phenomenon, where both English and Spanish are official government languages, Puerto Rico is attractive to Hispanics as well as to Anglophones from the north. The island has the most pleasant weather all year long, and the solid socioeconomic infrastructure of a possession of the United States. By scientific and social association with colleagues from the Americas and the Caribbean Basin the Society aspires to generate a warming of international understanding in pleasant, safe, and exciting surroundings.

Ricardo H. Brau, MD, FACS
Chairman,
Section of Neurological Surgery,
University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine