Adheesha Kumarasinghe

Hello, my name is Adheesha, and I have been involved with NeuroSoc for two years. This year, I was NeuroSoc's Conference Chair, in which capacity I led the organisation of Meeting of the Minds 2024, NeuroSoc’s annual conference. Last year, I was a Workshop Coordinator for Meeting of the Minds 2023.

MOTM is typically the biggest event in the NeuroSoc calendar: this year, we attracted over 100 delegates. I revamped the format of the conference, most notably by implementing a rotating groups-based workshop structure, resulting in a more efficiently run event. I also learned a lot about Union bureaucracy, including event proposals, risk assessments, event budgets and room bookings. I have also been heavily involved with Surgical Society for two years: firstly, as a subcommittee member and secondly, as a personnel officer for Trauma 2023. My familiarity with Union procedures, together with my NeuroSoc experience, would enable me to ensure that the society continues to function effectively over the coming year.

If elected Co-President, I will make every effort to ensure that the society’s key events this year, Meeting of the Minds, and the Brain Dissection sessions, take place successfully next year. I will make the society more active outside of these two events, primarily by bringing back the Speaker Series. We could host a mix of neurologists, neuroscientists, and neurosurgeons, catering to the interests of all our members. I will also work to implement neurosurgical workshops by using society funds to purchase neurosurgical training simulators.