Hydrocephalus 2025
WORLD CONGRESS
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
It is a great pleasure and honor to welcome you to France, and to the city of Toulouse for the 2025 Hydrocephalus World Congress, which will take place between 5-8 September 2025.
Toulouse is located in southwestern France, in the Occitanie region, in the Haute-Garrone department and is the fourth most populated city in France after Paris, Marseille and Lyon.
In terms of architecture, Toulouse is nicknamed “La Ville Rose” (The Pink City) due to the red-brick façades seen all over town. Toulouse is home to one of France’s largest universities outside of Paris; Airbus, Europe’s aeronautical manufacturing giant; and the Canal du Midi, the World Heritage Site-listed waterway that, with the Garonne River, helps ensure Toulouse always goes with the flow.
The continued growth of our Hydrocephalus Annual Congress is an indication of its high quality and impact. It is one of the most important congresses focusing on hydrocephalus and is a vital opportunity for clinicians and scientists to keep up to date with developments in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of hydrocephalus. We invite you to take advantage of this unique opportunity to present original works and share your experiences in the field.
Hydrocephalus 2025 will cover a full spectrum of hydrocephalus and CSF disorders affecting both children and adults, and thus we are preparing an exciting program with interesting and controversial topics. We invite clinicians in neurosurgery, neurology, paediatrics, radiology, geriatrics and psychiatry, basic scientists, engineers, nurses, therapists, technicians, neuropsychologists, patient advocates and others interested in hydrocephalus to join us and share knowledge, innovative ideas and create new partnerships.
On behalf of the Hydrocephalus Society, we look forward to warmly welcoming you to Toulouse in September 2025, to an excellent congress, in a truly inspiring location to make new contacts and friendships and of course renew old ones.
See you in Toulouse in September 2025!
HYDROCEPHALUS SOCIETY PRESIDENT’S WELCOME ADDRESS
Dear Colleagues & Friends,
It is my honour and sincere pleasure to welcome you to Hydrocephalus 2025, the 17th World Hydrocephalus Congress arranged by the Hydrocephalus Society (The International Society for Hydrocephalus and Cerebrospinal Fluid Disorders).
The Hydrocephalus Society was formed in 2007 with a goal to create an International Society that addressed the entire field of hydrocephalus. During these past 18 years, the Society has grown, engaging more member scientists and clinicians around the world to advance hydrocephalus research and clinical care. Hydrocephalus Society is increasingly engaged in different activities including the educational Global Webinar Series presently running its fourth season, efforts to increase awareness as well as collaborations with other societies. Our Society has worked with the Society Secretariat (Artion) since late 2015 for management of both Society affairs and the Annual Meeting. Fluids and Barriers of the CNS is the official journal of the Hydrocephalus Society and now has an impact factor of 7.3. Over the years, we have witnessed significant progress with our understanding of what hydrocephalus and other cerebrospinal fluid disorders are and do to children and adults and how to improve the care of affected patients. Please consider becoming a full member of the Hydrocephalus Society if you presently are not one.
The peak of our year is the Annual World Congress bringing together experts within this exciting field for some intense days when we share scientific advances and new developments as well as network to foster collaboration. The Young Investigators Award competition has become a crown jewel of the meeting highlighting junior researchers and our annual Keynote speakers are exceptional world experts.
We are very grateful to our host and meeting president Prof. Eric Schmidt and his entire team, to our secretariat Artion and to all people who have contributed to this conference. This year, we have prepared a very exciting scientific program that includes the new, cutting-edge developments in adult and paediatric hydrocephalus and CSF disorders within both clinical and experimental research. Our Keynote speakers are selected for their outstanding records. However, to make the conference a real success, we need your participation, your input, your questions and participation in discussions, i.e. your contributions to the congress. We thank you for making this conference a special, fruitful, and inspiring event.
On behalf of the Hydrocephalus Society, I wish you great days in the lovely city of Toulouse and hope you will bring many new insights and enjoyable memories back home.
Let’s meet in Toulouse in September!
