Wen Hung Tzu

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Wen Hung Tzu, born on 15/12/1963 in Tainan, Taiwan, immigrated to Brazil in 1974. He graduated from the College of Medicine, University of São Paulo in 1987 and completed his neurosurgery residency at Hospital das Clínicas (1988–1992). He pursued a fellowship in microneurosurgery at Instituto Neurológico de São Paulo (1993) under Prof. Evandro de Oliveira, followed by a research fellowship in microneuroanatomy at the University of Florida (1993–1996) with Prof. Albert L. Rhoton Jr., where he later served as Clinical Assistant Professor. He obtained his PhD from the University of São Paulo in 2002. Since 1996, he has been an attending neurosurgeon at Hospital das Clínicas, leading epilepsy surgery and contributing to vascular neurosurgery. He became Associate Professor in 2018 and serves as President of the International Rhoton Society (2023–2026).
His extensive academic output includes seminal publications on microsurgical neuroanatomy and surgical approaches to the temporal lobe, ventricles, and cerebral vasculature, as well as influential book chapters in multiple editions of Youmans & Winn Neurological Surgery and other neurosurgical references.