Notes on the history of Walter Edward Dandy - one of the outstanding fathers of neurosurgery

Walter Dandy was born in 1886 in Missouri into an immigrant family. From an early age, he stood out as a good and curious student, which led him to study initially at the University of Missouri and later at the John Hopkins School of Medicine where he had the opportunity to develop his potential as a researcher in the Hunterian surgical laboratory, under the tutelage of the prestigious Dr Harvey Cushing. His contributions to medicine as a surgical resident and later neurosurgeon marked a before and after in the history of the modernization of neurosurgery and enriched the knowledge of the anatomical structures of the central nervous system, considering his discovery of ventriculography as "the greatest single contribution to brain surgery", also being the first to successfully perform various surgical procedures, such as the clipping of aneurysms and the resection of tumours of the cerebellopontine and hypophysial angle

II Congreso internacional en educación física, recreación, deporte y actividad física. “Innovación y tendencias” - Memorias

El II Congreso Internacional de Educación Física, Recreación, Deporte y Actividad Física: “Innovación y Tendencias“ y el II Encuentro de Egresados del Departamento de Cultura Física de la Universidad de Córdoba se realizó en la ciudad de Montería, capital del Departamento de Córdoba, Colombia, como iniciativa del Grupo de Investigación en Ciencias de la Actividad Fisica y la Salud –GICAFS- del Departamento de Cultura Física, perteneciente a la Facultad de Educación y Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad de Córdoba, como muestra hacia la comunidad académica y la sociedad en general de la responsabilidad ética, social y profesional, para aportar a la construcción de tejido social, atendiendo a las recomendaciones del plan decenal del deporte, la Educación Física, la Recreación y la Actividad Física 2009-2019 (COLDEPORTES, 2009).Edición 201