Meet the editor

Tak Lap Poon graduated from the medical school of the University of Hong Kong in 1998. He completed neurosurgery training in 2006 and became a neurosurgical specialist. In 2006, he studied epilepsy surgery and stereotactic and functional neurosurgery in London with Mr. William Harkness from the Great Ormond Street Hospital and Mr. Andrew McEvoy from the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. Dr. Poon

currently works at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, where he is the coordinator of neurosurgical services including stereotactic and functional neurosurgery, epilepsy surgery, movement disorder, stereotactic radiosurgery, and endovascular surgery. His interests include movement disorder surgery, epilepsy surgery, awake craniotomy, stereotactic and functional neurosurgery, and stereotactic radiosurgery. Dr. Poon is the president of the Hong Kong Epilepsy Society, a council member of the Hong Kong Movement Disorder Society, and a board member of the executive committee of the Asian-Australasian Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery.
