Fellowship Committee Update

Youssry El Hawary, MD
Fellowship Committee Chair

In order to maintain the high standards of SRS membership, the Fellowship Committee rigorously reviews all Candidate, Associate and Active applications for membership in adherence to the polices and bylaws of SRS. The Fellowship Committee then provides their recommendations to the Board of Directors for final approval at the fall and spring Board meetings. We had a very nice turn out to the Membership Information Session at the Annual Meeting this year and we are looking forward to the December 1 deadline to review the next round of applications.

With the new year there will be a few changes to the membership dues. The Board of Directors voted at the fall meeting to raise dues for all membership categories by $75 USD bringing Active Member dues to $575 USD and to add a fourth tier to the dues scale to match all the levels of the World Bank income scale. The last increase in dues was in 2010 when Active member dues went from $400 USD to $500 USD. The increases goes towards providing you with high quality meetings, awards & scholarships, the fellowship directory and much more.

Fellowship Statistics
SRS is growing at a steady rate continuously focusing on the quality of new fellows and not the quantity. As we continue to maintain the high standards of fellowship set by our Founders. We currently have 62 countries represented in our fellowship with approximately 34 percent residing outside of the United States.

Dues update as of November 7, 2017

• 949 out of 1057 members have paid their 2017 dues
• We have collected $462,790.00 in 2017 dues
• We have collected $2,270.00 in late fees from previous years dues
• We have collected $26,120.00 in MM fees from previous years fees
• Total Members Unpaid: 108

 

Membership Count by Membership Type

	1/2012	6/2012	1/2013	1/2014	3/2015	2/2016	8/2016	2/2017	8/2017
Active	523	535	568	598	624	661	688	667	670
Candidate	283	288	272	261	274	281	296	304	310
Associate	71	75	81	73	70	68	73	75	77
Emeritus	234	239	240	246	255	257	258	262	267
Honorary	12	12	12	10	10	10	10	10	9
Total	1,123	1,149	1,173	1,188	1,233	1,277	1,305	1,318	1,333

 

Neurosurgeons	7/2011	11/2012	2013	1/2014	3/2015	2/2016	8/2016	2/2017	8/2017
Total	33	38	39	46	60	62	67	73	74

 

Researchers	1/2014	3/2015	2/2016	8/2016	2/2017	8/2017
Total	26	34	37	42	44	46

 

Countries	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Total	45	45	46	46	46	48	49	49	55	56	61	62

 

Chair: Youssry El-Hawary Committee: Hee Kit Wong, Past Chair; Michelle S. Caird, Chair Elect; Baron S. Lonner