Benjamin Warf received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1984, completed his neurosurgical residency training in 1991 at Case Western Reserve University, and was the first Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital in 1991-1992. He was Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at University of Kentucky Medical Center until 2000, when he moved his family to Uganda to become the founding Medical Director of the CURE Children’s Hospital of Uganda until 2006. He is currently Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and Director of Neonatal and Congenital Anomalies Neurosurgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he holds the Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida Chair. For his work in Africa, where he characterized infant post-infectious hydrocephalus and developed the ETV/CPC technique, he received the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Humanitarian Award in 2007 and a MacArthur “Genius” Award in 2012. He is the founding Chairman of NeuroKids, a non-profit organization whose mission is to optimize the treatment and prevention of hydrocephalus and spina bifida in the world’s most vulnerable children.