Gail Rosseau MD
Chairman, Board of Directors
The G4 Alliance
www.theG4alliance.org

Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Washington, D.C.

Adjunct Professor of Global Neurosurgery
Barrow Neurological Institute
Phoenix, AZ

Dr. Rosseau is Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C. and Adjunct Professor of Global Neurosurgery at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, AZ. Her fellowship in microvascular and cranial base surgeon at University of Pittsburgh led to a career in skull base surgery, with a focus on pituitary tumors and microvascular compression syndromes. She has been involved in Global Neurosurgery all her career and is a leader in the Global Surgery movement. She is the elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the G4 Alliance, the global advocacy organization for surgical, obstetric, trauma and anesthesia care. She has authored over 350 peer-reviewed publications and been invited as Visiting Professor at over 20 universities. She is Global Champions Editor for World Neurosurgery, and Section Editor for Global Neurosurgery for Neurosurgery. She is one of the core leaders of the Boston Declaration 2025, and of the new International Society for Global Neurosurgery, which is designed to create a unified vision and concrete advances for neurosurgical care worldwide.

Re: research funding, she is co-PI on 2 NIH grants that are establishing TBI Registries in Zambia, and PI on a GW Equity Institute Grant to study surgical training in Africa. She is co-Founder of the Global Alliance for the Prevention of Spina Bifida-F(GAPSBIF), which championed, along with the member states of the World Health Organization (WHO), a 2023 Resolution on folic acid fortification to eliminate Spina Bifida, one of the humanity’s most serious congenital defects. She is on the Advisory Board of the National Churchill Leadership Center and was invited by the Speaker of the House of Representatives to give the official remarks on Churchill at the U.S. Capitol. She has been the Honored Guest of Neurosurgical Society of Australia, the Brazilian Academy of Neurosurgery and the Neurosurgery Society of India. She is an oral board examiner for the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA), most recently serving in Burundi. In 2021, she was honored with the AANS Humanitarian Award and, in 2024, by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Trailblazer Award. In 2025, she delivered several endowed lectures, including the Charles Plante Lecture at the AANS, the Bulkley-Barry-Cooper Professorial Lecture at King’s Partners in London and the Mazama Summit Keynote Address. She will be the Honored Guest of the CNS in 2026.