Deep Brain Stimulation Symposium 2017

Organizers: Pankaj Sah, Peter Silburn, Terry Coyne
Sponsors: Asia-Pacific Centre for Neuromodulation (APCN) in collaboration with Medtronic and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital
Total speaker gender ratio (incl. keynotes): 1 woman : 11 men (8%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 4 men (20%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 26%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword deep AND brain AND stimulation and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 11 pages of results found using our python script.