Kemel A. Ghotme, MD, Ph.D., is an associate professor and director of the Translational Neuroscience Lab at UniSabana in Chia, Colombia, and practices as a pediatric neurosurgeon at Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota.
He developed, assessed, and disseminated a knowledge transfer strategy to strengthen food fortification policies in Latin America to prevent neural tube defects. Dr. Ghotme is a founding member of ASOLANPED, associate editor of the Global Neurosurgery section of Neurosurgery®, chairman of the Advocacy Committee at the ISPN, and member of the WHO-WFNS Liaison Committee.
As a GAPSBiF member, Dr. Ghotme co-leads several initiatives to prevent congenital malformations through food fortification worldwide