A team of GOHE members completed a mission trip to Lagos, Nigeria, in December 2018. The goal of this trip was to bring together Neurodiagnostics professionals from across Africa to form the first African Neurophysiological Society (ANS). Delegates from Cameroon, Nigeria, South Africa, Ethiopia, and Tanzania met in Lagos to learn new techniques in Neurodiagnostics from top educators in the field during the 1st African Neurophysiology Conference. Key note speakers at the conference included Maggie March-Nation, President of the International Organisation of Societies for Electrophysiological Technology (OSET), and Rebecca Clark-Bash, a Neurodiagnostics instructor for Knowledge Plus and a GOHE volunteer.

The week-long conference opened at the Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital Yaba with a welcome from the medical director of the institution, and continued at The Lagos University Teaching Hospital campus. Training and workshop topics throughout the week included instrumentation, board prep for REEG, head measurement, somatosensory evoked potential (SSEP), electromyography (EMG), and intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM). Attendees were also introduced to ANS as an organization and Guidelines for ANS were discussed.

Conference participants received certificates of participation at the completion of the program and earned 30 CEUs. This was a very successful trip and the GOHE team looks forward to another great mission trip soon.