Hsi-Kai Tsou is a neurosurgeon who graduated from the National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC in 1994. He is currently working for the Taichung Veterans General Hospital. He earned his doctorate from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC in 2013. In 2014 he was named chief of the Functional Neurosurgery Division, Neurological Institute, Taichung Veterans General Hospital. In 2015 he was named associate professor, Department of Rehabilitation, Jen-Teh Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Miaoli County, Taiwan, ROC. From Jul. to Aug., 2007 he was a clinical fellow at the UCLA Comprehensive Spine Center, California, USA. He was also a short-term observer at Johns Hopkins University Hospital and Rush University Medical Center, USA in 2006 and 2011, respectively. He served as the Standing Supervisor, Director and Secretary-General of the Taiwan Society of Minimal Invasive Spinal Surgery. Since 2012 he has also served as the Director of the International Chinese Spine Society. In 2015 he served as the supervisor of the Taiwan Neurosurgical Spine Society. He focuses on C-T-L-S spinal surgery, minimally invasive spinal surgery, spinal disease radiofrequency procedures, spinal endoscopic surgery and biomedical materials for orthopaedic device coatings. He has published more than 60 SCI papers and two book chapters. He is currently serving on the editorial board of the “SciTz Neurosurgery and Spine”.