Hung Tzu Wen, was born in 1963 in Tainan (Taiwan) and immigrated to Brazil in 1974. He received a medical degree in 1987 from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and completed the residency program in neurosurgery in 1992 at the Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo, Brazil. He did fellowship in microneurosurgery at the Instituto Neurológico de São Paulo (Dr. Evandro de Oliveira) in 1993. Research fellowship in microneuroanatomy at the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida (Prof. Albert L. Rhoton Jr.) from 1993 to 1996. He is a former Co-Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida. Currently is the chief of the epilepsy surgery program and vascular neurosurgeon of the Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo, Brazil.