AAN Scientific and Non-Scientific Awards

The AAN awards acknowledge significant achievements in neurology ranging from clinical research to creative writing. The awards applaud the achievements of neurologists from their high school beginnings to lifetime accomplishments. Awards may include the following:

  • Financial rewards
  • Special presentation opportunities
  • Transportation to the AAN Annual Meeting
Awards
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Disease Category:
Scientific
Alliance Awards: Founders
This award is designed to encourage clinical and translational research in neuroscience by physicians in clinical neurology training programs.
Alliance Awards: S. Weir Mitchell
This award is designed to encourage basic research in neuroscience by physicians in clinical neurology training programs.
Bruce S. Schoenberg International Award in Neuroepidemiology
In tribute to Dr. Schoenberg's career in training neurologists internationally in epidemiologic methods, this award salutes a young investigator selected from a developing country or Eastern Europe.
Dreifuss-Penry Epilepsy Award
The intent of this award is to recognize physicians in the early stages of their careers who have made an independent contribution to epilepsy research.
Harold Wolff-John Graham Award: An Award for Headache/Facial Pain Research
This award recognizes individuals who have submitted research results in the field of headache and facial pain.
John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research
This prize recognizes outstanding contributions to research in the understanding, treatment, or prevention of multiple sclerosis.
Jon Stolk Award in Movement Disorders for Young Investigators
This award recognizes young investigators who have made significant contributions to movement disorders research. The award is named for Dr. Jon Stolk, a driving force in the drug development field for Parkinson's disease.
Lawrence C. McHenry: An Award for the History of Neurology
Selected by the Lawrence C. McHenry Award Subcommittee, this award recognizes excellence in research in the history of neurology.
Medical Student Essay Award - Extended Neuroscience Award
This program seeks to stimulate interest in the field of neurology as an exciting and challenging profession by offering a highly competitive award for the best essay in neuroscience.
Medical Student Essay Award - G. Milton Shy Award
This program seeks to stimulate interest in the field of neurology as an exciting and challenging profession by offering a highly competitive award for the best essay in clinical neurology.
Medical Student Essay Award - Roland P. Mackay Award
This program seeks to stimulate interest in the field of neurology as an exciting and challenging profession by offering a highly competitive award for the best essay in historical aspects.
Medical Student Essay Award - Saul R. Korey Award
This program seeks to stimulate interest in the field of neurology as an exciting and challenging profession by offering a highly competitive award for the best essay in experimental neurology.
Michael S. Pessin Stroke Leadership Prize
This prize is awarded to emerging neurologists who have a strong interest in, and have demonstrated a passion for learning and expanding the field of stroke research.
Mitchell B. Max Award for Neuropathic Pain
This award recognizes an individual for outstanding work in the field of neuropathic pain for either a single contribution or for lifetime achievement.
Movement Disorders Research Award
This award recognizes an individual for outstanding work in the field of Parkinson's disease or other movement disorders for either a single, outstanding contribution or for lifetime achievement.
Neuroendocrine Research Award
This award recognizes individuals who have made a contribution to neuroendocrine research.
Neuroscience Research Prize
This prize encourages high school students to explore the world of the brain and nervous system through laboratory research.
Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral Neurology
This prize is awarded to an individual for outstanding research in the field of behavioral neurology. Applicants should have a strong desire to expand the field of behavioral neurology through research.
Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases
This award recognizes major contributions to the understanding of the cause, prevention, treatment of, and ultimately the cure for Pick’s, Alzheimer’s, and related diseases.
Research Award in Geriatric Neurology
This award will recognize individuals in the early stages of their careers that have made an independent contribution to geriatric neurology research.
Sheila Essey Award - An Award for ALS Research
This award recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions in research in the search for the cause, treatment, prevention, and cure for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
Sleep Science Award
This award is intended to stimulate and reward individuals in the pursuit of basic or clinical research in sleep.
Wayne A. Hening Sleep Medicine Investigator Award
This award recognizes scientific contributions in sleep from promising young investigators. The goal of this award is to reward productive young investigators and to emphasize the essential role of neurology in sleep medicine.
Non-Scientific
Clinical Research Training Fellowship
The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Foundation is pleased to announce up to ten two-year fellowships to support clinical research training in the neurosciences.
2011 AAN Foundation ALS-Clinician Scientist Development Three Year Award
The ALS Association and the American Academy of Neurology Foundation are pleased to announce a three-year Clinician-Scientist Development Award to support research into drug discovery and development of therapies that will effectively treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
2011 AAN Foundation-PDF Clinician-Scientist Development Three-Year Award
The American Academy of Neurology Foundation and the Parkinson's Disease Foundation are pleased to announce a three-year Clinician-Scientist Development Award to support a clinician scientist's research related to multiple sclerosis.
2011 Susan S. Spencer Clinical Research Training Fellowship in Epilepsy
The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Foundation is pleased to announce one two-year fellowship to support clinical research training in Epilepsy.
A. B. Baker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Neurologic Education
The A. B. Baker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Neurologic Education recognizes an individual for lifetime career achievements in the field of neurological education with an emphasis on national accomplishments.
AAN Award for Creative Expression of Human Values in Neurology
The “Creative Expression Award” (CEA) recognizes an outstanding poem, short story, or work of creative nonfiction that artistically expresses human values in the practice of neurology, including compassion for persons with neurological disorders, and reflection by physicians involved in their care.
AAN International Scholarship Award
The American Academy of Neurology announces the 2011 International Scholarship Award. This scholarship is designed to provide eligible international candidates the opportunity to attend and participate in the Annual Meeting. It is not necessary to be a member to apply.
AAN Journalism Fellowship Award
The American Academy of Neurology announces the 2009 Journalism Fellowship Awards. The 12th Annual Awards are bestowed on two journalists who exemplify excellence in medical/health reporting. Award winners will receive special recognition, airfare, and hotel with a 5-night maximum stay to attend the 2009 AAN Annual Meeting in Seattle.
Association of Indian Neurologists in America (AINA) Lifetime Achievement Award
The AINA Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a leader in neurology by her/his peers. The recipient will be chosen based on their dedication in helping neurologists of Indian origin excel in the field of neurology. The recipient will have supported Indian neurologists over a significant period of time in achieving meaningful progress toward expressed goals.
Clinical Research Training Fellowship in Headache
The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Foundation is pleased to announce a two-year fellowship to support clinical research training in headache.
H. Richard Tyler Award
This award encourages historical research using the AAN Rare Books Collection at the Bernard Becker Medical Library at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. The H. Richard Tyler Award is named in recognition of the neurologist's generous donation to the collection.
Kenneth M. Viste, Jr., MD, Patient Advocate of the Year Award
This award recognizes an outstanding patient advocate who embodies the leadership and advocacy qualities exemplified by Kenneth M. Viste, Jr., MD.
Minority Scholars Program
The Minority Scholars Program was established in 1993 to promote diversity in the field of neurology. The program provides medical students the opportunity to learn more about careers in neurology and neuroscience.
Practice Research Training Fellowship
The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Foundation is pleased to announce one two-year fellowship to support training in clinical practice research, which is defined as "clinical research that evaluates translation of evidence into best clinical practice."