A. B. Baker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Neurologic Education

Funded by an endowment created by matching funds from the A.B. Baker Family Trust and Novartis Pharmaceuticals.

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About

This highly prestigious award recognizes educators with significant career-long achievements in neurologic education at the local, regional, and national levels. 

Timeline

• Applications Open: June 25, 2024
• Applications Close: October 31, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. CT

Benefits

One recipient will be selected to receive a $1,500 cash award and a framed certificate of recognition from the AAN.

Eligibility

The nominating criteria are as follows:

1. Educators – physicians, physician-scientists, and scientists.
2. Educator definition: MD/DO/PhD
   1. A medical educator is a skilled professional who combines deep medical knowledge with effective teaching methodologies, adept communication, technological integration, mentorship, and/or a commitment to ongoing learning and innovation in order to foster a supportive and advanced learning environment in medicine.
3. Nominations and self-nominations accepted.
4. Nominee must have a minimum of 20+ years of experience in neurologic teaching after the completion of training.
5. Nominee must be an AAN member.
6. Nominations should reflect an emphasis on national and regional contributions in medical education.
7. The nominee should exhibit leadership, innovation, and scholarship in medical education.
8. The nominee’s neurological education activities should include significant work in the AAN, currently or in the past. Examples include but not limited to: committee/subcommittee member, leadership program participant, etc.
9. Nominations should be inclusive in regard to gender and under-represented groups
10. Posthumous nominations are not accepted.

Expectation

Recipient will speak at the AAN Annual Meeting, details TBD.

Application Requirements

• Two letters of support from persons other than the nominator.
  • One letter of support must be from a former learner.
    • Learner definition: medical student, neurology resident, or neurology fellow.
  • Nominee’s curriculum vitae.

Questions?

For more information, please contact Ashley Mundt, Trainee Education Program Manager, at amundt@aan.com.