Voting members of the AANS are invited to submit nominations for the 2017 Humanitarian Award by Oct. 15, 2016. The award will be presented at the 85th AANS Annual Scientific Meeting, to be held April 22-26, 2017, in Los Angeles. The Humanitarian Award honors an AANS member whose activities outside of medicine bring great benefit to society. Nominees can be living members from any category of AANS membership who give selflessly of time or talents to a charitable or public activity, who are deserving of recognition by the AANS and whose actions enhance neurosurgery’s image. Activities may be international, national, regional or local in nature and benefit humanity collectively or individually without providing remuneration to the recipient.
For more details and the nomination form, please click here, or contact Meg Borst at [email protected] or 847.378.0504.
The previous recipients of the award were:
1987 Courtland H. Davis Jr., MD, FAANS;
1988 Gaston J. Acosta-Rua, MD;
1989 Hugo V. Rizzoli, MD, FAANS;
1990 A. Roy Tyrer Jr., MD;
1991 George B. Udvarhelyi, MD;
1992 William H. Mosberg Jr., MD;
1993 Manual M. Velasco-Suarez, MD;
1994 Edward Fletcher Eyster, MD, FAANS;
1995 Melvin L. Cheatham, MD, FAANS;
1997 Robert Joseph White, MD, PhD;
1998 Howard Lee Finney, MD;
1999 Thomas B. Flynn, MD, FAANS;
2000 Merwyn Bagan, MD, MPH, FAANS;
2001 Gary D. VanderArk, MD, FAANS;
2002 Edgar M. Housepian, MD, FAANS;
2004 Charles Leon Branch Sr., MD, FAANS;
2005 Tetsuo Tatsumi, MD;
2006 Gene Emery Bolles, MD, FAANS;
2007 Benjamin C. Warf, MD, FAANS;
2008 Robert J. Dempsey, MD, FAANS;
2009 Armando Basso, MD;
2010 Timir Banerjee, MD, FAANS;
2011 Barth A. Green, MD, FAANS;
2012 A. Leland Albright, MD;
2013 Mark Bernstein, MD, FAANS;
2014 Anselmo Pineda, MD, FAANS(L);
2015 Michael M. Haglund, MD, PhD, FAANS; and
2016 Karin M. Muraszko, MD, FAANS.
