Voting members of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) are invited to submit nominations for the 2018 AANS Cushing Award for Technical Excellence and Innovation in Neurosurgery by Oct. 16, 2017. The award will be presented at the 86th AANS Annual Scientific Meeting, to be held April 28-May 2, 2018, in New Orleans. The Cushing Award honors an AANS member for technical prowess and skill and/or innovation in the development of new procedures that have become part of the arsenal a neurosurgeon uses to treat disease or trauma. Nominees may be international or domestic members. For more details and the nomination form, click here or contact Meg Borst at [email protected] or 847.378-0504.
The previous recipients of the award were:
2013 Edward H. Oldfield, MD, FAANS
2014 Robert H. Rosenwasser, MD, FAANS
2015 Ossama Al-Mefty, MD, FAANS
2016 L. Dade Lunsford, MD, FAANS
2017 Fady T. Charbel, MD, FAANS