Deadline to submit: February 19, 2021

All Northern California residents and fellows in the Neurosciences are invited to submit their research for consideration for the San Francisco Neurological Society's (SFNS) annual awards. The following awards will be given at the 2021 virtual annual meeting:

The Henry Newman award is presented each year to the author of the best paper dealing with clinical neurology.

The Edwin Boldrey award is intended to recognize a research project in neuroscience.

The John Hanbery award is given annually to the best clinical paper covering topics in neurosurgery.

The Harold Rosegay award is given annually to the best clinical paper covering topics in neurosurgical anatomy, history and clinical practice.

The Child Neurology award is given annually to the best clinical paper covering topics in child neurology.

Requirements:

• All submissions must be original and unpublished
• Work can be pending publication
• Must be available to record your presentation (via Zoom or PPT) and submit your recording to SFNS by March 12, 2021. Each presentation is to be 20 minutes in length and will be available for meeting attendees on the virtual platform on demand.
• You may not have previously won a total of TWO of any of the SFNS Young Investigator Awards

Award Winners Will Receive:

• $500 honorarium
• Complimentary meeting registration to the annual meeting
• Award Certificate

2020 Resident Scholarship awards

Stanford Neurology: Dr. Rebecca Levy
Stanford Neurosurgery: Dr. Derek Yecies
UC Davis Neurology: Dr. Wentao Li
UC Davis Neurosurgery: Dr. Seun Omofoye
UCSF Neurology: Dr. Meredith Bock
UCSF Neurosurgery: Dr. Ramin Morshed

2020 Young Investigator awards

Child Neurology Award:
Dr. Jennifer Quon, Stanford Neurosurgery resident
Automatic detection and classification of posterior fossa tumors on multi-institutional magnetic resonance imaging using deep learning
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Hanbery Award:
Dr. John F. Burke, UCSF Neurosurgery resident
The impact of smoking on outcomes following surgery for grade 1 lumbar spondylolisthesis
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Rosegay Award:
Dr. Jacob S. Young, UCSF Neurosurgery resident
The Glioma-Neuronal Interface: Relationship Between Histology, Tumor Genetics, and Intratumoral Function

Newman Award:
Dr. Prashanth Sriram Ramachandran, UCSF Neurology fellow
Improving Tuberculous Meningitis Diagnostics - A Combined Host and Pathogen Classifier
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Boldrey Award:
Dr. Ignacio Saez, UC Davis Neurological Surgery
Dissociable oscillatory networks support gain and loss processing in human orbitofrontal cortex

Left to right: Leslie Gillum, MD, MPH; Rebecca Jeannette Levy, MD; Allen Ho, MD; Andrew Kai-Hong Chan, MD; Adam MacLellan, MD; Gordon Li, MD