The Academy accepts abstract submissions from Neurosurgical and Orthopaedic Residents and Fellows for presentation at the Annual Scientific Meeting. The submission(s) from those that specifically request consideration by the Scholarship Committee will be considered for cash award(s) and /or other recognition presented during the meeting. The winner(s) must present during the meeting in order to receive an award. Submissions should be made by no later than 90 days before the annual meeting. For 2024 the program will be held at the Wyndham Historic District Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 26 and 27.
Contact the AANOS office via email at nrebel@aanos.org to confirm your eligibility. You may also call the Chicago office.
2021 Recipient
Grand Prize Winner
Andres Alvarez Pinzon, MD, PhD, MHA
Sr. Research Program Manager, University California, San Francisco Fellow, Vascular Neurosurgery and Skull Base Lan, UCSF Consultant Director, Health Sciences Research, Miami Neurosciences Center at Larkin
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery and Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy for the Treatment of AIDS-Related Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
Past Recipients
2016 Recipients
Ahmed J. Awad, MD (Grand Prize Winner)
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY
Morbidity and Mortality in Adults Undergoing Resection of Supratentorial Meningioma
Andres M. Alvarez-Pinzon, MD, MSc (Honorable Mention)
Clinical Research Fellow, Neurological Surgery Department, Miami Neuroscience Center, Larkin Community Hospital, Plantation, FL
Primary CNS Lymphoma: Analysis of Treatment by Gamma- Knife Radiosurgery and Chemotherapy in a Prospective, Observational Study
2015 Scholarship Recipient
Debraj Mukherjee, MD
Neurosurgery Resident, Los Angeles, CA
Submission Title: Dynamic Cervicomedullary Cord Compression and Alterations in Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamics in Children with Achondroplasia
2014 Scholarship Recipients
Daniel S.Z.M. Boctor, MA, MBBChir, MRCS, MRCP
Orthopedic Resident
Lister Hospital, Ilford, Essex, UK
Submission Title: The First Reported Case of Spontaneous Upper Arm Compartment Syndrome in a Patient on Clopidogrel
Caitlin Clark
Third Year Medical Student
University of Texas – Houston
Submission Title: Spinal Epidural Arteriovenous Malformations: Report of a Case with discussion of Classification and Treatment
2013 Scholarship Recipient
Doniel Drazin, MD, MA
Senior Neurosurgery Resident
Department of Neurosurgery, The Spine Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Submission Title: Safe and Effective Atlanto-axial Stabilization with Long Term Intra-Articular Arthrodesis
2011 Scholarship Recipient
Amr Morsi, MD
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Interdisciplinary Melanoma Program, New York University Langone Medical Center, Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiology
Submission Title: Three Dimensional Volumetric MRI Studies in the Preclinical Mouse Model of Melanoma Brain Metastases
2009 Scholarship Recipient
Isaac Yang, MD
Senior Neurosurgical Resident
University of California, Department of Neurosurgery, San Francisco, CA
Submission Title: Prolific CD8+ T Cell Infiltrate in Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma Patients Correlates with Long Term Survival
2008 Scholarship Recipient
Alexandra Beier, DO
Osteopathic Neurosurgical Resident
St. John Health System, Detroit, MI
Submission Title: Subdural Hematoma after Microdiscectomy
A Case Report and Review of the Literature