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Education Award Recipients

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 American Academy of Neurology Education Awards. Browse recipients below. The AAN thanks the American Brain Foundation for their support through philanthropy of the AAN's awards program.

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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.

Joel C. Morgenlander, MD, FAAN 
Duke University 
Durham, NC 

2023 Recipient: Zachary London, MD, FAAN


A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award

Lealani Mae Acosta, MD, FAAN 
Vanderbilt University 
Nashville, TN 

John C. Adair, MD 
University of New Mexico 
Albuquerque, NM 

Alhamza Al-Bayati, MD 
University of Pittsburgh 
Pittsburgh, PA 

Ana C. Albuja Ponce 
Brown Medical School 
Providence, RI 

Ashhar Ali, DO, FAAN 
Henry Ford Health 
Bloomfield Twp, MI 

Tarek Emran Ali, MBBS 
University of Kentucky 
Lexington, KY 

Yasir Al-Khalili, MD, MSED, FAAN 
Virginia Commonwealth University 
Richmond, VA 

Baxter Allen, MD 
Weill Cornell 
New York, NY 

Graham Atkin, PhD 
Michigan State University 
East Lansing, MI 

Ekaterina Bakradze, MD 
University of Alabama 
Birmingham, AL 

Benjamin Barnes, MD 
Augusta University 
Augusta, GA 

Christopher R. Barton, MD 
University of Louisville 
Louisville, KY 

Maysaa Merhi Basha, MD 
Wayne State University 
Detroit, MI 

Bassam A. Bassam, MD, FAAN 
University of South Alabama 
Mobile, AL 

Aaron M. Carlson, MD 
University of Colorado – Denver 
Denver, CO 

Rameshwar Nath Chaurasia, MBBS, MD, DM, FRCP, MAMS 
Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hinu University 
Varanasi Uttar, Pradesh 
India 

Suzanne C. Crandall, DO 
Charleston Area Medical Center 
Charleston, WV 

Alok Dabi, MD 
University of Texas Medical Branch 
Galveston, TX 

Long F. Davalos Loo, MD 
University of Cincinnati 
Cincinnati, OH 

Bertha C. Ekeh, MD 
University of Uyo Teaching Hospital 
Uyo, Akwa Ibom 
Nigeria 

Jessica Feldman, MD 
Penn Medicine 
Sellersville, PA 

Anteneh Mekonnen Feyissa, MD, MSc, FAAN 
Mayo Clinic – Jacksonville 
Jacksonville, FL 

Erin Furr-Stimming, MD, FAAN 
McGovern Medical School, UTHealth 
Houston, TX 

Daniel Gonzalez, MD 
Barrow Neurological Institute 
Phoenix, AZ 

Carolina Garcia, DO 
Emory University 
Atlanta, GA 

Jennifer L. Griffith, MD 
Washington University 
St. Louis, MO 

James Grogan, MD 
Pennsylvania State University 
State College, PA 

Sheffali Gulati, MD, FAMS, FIAP, FIMS 
All India Institute of Medical Sciences 
New Delhi 
India 

Khalid Hanafy, MD, PhD 
Cooper Neurologic Institute 
Cherry Hill, NJ 

Antonio Hernanado Iglesias, MD 
Loyola University 
Chicago, IL 

Ryan David Jacobson, MD 
Rush University 
Chicago, IL 

Peter Jin, MD 
University of Maryland 
College Park, MD 

Morgan Christina Jordan, DO 
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences 
Bethesda, MD 

Tamara B. Kaplan, MD 
Brigham and Women's 
Boston, MA 

Sukriye Damla Kara, MD 
University of Mississippi 
Jackson, MS 

Adrienne M. Keener, MD 
UCLA 
Los Angeles, CA 

Nishanth Kodumuri, MD 
University of South Carolina 
Columbia, SC 

Scheherazade Le, MD 
Stanford University 
Stanford, CA 

Hongyan Li, MD, PhD, FAAN 
University of Toledo 
Toledo, OH 

Jason H. Margolesky, MD 
University of Miami 
Miami, FL 

Ethan Isaac Meltzer, MD 
University of Texas – Austin 
Austin, TX 

Jose Antonio Montes-Rivera, MD 
University of Connecticut 
Mansfield, CT 

Andrew James Natonson, MD 
Oregon Health and Science University 
Portland, OR 

Scott Douglas Newsome, DO, FAAN 
Johns Hopkins 
Baltimore, MD 

Scott I. Otallah, MD 
Wake Forest 
Winston-Salem, NC 

Ashok Reddy Polu, MD 
The NeuroMedical Center Clinic 
Baton Rouge, LA 

Varun Chandra Reddy Pulakanti, MD 
Geisinger 
Danville, PA 

Reshma Narula, MD 
Yale Medicine 
New Haven, CT 

Matthew Roberts, MD 
University of Texas Health Science Center - San Antonio 
San Antonio, TX 

Hannah Roeder, MPH 
University of Iowa 
Iowa City, IA 

Sean C. Rose, MD, FAAN 
Nationwide Children's Hospital 
Toledo, OH 

Helene Rubeiz, MD 
University of Chicago 
Chicago, IL 

Sami Saba, MD 
Northwell Health 
New York, NY 

Stefano Sandrone, PhD 
Imperial College London 
London 
England 

Courtney Seebadri-White, MD 
Thomas Jefferson University 
Philadelphia, PA 

Rajesh Shankar Iyer, MD, DM 
Kovai Medical Center and Hospital 
Tamil Nadu 
India 

Zubeda B. Sheikh, MD 
West Virginia University 
Morgantown, WV 

Kurt Michael Sieloff, MD 
University of Michigan 
Ann Arbor, MI 

Alexis N. Simpkins, MD PhD, MSCR, FAAN 
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 
Los Angeles, CA 

Thomas Thesen, PhD 
Geisel School of Medicine 
Hanover, NH 

Michel Toledano, MD 
Mayo Clinic – Rochester 
Rochester, MN 

Jose L. Torres, MD 
NYU – Langone 
New York, NY 

Anh-Thu Ngo Vu, MD, MS 
Providence Health & Services 
Renton, WA 

Neal J. Weisbrod, MD 
University of Florida 
Gainesville, FL 

Kathryn Leigh Idol Xixis, MD 
University of Virginia 
Charlottesville, VA 

2023 Recipients: Jayant Acharya, MD, FAAN; Aileen Antonio, MD; Sanaz Attaripour, MD, PhD, FAAN; Nancy Baker, MD; Lauren Beslow, MD; Muhammad Fawad Bilal, MD; Ania Busza, MD, FAAN; Joseph Carrera, MD, PhD, FAAN; Madeline Chadehumbe, MD, FAAN; Marissa Dean, MD; Wissam Deeb, MD, FAAN; Stephen English, MD; Prasanna Venkatesan Eswaradass, MD; Jorge Ortiz Garcia, MD; Justin Hoskin, MD; Maryam Hosseini, MD, MPH, FAAN; Spencer Hutto, MD; Inna Keselman, MD; Humaira Khan, MD; Neil Masangkay, MD; Alina Masters-Israilov, MD, FAAN; Sally Mathias, MD; Prachi Mehndiratta, MD, PhD, FAAN; Anza Memon, MD; Mostafa Mahmoud Hassan Meshref, MD; Nicholas Milano, MD; Setareh Salehi Omran, MD; Anna Pace, MD; Addie Patterson, DO; David Preston, MD, FAAN; Divisha Raheja, MD; Necrisha Roach, MD, PhD, FAAN; Liana Rosenthal, MD; Vishwanath Sagi, MD; Sita Jayalakshmi Sattaluri, MD; Nicholas Silvestri, MD, FAAN; Shitiz Sriwastawa, MD, FAAN; Derek Stitt, MD, FAAN; Adnan Subei, DO, FAAN; Anishee Undavia, MD; Mauricio Villamar, MD


Clerkship Education Coordinator Recognition Award

Courtney Lewis 
University of Maryland 
Baltimore, MD

2023 Recipients: Alex Gough; Brigitte H. Nettles


Clerkship Director Innovation Award

Amit Kandel, MD 
University at Buffalo SUNY 
Buffalo, NY

2023 Recipient: Jamie LaBuzetta, MD, MSc, Mphil


Clerkship Director Teaching Award

Matthew Swan, MD 
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 
New York, NY

2023 Recipient: Norika Malhado-Chang, MD


Consortium of Neurology Residents and Fellows Essay Contest 

Nara Michaelson, MD 
Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA 

2023 Recipient: Yasmin Aghajan, MD


Director Mentorship Leadership Program

Supported in part by LivaNova.

Margaret Adler, MD 
Harbor UCLA Medical Center 
Torrance, CA 

Jennifer M. Bain, MD, PhD 
Columbia University 
New York, NY 

Meeryo Choe, MD, FAAN 
UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital 
Los Angeles, CA 

Kristen Fisher, DO 
Baylor College of Medicine 
Houston, TX 

Tiffani Stroup Franada, DO 
OSF Healthcare Illinois Neurological Institute 
Peoria, IL 

Katherine Fu, MD 
UCLA Medical Center 
Los Angeles, CA 

Elysia James, MD 
University of Toledo 
Toledo, OH 

Balaji Krishnaiah, MD, FAAN 
University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center 
Memphis, TN 

Alexandra Kvernland, MD 
NYU Department of Neurology 
New York, NY 

Zabeen Kaizar Mahuwala, MD, FAAN 
University of Kentucky 
Lexington, KY 

Jeremy Moeller, MD, FAAN 
Yale University 
New Haven, CT 

Aaron Lane Nelson, MD, FAAN
NYU Langone Health 
New York, NY 

Douglas Ney, MD, FAAN 
University of Colorado School of Medicine 
Aurora, CO 

Ligia V. Onofrei, MD 
University of Utah 
Salt Lake City, UT 

Michael L. Palm, MD, FAAN 
UT Health San Antonio 
San Antonio, TX 

Jeffrey B. Ratliff, MD, FAAN 
Thomas Jefferson University 
Philadelphia, PA 

Justin A. Sattin, MD 
University of Wisconsin 
Madison, WI 

Buse Sengul, MD 
Memorial Healthcare System 
Hollywood, FL 

Elizabeth T. Troy, MD 
University of Colorado 
Aurora, CO 

Robin Ulep, MD 
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 
New York, NY 

Stephen A. VanHaerents, MD, FAAN 
Northwestern University 
Chicago, IL 

Starla Wise, DO 
University of Cincinnati 
Cincinnati, OH 

Kathryn Leigh Idol Xixis, MD 
University of Virginia 
Charlottesville, VA 

2023 Recipients: Aileen Antonio, MD; Kapil Arya, MD; Rae E. Bacharach, DO; Laxman Bahroo, DO, FAAN; Mark D. Baker, MD; Danny Bega, MD; Annapoorna Bhat, MD; A. Blake Buletko, MD; Elizabeth A. Coon, MD, FAAN; Suzanne Crandall, DO; William Alexander Dalrymple, MD; Zain Guduru, MD, FAAN; Jafar Kafaie, MD, PhD; Adrienne M. Keener, MD; Thomas Vincent Kodankandath, MD; Pearce Korb, MD, FAAN; Arielle Marisa Kurzweil, MD, FAAN; Max R. Lowden, MD, FAAN; Tara K. Mangum, DO; Soe Mar, MD, FAAN; Neil Masangkay, MD; Maryann Mays, MD, FAAN; Lisa R. Merlin, MD, FAAN; Aaron Lane Nelson, MD, FAAN; Ajitesh Ojha, MD; Michael L. Palm, MD, FAAN; Sonja Potrebic, MD, PhD, FAAN; David C. Preston, MD, FAAN; Joel Isaac Shenker, MD, PhD; Jacqueline Stone, MD; Kavitha Tirumalasetti, MD; Diego Torres-Russotto, MD, FAAN; Melanie Truong-Le, DO; Alan Wang, MD; Christina Wilson, MD, FAAN; Edward Yu, MD


Enhanced Resident Leadership Program

Supported in part by Alexion Pharmaceuticals, LivaNova.

Claudia Gambrah-Lyles, MD 
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 
Philadelphia, PA 

Franziska Hoche, MD 
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Boston, MA 

Christine Gummerson, MD 
Yale New Haven Hospital 
New Haven, CT 

Ruben Jauregui, MD 
New York University Langone 
New York, NY 

Neeharika Krothapalli, DO 
University of Connecticut 
Farmington, CT 

Michael D. Liu, MD 
Mayo Clinic 
Rochester, MN 

Maegan Newell, MD 
Baylor College of Medicine 
Houston, TX 

Praveen Ramani, MBBS 
University of Arkansas / Arkansas Children's Hospital 
Little Rock, AK 

Deborah Kathleen Rose, MD 
Duke University 
Durham, NC 

Angela C. Russell, MD 
University of Calgary 
Calgary 
Canada 

Christine Shrock, MD 
Boston Children's Hospital 
Brookline, MA 

Isha Snehal, MBBS 
University of Nebraska 
Omaha, NE 

Maria Sokola, MD 
Cleveland Clinic Foundation 
Cleveland, OH 

Megan E. Super, MD 
Thomas Jefferson University 
Philadelphia, PA 

Adam Wadina, MD 
Loyola University 
Maywood, MD 

2023 Recipients: Rumyar Ardakani, MD; Shane Arsenault, MD; Alexis Ariel Clay, MD; Catherine R. Garcia, MD; Joshua Luster, MD; Thien Nguyen, MD; Meghna Rajaprakash, MD; Brigitte Reina, MD; Avni Sanghi, DO; Carol Swetlik, MD; Vaishnavi Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, MD; Miranda Wan, MD; Alexandra Mae Wood, MD; Shea Wright, MD; Rachel Zolno, MD


Fellowship Director Recognition Award

Anita V Shelgikar, MD, MHPE
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Christina Wilson, MD, FAAN
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

2023 Recipients: Anita V Shelgikar, MD, MHPE; Christina Wilson, MD, FAAN


Fellowship Education Coordinator Recognition Award

Juliana Adepipe 
University of Pennsylvania 
Philadelphia, PA 

Nina Galanti 
University of Michigan 
Ann Arbor, MI 

2023 Recipients: Michael Lilley, MHA; Sara Nagel


Frank A. Rubino Award for Excellence in Clinical Neurology Teaching

Funded by Mayo Clinic Frank A. Rubino, MD Development Fund.

Vanja C. Douglas, MD 
University of California, San Francisco 
San Francisco, CA

2023 Recipient: Douglas J. Gelb, MD, PhD, FAAN


Neuroscience Course Director Excellence 

Jose L. Torres, MD 
New York University 
New York, NY

2023 Recipient: Balaji Krishnaiah, MD


Residency Education Coordinator Recognition Award

Caroline Martin 
University of Iowa 
Iowa City, IA 

Nadia Tilden-Dassler 
Westchester Medical Center 
Valhalla, NY 

2023 Recipients: Jennifer Shipley; Jillian Iffland, M.Ed


Residency-Fellowship Program Director Recognition Award

Daniel R. Gold, DO 
Johns Hopkins Medicine 
Baltimore, MD 

Christopher Hess, MD 
University of Florida 
Gainesville, FL 

Robert W. Neel, MD 
University of Cincinnati Hospital  
Cincinnati, OH 

Rana R. Said, MD, FAAN 
UT Southwestern 
Dallas, TX 


Resident & Fellow Writing Award

Sponsored by Neurology Resident & Fellow Section.

Ana M. Cabal Herrera, MD 
Nationwide Children’s Hospital  
Columbus, OH 

Setty Magaña, MD, PhD 
Nationwide Children’s Hospital  
Columbus, OH 

Quinton J. Mandle, MD 
Nationwide Children’s Hospital  
Columbus, OH 

Alex Sunshine, MD, PhD 
Nationwide Children's Hospital 
Columbus, OH 

Hersh Varma, MD 
Nationwide Children’s Hospital  
Columbus, OH 

Bianca Zapanta, DO 
Nationwide Children’s Hospital  
Columbus, OH