AAN Research Program Recipients

2024 Recipients

Divakar Mithal, MD, PhD
Cole Harrington, MD, PhD
Monique Anderson, MD, PhD
Emanuele Barca, MD, PhD
David Fischer, MD
John Rhee, MD, MPH
Ho Namkung, PhD
Hashmat Ghanizada, MD, PhD
Alexander Gill, MD, PhD
Andrew Huang, MD
Elizabeth Chernyak, MD
Jill Goslinga, MD, MPH
Marijne Vandebergh, PhD
Eleanor Thomas, MD, PhD
Haopei Yang, PhD
Andrew Breithaupt, MD
Brittany Krzyanowski, PhD
George Kannarkat, MD, PhD
Malya Sahu, MD
Ana-Lucia Garcia Guarniz, MD
Simon Thebault, MD
Jillian McKee, MD, PhD
Francesco Michelassi, MD, PhD
Rowan Saloner, PhD

2023 Recipients

Marina Avetisyan, MD, PhD
Sheena Baratono, MD, PhD
Jonathan R. Brent, MD, PhD
Nathan Tyler Cohen, MD
Vishnu Anand Cuddapah, MD, PhD
Andrew Dhawan, MD, PhD
Maurizio Grassano, MD
Robert John Heuermann, MD, PhD
Natalie Katz, MD, PhD
Wesley Kerr, MD, PhD
Eva Klinman, MD, PhD
Anthony Linares, MD, PhD
Martineau Louine, MD
Evan Madill, MD
Daniel T. Ohm, PhD
Patricia Arlene Olson, MD, PhD
Dominique Popescu, PhD
Sharan Srinivasan, MD, PhD
Erika Kristen Williams, MD, PhD
Nirupama Yechoor, MD, MSc

2022 Recipients

Alexandra Czap, MD
Angela Hewitt, MD, PhD
Audrey Brumback, MD, PhD
Bipasha Mukherjee-Clavin, MD, PhD
Frederick Arnold, PhD
Gina Dumkrieger, PhD
Grace Crotty, MD
Indira Garcia Cordero, PhD
Jeffrey Motter, PhD
Kyra O’Brien, MD
Meredith Bock, MD
Michael Kleiman, PhD
Monica Diaz, MD, MS
Natalia Szejko, MD, PhD
Noreen Bukhari-Parlakturk, MD, PhD
Patricia Sikorski, PhD
Regan Lemley, MD
Samuel Carrell, MD, PhD
Sanjana Shellikeri, PhD
Sarah Szymkowicz, PhD
Sattar Khoshkhoo, MD
Sinifunanya Nwaobi, MD, PhD
Stefan Nicolau, MD
Tyler Rehbein, MD
Whitley Aamodt, MD, MPH, MSCE
Zachary Macchi, MD

2021 Recipients

Altaf Saadi, MD
Daniel Rubin, MD, PhD
Emily Ferenczi, MD, PhD
Frederike Cosima Oertel, MD
Helen Hwang, MD, PhD
Ikjae Lee, MD
Jason Chua, MD, PhD
Jonathan Brent, MD, PhD
Nicole Rosendale, MD
Paul Sampognaro, MD
Reem Waziry, PhD
Renatta Knox, MD, PhD
Samuel Snider, MD
Samuel Terman, MD
Wai-Ying Yau, MD
Yan Wang, MD

2020 Recipients

Alonso Zea Vera, MD
Bryan Baxter, PhD
Carlyn Patterson Gentile, MD
Colin Ellis, MD
Collin Kreple, MD
David Lin, MD
Deanna Saylor, MD, MHS
Farinaz Safavi, MD, PhD
Hugo Aparicio, MD
James Curtis, PhD, CCC-SLP
Lawren VandeVrede, MD
Lenora Higginbotham, MD
Mark Etherton, MD
Medhi Ghasemi, MD
Oluwole Awosika, MD
Paloma Gonzalez-Perez, MD, PhD
Richard Krolewski, MD
Sarah Getz, PhD
William Zeiger, PhD

2019 Recipients

Shouri Lahiri, MD
Susanna Mierau, MD
David Coughlin, MD
Kellen Winden, MD, PhD
Isabel Lam, PhD
Sanaz Sedaghat, PhD
Jennifer Marsella, MD
Jennifer Vermilion, MD
William Mantyh, MD
Prashanth Ramachandran, MBBS
Elan Guterman, MD
Anna Goodheart, MD
Reza Seyedsadjadi, MD
Ulrike Kaunzner, MD
Victoria Ho, MD, PhD
Lisseth Burbano, MD
Jennifer Kim, MD
Christian Camargo, MD
Karisa Schreck MD, PhD
Faisal Amin, MD, PhD
Suma Babu, MD, MPH
Shruti Raja, MD
Kevin Keenan, MD

2018 Recipients

Aasef Shaikh, PhD, MD
Christopher Benjamin, PhD
Matthew Bevers, PhD, MD
Peter Kang, MD
Marianna Spatola, MD
Brett McCray, MD, PhD
Andrew Findlay, MD
Archana Patel, MD
Brice McConnell, PhD, MD
Kimberly Albert, PhD
Hiroki Nariai, MD
Katharine Nicholson, MD
Peter Creigh, MD
Sunil A. Sheth, MD
Bhavana Patel, MD
Wissam Georges Deeb, MD
Giulia Fadda, MD
Davut Pehlivan, MD
Krithi Irmady, MD, PhD
Emily Harrington, MD, PhD

2017 Recipients 
Lidia Maria Moura, MD, MPH
Hsiao-Tuan Chao, MD, PhD
Isaac Marin-Valencia, MD
Melissa Cortez, DO
Afsaneh Shirani, MD
Christopher Tarolli, MD
Alice Lam, MD, PhD
Adam Numis, MD
Joseph McGuire, PhD
Flint Espil, PhD
Laurie Robak, MD, PhD
Sabrina Paganoni, MD, PhD
Nicholas Olney, MD
Laura Graham, MPH
Ryan Schubert, MD
Johanna Hamel, MD
Michelle Fullard, MD
Jill Butler, PhD
Joel Salinas, MD, MBA, MSc
Baijayanta Maiti, MD, PhD

2016 Recipients

Ellen Penney, MD, PhD
Caitlin Rollins, MD
Santosh Murthy, MD, MPH
Paula Voinescu, MD, PhD
Vaishnav Krishnan, MD, PhD
Matthew Capriotti, PhD
Chia-Ling Phuah, MBBChir, MA, BA
Katherine McDonell, MD
Cindy Ly, MD, PhD
Christopher Hemond, MD
Fanny Elahi, MD, DPhil
Stephanie Buss, MD
Michael Hehir, MD
Lindsey Hayes, MD, PhD
Mia Minen, MD, MPH

2015 Recipients

William Renthal, MD
Carolyn Fredericks, MD
Gregory Day, MD, MSc
Dona Murphey, MD, PhD
Emily Gilmore, MD
Todd Herrington, MD
Inge Meijer, MD, PhD
Leigh Septa, PhD
Corey Fehnel, MD
Vanessa Beynon, MD
Felicia Chow, MD, MAS
Mathula Thangarajh, MD, PhD
Albert Davis, MD
Wei Hu, MD, PhD
Benjamin Tolchin, MD
Hristelina Ilieva, MD, PhD
Nigel Pedersen, MBBS
Michael Kornberg, MD, PhD
David Schmerler, DO
Sunil Sheth, MD

2014 Recipients

Srikant Rangaraju, MD
Lucia Rivera Lara, MD
Eyal Kimchi, MD, PhD
LidIa Maria Moura, MD
Jay Gavvala, MD, MPH
Padmaja Vittal, MD, MS
Peter Pressman, MD
Svjetlana Miocinovic, MD, PhD
Elissaios Karageorgiou, MD
David Hwang, MD
Bardia Nourbakhsh, MD
Rainer Von Coelln, MD
Brian Edlow, MD
Matthew Schindler, MD, PhD
Ricard Roda, MD, PhD
Amber Van Laar, MD

2013 Recipients

Jasmeer Chhatwal, MD, PhD
April Levin, MD
Michael Ward, MD, PhD
Joseph Glykys, MD, PhD
Riley Bove, MD
Veronica Bruno, MD
Rizwan Akhtar, MD
Michael Fox, MD, PhD
Clotilde Balucani, MD, PhD
Paul George, MD, PhD, MSE
Brian Wainger, MD, PhD
Michael Wilson, MD
Robert Kotloski, MD
Michelle Kvalsund, DO, MS

2012 Recipients

Suzanne Schindler, MD, PhD
Kiran Maski, MD
Qin Li Jiang, MD
Jeffrey Waugh, MD
Anli A. Liu, MD
Christopher Anderson,MD, PhD
Matthew Bellizzi, MD
Vikas Kotagal, MD
Carolina Barnett-Tapia, MD
Mwiza Ushe, MD
Corneliu C. Luca, MD
Adina Al Hazzouri, PhD, Ms
Thalia Shoshana Field, MD
M. Brandon Westover, MD, PhD
Holly Hinson, MD

2011 Recipients

Nazem Atassi, MD
Jorg Dietrich, MD, PhD
Sheng-Han Kuo, MD
Doris Leung, MD
Jee Hoon Roh, MD
Omar Siddiqi, MD
Tomo Tarui, MD
Peter Tsai, MD, PhD
Robert White, MD, PhD
Catherine Chu-Shore, MD
Jeffrey Marc Gelfand, MD
Piero Perucca, MD
Vikram Khurana, MD, PhD
Steve Han, MD, PhD
Salim Chahin. MD
Douglas M. Sproule, MD

2010 Recipients

Vikram Khurana, MD, PhD
Suzanne Goh, MD
William C. Kreisl, MD
Khalid A. Hanafy, MD, PhD
Michael Kruer, MD
Eugenia Ho, MD
Kevin Sheth, MD
Nicte Mejia, MD
Sharon Poisson, MD
Zongqi Xia, MD, PhD
Gabriele De Luca, MD, PhD
Winston Chiong, MD, PhD
Farrah Mateen, MD

2009 Recipients

Daniel O. Claassen, MD
Rachel Goldmann Gross, MD
Chad Hales, MD, PhD
William Taylor Kimberly, MD, PhD
Andrew Lim, MD
Jonathan Lipton, MD, PhD
Sashank Prasad, MD
Lesli E. Skolarus, MD
Peter Turkeltaub, MD, PhD
Martina Vendrame, MD, PhD
Toni Pearson, MD
Swati Aggarwal, MD

2008 Recipients

Meredith Barad, MD
Sarah Barnett, MD, MPH
Michelle Burack, MD, PhD
Emily L. Ho, MD, PhD
Shafali Jeste, MD
Eric Klawiter, MD
Beth Leeman, MA, MD
Michael Levy, MD
Aaron McMurtray, MD
Marta San Luciano, MD
Peter K. Todd, MD, PhD
William T. Hu, MD, PhD
Ana-Claire Meyer, MD
Christophe Severson, MD
Aleksandar Videnovic, MD, MSc
Alice Chen-Plotkin, MD

2007 Recipients

Brent L. Fogel, MD, PhD
Omar Khwaja, MD
Tanya N. Turan, MD
Adeline Vanderver, MD
Jeremiah M. Schaaf, MD, PhD  
Julie Ann Siegenthaler, PhD  
Amy Waldman, MD
Julie Anne Siegenthaler, PhD

2006 Recipients

Latisha K. Ali, MD
Ray Dorsey, MD
Roy Hamilton, MD, MS
Michael Benatar, MBChB, DPhil  
Benzi M. Kluger, MD
John Hixson, MD  
C. N. Madhavarao, PhD

2005 Recipients

Yoon-Hee Cha, MD
Annapurna Poduri, MD
C. Adam Kirton, MD, MSc
Cindy Zadikoff, MD
Ari Green, MD

2004 Recipients

Wendy Ziai, MD
Randall Bateman, MD
Lisa Silbert, MD
Scott McPhee, MD  

2003 Recipients

Deborah Hall, MD 
Joel I. Shenker, MD, PhD  
Eric E. Smith, MD

2002 Recipients

Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, MD
Lara M. Schrader, MD 
Cassandra J. Milling, MD

2001 Recipients

Fredy Revilla, MD  
Jocelyn Bautista, MD
John W. Cole, MD

2000 Recipients

Thomas Jeerakathil, MD, BSC
Romergryko G. Geocadin, MD  
Jonathan Rosand, MD
Michael S. Okun, MD

1999 Recipients

Bradford B. Worrall, MD, MSc
Catherine Lomen Hoerth, MD, PhD
Steve S. Chung, MD
Kathy Ann Kujawa, MD, PhD

1996 Recipients

Merit E. Cudkowicz, MD, MSC