Award Winners

Year	Place	Resident	Title
2025	1	Sarah Nguyen, MD	Eﬀect of Acute Intracranial Stenting in Patients with Successful Repercussion Following Large Vessel Occlusion Secondary to Intracranial Atherosclerosis: Secondary Analyses of the RESCUE-ICAS Study
	2	Matthew Findlay, MD	Optimizing Single-Pass Thrombectomy: Multicenter Comparative Analysis of Direct Aspiration versus Combined Aspiration and Stent Retriever Techniques in 1,070 Patients
	3	Mohammed Salem, MD	Adjunct Meningeal Artery Embolization with Surgery in Lenovo versus Recurrent Chronic Subdural Hematomas: Propensity-Score Matched Analysis
2024	1	JP McGinnis, MD	Optimizating Cell-Type Specificity of AAV Gene Therapy Vectors for the Human Brain
	2	Justin Zhang, MD	Spinal Cord Metrics Derived from Diffusion-Weighted MRI Improves Prognostication in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Compared with Conventional MRI
	3	Michael Bounajem, MD	Outcome After Endarterectomy or Stenting for Symptomatic Carotid Web
2023	1	Brandon Sherrod	Cervical Traction Techniques: Moving into the 21st Century
	2	Cody Wolfe	Differential Activity of Anterior and Posterior Entorhinal Cortex During Human Episodic Memory
	3	Gregory Chitin	Biomechanics of Sacroiliac Joint Fixation Using Lag Screw: A Cadaveric Study
2022	1	Shaquia Idletti-Ali, MS3	Activation of the Human Amygdala During Processing of Affective Facial Information
	2	Jeffrey Taylor, MD	Impact of Site of Origin On Meningioma Recurrence
	3	Brandon Sherrod, MD	Epidemiology of Gunshot Wounds to the Spinal Cord
2021	1	Evan Joyce, MD	Middle Meningeal Artery Embolization for Non-Acute subdural Hematoma in the Elderly: A Multi-Institutional Experience with 151 Patients
	2	Chad Tucheck, MD	Evaluation of Novel Intracerebral Dexamethasone Sustained Release Polymeric Fiber for Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury
	3	Brandon Sherrod, MD	Ralph B. Cloward (1908 - 2000)
2019	1	Vin Shen Ban, MD	The Southwestern Aneurysm Severity Index for Unruptured Aneurysms
	2	Gian Guan, MD	Addition of Fusion to Decompression for Grade I Degenerative Spondylolisthesis is Associated with Greater Patient-Reported Outcome Improvements at 24 Month Follow-up:A Multi-center Study Using the Quality Outcome Database
	3	Brandon Sherrod, MD	Dysphagia and Quality of Life Outcomes Following Anterior Cervical Fusion
2018	1	Timothy Ung, MD	Intra-operative Flourescein for Tissue Biopsy and Resection of Spinal Cord Lesions
	2	Tarek El Ahmadieh, MD	The Southwestern Aneurysm Severity Index (SASI) Prediction of Outcome of Ruptured Aneurysms Treated with Microsurgery
	3	Johnathan Scoville, MD	Comparison of Physical Properties of Hypertonic Saline and Mannitol