AWARD ANNOUNCEMENTS
WINS/Greg Wilkins-Barrick Chair Visiting International Surgeon Award
Thanks to the generosity of Mark Bernstein, MD, FRCSC, the Greg Wilkins-Barrick Chair in International Surgery, two annual awards are available to encourage international collegiality, education and collaboration. The award of $5000 is to fund travel and registration fees for an international female resident or faculty neurosurgeon to attend the AANS or CNS meeting. Awardees will present a talk at the WINS Reception held the meetings.
Applications can be submitted for the 2018 Spring WINS -Greg-Barrick Chair Visiting International Surgeon Award and are due February 5, 2018.
WINS/Greg Wilkins-Barrick Chair Visiting International Surgeon Awardees
2017
Soha Alomar, MD, Saudi Arabia
Dhivya Palanisamy, MBBS, DNB, India
2016
Marina Khachatryan, MD, Armenia
Lynne Lourdes N. Lucena, MD, Philippines
2015
Ling Feng, MD, PhD, China
Selfy Oswari, MD, Indonesia
2014
Abhidha Harshad Shah, MS, MD, India
Mahjouba Boutarbouch, MD, Morocco
2013
Helen M. Fernandes, MD, FRCS, United Kingdom
Claire Karekezi, MD, Morocco
WINS Leadership Development Award
The WINS Leadership Development Award, established in 2014, recognizes a WINS member who has been in neurosurgical practice for less than 10 years who demonstrate excellence in scholarship, research, clinical practice, mentoring and leadership, in order to advance women leaders in neurosurgery. The awardee will be recognized during the plenary session at the AANS Annual Scientific Meeting.