The American Stroke Association will honor 11 leaders in the field at the organization's International Stroke Conference in February.
Here are the 11 award recipients:
- Jean-Claude Baron, MD, professor emeritus of stroke medicine at the University of Cambridge University in England, will receive the David G. Sherman Lecture Award.
- Mohamed Elfil, MD, vascular neurology fellow at University of Miami/Jackson Health System, will receive the Robert G. Siekert New Investigator Award in Stroke.
- Heather Fullerton, MD, pediatric vascular neurologist at the University of California San Francisco, will receive the Ralph L. Sacco Outstanding Stroke Research Mentor Award.
- Virginia Howard, PhD, distinguished professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will receive the Edgar J. Kenton III Lecture Award.
- Mei Zhen Huang, PhD, assistant professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, will be awarded the Stroke Rehabilitation Award. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the department of physical therapy and rehabilitation science at Baltimore-based University of Maryland School of Medicine.
- Shufan Huo, MD, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the department of neurology at New Haven, Conn.-based Yale University, will receive the Mordecai Y.T. Globus New Investigator Award.
- Santosh Murthy, MD, associate professor of neurology at New York City-based Weill Cornell Medical College and associate chief of the division of neurocritical care at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell, will receive the Stroke Care in Emergency Medicine Award.
- Heyu Ni, MD, PhD, professor in the departments of laboratory medicine and pathobiology, medicine, and physiology at University of Toronto, will receive the Stroke Basic Science Award.
- Miguel Perez-Pinzon, PhD, director of the Peritz Scheinberg Cerebral Vascular Disease Research Laboratories at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, will receive the Thomas Willis Lecture Award.
- Cyprien Rivier, MD, associate research scientist in the department of neurology at New Haven, Conn.-based Yale School of Medicine, will receive the Vascular Cognitive Impairment Award.
- Yongjun Wang, MD, president of Beijing Tiantan Hospital in China and Capital Medical University, also in Beijing, and the Chinese Stroke Association, will receive the William M. Feinberg Award for Excellence in Clinical Stroke.