AANS International Lifetime Recognition Award
This award recognizes the recipient's lifetime of contributions to neurosurgery in his or her native country, and to neurosurgery globally.
AANS International Lifetime Recognition Award - 2012 Recipient
Leonidas M. Quintana, MD, is currently chief of neurosurgical service at Valparaíso, Chile’s Carlos Van Buren Hospital, as well as an associate professor of neurosurgery in Valparaíso University’s department of neurosurgery in Vina del Mar, Chile. He received his diplomate in medicine and surgery with maximal distinction from the University of Chile in Santiago in 1972. After working as a general surgeon for several years he returned to school, completing his neurosurgical residency at the University of Chile’s post-graduate office in 1979, and was accredited as a neurosurgeon by the Chilean National Board of Specialties that same year. In 1981, Dr. Quintana completed his fellowship in cerebrovascular neurosurgery in Sendai, Japan at the Tohoku University School of Medicine’s Institute of Brain Diseases.
In leadership positions, Dr. Quintana has served as president of the Chilean Society of Neurosurgery, the South Cone Society of Neurological Surgeons and the Latin American Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (FLANC), respectively. An international member of AANS as well as numerous other societies, he presently is the second vice-president of the WFNS, representing Latin America, and also has served as honorary president of the Latin American Federation of Neurosurgery.
Past recipients of the AANS International Lifetime Recognition Award:
2011 Shigaki Kobayshi, MD, PhD
2010 Jose G. Martin-Rodriguez, MD from Madrid, Spain
2009 Albino Bricolo, MD from Verona, Italy
2008 Jose Humberto Mateos Gomez, from Madrid Mexico
Best International Abstract Award:
This award is given to the highest graded international abstract paper submitted to the AANS Annual Meeting by an international author. The recipient is awarded $500 and a framed certificate.
The 2011 recipient was Christian Senft, MD for his abstract titled Intraoperative MRI Guided vs.n Conventional Microsurgical Brain Tumor Resection Results of a Prospective Randomized Trial
International Travel Scholarship
The scholarship provides $1500 to support the attendance of a neurosurgeon from a developing country to the AANS Annual Meeting. The 2011 recipient was Atul H. Goel, MD from Mumbai, India for his abstract titled Craniovertebral Realignment: Concept, Design and Technique.
The William P. Van Wagenen Fellowship The William P. Van Wagenen Fellowship provides support to a post neurosurgical resident for foreign travel for scientific enrichment, prior to beginning an academic career in neurological surgery. The Fellowship was designed to give freedom in scientific development without the restrictive limitations usually imposed by many research grants and fellowships. Candidacy for the fellowship is open to all senior neurosurgical residents, in approved neurosurgery residency programs.
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