2014 Society Prize Winners

Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Canadian Neurological Society

Francis McNaughton Memorial Prize - Thalia Field “Should blood pressure targets after stroke vary by body size?  The SPS3 Trial”

Andre Barbeau Memorial Prize - Gregory Day “Abnormal neurons distinguish teratomas in N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis”

Canadian Association of Child Neurology

Eric Payne - Seizure burden in independently associated with short-term outcome in critically ill children

Canadian Neurosurgical Society

K.G. McKenzie Prize for Basic Neuroscience Research – 1st Prize - Fady Girgis “Primate Nucleus Accumbens and Orbitofrontal Cortex mediate decision-making behavior”

K.G. McKenzie Prize Basic Neuroscience Research – 2nd Prize - Roberto Diaz “Development of a Molecular Targeting System for Glioblastoma based on Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Nanoparticles”

K.G. McKenzie Prize for Clinical Research – 1st Prize - George Ibrahim “Impaired Development of Intrinsic Connectivity Networks in Children with Medically-Intractable Localization-Related Epilepsy”

K.G. McKenzie Prize for Clinical Research – 2nd Prize - Shobhan Vachhrajani “School Function in Children Following Traumatic Brain Injury:  Developing a New Outcome Measure”