Celebrate These 2024 AAN Scholarship Award Recipients
The AAN recognizes the 2024 AAN scholarship award recipients and their contributions to the art and science of neurology. EDUCATION
RESEARCH GRANT
Harika Rayala, MD
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Thomas Thesen, PhD
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Alicia Zha, MD
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
FUTURES IN NEUROLOGIC RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
Lucie Y. Ahn
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Sanaea Bhagwagar
State University of New York, Albany, NY
Rebecca Baron
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Bijoya Basu
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Kelby W. Brown, Jr., MD
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Santiago Clocchiatti-Tuozzo
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Michael Covell
Georgetown University, Kensington, MD
Nicholas W. DeKorver, MD, PhD
Washington University St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Mark Durham, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX
Mahboubeh Fereidan Esfahni, MD
University of Texas, Austin, TX
Jordan Galbraith
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Leidys Gutierrez-Martinez, MD, MSc
Massachusetts General Hospital, Somerville, MA
Akansha Jain
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Mikael Guzman Karlsson, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine | Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
Vanessa Ha, MD, PhD
University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Yoji Hoshina, MD
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Soonmyung Hwang
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Hannah Kelly
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Riley Kessler, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Charalampia Koutsioumpa, MD, PhD
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Jesse Levine, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Jimmy Li, MD
University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
Alexis Lorio
University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
Laura McGarry, MD, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Shuait Nair
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Cameron Owens, MS
University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
Jack Reves
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Jackson Roberts
Columbia University, New York, NY
Kasra Sarhadi, MD, MPH
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
James Shay, MD
University of Missouri – Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
Kristen Sportiello
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Rui Tang
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Si Jie (Jessica) Tang
University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
Jude Tunyi
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Sanam Zarei, MD
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
Sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology International Subcommittee and supported in part by Genentech.
Maria Jimena Aleman, MD
Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala
Surabhi Garg, MBBS, MD, DrNB
St. John's National Academy of Health
Sciences, Bengaluru, India
Antonino Giordano, MD
IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
Lina Paola Quintero Giraldo, MD
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
Salih Boushra Hamza, MBBS
Ziryab Research Group, Khartoum, Sudan
Haris Iqbal, MBBS, BSc
Mayo Hospital Lahore, Khushab, Pakistan
Amado Jimenez-Ruiz, MD
Hospital Civil de Guadalajara Fray Antonio
Alcalde, Guadalajara, Mexico
Yugant Khand, MD
Nepalese Army Institute of Health Science, Kathmandu, Nepal
Mostafa M. Meshref, MD
Al-Azhar University for Boys, Cairo, Mokkattam City, Egypt
Louisa Müller-Miny, MD
University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany
Coolwe Namangala, MD
University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
Karlos Alvaro Acurio Ortiz, MD
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Cusco, Peru
Ya-Nan Ou, MD, PhD
Qingdao University, Qingdao, China (Mainland)
Francesca Palumbo Jr, MD
University of Turin, Torino, Italy
David Pellerin, MD
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, St-Denis-de-Brompton, Canada
Maria I Reyes-Mantilla, MD
Hospital Simón Bolívar, Bogota, Colombia
Jamil AbdulKadir Said, MMED
AgaKhan University Hospital Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
Sara Salama, MD/PhD
UCL, London & Alexandria University, Egypt, Gleem-Alexandria, Egypt
Bader Hamza Shirah, MBBS
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Ritu Shree, MD, MBBS, DM
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India
S. Sidharth, MD
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, Delhi, India
Aayesha Soni, MBBCh, FcNeurol, Mmed
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Olivier Uwishema, MD
Oli Health Magazine Organization (OHMO), Kigali, Rwanda
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ZuoTeng Wang, PhD
Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao, China (Mainland)
Maria Agustina Zarate, MD
Fundación para la Lucha de Enfermedades Neurológicas en la Infancia (FLENI), Buenos Aires, Argentina
MEDICAL STUDENT
DIVERSITY ANNUAL MEETING SCHOLARSHIP
Ashley Vincenty-Acosta
Ponce Health Sciences University, Ponce, PR
Jeff Doralus
Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN
Gladys Flores
University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, San Juan, PR
Amelia Nicole Hidalgo
Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, Las Cruces, NM
Alexandra Rose Linares
Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
Sierra Lyles
Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC
Simosenkosi Nkomboni
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Lisa Ramirez
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY
Kristina Marie Reyes
Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Johnnie Turner
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
MEDICAL STUDENT
EXPERIENCE AT THE ANNUAL MEETING SCHOLARSHIP
Anna Abrimian
Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford, NJ
Shaina Anderson
Wright State University Boonshoft, Atlanta, GA
Alexandra Balshi
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Aisha Bosula
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Paul Boyd
George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Vivian Chen
Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
William Choi
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI
Aaron Creswell
California Northstate University College of Medicine, Elk Grove, CA
Kendall Curtis
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Ashlee De Leon
University of Maryland School of Medicine, College Park, MD
John Demir
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Pooja Dhupati
University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ
Justin Falk
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Jacksonville, FL
Luke Fisher
Indiana University School of Medicine, Bloomington, IN
Kiley Gagain
Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Wichita, KS
Amanda Gamboa
Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine, El Segundo, CA
Aryonne GenaeLink
Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Lama Hanbali
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Ashley Harrie
University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
Erin Hendry
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Raymond Huerta
University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine, San Antonio, TX
Cindy Huynh
Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Athens, OH
Naomi Kass
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Jacob Kazmi
Donald and Barbara Zucker at Hofstra/ Northwell, Uniondale, NY
Alyssa Kim
A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona, Kirksville, MO
Amber Ligason-Tiquia
WesternU College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Pomona, CA
Megan Lim
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Champaign, IL
Cheyenne Lockwood
Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine, Meridian, ID
Sreeganesh Manoharan
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Meaghan McConkey
University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, MO
Marcus Milani
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Jaan Nandwani
Icahn at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Sanjay Neerukonda
McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX
Brooke Prysi
Lincoln Memorial University Debusk - Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
Hope Reecher
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Alicia Rocha
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI
Chandrika Sanapala
Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, University Park, NM
Estevan Sandoval
University of Arizona Tucson, Tucson, AZ
Danielle Sblendorio
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Mark Schneider
Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL
Pareena Sharma
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
Brook Shepard
Creighton University, Omaha, NE
Ralph Shoemaker
Touro College of Osteopathic MedicineMiddletown, NY, Middletown, NY
Anna Truong
University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA
Ethan Wang
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Lindsay Wanner
Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Lynchburg, VA
Julie Xian
Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Kangni Xiao
Loyola University, Naperville, IL
Annabelle Yang
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
MEDICAL STUDENT RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP
Alexandra Balshi
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brookline, MA
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Mara Bahri
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Tanmay Bangale
Baylor College of Medicine, San Antonio, Texas
Tyler Borko
University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
Eugene Cho
Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
Julia Cho
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Annika Daya
Pennsylvania State, Hummelstown, PA
Neil Dhruva
Emory University, Decatur, GA
Samuel Eitenbichler
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Cameron Hill
Boston University, Boston, MA
Kara Hom
George Washington University, Washington, DC
Mio Jiang
University of California Irvine, Huntington Beach, CA
Mohammad Nisar
Augusta University, Dalton, GA
Minjal Patel
Rowan Virtua, Voorhees Township, NJ
Chelsea Rutagengwa
University of Connecticut, New Britain, MA
Anish Sethi
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Sami Shaikh
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Milena Sudarikov
Rowan Virtua, Cherry Hill, NJ
Johnnie Turner
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
David Weiss
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
MEDICAL STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
Talha Ahmad
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Ayymen Yousef Amaar
Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, Loma Linda, CA
Tanmay Uday Bangale
University of North Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, TX
Taylor Baranski
California University of Science and Medicine, Redlands, CA
Emily Bossie
Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Detroit, MI
Samantha Brown
Mayo Clinic Alix, Phoenix, AZ
Gregory Brown
Pennsylvania State University, Wyomissing, PA
Nicholas Dean Burt
NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine, Port Washington, NY
Joo Won Choi
University of Maryland, Hanover, MD
Sun Gyeong Choi
John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI
Shahreen Chowdhury
Rush Medical College, Buffalo Grove, IL
Anshul Daga
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Delora Elizabeth Denney
Dell Medical School, Austin, TX
Haley Deville
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
Neil Dhruva
Emory University, Decatur, GA
Jade D. Doolittle
Emory University, Decatur, GA
Aizara Ermekbaeva
Medical University of South Carolina, Simpsonville, SC
Danielle Nicole Feffer
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Claudia Foubert
Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Anthara Gnanakumar
Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine, Cary, NC
Jack Gomberg
GW SMHS, Falls Church, VA
Anand K. Haran
Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Amanda Jan
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
Nicki Karimi-Mostowfi
University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA
Alexis King
LKSOM at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Alice Liu
A.T. Still University - SOMA, O'Fallon, IL
Lajja Nishith Majmundar
Geisel at Dartmouth, West Chester, PA
Sujal Manohar
University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston, TX
Christopher David Miller
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Joseph Scott Miller
California Northstate University, Sacramento, CA
Pranav Mirpuri
Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dublin, OH
Alexis Victoria De Montford Shepherd
Dell Medical School, Austin, Texas
Chellam Nayar
UVM Larner, Colchester, VT
Dennis Delasi Nyanyo
Harvard Medical School, Brookline, MA
Catalina O'Toole
Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine, Meridian, ID
Dhruv Patel
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
Zachary Roccaforte
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
Jarrod Rulney
University of Arizona - Tucson, Tuscon, AZ
Neha Saini
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Haley Mari Schluterman
Texas Christian University, Conway, AR
Sarah Rebecca Stephen
Stony Brook University Renaissance, East Setauket, NY
Michael Terranova
UCSF, Ramona, CA
Liam Townley
Creighton University, Omaha, NE
Esme Dunham Trahair
Duke University, Durham, NC
Ariana Turk
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Hannah Wiest
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Dorothy Yam
University of Pittsburgh, Poughkeepsie, NY
Lisa Young
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
Joyce Zhang
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Yonkers, NY
Sofia Zoullas
University of Miami Miller, Palm Beach, FL
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RESIDENT RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP
James Nguyen, MD, MEd
Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, MA
Evangelos Pavlos Myserlis, MD
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Ivan Trang, MD
University of Texas, Houston, TX
RESIDENT SCHOLARSHIP TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
Michel Abdelmasih, MD
Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando, FL
Daniela Riveros Acosta, MD
Icahn at Mount Sinai West, New York, NY
Alwaleed Abdulaziz S. Aljaser, MBBS
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Dyanet Loreta Alvarez, MD
Jackson Memorial Hospital/ University of Miami, Miami, FL
Eskedar Angamo Angamo, MD, PhD
UTHealth Houston, Houston, TX
Dhanalakshmi Angappan, MD
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
Priyanka Atit, DO
University of South Florida Morsani, Tampa, FL
Agnes Bacopulos, MD
University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT
Amerta Bai, MBBS, MS
University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN
Arjun Balachandar, MD
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Rebecca T. Hsu, MD
Marshall University, Philadelphia, PA
Maria Silvana Barrios, MD
Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL
Alexander Besser, DO
Memorial Healthcare System, Miramar, FL
Lauren Bojarski, MD
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Jonathan Bundy, MD
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Colby Cevering, DO
Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA
Bryce Chang, MD
Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN
Cody Ciaramitaro, MD
Wright State University Boonshoft, Dayton, OH
Braylee Walton Collins, DO
Baylor Scott and White Medical Center, Temple, TX
Kirsten Consing, DO
University of Florida - Gainesville, Gainesville, FL
Jorey Alan Cunico, DO
San Antonio Military Services Health Education
Consortium, San Antonio, TX
Cintia Carla Da Hora, MD
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville Florida and Nemours
Children's Hospital Jacksonville Florida, Jacksonville, FL
Ugur Damar, MD
Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD
Carlo Dangcalan, MD
Upstate University Hospital, Syracuse, NY
Mandi Ellgen, MD
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Sarah Grace Engel, MD
University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Mikenzy Fassel, MD
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Steffani Lynn Flaherty, MD
Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, NY
Robert Flinn, MD
Trinity Health Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids, MI
Ricardo Murguia Fuentes, MD
LSU Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA
German Alfonso Garza Garcia, MD
UTSW, Dallas, TX
Bret Jarret Gardner, MD, PhD
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Sukhraj Gill, MD
Geisinger Medical Center, Bloomsberg, PA
Shriya Gupta, MBBS
University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT
Ayush Gupta, MD
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Umair Hamid, MD
University of Illinois at Peoria, Peoria, IL
Sarah Haseen, DO
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
Sheetal Hegde, MD
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Rebecca Barnes, MD
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Huntington, WV
Brendan Huang, MD
Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY
Jeongyeon Hwang, MD
Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI
Princess Amaka Ikemenogo, MD
Carilion Clinic-Virginia Tech Carilion, Roanoke, VA
Olga Manouvakhova, MD
University of Southern California + Los Angeles General, Glendale, CA
Sina Marzoughi, MD
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Daniel Moreno-Zambrano, MD
Larkin Community Hospital South Miami, Miami, FL
Bruno Mourao Pacheco, MD
Brown University, Providence, RI
Nicholas Ravindra Mulchan, MD
NYU Langone Health- Brooklyn, New York, NY
Evangelos Pavlos Myserlis, MD
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Alyssa Nesbitt, MD
University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
James Vinh Nguyen, MD, MEd
Mass General Brigham, Cambridge, MA
Priya Nidamanuri, MD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Sahar Noorani, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Diana Ontiveros, MD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Durham, NC
Krithika Umesh Peshwe, MD
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Benjamin John Puccio, MD
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
Kellen Quigg, MD
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Sophia Raefsky, MD
UC San Diego, San Diego, CA
Roshini Saleem Raja, MD, MBBS
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Janice Michelle Rivera, MD
Texas Tech University, El Paso, TX
Matthew Roberts, MD
University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Katherine Roche, MD
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Shashika Rodrigo, MD
Washington University at St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Katlyn Elizabeth Roginsky, DO
University at Buffalo, Cheektowaga, NY
Juan Solano Romero, MD
Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Luis Gonzalo Rueda Carrillo, MD
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
Alyssa Domingue Runco, MD
Baylor University, Houston, TX
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Malya Sahu, MD
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
David J Sandness, MD
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Youssra Hany Saqr, MD
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Alireza Shirazian, MD
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Amna Amad Siddiqui, MBBS
Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL
Dinesh Keran Sivakolundu, MD, PhD Yale University, East Haven, CT
Catherine Suen, MD
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Shivani Vaidya, DO
Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
Vijaya Lakshmi Valaparla, MD
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
Khushboo Verma, MBBS
Dell Medical School at University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Don’t Miss National Institutes of Health Day
Looking for information about research funding? This afternoon you can hear from Walter J. Koroshetz, MD, FAAN, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and other experts from the National Institutes of Health about their current work, initiatives, and funding opportunities. NIH Day will be held in the Research Hub located in Exhibit Hall B-E.
Additional talks will cover clinical research updates and opportunities at 1:45 p.m., supporting trainee research and development at 2:30 p.m., and health disparities and diversity programming at 3:15 p.m.