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The 2003 Philip I. Gildenberg Resident Award in
Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Awards at the ASSFN Meeting, New York, May 2003:
Resident Award
Fellow Award
Distinguished Service Award
As the head of S. Karger, the noted Swiss medical publisher, Dr. Karger has supported our society as publisher of our official journal -- known first as Confinia Neurologica, then Applied Neurophysiology, and lately as the Journal of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. In addition, S. Karger has served as the stereotactic secretariat for a long time, keeping the administrative structure of organized stereotaxy viable.
The CNS Stereotactic and Functional Resident Award
Awards
The winner of the 2003 Philip I. Gildenberg Resident Award in
Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery is Dr. Nik Patel, Senior
Registrar in Neurosurgery at the Frenchay Hospital in Bristol, the UK.
Dr. Patel's paper, delivered at the AANS meeting in April was entitled
"Chronic Intraputaminal Infusion of Glial Derived Neurotrophic
Factor (GDNF) in the Treatment of Advanced Parkinson's Disease".
The winner of the Resident Award was Dr. Devin K. Binder of the University of California, San Francisco. His paper was entitled "Hemorrhagic Complications of Microelectrode-Guided DBS", coauthored with Dr. Philip A. Starr.
Devin K. Binder, MD, PhD; Philip A. Starr, MD, PhD
The Fellow Award was given to Dr. Clement Hamani for his work entitled "Bilateral Anterior Thalamic Nucleus Lesions Are More Protective than Stimulation Against Pilocarpine Induced Seizures and Status Epilepticus". Coauthors were Drs. Ewerton, Bonilha, Ballester, Mello, and Lozano.
The Society was itself honored with the opportunity to present its Distinguished Service Award to Dr. Philip Gildenberg and to Dr. Thomas Karger. For many years Dr. Gildenberg kept the flame of stereotactic surgery alive when interest in this field was at its nadir. In numerous ways the current success we are enjoying is due to his unflagging and uncompensated efforts.
This year's CNS Stereotactic and Functional Resident Award was won by Dr. Ziv Williams of the Massachussets General Hospital for his paper "Direction Selectivity of Pallidal and Subthalamic Neurons in Parkinson's Disease", authored by Drs. Williams, Cosgrove, and Eskandar.