Annual Meeting Poster Awards

Poster Awards were established in 2016 by the Board of Directors as a way to help recognize exceptional work presented by those in the early stages of their careers - students (graduate and undergraduate), residents, trainees, and postdoc fellows.

Posters are judged by members of the Board of Directors, AMP, Chairs of the SIG Sessions, and other leaders in various fields of neurology. The top-scoring posters are awarded $250 each.

2024 Poster Award Recipients

	Yagiz Altun, MD, PhD Institution: Albert Einstein College of Medicine Poster Title: Sex-Selective, Stress-Induced Neurocognitive Decline and Astrocyte Senescence: Exploring Potential Mechanistic Links During the Prodromal Stages of Neurodegeneration
	Erika Arias, BSc Institution: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Poster Title: Novel tracking methods show an early and cortical restriction pattern of neutrophil recruitment following ischemic stroke
	Pargol Balali, MD, MSc Institution: University of Pennsylvania Poster Title: Interaction between time to treatment and disability attributed to index stroke in the POINT trial
	Samantha Brown, BS Institution: Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Poster Title: Interhemispheric Hippocampal Perfusion Asymmetry in Individuals with Intact Cognition
	Gaurav Chattree, MD Institution: Stanford University Poster Title: Distinct genetically defined neuronal subtypes in the motor cortex differentially alter their firing activity in the parkinsonian state
	Xu Qiao Chen, PhD Institution: University of California San Diego Poster Title: APP-Mediated Downregulation of Autophagic Flux in Down Syndrome
	Shadi Ghourchian, MD Institution: Downstate Neurology at OBH Poster Title: Clues for Pharmacological Approaches for Targeting ADAM10 in Dementias Guided by Novel Neuropathological Endophenotyping
	Bo Hu, MD, PhD Institution: Houston Methodist Research Institute Poster Title: Altered Myelin Lipid Homeostasis and Their Effect on Promyelinating Factor - PAK2 in PMP22 Haploinsufficiency
	Alokkumar Jha, PhD Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine Poster Title: Deep Learning-Enhanced PRS: A Pioneering Approach for Personalized Alzheimer’s Risk Stratification
	Katelyn McNamara, BS Institution: Yale School of Medicine Poster Title: Prevalence and In-Hospital Outcomes Associated with Ischemic Stroke and Concomitant Cardiomyopathy
	Paola Pacifico, PhD Institution: Northwestern University Poster Title: Epidermal Langerhans Cells drive Painful Diabetic Neuropathy through neuroimmune-mediated mechanisms
	Enchao Qiu, MD, PhD Institution: Thomas Jefferson University Poster Title: Comparison of the region of interest (ROI) selection methods for diffusion tensor image analysis along perivascular space (DTI-ALPS) studies
	Parastoo Saberi, MD Institution: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Poster Title: Activation of Medullary Serotonergic Cell Subtypes Differentially Modulates Breathing, Upper Airway Tone, and Arousal During Sleep as Relevant for Sleep-Disordered Breathing
	Emily Sandefur, PhD Candidate Institution: University of South Florida Poster Title:The Impact of Membrane-Tethered APP Intracellular Domain Expression in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus on Contextual Memory and Circadian Rhythm
	Sarvin Sasannia, MD Institution: Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine Poster Title: Differential Impact of Periventricular and Deep White Matter Hyperintensities Progression on Cognitive Decline over 10 Years in Asymptomatic Adults
	Fatemeh Seifar, MD-PhD Candidate Institution: Emory University Poster Title: Unbiased Brain Proteomic Subtypes Associated with Cognitive Impairment and Diverse Neuropathology
	Fatemeh Siavoshi, MD Institution: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine​​​​​​​ Poster Title: Ocrelizumab Alters the Circulating Metabolome in People with Relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis
	Faith Simushi, MBChB, MMED Institution: University Teaching Hospital Poster Title: Identifying Reversible Causes of Dementia among Zambian Adults Screening Positive for Cognitive Impairment
	Britney Sun, BA Institution: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine​​​​​​​ Poster Title: Neighborhood Deprivation and Sleep Health among Middle-Aged Primary Care Patients
	Anil Wadhwani, MD, PhD Institution: University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine​​​​​​​ Poster Title: DNA Methylation Distinguishes Primary Age-Related Tauopathy from Alzheimer’s Disease

2023 Poster Tour Award Recipients

• Pouya Bastani, MD
• Adomas Bunevicius, MD, PhD
• Francesco Gavazzi, MD, PhD
• Alexander Gill, MD, PhD
• Michael Gilligan, MB, BCh, BAO
• Brandon Holmes, MD, PhD
• George Kannarkat, MD, PhD
• Erum Khan, MBBS
• Arnav Khera, BS
• Sattar Khoshkhoo, MD
• Hannah Loo, BS
• Jackson Mace, BS
• Georgia Minakaki, MSc, PhD
• Elissa Ritt, DHSc
• Farinaz Safavi, MD, PhD
• Styliani Sapantzi, Undergraduate Student 
• Banafsheh Shakibajahromi, MD, MPH
• Yunshuo Tang, MD, PhD
• Sienna Wu, BSA
• Ce Zhang, PhD

2022 Poster Tour Award Recipients

• Scott Barbuto, MD, PhD
• Gregory Day, MD, MSc
• Lila Faulhaber, BS
• Emily Ferenczi, BM, BCh, PhD
• Emma Gootee, BS, MS
• Hendrik Greve, PhD
• Sasha Gupta, MD
• Andrea Harriott, MD, PhD
• Shunsuke Koga, MD, PhD
• Myoung-Hwa Lee, PhD
• Jay Lusk, BSc
• Abby Olsen, MD, PhD
• Haydeh Payami, PhD
• Davut Pehlivan, MD
• Srikant Rangaraju, MD, MS
• Anupama Rani, PhD
• Alessandro Salvalaggio, MD
• Paul Sampognaro, MD
• Elizabeth Seng, PhD
• Selina Yogeshwar, BSc, MSc

2021 Poster Tour Award Recipients

• Bonnie Breining, PhD
• Ryan Coburn, MD
• Michael Glendinning, BA
• Vivian Ko, BS
• Hyunyong Koh, MD, PhD
• Naveen Kondru, DVM, PhD
• Fatemeh Mohammadpour Touserkani, MD
• Suzanne Odom, MD
• Kunal Shroff, BS
• Melissa Stockbridge, PhD

2020 Poster Award Recipients

• Marina Buciuc, MD, MS
• Gabriela Gomez, BS
• Andrew Kayser, MD, PhD
• Jun-ichi Kira, MD, PhD
• Chun Chieh Lin, PhD, MBA
• Scott Newsome, DO
• Eric Schoenfeld, BA
• Cecilia Zivelonghi, MD

2019 Poster Award Winners

Sunday Poster Award Winners

• Emily Acton, BS
• Ravi Chopra, BA
• Lubov Ezerskiy, BA
• Helen Hwang, MD, PhD
• Kayla Nygaard, PhD Student
• Tirth Patel, BS
• Zachary Rosenthal, BS
• Anil Wadhwani, PhD
• Zezhong Ye, PhD
• Mitsukuni Yoshida, BS

Monday Poster Award Winners

• Margaret Blattner, MD, PhD
• Omar Butt, MD, PhD
• Marc Casale, BS
• Umber Dube, BSc
• Yuri Pavlov, MSc
• Sai Polineni, MPH
• Deep Pujara, MBBS, MPH
• Ryan Schubert, MD
• Stephanie Schultz, BS
• Michelle Wegscheid, BS

2018 Poster Award Winners

Sunday Poster Award Winners

• Wyatt Bensken, BS
• David Coughlin, MD
• Angela Deutschlander, MD
• Adam Dickey, MD, PhD
• Manmeet Kaur, MD
• Abby Olsen, MD, PhD
• Luis Paixao, MD, MSc
• Mikayla Roof
• Raquel Valdes Angues, PhD, MScGH
• Taiki Yabumoto, MD

Monday Poster Award Winners

• Asher Albertson, MD, PhD
• Ahmed Bahrani, MS
• Jordan Clay, MD
• Sophie Duong, MD
• Jeffrey Ehmsen, MD, PhD, MPH
• Emily Hokett, BA
• Carolin Koriath, MD
• Payam Mohassel, MD
• Wataru Shiraishi, MD
• Keenan Walker, PhD

2017 Poster Award Winners

• Saud Alhusaini, MD, PhD
• Mona Bahouth, MD
• Bridgette Billioux, MD
• Dongming Cai, MD, PhD
• Louis Dang, MD, PhD
• Ryan Darby, MD
• Leah Dickstein, MD
• Stefanie Geisler, MD
• Sarosh Irani
• Sam Kampondeni, MMED
• Alana Kirby, MD, PhD
• Eric Landsness, MD, PhD
• Miranda Lim, MD, PhD
• Brendan Lucey, MD
• Erik Musiek, MD, PhD
• Kalen Petersen, BS
• Samantha Roman, MD
• Kyle Rossi, MD
• Zachary Wallen

2016 Poster Award Winners

Sunday Poster Award Winners

• Mona Bahouth, MD
• Ravi Chopra, MD, PhD
• Francesca Cignarella, PhD
• Aman Deep, MD             
• Lauren Heusinkveld       
• Atulya Iyengar, PhD
• Peter Kosa, PhD
• Jennifer Orthmann-Murphy, MD, PhD
• Kathleen Poston, MD, MS
• Andrea  Schneider, MD, PhD

Monday Poster Award Winners

• Christopher Cashman, MD, PhD
• Justin Chandler, MD
• Jesse Cohen, MD
• Sarah Crisp, MB BChir PhD             
• Benjamin George           
• Michael Levy, MD, PhD
• Brendan Lucey, MD
• Eugenia Martinez-Hernandez, MD, PhD
• Claudia Santos, Bachelor
• Nathan Staff, MD, PhD