| Dear ANA members,
Through 22 years as a member of the ANA, my career has evolved significantly. But the support of the ANA has been a constant, opening my eyes to funding opportunities, keeping me current on neuroscience within and beyond my specialty, and connecting me to an academic community outside of my institution. Attending the Annual Meeting is great, but I can’t imagine that I’d be where I am today without the ANA in my corner every day, just when I needed it. So while we still have most of 2019 to go, I want to urge you to recommend ANA membership to your faculty, colleagues, students or trainees who haven’t yet joined. Give them a chance to cultivate their leadership skills, to help shape the ANA with their ideas. When we step up, we get so much more out of our participation. We’re making it easy by providing this electronic membership toolkit to share. The advantages of ANA membership are abundant this time of year. Members can: - Receive discounts on abstract submissions (deadline April 2), eligibility for travel awards, and the opportunity to present a data blitz during a plenary session at the Annual Meeting. - Be nominated for an ANA Award that recognizes exceptional work in academic neurology at all levels. The deadline to submit a nomination is March 29. - Access reduced rates for the 2019 Annual Meeting, Oct. 13-15, 2019 in St. Louis, where over one thousand professionals from across the country and the world will convene over groundbreaking science and peer discussions of the common challenges that academic neurologists face. Registration for the Annual Meeting opens in May 2019. Thank you for your ongoing support of the ANA. We look forward to welcoming new colleagues to our ranks of innovators in discovery, education, and care. Warm regards, David M. Holtzman, MD President, American Neurological Association Andrew B. and Gretchen P. Jones Professor and Chairman Dept. of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine |