| Dear ANA members,
Ever since the ANA opened its doors to early-career neurologists and neuroscientists in 2013, our organization has been energized by their questions and contributions. We get to hear from a select few at the Annual Meeting when winners of the prestigious Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award present their research at the Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar symposium. Each year, we honor up to three outstanding academic neurologists in the first 10 years of their career at the assistant or associate level who have made outstanding basic and clinical scientific advances toward the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure of neurological diseases. (For a list of winners dating back to 1990, click here.) This year’s outstanding recipients are pushing the field forward in areas including the use of artificial intelligence in the diagnosis and prediction of neurological disease; mapping and imaging full human brain circuits for targeted treatment of neurological damage and disease using brain stimulation; and using data mining, predictive medicine, and machine learning for effective pattern recognition that accelerates research and clinical care in neurological diseases like ALS and Alzheimer’s. During the Symposium, they will be honored along with the winners of this year’s Grass Foundation-ANA Award in Neuroscience and Wolfe Neuropathy Research Prize. You can read about all of our prize winners above. Please join me at the Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Symposium at ANA2019—Sunday, October 13, from 1:15 to 3:15 p.m.—and throughout the meeting as these brilliant minds present their newest work. Warm regards, David M. Holtzman, MD President, American Neurological Association Andrew B. and Gretchen P. Jones Professor and Chairman Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine |