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, the Annual Meeting Programming Committee, Chairs of the SIG Sessions, and other leaders in various fields of neurology. The top-scoring posters are awarded $250 each.
2025 Poster Award Recipients
Yagiz Altun, MD, PhD
Institution: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Poster Title: Cortical Interneuron Imbalance in Huntington’s Disease: Implications for Therapeutic Strategies to Correct Developmental Critical Period and Circuit Disruptions
David Camacho, BS
Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology
Poster Title: Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease Progression Using Machine Learning and Cerebrospinal Fluid Proteomics
Huanwen Chen, MD
Institution: Georgetown University Hospital
Poster Title: Acute
Stroke Reperfusion Therapies for Down Syndrome Patients: Nationwide Utilization Rates and
Hospitalization Outcomes
Mohamed Doheim, MD
Institution: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Poster Title: Intravenous Thrombolysis in Minor Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Laerke Duerlund, MD
Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Poster Title:Clinical Characteristics and Outcome of Infectious Encephalitis in
Denmark: A Population-based Cohort Study
Michael Gilligan, MBBCh BAO
Institution: Mayo Clinic
Poster Title: Unclassified Neural IgGs: Immune Profiling Algorithm to Characterize Autoimmune Synaptic Biomarkers
Chloe Hill, MD, MS
Institution: University of Michigan
Poster Title: Access to Expert Pregnancy Care for Women with Epilepsy
Chelva Janarthanam, MPH
Institution: University of Georgia
Poster Title: α-synuclein Seed Amplification Assay as a Diagnostic Tool Across Diverse Biomatrices from Autopsy-confirmed Incidental Lewy Body Disease and Parkinson’s Disease
Dae-Gyu Jang, PhD
Institution: University of Michigan
Poster Title: Development and Integration of Polyexposure Scores to Assess Environmental Risk in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Pengyu Kan, BS
Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Poster Title: Multiview Transformer for Brain Age Prediction
Naga Pradyumna Kothapalli, MBBS
Institution: Mayo Clinic Health System
Poster Title: Late-Onset Neurological Complications of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
Reghann LaFrance-Corey, MS
Institution: Mayo Clinic
Poster Title: A Novel Mouse Model for Studying Immune-Mediated Rippling Muscle Disease Through Cavin-4 Peptide Immunization
Aslyn Mattson, BS, BA
Institution: Florida Atlantic University
Poster Title: Dimorphic Protease-activated Receptor Genotype is Associated with Improved Stroke Outcomes in a Biracial Population
Christopher McGraw, MD, PhD
Institution: Northwestern University
Poster Title:
Investigating the Role
of Polygenic Risk in the Severity of Focal Epilepsy
Georgia Minakaki, MSc, PhD
Institution: Northwestern University
Poster Title: Commander Complex Regulates Lysosomal Function and is Implicated in Parkinson’s Disease Risk
Priscilla Abrafi Opare-addo, MD, MWACP
Institution: Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
Poster Title: Neuregulin 1 as a Predictor of Severity and Outcome among Patients with Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage in a Ghanaian Hospital
Nil Saez Calveras, MD
Institution: UT Southwestern
Poster Title: A Rapid
Tau Biosensor System Reliably Classifies Tau Amyloid Assemblies in Tauopathies
Andrew Sas, MD, PhD
Institution: Ohio State University
Poster Title: Age
Related Changes Impair Neutrophil Plasticity
and Regeneration After Optic Nerve Trauma
Banafsheh Shakibajahromi, MD, MPH
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Poster Title: Segmental Cerebral Blood Flow Changes in Aging and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease
Fatemeh Siavoshi, MD
Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Poster Title: Accelerated Metabolomic Aging and Its Association with Social Determinants of Health in Multiple Sclerosis
2024 Poster Tour Award Recipients
- Yagiz Altun, MD, PhD
- Erika Arias, BSc
- Pargol Balali, MD, MSc
- Samantha Brown, BS
- Gaurav Chattree, MD
- Xu Qiao Chen, PhD
- Shadi Ghourchian, MD
- Bo Hu, MD, PhD
- Alokkumar Jha, PhD
- Katelyn McNamara, BS
- Paola Pacifico, PhD
- Enchao Qiu, MD, PhD
- Parastoo Saberi, MD
- Emily Sandefur, PhD Candidate
- Sarvin Sasannia, MD
- Fatemeh Seifar, MD-PhD Candidate
- Fatemeh Siavoshi, MD
- Faith Simushi, MBChB, MMED
- Britney Sun, BA
- Anil Wadhwani, MD, PhD
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