Audrey S. Penn Lectureship Award
The Audrey S. Penn Lectureship Award is provided to an ANA member who conducts outstanding research, program-building, or educational scholarship to promote the health of populations at disproportionally high risk for specific neurological conditions. The award is intended to recognize an ANA member whose novel and significant work has had or may have a far-reaching impact on:
- Improving health disparities in the prevention, detection, treatment, survivorship or neurological conditions
- Building clinical programs to care for medically underserved populations
- Commitment to building a medical workforce that reflects the broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
About Audrey S. Penn, MD, FANA
Audrey Shields Penn (born in 1934) is an American neurologist and emeritus professor. Her major area of research was in myasthenia gravis. Penn was elected President of the American Neurological Association in 1994. She was deputy director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and is the first Black woman to serve as an (acting) director of an Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
Award:
- $2,000 Honorarium
- Gratis Annual Meeting Registration
- Up to $2,000 Travel and Lodging Reimbursement
- Commemorative plaque
Eligiblity:
- ANA membership is required
- Actively working in the field of academic neurology or neuroscience
- Agree to present at the ANA Annual Meeting
- Candidates who have submitted unsuccessfully in the past may reapply. Self-nominations are encouraged.
Application Requirements:
- Nominee’s CV
- NIH Biosketch (if available, but does not substitute for the CV)
- Statement that discusses why the candidate should be selected for the lectureship.
- This is an opportunity to showcase important work that may not be readily apparent from the CV.
- Maximum of 500 words
- Proposed abstract for the lectureship given during the ANA Annual Meeting
- Maximum 250 words
2025 Recipient: Nicole Rosendale, MD
Past Recipients
2024 Recipient
Larry Charleston IV, MD, FANA
2023 Recipient
Roy Hamilton, MD, MS
2022 Recipient
Bruce Ovbiagele, MD, MSc, MAS, MBA, MLS
2021 Recipient
Charlene Gamaldo, MD, FAAN, FANA
2021 Recipient
Nicte Mejia, MD, MPH, FAAN