2024 Audrey S. Penn Lectureship Nomination Form

Award Nominations Deadline: May 6, 2024 11:59 PM PDT

The Audrey S. Penn Lectureship Award is provided to an ANA member who conducts outstanding research, program-building, or educational scholarship to promote health equity. The award is intended to recognize an ANA member whose novel and significant work has had or may have a far-reaching impact on:

1) improving equity in the prevention, detection, treatment, survivorship of neurological conditions

2) building clinical programs to care for historically medically underserved populations, and/or:

3) commitment to diversity and inclusion in the medical workforce. The recipient is determined by the ANA IDEAS Committee.

Awardees are required to submit an abstract for presentation during the ANA Annual Meeting. 

Eligible Candidates:

• Current membership in the ANA
• 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. 

Award:

• $2,000 Honorarium
• Gratis Annual Meeting Registration
• Up to $2,000 Travel and Lodging Reimbursement
• Commemorative Plaque

Application Requirements:

1. Nominee’s CV
2. NIH Biosketch (if available but does not substitute for the CV) 
3. 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
4. Proposed abstract for the lectureship given during the ANA Annual Meeting
   • Maximum 250 words