SONS Awards

The Section on Neurological Surgery traditionally presents two annual awards at the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Neurological Surgery meeting:

SONS Lecturer Award

This award is given to neurosurgeons who have made a significant contribution to the field of pediatric surgery,

• The recipient of this Lectureship Award becomes a featured speaker at the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Neurological Surgery annual meeting
• Prize: The award covers all travel expense to the annual meeting and a $500 honorarium

Best Oral Presentation Award

This award is given to an oral research presentation whose findings broadly impact and improve the health of children by influencing pediatric health care practice through the application of pediatric neurosurgical knowledge,

• Eligibility: A Medical student, resident, fellow or attending neurosurgeon.  
• Those abstracts that are ultimately accepted for oral presentation by the Scientific Program Committee of the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Neurosurgery will be judged during the oral presentation at the Annual Meeting
• Prize: $500 or one year AAP fellowship dues to be given to the presenter of the paper.
• Judging:  Each eligible presentation is rated by an awards committee composed of AAP SONS members during pediatric Section meeting.​

Past Award Recipients

2023 Nicholas Sader, MD
Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Delayed Presentation in Craniosynostosis Surgery at a Tertiary Children's Hospital

2022 Casey Madura, MD
Clinical effectiveness of routine brain imaging in asymptomatic patients with shunted hydrocephalus

2021 Wes Northam, MD
MRI/MRA is Non-inferior to Catheter Angiography for Annual Follow-up of Pediatric Moyamoya Patients and is Associated with Cost Reduction: a Cost Outcomes Analysis.

2020 Randaline Barnett, MD
Implementation Of Telemedicine In Pediatric Neurosurgical Practice During The COVID-19 Pandemic: Does Virtual Care Perpetuate Health Care Disparities?

2019 Aaron Yengo-Kahn, MD
Improving Discharge Readiness after a Concussion Diagnosis in thte Pediatric Emergency Department

2018 Faizal Haji, MD
Capacity building for the surgical treatment of pediatric epliepsy in Vietnam: A model for international collaboration

2017 Jacob K. Greenberg, MD
Development of the CIDSS2 Score for Children with Mild Head Trauma without Intracranial Injury

2016 Brandon Sherrod
Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infection Following Non-Shunt Pediatric Neurosurgery: A Review of 9,296 Procedures from a National Database and Comparison to a Single Center Experience

2015 Kristopher Gray Hooten, MD
Establishing Standard Performance Measures for Pediatric Brain Tumor Patients

2014 David Limbrick, MD
Population-Based Analysis of Complications Associated with Chiari Malformation Type 1 Surgery in Children