William H. Sweet Young Investigator Award
$1,000 award sponsored by Medtronic, Inc. given for the best presentation by an investigator within 5 years of completion of residency training at the AANS Annual Meeting.


Awardees:

2002 -Ashwini Sharan, "MRI and Spinal Cord Stimulation: An Experimental Safety Study"

Dr. Ashwini Sharan was born in Patna, a small city in the Northeast of India. He immigrated to the United States when he was an infant in 1971. He then grew up in New York and New Jersey in an environment surrounded by multicultural immigrants. In 1995, he completed his BA-MD degree from Boston University and UMDNJ - Newark, New Jersey in an accelerated medical program. He initially began neurosurgical training at the University of Connecticut and completed the majority of his training at Thomas Jefferson university iri Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since then he has decided to do a fellowship in Spine Neurosurgery and Functional Neurosurgery both at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. Following the completion of his training, he plans on pursuing a career in academic neurosurgery with research interests focusing on movement, functional imaging, pain, and neural prosthesis.

2001 - Dragan F. Dimitrov, "Human Adult Cortical Plasticity: Lidocaine Anesthesia Generates Effects Similar to Limb Amputation"

2000 - Alon Y. Mogi/ner, "Functional Brain Imaging and Spinal Cord Stimulation: Localization of Cortical Activity with Magnetoencephalography (MEG)"

1999 - No award given

1998 - Ali R. Rezai, "Deep Brain Stimulation for Intractable Neuropathic Pain: Contemporary Management and Outcome in 80 Patients"

1996 - John G. Piper, "Systematic Studies in Visceral Nociceptive Processing"

1995 - Zelma H. T. Kiss, MD

1994 - Richard K. Simpson, Jr, MD, PhD

1993 - Robert M. Levy, MD, PhD

1992 - Nayef L. AI-Rodham, MD, PhD