FRANCIS m. FORSTER AWARD |
Each year the Francis M. Forster Award is presented during the Wisconsin Neurological Society Annual Meeting. Residents and fellows submit their abstracts to their Residency Program Director and a maximum of two abstracts are then selected from each institution (MCW and UW) for presentation at the meeting. The content of the presentations can be either in house research under faculty guidance or interesting cases. SELECTION The winner is then selected by vote of conference attendees (residents and fellows cannot vote). |
2024 FRANCIS M. FORSTER AWARD BEST PRESENTATION Neel Jani, MD
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PAST FRANCIS M. FORSTER AWARD WINNERS
2023 - Meghan Konda, MD
Determining the Role of TNFa in Sickle Cell Disease Pain
2022 - Kayla Haffley, MD
Role of bedside optic ultrasound in the evaluation of raised intracranial pressure
2021 - William Pennant, MD, MSc
Looking Under the Rock: Door-to-Needle Experience at a Single Institution
2020 - Sepi Chagharvand, MD
Novel neurological complication of Covid-19: a case report
2019 - Marek Cierny, MD
Door-in to Door-out Time in Emergent Large Vessel Occlusion: Retrospective Review Informs Targeted Improvement Strategies
2018 - Sumaiya Khondker, MD
Developing a process for IV tPA door-to-needle administration in 30 minutes or less, a multidisciplinary approach
2017 - Sadhana Murali, MD
Sneddon Syndrome: Untangling the Web
2016 - Patrick M. Bauer, MD
Combining fMRI Language Lateralization and Hippocampal Morphometry for Predicting Verbal Memory Outcome after Left Anterior
Temporal Lobectomy
2015 - Jamie Elliott, MD
From Migraine to Coma: A complex neurological presentation of systemic disease, a case study
2014 - Smitha Holla, MD
The Blind that see Light, a case discussion and review of prior data on a patient with acute blindness
2013 - Vikas Singh, MD
Metronidazole associated neurotoxicity: a case series and review of etio-pathogenetic mechanisms, clinical and imaging characteristics
2012 - Ika Noviawaty, MD
Ketogenic diet in adult refractory status epilepticus: case report
2011 - Aaron Struck, MD
The Use of 18F-DOPA PET for the Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease in a Clinical Population
2010 - Ahsan Sattar, MD
An Ethical Dilemma Associated with the Emergency Management of Stroke
2009 - Aparna Komatineni, MD
Clinical and Recanalization Outcome of Endovascular Acute Ischemic Stroke Therapy Initiated between 3 to 4.5 hours from Symptoms Onset
2008 - Kara Tower, MD
A Case of Anti-NMDA Receptor Antibody Mediated Encephalitis