ANNUAL MEETING AWARDS
Awards Presented at the SNACC 48th Annual Meeting
2020 Distinguished Service Award
Antoun Koht, MD
Chief, Neuroanesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology
Professor of Anesthesiology, Neurological Surgery and Neurology
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2020 Teacher of the Year - Lifetime Educator Award
Shobana Rajan, MD
Anesthesiologist; Associate Director Neuroanesthesia
Vice-Chair, Education
Allegheny Health Network
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2020 William L. Young
Neuroscience
Research Award Winner
“The Association of Blood-Brain Barrier Breakdown with Sleep Apnea and Postoperative Delirium”
Michael Devinney, MD, PhD
Department of Anesthesiology, Duke Medical center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
2020 William L Young Neuroscience Research Award Honorable Mention
“Dynamic EEG-based Brain States as Indices of Hypnosis”
Andrew McKinstry-Wu, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2020 Women in Neuroanesthesiology and Neuroscience Education and Research (WINNER) Abstract Award
“Reconfiguration of Frontoparietal Directed Connectivity Under Anesthesia May Predict Recovery of Consciousness”
Stefanie Blain-Moraes, PhD, PEng
Canada Research Chair in Consciousness and Personhood Technologies
School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2020 JOINT TRAVEL AWARDS
SNACC/Indian Society of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care (ISNACC)
“Venous Thromboembolism in Neurosurgical Patients: Experience at a Tertiary Care Neurosurgical Center”
Sagar Jolly, MD
Department of Neuroanaesthesia, Fortis Memorial Research Institute
Gurugram, Haryana, India
SNACC/The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF)
“Prioritizing Neurosurgical Workflow During COVID-19 Pandemic at Two Tertiary Level Hospitals”
Shilpa Rao, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Neuroanesthesia,
Yale University, Yale, New Heaven, Connecticut, USA
SNACC/Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society (CAS), Neuroanesthesia Section
“Reconfiguration of Frontoparietal Directed Connectivity Under Anesthesia May Predict Recovery of Consciousness”
Catherine Duclos, PhD
McGill University
Montreal, QC, Canada
SNACC/Neuroanesthesia and
Critical Care Society of Great
Britain and Ireland (NACCSGBI)
“A Comparison of Admissions to a Specialist Neurosciences Critical Care Unit in March-April 2019 and March-April 2020 during the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Mark Earl, MBChB
Department of Neuroanaesthesia and Neurocritical Care Medicine,
The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery,
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
2020 Best of Meeting Abstracts
Basic Neuroscience Category
“Imbalanced Excitatory and Inhibitory Inputs Onto Hippocampal Dentate Granule Cells Born After Traumatic Brain Injury”
Minghui Chen, MD, PhD
Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine
Oregon Health and Science University
Lake Oswego, OR, Portland, USA
Clinical/Translational Neuroscience Category
“Reconfiguration of Frontoparietal Directed Connectivity Under Anesthesia May Predict Recovery of Consciousness”
Catherine Duclos, PhD
McGill University
Montreal, QC, Canada
