Diagnostic Slide Session

American Association of Neuropathologists

O.T. Bailey-Helena Riggs Award (2005 - present)

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Year	Recipient	Institution	Case (with links)
2021	Thomas Zaikos, MD, PhD; Jason Savell, MD; Fausto Rodriguez, MD; Meaghan Morris, MD, PhD; Peter Burger, MD Honorable Mention: Lorraina J. Robinson, DO, MS; Christian Davidson, MD; Joshua M. Klonoski, MD, PhD; Eric A. Goold, MD Best Neurodegenerative Case: Kathryn Eschbacher, MD, Eleni Constantopoulos, MHS, PA(ASCP), and Aivi Nguyen, MD	Johns Hopkins Medicine University of Utah Health Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN	Chronic inflammation and JC virus granule cell neuronopathy Microangiopathic leukoencephalopathy associated with COL4A1 mutation Neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease. Lew body disease, limbic (transitional) type.
2020	M. Adelita Vizcaino Best Neurodegenerative Case: Lucy Evans	Mayo Clinic Rochester, MD University of Iowa	Angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma with rhabdoid features Juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis/CLN3 disease (Batten Disease)
2019	Emily Sloan Best Neurodegenerative Case: Julieann C. Lee	University of California - San Francisco University of California - San Francisco	Donor-derived glioneuronal proliferation following intrathecal stem cell injection Neurodegeneration with features of a neuroferritinopathy
2018	Jason A. Gregory Best Neurodegenerative Cases: Anne Shepler Aivi Nguyen	University of Florida University of Pittsburgh University of Pennsylvania	Glioneuronal hamartomatous proliferation of the brainstem in a patient with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva Basophilic inclusion body disease Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) with 4R-tau positive Pick body-like inclusions
2017	Drew Williamson Honorable Mention: Andrew R. Guajardo	University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Johns Hopkins University	Cortical Dysplasia (radiation-induced) Dyskeratosis Congenita, Hoyeraal-Hreidarsson Variant
2016	Elaine S. Keung	Walter Reed National Military Medical Center	Chondroid Lipoma
2015	Phedias Diamandis, MD	University of Toronto	Malignant fat-forming solitary fibrous tumor
2014	Matthew D. Cykowski	Baylor College of Medicine	Chagas disease; trypanosomiasis
2013	Gerald Reis	University of California, San Francisco	Cerebromeningeal hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
2012	Joshua Menke	Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN	Toxic spongiform leukoencephalopathy
2011	Pedro Ciarlini	University Hospitals Case Medical Center	Necrotizing eosinophilic meningoencephalitis
2010	Sriram Venneti	University of Pennsylvania	Epithelial and spindle (sarcomatous) and chondroid (mesenchymal) elements
2009	Craig Horbinski	University of Pittsburgh	Inflammatory pseudotumor in a patient with serum anti-aquaporin-4 antibody (neuromyelitis optica, or Devic's disease)
2008	Gabrielle Yeaney	University of Pittsburgh	Diffuse malignant Schwannian leptomeningeal sarcomatosis
2007	C. Dirk Keene	University of Washington	Viable fetal neural tissue grafts with associated marked gliosis
2006	Lili-Nazna Hazrati	University of Toronto	Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma
2005	Kathryn McFadden	University of Pittsburgh	Neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID), juvenile-sporadic

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