Year

Recipient

Institution

Case (with links)

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

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