Golden Axon Award
The Golden Axon Award is presented to individuals outside of the medical community who inspire with good will and an enthusiastic interest in science, technology and medicine. Named for the neuron cell fiber that carries outgoing messages to other target cells, the founding principle of the Axon Award is to recognize a highly regarded individual in the public sector who helps raise awareness and funding of SBMT and its mission in the community via fundraising event(s) and activities.
2021 Award Recipient
Robert Hariri
Robert Hariri, The Chairman, Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, and former Chief Executive Officer of Celgene Cellular Therapeutics.
2021 Award Recipient
Reinhard Schulte
Dr. Reinhard Schulte has more than 18 years of experience in proton radiation therapy and proton radiosurgery.
2020 Award Recipient
Saleem Abdulrauf
17th President of SBMT, Professor and Chairman of Neurosurgery St. Louis University
2020 Award Recipient
Marko Mijat
COO of SBMT
2020 Award Recipient
Bryan Aroz
Global Event Director of SBMT
2019 Award Recipient
Sean Stone
Actor, Director and Producer
2019 Award Recipient
Nevzat Tarhan
Professor of Psychiatry and President of Uskudar University
2019 Award Recipient
Harry Kloor
Member of the Board of Brain Mapping Foundation
2019 Award Recipient
Jeff Wang
Professor and Co-Director of Spine Institute, Department of Orthopedics Surgery, USC, Keck School of Medicine
2018 Award Recipient
Warren Boling
15th President of SBMT (2017-2018); Professor of Neurosurgery and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Loma Linda University Medical Center
2017 Award Recipient
Michael Roy
Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Military Internal Medicine at Uniformed Services University
2017 Award Recipient
Wes Ashford
President of SBMT (2016-2017), Director of the WRIISC, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
2016 Award Recipient
2016 Award Recipient
2015 Award Recipient
2012 Award Recipient
Michael Chen
8th President, SBMT, Associate Professor of Department of Neurosurgery, City of Hope Cancer Center
2012 Award Recipient
Michael Fehlings
Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
2012 Award Recipient
Cheryl Rogers
Trade Commissioner, Life Sciences & Medical Devices, Consulate of Canada
2010 Award Recipient
Ross Joel
(CEO/Co-founder) ORLive
2010 Award Recipient
Peter Gailey
(President/Co-founder) ORLive