Pioneer in Medicine Award
The Pioneer in Medicine Award is presented to individuals who have significantly contributed to the scientific advancement in the fields of medicine and image guided therapy through a multidisciplinary approach. Their groundbreaking contributions have made development of state-of-the-art technology and scientific discovery a reality.
2021 Award Recipient
Michael E. Phelps
Dr. Phelps is the Norton Simon Emeritus Professor, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology.
2020 Award Recipient
Dr. Robert Hariri
Robert Hariri, The Chairman, Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, and former Chief Executive Officer of Celgene Cellular Therapeutics.
2020 Award Recipient
Dr. Robert Thatcher
Dr. Robert Thatcher, President & CEO of Applied Neuroscience, Inc.
2019 Award Recipient
Dr. Daniel Perl
Dr. Daniel Perl named USU Faculty Department of Primary Appointment: Pathology
2018 Award Recipient
Howard J. Federoff
Dr. Howard Federoff named UCI vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of medicine
2018 Award Recipient
Eric Kandel
Nobel Laureate, neuroscientist and a University Professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University
2018 Award Recipient
Jonathan Kipnis
Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience Director, Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG), University of Virginia, School of Medicine
2017 Award Recipient
George Ojemann
Professor Emeritus, Neurologic Surgery, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine
2017 Award Recipient
John Adler
The Dorothy and Thye King Chan Professor in Neurosurgery, Emeritus, Stanford University
2016 Award Recipient
Bennet Omalu
Chief Medical Examiner of San Joaquin County, California; Professor in the UC Davis Department of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
2016 Award Recipient
2016 Award Recipient
Aaron G. Filler
Medical Director Institute for Nerve Medicine & Neurography Institute
2015 Award Recipient
Babak Kateb
Founding Chairman of the Board & Scientific Director of SBMT and Brain Mapping Foundation, Director of National Center for Nano-Bio-Electronics, Scientific Director, California Neurosurgical Insitute
2015 Award Recipient
Skip Rizzo
Director for Medical Virtual Reality Institute for Creative Technologies
2015 Award Recipient
Pantaleo Romanelli
Neurological Surgery, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)
2014 Award Recipient
Kuldip Sidhu
Associate Professor, Stem Cell Research, University of New South Walese
2013 Award Recipient
Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
2008 Award Recipient
Yosef Koronyo
Research associate, Surgery and Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
2013 Award Recipient
Robert H. Kraus, Jr.
Chief Scientist, Director of Operations, Samitaur Medical Technologies
2013 Award Recipient
Margie L. Homer
Senior Engineer at NASA/JPL
2013 Award Recipient
Shouleh Nikzad
Senior Research Scientist, NASA/JPL
2013 Award Recipient
Rafat Ansari
Human Research Program NASA/ GRC
2013 Award Recipient
Wieslaw L. Nowinski
Principal Scientist, Lab Director, Biomedical Imaging Lab Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
2012 Award Recipient
Andres Lozano
Senior Scientist, Division of Brain Imaging & Behaviour Systems - Neuroscience Toronto Western Research Institute (TWRI)
2012 Award Recipient
Antonio DeSalles
Professor of Neurosurgery, UCLA Geffen School of Medicine
2012 Award Recipient
George Paxinos
Professor of Neuroscience, UNSW, Australia
2011 Award Recipient
2010 Award Recipient
Jonathan Wolpaw
NY State Department of Health and State University of NY
2010 Award Recipient
Andrew Schwartz
University of Pittsburgh
2010 Award Recipient
John Donoghue
Brown Institute for Brain Science
2009 Award Recipient
Keith Black
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
2009 Award Recipient
Peter M. Black
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
2008 Award Recipient
Ron Kikinis
Founding Director of the Surgical Planning Laboratory at BWH
2007 Award Recipient
John Mazziotta
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
2006 Award Recipient
Warren Grundfest
UCLA Geffen School of Medicine
2007 Award Recipient
Richard Frackowiak
University College London
2007 Award Recipient
Arthur W. Toga
University of California at Los Angeles
2006 Award Recipient
Alim Louis Benabid
Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble, France
2005 Award Recipient
Ferenc Jolesz
B. Leonard Holman Professor of Radiology - Harvard Medical School
2005 Award Recipient
Ken Curley
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
2004 Award Recipient
Peter Gruen
LA County & University Southern California