The Society of Neurological Surgeons is pleased to announce that nominations are open for the 2010
H. Richard Winn, MD, Prize

Attached please find a detailed description of the requirements for the prize application,
and contact information for the nomination process. The deadline for nominations is December 18, 2009. We request that all nominations be sent electronically.

The purpose of this international award is to encourage research in the neurosciences and to recognize outstanding, continuous commitment to research in the neurosciences by a neurological surgeon.The Society of Neurological Surgeons has established a committee composed of neurosurgeons and neuroscientists to evaluate candidates and select an annual awardee. We invite you and your colleagues to submit nominations. In order to encourage a broad solicitation, the Society would appreciate dispersing this announcement to your colleagues and faculty. Please note that the goal of The Winn Prize is to recognize accomplished, but active investigators and not to honor individuals whose career, however distinguished, is emeritus. Previous Grass Prize awardees are ineligible. 

Nominations for the Winn Prize must be accompanied by a short summary of the nominee’s significant scientific accomplishments and contributions.  The letter proposing the nominee must be accompanied by three to five papers, which the nominee feels represent their most significant, and substantial research contributions. The letter of nomination should be mailed by post or sent electronically to the Chair of the Winn Prize Selection committee:

       Ralph G. Dacey, Jr. MD,
       Henry G. and Edith R. Schwartz Professor
       Chairman of Neurosurgery
       Washington University
       660 S. Euclid Ave. Box 8057
       St. Louis, MO  63110-0000
       daceyr@nsurg.wustl.edu
       
The H. Richard Winn Prize has been established by the generous support of family, friends, colleagues, former residents and grateful patients.

H. Richard Winn, MD, trained in Neurological Surgery at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville under John A. Jane, MD, PhD. During residency he spent a year in England at Atkinson Morley's Hospital and had the opportunity start clinical research on the natural history of cerebral aneurysms working with Alan Richardson and pursuing long-term outcome studies initiated by Sir Wylie McKissock. Following military service with the US Army in Germany, Dr. Winn returned to Charlottesville where he pursued basic science training in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular physiology under the direction of Robert M. Berne, Professor of Physiology and began his studies on the role of adenosine and cerebral blood flow regulation. He has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1974 for this ongoing effort.

He held faculty positions in the Departments of Neurosurgery and Physiology at the University of Virginia, rising to full Professor and Vice Chairman of Neurological Surgery until 1983 when he moved to University of Washington as the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery with joint Professorship in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics. In 2003, after spending several months as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Surgery (Neurosurgery) at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, he moved to Mount Sinai Medical School where he was appointed as a tenured Professor in the Departments of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience.