The recipient of the 2011-2012 award is:

Michael J. Paldino, MD
Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
"Abnormal Structural and Functional Connectivity in Pediatric Patients with Focal Cortical Dysplasia"

Past Recipients

1999-00
L. Santiago Medina, MD, MPH
Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
"The Role and Cost-Effectiveness of Imaging in Newborns with Suspected Occult Spinal Dysraphism"

2000-01
Melanie B. Fukui, MD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
"Carotid Stenosis Evaluation: Cost-Effectiveness of Computed Tomographic Angiography vs. Magnetic Resonance Angiography"

2001-02
Soonmee Cha, MD
New York University Medical Center, New York, NY
"Dynamic Contrast Enhanced T2*-weighted MRI and Histopathological Assessment of Experimental Glioma"

2002-03
James D. Eastwood, MD
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
"CT Perfusion Imaging in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Related Vasospasm"

2003-04
Steven G. Imbesi, MD
University of California, San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA
"Alteration of Intracranial Aneurysm Flow Dynamics: Development and Evaluation of Potential Neurointerventional Endovascular Treatment Regimens of Wide Necked Aneurysms"

2004-05
Pratik Mukherjee, MD, PhD
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
"Diffusion Tensor MR Imaging and Quantitative Tractography of Brain Development in Premature Newborns"

2005-06
Donna R. Roberts, MD
University of California, San Francisco, CA
"The Assessment of Image-guided Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as an Adjuvant to Extradural Cortical Stimulation for the Treatment of Chronic Facial Pain"

Steven G. Imbesi, MD
University of California Medical Center, San Diego, CA
"Alteration of Intracranial Aneurysm Flow Dynamics: Development and Evaluation of Potential Neurointerventional Endovascular Treatment Regimens of Wide Necked Aneurysms"

2006-07
Erin Simon Schwartz, MD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
"A Comprehensive MR Assessment of Fetal Physiologic Well-Being"

2007-08
Pina C. Sanelli, MD
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
"Assessing the Value of CT Perfusion in Improving Clinical Outcomes in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Using a Decision Analytic Model"

2008-09
Tammie L. S. Benzinger, MD, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
"Childhood Leukodystrophy with Neuromuscular Disability: Translational Use of MRI Directional Diffusivity as a Tool for Prognosis and Response to Therapy"

Vivek Prabhakaran, MD, PhD
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
"Characterizing the Neural Substrates of Stroke Recovery Utilizing fMRI and Perfusion Imaging"

2009-10
Greg Zaharchuk, MD, PhD
Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
"Optimizing Arterial Spin Label MRI for the Visualization of Collateral Flow in Moyamoya Disease"

2010-11
Steven W. Hetts, MD
University of California, San Francisco, CA
"Endovascular Catheter for Magnetic Navigation under MRI Guidance: Evaluation of Healing In Vivo at 1.5T"

Daniel Mandell, MD
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
"Evolution of Individual White Matter Lesions in Leukaoraiosis: A Serial MRI Study"