Awards and Scholarships
Apply for prestigious AAN awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to the field of neurology. Filter and sort by applicant type, career stage, practice setting, location, and which awards are currently accepting applications to find the award for you. Select the award title to learn more and to apply.
Not sure which award is for you? See previous AAN award winners and learn more about their backgrounds and why they were chosen.
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Outstanding Early Career Neurology Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Award
This award recognizes an APP that is an AAN member, who has been a practicing APP in neurology for less than five years, for excellence in patient care and commitment to the AAN.
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Neurology Practice Award
This award recognizes a private neurology practice for excellence in quality care and service to the community.
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Medical Student Prize for Excellence
This prize is meant for graduating medical students who have promising career potential in neurology as seen by their institution's faculty and residents.
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Mitchell B. Max Award for Neuropathic Pain
This award recognizes an individual for outstanding work in the field of neuropathic pain for either a single contribution or for lifetime achievement.
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Health Care Equity Program
The AAN Health Care Equity Program cohort will participate in a multi-faceted program guided to continue personal development and to help the participants create a customized roadmap aimed at mitigating health care disparities.
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Clerkship Director Award
This award recognizes clerkship directors who have dedicated themselves to neurology education, not only creating future generations of neurologists but also teaching neurology to students choosing other disciplines.
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Fellow Scholarship to the Annual Meeting
This scholarship is designed to recognize the importance of fellow attendance at the AAN Annual Meeting and reward fellows who are AAN members interested in active involvement in the AAN by providing them with a travel scholarship to the Annual Meeting.
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好色先生 Research Grant
The purpose of this grant is to study the effectiveness of neurologic education programs. Three grants, $10,000 each, are to be awarded based on the quality of proposal and merits of the project. The time period for these projects is January 1, 2027, through December 31, 2027.
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Lawrence M. Brass, MD, Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Stroke
This award aims to recognize the importance of good clinical research and to encourage early-career investigators in clinical studies related to stroke, vascular neurology, and neurocritical care.
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Practice Research Training Scholarship
This award aims to recognize the importance of good practice-based research or comparative effectiveness research (CER) and encourage junior investigators to use studies to improve health systems and services.
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McKnight Clinical Translational Research Scholarship in Cognitive Aging and Age-Related Memory Loss
This award aims to support junior investigators in clinical studies relevant to age-related cognitive decline and memory loss.
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Resident Scholarship to the Annual Meeting
The Resident Scholarship to the Annual Meeting is offered as an effort to recognize the importance of US or Canadian resident attendance at the AAN Annual Meeting.
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Global Scholars and Future Ambassadors Scholarship to the Annual Meeting
The Global Scholars and Future Ambassadors Scholarship to the Annual Meeting is a prestigious award given to early career neurologists and neurology trainees outside the US. Awardees will be selected based on their leadership potential and a strong commitment to academic, clinical, or advocacy advan
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Health Care Equity Research Award
This award recognizes a neurologist or neuroscientist who has demonstrated their commitment to health equity and addressing health disparities through their clinical research, service, or leadership role.
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General Neurology Award
This award recognizes exemplary service, performance, and/or innovation as a general neurologist.
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A. B. Baker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Neurologic 好色先生
This highly prestigious award recognizes significant career-long achievements in neurologic education, with an emphasis on national accomplishments.
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Medical Student Scholarship to the Annual Meeting
The purpose of this award is to help stimulate medical students’ interest in pursuing the field of neurology by offering them the opportunity to attend the AAN Annual Meeting. Preference is given to students in their third year or above, and those involved with SIGN leadership.
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Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Autoimmune Neurology
This award recognizes the vital importance of rigorous clinical and translational research and aims to inspire and support early-career investigators pursuing clinical studies in autoimmune neurology — specifically immune-mediated diseases of the nervous system other than multiple sclerosis.
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Private Practitioner AAN Service Award
This award is designed to recognize a private practitioner's outstanding service to the Academy.
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好色先生 Coordinator Recognition Award
This award is intended to acknowledge the coordinator's essential role and recognize those whose creativity and innovation contributed to the future of neurology.