Previous Recipients of the Hydrocephalus Associations Residents Prize
2010: Ramin Eskandari, MD, MS “Effects of Early and Late Reservoir Treatment in Experimental Neonatal Hydrocephalus”
2009: Christopher Janson, MD “Immortalization and Functional Characterization of Rat Arachnoid Cells”
2008: Ellen Air, MD “A longitudinal comparison of pre- and postoperative DTI parameters in young hydrocephalic children”
2007: No Prize awarded
2006: Kurtis Auguste, MD “Greatly Impaired Migration of Aquaporin 4 Deficient Astrogial Cells after Implantation into a Mouse Brain”
2005: Jeffrey Greenfield, MD “Intraoperative Assessment of Third Ventriculostomy Success”
2004: Jeff Pugh, MD “Can the skull Diploic space be utilized for Absorption of Cerebrospinal Fluid?” and Jay Riva-Cambrin, MD “Pediatric Posterior Fossa Tumors”
2003: Martin Schumann, MD “Serum and CSF C-Reactive Protein in Shunt Infection Management”
2002: Joshua Medow, MD “Quick Brain MRI verses CT scan for evaluating Shunted Hydrocephalus” and Jonathon Miller, MD “Aberrant Neuronal Development in Hydrocephalus”
2001: Jake Timothy, MD “Treatment of Hydrocephalus Using a Choroid Plexus Specific Immunotoxin: an in vitro Study”
2000: No Prize awarded
1999: Kimberly Bingaman, MD “Hydrocephalus Induces the Proliferation of Cells in the Subventricular Zone
1998: Daniel Lieberman, MD ” In Vetro Detection of fluid Flow in Ventriculoperitonal Shunts Using contrast Enhanced Ultrasound”
1997: No Prize awarded
1996: Martha Johnson, PhD., Dr. Johnson studied the effects of hydrocephalus on animals, primarily canine, to determine the extent of brain damage inflicted when fluid exerts pressure on the brain.
1995: Richard Fox, MD “Cerebrospinal Fluid Absorptive Site of the Parasagittal Dura”
1994: Monica Wehby-Grant, MD “The rabbit Model for Infantile Hydrocephalus: Regional Differences in the Cortical Metabolic Response to Hydrocephalus and to shunting”
1993: Charles Bondurant, MD “The Epidemiology of Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunting”
1992: Marcia DaSilva, MD “Reversal of High Energy Phosphate Metabolism changes in Experimental Hydrocephalus after CSF Shunting”
1991: Nesher Asner, MD ” Venous sinus Occlusion and Ventriculomegaly in Craniectomized Rabbits”
1990: S.D. Michowiz, MD “High energy Phosphate Metabolism in Neonatal Hydrocephalus”
1989: Eric Altschuler, MD “Management of Persistent Ventriculomegaly due to Altered Brain Compliance”
