2012 MDS Awards Announced
During the 16th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, June 17-21, 2012 in Dublin, the Society was proud to honor the following MDS award recipients:
President’s Distinguished Service Award
The President’s Distinguished Service Award is given in recognition of long and distinguished service to The Movement Disorder Society (MDS).
2012 Recipients
Marcelo Merello
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hubert Fernandez
Cleveland, OH, USA
Previous recipients of the President’s Distinguished Service Award include Oscar Gershanik (2011), Anthony Lang (2010), Serge Przedborski (2009), Cynthia Comella (2008), C. Warren Olanow (2007), Eduardo Tolosa (2006), Stanley Fahn (2005), and Mark Hallett (2004).
Honorary Member Award
The Honorary Member Award recognizes individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the field of Movement Disorders or otherwise to The Movement Disorder Society.
2012 Recipients
Mark Hallett
Bethesda, MD, USA
Eduardo Tolosa
Barcelona, Spain
Previous recipients of the Honorary Member Award (formerly the Career Award) include John GL Morris (2011), Masaya Segawa (2011), Ann Graybiel (2010), Andrew Lees (2010), Yoshikuni Mizuno (2009), Ira Shoulson (2009), Alim Benabid (2008), Mahlon DeLong (2008), Eldad Melamed (2007), Ali H. Rajput (2007), Niall Quinn (2006), Patrick McGeer (2006), Peter Jenner (2005), Thomas Chase (2005), Roger C. Duvoisin (2004), Hiroshi Shibasaki (2004), Yves Agid (2004), Stanley Fahn (2002), Oleh Hornykiewicz (2002) and Gerald Stern (2002).
Junior Awards
Three Junior Award recipients were selected based on their significant contribution to research in the field of Movement Disorders.
2012 Recipients
Marios Politis
London, United Kingdom
Norbert Brüggemann
Lübeck, Germany
Karin Tuschl
London, United Kingdom
Previous recipients of the Junior Award include Alexander Schmidt (Clinical 2011), George Tofaris (Basic Science 2011), Roberto Cilia (Clinical 2010), Raphael Hourez (Basic Science 2010), Helen Ling (Clinical 2009), Carlos Juri (Basic Science 2009), Luke Massey (Clinical 2008), Binith Cheeran (Basic Science 2008), Christine Daniels (Clinical 2007), Myriam Khondiker (Basic Science 2007), Andre Troiano (Clinical 2006), Akiko Imamura (Basic Science 2006), Peter Novak (Clinical 2005), Nutan Sharma (Basic Science 2005), David Williams (Clinical 2004), Pedro Gonzalez-Alegre (Basic Science 2004), Sylvie Raoul (Clinical 2002) and Jan Raethjen (Basic Science 2002).
Travel Grants
MDS Travel Grants are offered annually in partial support of International Congress delegates in financial need to facilitate their travel to and participation in the International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders.
2012 Recipients
Hesham Abboud
Strongsville, OH, USA
Aderbal Aguiar
Florianopolis, Brazil
Rizwan Akhtar
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Albert Akpalu
Accra, Ghana
Amy Amara
Birmingham, AL, USA
Moumita Bagchi
Kolkata, India
Bettina Balint
Heidelberg, Germany
Diego A. Ballesteros
Monte Grande, Argentina
Nazanin Baradaran
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Amit Batra
New Delhi, India
Pedro Braga Neto
Fortaleza Ceara, Brazil
Norbert Brüggemann
Lübeck, Germany
Lena Burbulla
Tübingen, Germany
Meghan Campbell
St. Louis, MO, USA
Lama Chahine
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Florence Chang
Rochester, MN, USA
Tyler Cheung
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sara Cipriani
Charlestown, MA, USA
Barbara Connolly
Toronto, ON, Canada
Mario Cornejo-Olivas
Lima, Peru
Toumany Coulibaly
Bamako, Mali
Julien Cremers
Liege, Belgium
Alexander Crizzle
Gainesville, FL, USA
Dany Cuello-Almarales
Holguin, Cuba
Kathrin Czarnecki
Washington, DC, USA
Xiaojuan Dan
Beijing, China
Andres Deik
New York, NY, USA
Francesca Di Biasio
Pozzilli, Italy
Flavia Dona
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Antoine Duquette
Brookline, MA, USA
Thomas Durcan
Montreal, QC, Canada
Jennifer Durphy
Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
Sheila Eichenseer
Chicago, IL, USA
Alev Erogullari
Lübeck, Germany
Michelle Ferreira
Davie, FL, USA
Renzo Figari Jordan
Baltimore, MD, USA
Karen Freimann
Lübeck, Germany
Ines Goerendt
Hamburg, Germany
Lior Greenbaum
Ramat Gan, Israel
Stefan Groiss
Fukushima, Japan
Angela Hardwick
Gainesville, FL, USA
Anhar Hassan
Gainesville, FL, USA
Aaron Haug
Aurora, CO, USA
Amy Hellman
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Christopher Hess
Teaneck, NJ, USA
Daniel Huddleston
Atlanta, GA, USA
Philippe Huot
Toronto, ON, Canada
Tabish Hussain
Islamabad, Pakistan
Mazen Jabre
Byblos, Lebanon
Milena Jankovic
Belgrade, Serbia
Marcus Janssen
Maastricht, Netherlands
Han-Yeong Jeong
Seoul, Korea
Lorraine Kalia
Toronto, ON, Canada
Harikesh Kalonia
Haryana, India
Suk Yun Kang
Seoul, Korea
Eleanna Kara
London, United Kingdom
Chayut Kasemsuk
Bangkok, Thailand
Leo Kelly
Chicago, IL, USA
Annie Killoran
Rochester, NY, USA
Mi Jung Kim
Seoul, Korea
Young Eun Kim
Anyang-si, Korea
Hee Jin Kim
Seoul, Korea
Katsuo Kimura
Inuyama, Japan
Omesh Kulkarni
Boston, MA, USA
Kishore Kumar
Lübeck, Germany
Pardeep Kumar
New Delhi, India
Sheng-Han Kuo
New York, NY, USA
Jose Laffita-Mesa
Holguin, Cuba
Travis Larsh
Cincinnati, OH, USA
Temitope Lawal
Lagos, Nigeria
Will Lee
Melbourne, Australia
Johannes Levin
Munich, Germany
Thien Thien Lim
Tanjung Bunga, Malaysia
Corneliu Luca
Miami, FL, USA
Martina Mancini
Beaverton, OR, USA
Louise-Laure Mariani
Montrouge, France
Jacqueline Medrano-Montero
Holguin, Cuba
Tiago Mestre
Toronto, ON, Canada
Shahnaz Miri
Tehran, Iran
Kin Mok
London, United Kingdom
James Morley
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Mariana Moscovich
Gainesville, FL, USA
Karen Murphy
Sydney, Australia
Bogdan Neagu
Thornhill, ON, Canada
Zhen Ni
Toronto, ON, Canada
Odinachi Oguh
Chicago, IL, USA
Srivadee Oravivattanakul
Cleveland, OH, USA
Serene Paul
Blaxland, Australia
Jose Pedroso
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Tasneem Peeraully
Singapore
Gregory Pelicao
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Zhongxing Peng Chen
Gainesville, FL, USA
Sitthi Petchrutchatachart
Nonthaburi, Thailand
David Peterson
La Jolla, CA, USA
Camila Piccinin
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Anna Pilipovich
Moscow, Russia
Luiza Piovesana
Campinas, Brazil
Ian Prescott
Toronto, ON, Canada
Cecilia Prudente
Atlanta, GA, USA
Mashiar Rahman
Jeonju, Korea
Lucia Ricciardi
Rome, Italy
Silvia Rios Romenets
Montreal, QC, Canada
Roberto Rodriguez-Labrada
Holguin, Cuba
Sergio A. Rodriguez-Quiroga
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Liana Rosenthal
Columbia, MD, USA
Ian Rossman
Cleveland, OH, USA
Ignacio Rubio-Agusti
London, United Kingdom
Anna Sadnicka
London, United Kingdom
Anna Sailer
London, United Kingdom
Rodolfo Savica
Rochester, MN, USA
Lucia Schottlaender
London, United Kingdom
Claudia Schulte
Tübingen, Germany
Manu Sharma
Tübingen, Germany
Leah Shiong Shu
Manila, Philippines
Christos Sidiropoulos
Farmington, MI, USA
Inder Singh
New Delhi, India
Meredith Spindler
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Carla Stefani
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Claire Stevens
Sydney, Australia
Ichiro Takumi
Kawasaki, Japan
Sanjeev Taneja
New York, NY, USA
Aanchal Taneja
Dallas, TX, USA
Juan Tartari
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sirinan Tazen
New York, NY, USA
Kristen Terpstra
London, ON, Canada
Avner Thaler
Tel Aviv, Israel
Mary Ann Thenganatt
New York, NY, USA
Sherri Thiele
Scarborogh, ON, Canada
Amanda Thompson
Gainesville, FL, USA
Iris Tien
Berkeley, CA, USA
Sule Tinaz
Bethesda, MD, USA
Aleksandra Tomic
Belgrade, Serbia
Theresa Towle
Chicago, IL, USA
Yevgen Trufanov
Lugansk, Ukraine
Karin Tuschl
London, United Kingdom
Chizoba Umeh
Ellicott City, MD, USA
Thiago Vale
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Celia Van Der Merwe
Cape Town, South Africa
Christina Vaughan
Chicago, IL, USA
Luis Velazquez-Perez
Holguin, Cuba
Tuhin Virmani
New York, NY, USA
Rinske Vlamings
Maastricht, Netherlands
Jeff Waugh
Medford, MA, USA
Anne Weissbach
Lübeck, Germany
Kang-Ping Xiong
Suzhou, China
Hui-Jun Yang
Seoul, Korea
Sooyeoun You
Seoul, Korea
JinYoung Youn
Seoul, Korea
Ji-Young Yun
Seoul, Korea
Heidemarie Zach
Vienna, Austria
Alessandra Zanon
Bolzano, Italy
The 2012 Travel Grant Program was partially supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC.