This award honors the best abstract presentation by a fellow at the NANOS Annual Meeting, celebrating excellence in early‑career research and scientific communication.

Listed below are all past recipients of this distinction.

2026

• TBA

2025

• Leigh Rettenmaier, MD — Prevalence and Clinical Features of Spinocerebellar Ataxia 27B in Patients with Idiopathic Downbeat Nystagmus at a Tertiary Care Center

2024

• Maximilian Friedrich, MD — Curiouser and Curiouser: A Distributed Brain Network Underlying Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

2023

• Jenny Hepschke, BSc(Med), MBBS, DM —  Resting state functional connectivity analysis using Magnetoencephalography (MEG) differs between Visual Snow patients and controls

2022

• Andre Aung, MD — Referral Patterns to Neuro-Ophthalmology for Presumptive Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) Based on Isolated Neuroimaging Findings

2021

• Wesley Chan, MD, MSc — Acute Central Retinal Artery Occlusion Seen Within 24 hours at a Tertiary Stroke Center

2020

• Rahul Sharma, MD, MPH, FRCSC — Prognostic Value of the Neurological Pupil Index in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH) Patients: The FOTO-ICU Study 

2019

• Melanie N. Truong-Le, DO, OD — Reflex Upper and Lower Eyelid Movement in Response to Light Stimuli

2018

• Eric Gaier, MD, PhD — Interocular Phase Delay Shifts Visual Cortical Dominance: A Potential New therapeutic Approach for Ambloyopia

2017

• Melinda Chang, MD from UCLA, Los Angles — Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography in Patients with Migraine with aura demonstrates decreased macular vessel density

2016

• Michael D. Richards, MD — Abnormal Integration of Audiovisual Spatial Information in Amblyopia

2015

• Enrique J. Rivera, MD — Chronic Optic Neuropathy Causes Decreases in both Inner Retinal Blood Flow and Prelaminar Optic Nerve Blood Flow

2014

• Krista I. Kinard, MD — Chronic Migraine is Associated with Reduced Corneal Nerve Fiber Density and Length

2013

• Kimberly Winges, MD — The Ganglion Cell Layer Across the Vertical Meridian in Hemianopsia: I Get No Respect!

2012

• Patrick Yu-Wai-Man, MD, PhD — Mitofusin 2 (MFN2) mutations cause mitochondrial DNA instability in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

2011

• Jennifer Graves, MD — Visual Pathway Axonal Loss in Patients with Benign Multiple Sclerosis

2010

• Robert Avery, DO — Reference Range of Cerebrospinal Fluid Opening Pressure in Children

2009

• Divya Aggarwal, MD — Melanopsin Retinal Ganglion Cells: A New Class of Cells in Human Retina

2008

• Thomas N. Hwang, MD, PhD — Reconstitution of Light-Evoked Responses through a Mechanism of NMDA Receptor Mobility across the Cell Membrane in a Tiger Salamander Mode Reconstitution of Light-Evoked Responses through a Mechanism of NMDA Receptor Mobility across the Cell Membrane in a Tiger Salamander Model

2007

• Christopher C. Glisson, DO — Clinical Characteristics Associated with Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) Antibody Seropositivity

2006

• Gregory Wu, MD, PhD — Regional MRI Abnormalities and Visual Dysfunction in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

2005

• Gabrielle R. Bonhomme, MD — Isolated Pediatric Optic Neuritis: Brain MRI Abnormalities and Risk of Multiple Sclerosis

2004

• Guy V. Jirawuthiworavong, MD, MA — Frequency of Antiretinal Antibodies in Normal Human Serum