NANOS Honors and Awards

Thomas Carlow Distinguished Service Award

The award is given at the discretion of the Executive Board to those who have provided a sustained and substantial service to the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society.  It is named after, and honors, the NANOS Founder, Thomas Carlow, who contributed an immeasurable amount of his time and energy founding and then nurturing NANOS.

2019 Recipient
Nancy J. Newman, MD

2018 Recipient
Jonathan D. Trobe, MD

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This award recognizes the best poster or platform presentation by a resident or fellow. The awardee receives a certificate and a stipend. In 2004 this program was expanded to recognize medical students, residents and fellows with separate awards.

2019 Recipients

• James A. Sharpe Award by a Fellow: Melanie N. Truong-Le, DO, OD - Reflex Upper and Lower Eyelid Movement in Response to Light Stimuli
• Resident: Michael J. Gilhooley, MA, MB, BChir, FRCOphth - Melanopsin: targeted ectopic expression for optogenetic visual restoration
• Student: Perry J. Thompson, BA - Near Infrared Videography versus Direct Ophthalmoscopy for the Detection of Spontaneous Venous Pulsations

Click here to view past Best Abstract Award Recipients

2019 Recipient
Ghislaine L. Traber, MD for her project “The untuned visuo-temporal cortex in patients with visual snow”

Click here to view past The Thomas and Susan Carlow Young Investigator Award Recipients

2018 Recipient
Joseph F. Rizzo III, MD - Unraveling the Enigma of Non-Arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy

2017 Recipient
Kathleen B. Digre, MD - More Than Meets the Eye: What an Ophthalmologist Needs to Know About Migraine and the Eye

Click here to view past William F. Hoyt Lecture at the AAO Annual Meeting Recipients

2019 Recipient
Paul R. Freund, MD, MSc, FRCSC - Go with your Gut Feeling 

Click here to view past Best Frank B. Walsh Session Paper Presentation by a Fellow Recipients

2020 Recipient (to be presented at the NANOS 2020 Annual Meeting; 2019 FFS/NANOS Award)
Siwei Zhou, MD -  Vascular Tortuosity at the Optic Nerve Head as a Surrogate Measure for Intracranial Pressure in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Using Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography and Optos Optic Nerve Imaging

2020 Recipient (to be presented at the NANOS 2020 Annual Meeting; 2018 FFS/NANOS Award)
Yosbelkys Martin Paez, MD -  Cognitive and Neurological Screening of Controls in an Age-Related Macular Degeneration Registry

2018 Recipient
Ryan Gise, MD - The Epidemiology of Traumatic Pediatric Visual Pathway Injuries 

2016 Recipient
Stacy Smith, MD - Characterizing ocular motor abnormalities in patients with vestibular migraines and their response to migraine preventive therapy

Click here to view past Fight for Sight/NANOS Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Recipients

2019 Recipient
Heather Moss, MD, PhD - “Optic Nerve Biomechanics in High Intracranial Pressure States”

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2011 Recipient
Thomas J. Carlow, MD

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The NANOS Merit Award recognizes NANOS members who have made extraordinary contributions of time, energy, and resources to NANOS for the betterment of the organization.

2020 Recipients
Kevin E. Lai, MD
Kimberly M. Winges, MD

2019 Recipients
Sachin Kedar, MD
Lanning Kline, MD
Christian J. Lueck, PhD, FRACP, FRCP (UK), FAAN

2018 Recipients
Daniel Gold, MD
Matthew Kay, MD
Klara Landau, MD
Nancy Lombardo

2017 Recipient
Lynn K. Gordon, MD, PhD
Karl C. Golnik, MD

Daniel M. Jacobson Memorial Lecture

2020 Recipient
Steven Galetta, MD - Optic Neuritis: Past, Present and Future

2019 Recipient
Nancy J. Newman, MD - Leber hereditary optic neuropathy: from bedside to bench to bedside

2018 Recipient
Jonathan C. Horton, MD, PhD - Vascular supply of the occipital lobe explains why certain patterns of visual field loss from embolic stroke are common and others are prohibited

2019 Recipient

Hong Jiang, MD for her paper "Altered Macular Microvasculature in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer Disease"