The 34^th Annual Dinner meeting was also the event host to the awarding of the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award to Kapil D Sethi, MD, FRCP, FAAN.  Dr. Sethi shared warm comments with the audience reflecting on his career and his hopes for the future growth and strengthening of AINA.  He shared the proud history of bringing together Neurologists of Indian origin and encouraged residents and fellow to see the value in coming together to support each other through AINA and throughout their practice and careers. 

Trainees were certainly in attendance at the Annual Dinner Meeting and AINA leadership were especially happy to honor and recognize those that were winners of the AINA Neurology Trainee Award.  Trainees currently enrolled in a training program in North America were invited to submit their abstract submitted for presentation at  the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting for consideration of this award.  This year had a record number of submissions!  The following were selected and recognized:

1st Place - Vamshi Krishna Sai Balasetti, Omaha, NE - Post hospitalization follow-up clinic visits in neurological diseases

2nd Place - Deepak Gupta, Jersey City, NJ - Glucose-regulated protein 78 (GRP78) in plasma and CSF is associated with Parkinson's disease

3rd Place (Tie) - Vasu Saini, Miami, FL - Safety Outcome of Carotid Artery Stenting in Long Carotid Lesion with Proximal versus Distal Embolic Protection Devices

3rd Place (Tie) - Apratim Chatterjee, Kolkata - Barriers to Thrombolysis in a tertiary care institute in Eastern India

While at the Annual Meeting, attendees also had the opportunity to learn more and hear directly from leaders of the Indian Academy of Neurology (IAN) regarding plans for the 25^th Annual National Conference of IAN a join meeting of IAN and AINA.  This event is scheduled for September 7-10, 2017 in Chennai, the Medical Capital of India.  All are invited to learn more about this event by visiting www.iancon.net , www.ian.net.in , www.iancon2017.org.

The evening concluded with business of the organization presented by the AINA board.  Through this presentation AINA leaders shared the current state of the organization finances, new officers and plans for some new work in 2018 and beyond. 

Thanks to all that were able to attend and please watch your email and the AINA website for details on the 2018 Annual Meeting that will take place in conjunction with the AAN Conference scheduled for April 21-27, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA.  More details coming soon!