Sandra Narayanan, MD, is one of the Co-Chairs of the 17th Annual Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) meeting, occurring August 4-7, 2020. SNIS is the largest multidisciplinary organization of neurointerventionalists in North America. This year marks the first Virtual SNIS Annual Meeting with programming from several partner societies: Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN), AANS/CNS Joint Cerebrovascular Section, The European Society of Minimally Invasive Neurological Therapy (ESMINT), and The Australian and New Zealand Society of Neuroradiology (ANZSNR). Dr. Narayanan is a vascular and interventional neurologist and Visiting Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

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Congratulations to the following AINA Members who received an Annual Award from the AAN!

• Balajil Krishnaiah, MD - A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award
• Raghav Govindarajan, MD, FAAN - A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award
• Abhimanyu Mahajan, MD, MHS - Alliance Awards: Founders
• Pria Anand, MD - Neuro-Infectious Disease Award

Congratulations - AINA is proud to call you one of our own!

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Dr. Shyam Prabhakaran, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology at the University of Chicago, and Dr. Bijoy Menon, Associate Professor and Heart and Stroke Foundation Professor in Stroke Imaging at the University of Calgary, have been appointed as Assistant Editors for the journal Stroke. 

AINA Board member and Stroke neurologist Dr. Prachi Mehndiratta, Asst. Professor of Neurology at University of Maryland School of Medicine, received the Golden Hammer award from the Neurology residents for excellence in teaching.

Congratulations Dr. Mehndiratta!

American Neurological Association is Going Virtual!

CLICK HERE to learn more about the ANA 2020 Virtual Meeting, Complementary Registration for ANA Members, and Highlights of this year's virtual event! 

Dr. Avindra Nath provides a special report on what clinicians need to know about neurologic symptoms and complications of COVID-19 in a SPECIAL REPORT podcast for the Neurology Podcast.

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Academy of Neurology has cancelled the AAN Annual Meeting originally scheduled to take place April 25 - May 1, 2020 in Toronto.  In interest of public safety the AINA Annual Meeting scheduled for April 27, 2020 has also been CANCELLED. 

Dr. Seemant Chaturvedi and Dr. Pooja Khatri have been appointed as Associate Editors for the journal STROKE by the incoming editor-in-chief Dr. Ralph Sacco. STROKE is an official journal of the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association. Dr. Chaturvedi is Greenebaum Endowed Professor of Neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Dr. Pooja Khatri, MD, is the Director of the Acute Stroke Program for the University of Cincinnati Stroke Team and  Professor of Neurology at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

We are delighted to bring to our members the opportunity to endow a scholarship award for young Indian Neurologist coming to train in America under the AINA-IAN Neurology Observership program. These Observerships have become very popular and the program has been there for a couple of years. The idea is to train young Indian Neurologists in advanced neurological care so that they can go back and improve care of Indian patients.

Under this program four young Indian neurologists come for Observership training to the USA. The Indian Academy of Neurology (IAN) sponsors their air tickets and AINA pays each of them $1,000.oo for their expenses. It is this $1,000 per candidate, that AINA is responsible for, is being converted into an opportunity to endow as a scholarship award.

Opportunity – Endow a named Scholarship award for young Indian Neurologists.

Opportunity to Name the Scholarship Award – You can name the scholarship you fund after your parents, mentor, family, etc. (subject to approval by AINA Board).

Duration – Your sponsorship will be for 10 years.

Total cost of sponsorship for one Scholarship Award- $15,000.oo (Fifteen thousand dollars).

Total number of Scholarship Awards available for sponsorship – 4 (four)

To start us off, our current AINA President has endowed one scholarship, so now 3 are available for sponsorship. They will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. So, we encourage you to sponsor and help this laudable service to the people of India by AINA. Please contact our President Dr Sanjay Pratap Singh with any questions at sanjaysingh@creighton.edu .

Drs. Chaturvedi and Yavagal spoke at a comprehensive stroke update in Bengaluru and Chennai. The program also marked the 40th TS Srinivasan oration, which will be delivered by former AAN President Ralph Sacco, MD.