HENRY NEWMAN, M.D.  Award 

Henry Wise Newman, M.D. was one of Stanford School of Medicine's first neurologists. He descended from a Fresno family of vintners, rose to full Commander in the U. S. Navy, and continued as a consultant once a week to the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital. A compact man with a wry sense of humor, he was a shrewd diagnostician and compassionate clinician.

He had many interests besides neurology, including sailing and restoring antique cars (his death occurred from a ruptured aortic aneurysm, while pushing one of these cars).

He left an indelible impression on those who worked with him, and he influenced many careers. His former Stanford colleague, Wm. Hofmann, M.D., remembers him as "a pleasant mixture of Robert Benchley and W. C. Fields, and the likes of him are today nowhere to be found".

The Henry Newman award is presented each year to the author of the best paper dealing with clinical neurology.

The honorarium for the Newman Award is $500.00. In addition, the Award winners are provided one night's complimentary lodging at the location of the annual meeting and invited to the SFNS Annual Dinner.

CALL FOR PAPERS IS ANNOUNCED IN THE WINTER. PLEASE CHECK THE SFNS WEBSITE FOR UPDATES.

Henry Wise Newman, MD (1907 - 1959)

Recent SFNS Newman Award Winners: 2011 - Vitamin D in African-Americans with MS, Jeffrey M. Gelfand, MD, Department of Neurology, UCSF Multiple Sclerosis Center, 2011 American Academy of Neurology Clinical Research Training Fellowship

2010 - Emergent Categorical Representation of Phonetic Objects in the Human Superior Temporal Gyrus, Edwards F. Chang, MD, UCSF & UC Berkeley

2009 - Jeffrey M. Gelfand, MD, UCSF Department of Neurology 

2008 - Multiple Sclerosis Onset Location Predicts the Location of Subsequent Relapses, Ellen Mowry, MD, Multiple Sclerosis Center, UCSF