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 for the annual meeting and invited to the SFNS Annual Dinner.
Newman Award Recipients
2023
Lauren Hammer, MD, PhD - UCSF Neurology Fellow
Patient-specific closed-loop deep brain stimulation improves residual Parkinson’s disease symptoms during at-home evaluation.
2020
Dr. Prashanth Sriram Ramachandran, UCSF Neurology fellow
Improving Tuberculous Meningitis Diagnostics - A Combined Host and Pathogen Classifier
UC San Francisco
Henry Wise Newman MD (1907-1959)
Henry Wise Newman, M.D., for whom one of our Society’s two annual awards is named, 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".