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ILAE
and IBE Announce Awards to be presented at The 28th International Epilepsy
Congress
Ambassador Awards are presented in recognition of outstanding international contributions to the cause of epilepsy. These activities have either been performed at an international level or have had international impact.
Twelve people will be presented with this honor during the Opening Ceremony of the 28th International Epilepsy Congress in Budapest. The award consists of an 'Ambassador for Epilepsy' pin and is intended to reflect peer recognition of individual contributions to the international cause of epilepsy.
AMBASSADOR FOR EPILEPSY AWARDS 2009
- Ettore Beghi, Italy
- Anne T. Berg, USA
- Warren Blume, Canada
- Carol D'Souza, India
- Norman Delanty, Ireland
- Jacqueline A. French, USA
- Shung-Ion Lai, Taiwan
- Shichuo Li, China
- Lilia Nuñez, Mexico
- Cigdem Ozkara, Turkey
- Ernest Somerville, Australia
- William H. Theodore, USA
Social Accomplishment Award is given every two years, one person who has accomplished outstanding activities aimed at the social benefit of people with epilepsy, is recognized by the International Bureau for Epilepsy and the International League Against Epilepsy.
Mike Hills of New Zealand, will be awarded this honor during the Opening Ceremony of the 28th International Epilepsy Congress in Budapest.
Lifetime Achievement Award is given every two years by the Joint Executive Committee of the International Bureau for Epilepsy and the International League Against Epilepsy to honor those truly exceptional persons with a record of achievement in work against epilepsy, which exceeds even that of those who have been awarded the Ambassador for Epilepsy Award or the Award for Social Accomplishment.
If such a person is elected, then during an International Epilepsy Congress he/she will be presented with two silver candlesticks, upon which will be engraved the logos of IBE and ILAE, the name of the Award and the name of the recipient.
Honourees for 2009 are:
Young Investigator
Awards are reserved for delegates under the age of 45 who submitted an abstract which was considered of excellent quality and who required funding in order to present their work at the Congress. Ninteen bursary awards were provided for young investigators to attend the Budapest Congress.
The Award was open to basic scientists, neurologists, neurophysiologists, physicians, biologists, nurses, sociologists and psychologists working in universities, hospitals or specialised epilepsy services. Applicants were required to submit an abstract, which was evaluated by the Scientific Advisory Committee.
- Keryma Acevedo, Chile
- Satish Bajaj, Nepal
- Daniela Brazzo, UK
- Rebecca Bromley, UK
- Benedetta Frassine, Italy
- Aslihan Gunel, Turkey
- Silvia Regina Bica Kohek, Brazil
- Pushpalatha Sudhakar Lakkunta, India
- Eliângela Lima, Brazil
- Tuan Nguyen Ahn, Vietnam
- Litsa Nikitodou, Sweden
- Natela Okujava, Georgia
- Fabricio Pereira, Brazil
- Nehama Prus, USA
- Ashalatha Radharkrishnan, India
- Kiarash Riazi, Canada
- Garima Shukla, India
- Andreas Toft Sorensen, Sweden
- Jan Tønnesen, Sweden
Michael Prize, presented every two year by Stiftung Michael from Germany, this award is for outstanding epilepsy research performed by young investigators (under the age of 45).
The 2009 Michael Prizewill be announced during the Opening Ceremony of the 28th International Epilepsy Congress in Budapest. Recipients are Ivan Soltesz of the University of California, Irvine and Chrysanthy Ikonomidou of the Technical University of Dresden (now at the University of Wisconsin).
Morris-Coole Prize, is a new annual ILAE award that is given in recognition of an outstanding research paper published in Epilepsia the previous year on any field of epilepsy research, either clinical or basic. Papers are nominated to the selection committee by the associate editors of Epilepsia. The prize was established to stimulate excellence in epilepsy research as well as rewarding young researchers for outstanding contirbutions to the field.
The 2008 Morris-Coole Prize will be awarded to Dr. Julia Jacobs during the 2009 International Congress on in Budapest. Her paper was titled: Interictal high-frequency oscillations (80-500 Hz) are an indicator of seizure onset areas independent of spikes in the human epileptic brain ". (Epilepsia, 49:11; 1836-1907, 2008)
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