Gary J. Tucker MD Lifetime Achievement Award
2025 Award Recipient: Thomas McAlister, MD
Established in his memory, the Gary J Tucker MD Lifetime Achievement Award in Neuropsychiatry is the highest honor bestowed by ANPA and is presented to an individual who has demonstrated sustained commitment and service to ANPA and whose career has best exemplified the professional and personal values of Dr. Tucker. These values include academic leadership in neuropsychiatry, commitment, mentoring, and scholarship. Recipients shall have demonstrated such values through a lifetime commitment to improving our understanding of brain-behavior relationships as they affect mental illness. The inaugural award was presented by the President of ANPA at the February 2014 Annual Meeting.
2014: Stuart C Yudofsky, MD
2015: Robert G Robinson, MD
2016: C Edward Coffey, MD
2018: Sheldon Benjamin, MD
2019: Barry Fogel, MD
2022: John Campbell, MD
2024: Paula T Trzepacz, MD
2025: Thomas McAlister, MD
Career Development Award
2025 Award Recipients: Kathy Niu, MD and David Benrimoh, MD, MSc
The Sidney R. Baer Jr. ANPA Career Development Award is intended to recognize a neuropsychiatry, behavioral neurology, or neuropsychology advanced trainee or faculty member within 5 years of completion of their post-graduate education whose outstanding accomplishments offer promise of a successful career in neuropsychiatry and the clinical neurosciences. Up to two awards (which may reflect research-focused and/or education-focused careers) may be given annually, if merited by the applicant pool, as determined by the Awards Committee. The intent of this award is to facilitate mentorship and participation in ANPA for future leaders in the field.
2002: Jennifer Duncan Davis, PhD
2003: William Curt Phillip LaFrance, Jr, MD
2004: Linda Mah, MD
2005: Miles Cunningham, MD, PhD
2006: Valerie Voon, MD
2007: Evan D Murray, MD
2008: Neil Harrison, MBBS MRCP MRCPsych
2009: Omar Ghaffar, MD, MSc
2010: Andrea E Cavanna, MD
2011: Joan Camprodon, MD, MPH, PhD
2012: Richard Ronan Murphy, MD
2013: Simon Ducharme, MD, MSc
2014: David L Perez, MD, MMSc
2015: --
2016: Matthew E Peters, MD
2017: Kahled Moussawi, MD
2018: Maiya R Geddes, MD
2019: Aaron Boes, MD, Ph.D
2020: Ryan Darby MD, PhD and Shan Siddiqi MD
2021: Melissa Jones MD and Nicholas Trapp MD
2022: Trey Bateman MD and Christos Ganos, MD
2023: Aaron Hauptman, MD and Matthew Burke, MD
2024: Daniel Talmasov, MD and Joseph Taylor, MD, PhD
2025: Kathy Niu, MD and David Benrimoh, MD, MSc
Young Investigator Award
2025 Award Recipient: Adriano Mollica, MD
The Young Investigator Award recognizes trainees with an interest in clinical neurosciences who submitted an abstract to the ANPA annual meeting. The Program Committee reviews applications to select recipients based on the quality of the candidate's perceived ability to contribute to the field with the encouragement and support provided by the award. Recipients may include medical students, graduate students, Psychiatry or Neurology residents, Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry fellows, pre-doctoral candidates, and post-doctoral fellows.
Clinical Neuroscience Trainee Award
2025 Award Recipient: David Zheng, MD
The Clinical Neuroscience Trainee Award facilitates early involvement in ANPA by highly motivated trainees seeking careers in the field. Award recipients are PGY-2 or greater residents in psychiatry or neurology, 2nd year or higher pre-doctoral candidates for PsyD or PhD, with interest in career in neuropsychiatry, behavioral neurology, or neuropsychology.
The CNPA Peter Bassoe Lecture
2025 Lecturer: Adrian Owen OBE, PhD
Dr. Peter Bassoe (1874-1945) was a Chicago-based neurologist-neuropsychiatrist as well as the founder and inaugural President of the Central Neuropsychiatric Association (CNPA, est. 1922). Dr. Bassoe founded the CNPA “to foster the advancement of neurologic, neurosurgical, and psychiatric sciences in the mid-continental United States.” Guided by his vision, this organization flourished during the decades of the mid-twentieth century. The Peter Bassoe Fund was established within the CNPA in 1982 for the purpose of providing funds for continuing education activities, scholarships, awards for essays submitted by residents, and other expenses of the scientific portion of the meeting. In 2001, following on several decades of changes to the organizational and political landscape in the clinical neurosciences, CNPA merged with ANPA. As a component of the merger agreement between our associations, CNPA directed ANPA to use the Bassoe Fund to support a Keynote Address at the ANPA annual meeting and to identify it as the Peter Bassoe Lecture. In tribute to Dr. Bassoe and CNPA, the Peter Bassoe Lecture is given by a world-class clinical neuroscientist at the opening of the ANPA Annual Meeting. The lecture provides a forum for a high-level review in the area of neuroscience to which the Peter Bassoe Lecturer has contributed. Additionally, it provides an opportunity for the lecturer to discuss the implications of his or her work on the education and training of clinician-neuroscientists, including subspecialists in behavioral neurology & neuropsychiatry.
2000: Michael Gazzaniga, PhD
2001: Patricia Goldman-Rakic, PhD
2002: Robert Sapolsky, MD
2003: Gerald Edelman, MD
2004: Kári Stefánsson, MD
2005: Thomas Insel, MD
2006: V.S. Ramachandran, PhD
2007: Temple Grandin
2008: Michael Gazzaniga, PhD
2009: P. Read Montague, PhD
2010: Daniel Weinberger, MD
2011: Helen Fisher, PhD
2012: Jeffrey Cummings, MD
2013: Donald Stuss
2014: Marek-Marsel Mesulam, MD
2015: Dennis J.Selkoe, MD
2016: Ann Graybiel, PhD
2017: Larry C. Walker, MD
2018: Martha Shenton, PhD
2019: David Bennett, MD
2020: N/A (no annual meeting)
2021: Edward Boyden, PhD
2022: Edward Cheng, MD
2023: Nancy Cox, PhD
2024: Carol Tamminga, MD
2025: Adrian Owen, OBE, PhD