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Table 1 Demographics, education, birthplace, primary subspecialty focus, age at receipt of award, and number of publications of Harvey Cushing Medal recipients

From: The AANS Harvey Cushing Medal: a demographic and academic analysis of its recipients

Year

Name

Undergraduate school (region)

Medical school (region)

Birthplace (region)

Residency program

Primary subspecialty focus [14]

Age when given award [15, 16]

# of publications [21]

1977

Frank Henderson Mayfield [15, 16, 22]

UNC (SE)

Medical College of Virginia (SE)

Garnett, South Carolina (SE)

69

54

1978

William H. Sweet [15]

UW (W)

Harvard (NE)

Kerriston, Washington (W)

MGH/University of Chicago (MW)

68

151

1979

Henry G. Schwartz [15, 16]

Princeton (NE)

Johns Hopkins (NE)

NYC (NE)

WASHU (MW)

70

38

1980

Paul C. Bucy [15, 16]

UIowa (MW)

UIowa (MW)

Hubbard, Iowa (MW)

Univ of Chicago (MW)

75

250

1981

Bronson S. Ray [15, 16]

Franklin College (MW)

Northwestern (MW)

New Albany, Indiana (MW)

BWH (NE)

77

67

1982

W. James Gardner [15, 16, 23]

Washington and Jefferson College (NE)

UPenn (NE)

McKeesport, Pennsylvania (NE)

UPenn (NE)

84

1983

Guy L. Odom [15, 16]

Tulane (SE)

Tulane (SE)

Harvey, Louisiana (SE)

Montreal Neurological Institute (CA)

72

83

1984

Eben Alexander Jr [15]

UNC (SE)

Harvard (NE)

Knoxville, TN (SE)

BWH (NE)

71

1985

Francis Murphey [15]

Vanderbilt (SE)

Harvard (NE)

Macon, Mississippi (SE)

UTennessee (SE)

78

34

1986

Lyle French [15]

UMinnesota (MW)

UMinnesota (MW)

Worthing, SD (MW)

UMinnesota (MW)

71

119

1987

William F. Meacham [16]

Western Kentucky (SE)

Vanderbilt (SE)

Washington, DC (SE)

Vanderbilt (SE)

87

51

1988

Charles G. Drake [15]

-

Western University (CA)

Ontario, Canada (CN)

Toronto (CA)

68

95

1989

Lester A. Mount [16]

-

UCincinnati (MW)

Lebanon, Ohio (MW)

Columbia (NE)

79

41

1990

Robert B. King [24]

UPittsburg (NE)

URochester (NE)

-

WASHU (MW)

68

1991

William F. Collins [25]

Yale (NE)

Yale (NE)

New Haven, CT (NE)

WASHU (MW)

67

66

1992

W. Eugene Stern [16]

UCBerkeley (W)

UCBerkeley (W)

Portland, Oregon (W)

UCSF (W)

72

1993

Sidney Goldring [15]

WASHU (MW)

WASHU (MW)

Kremnitz, Poland (EU)

WASHU (MW)

70

74

1994

Byron C. Pevehouse [16]

Baylor (SW)

Baylor (SW)

Lubbock, Texas (SE)

UCSF (W)

67

13

1995

Richard DeSaussure [16]

UVA (SE)

UVA (SE)

Macon, Georgia (SE)

UVA (SE)

77

15

1996

Shelley N. Chou [16]

St. John's University in Shanghai (CN)

UUtah (W)

Kanpu, China (CN)

UMinnesota (MW)

72

1997

Robert. G. Ojemann [15]

UIowa (MW)

UIowa (MW)

61

130

1998

Albert H. Rhoton [15, 26]

OSU (MW)

WASHU (MW)

Parvin, Kentucky (SE)

WASHU (MW)

65

144

1999

David J. Kelly [15]

UNC (SE)

UNC (SE)

Elkin, NC (SE)

Bowman Gray School of Medicine (SE)

64

76

2000

Russel H. Patterson Jr [16, 27]

Stanford (W)

Cornell (NE)

NYC (NE)

The New York Hospital (NE)

Neuro-oncology

71

2001

Julian T. Hoff [15]

Stanford (W)

Cornell (NE)

Boise, Idaho (W)

The New York Hospital (NE)

64

162

2002

Edward R. Laws [15]

Princeton (NE)

Johns Hopkins (NE)

NYC (NE)

Johns Hopkins (NE)

Pituitary

64

348

2003

Stewart B. Dunsker [28]

Harvard (NE)

UCincinnati (MW)

-

WASHU (MW)

Spine

69

41

2004

John A. Jane Sr [15]

UChicago (MW)

UChicago (MW)

Chicago (MW)

UChicago/ UIllinois Psychiatric Institute (MW)

Pediatric

73

2005

Martin H Weiss [16]

Dartmouth College (NE)

Dartmouth College (NE)

Newark, NJ (NE)

University Hospitals of Cleveland (MW)

Pituitary

66

161

2006

David G. Kline [16]

UPenn (NE)

UPenn (NE)

Philadelphia, PA (NE)

UMichigan (MW)

Peripheral Nerve

71

235

2007

Robert G. Grossman [16]

Columbia (NE)

NYC (NE)

Columbia (NE)

Neuro-oncology

74

202

2008

Charles B. Wilson [15]

Tulane (SE)

Neosho, Missouri (MW)

Tulane (SE)

Neuro-oncology

79

523

2009

Edward Hudson Oldfield [16]

UKentucky (SE)

UKentucky (SE)

Mt. Sterling, Kentucky (SE)

Vanderbilt (SE)

-

61

411

2010

Roberto Heros [15]

UTennessee (SE)

Havana, Cuba (CU)

MGH (NE)

Cerebrovascular

68

226

2011

A. John Popp [16]

URochester (NE)

Albany Medical College (NE)

Warsaw, NY (NE)

Albany Medical Center (NE)

Cerebrovascular

64

51

2012

Donald O. Quest [15, 29]

UIllinois (MW)

Columbia (NE)

St. Louis, Missouri (MW)

Columbia (NE)

Cerebrovascular

72

75

2013

Jon H Robertson [30]

Southwestern College (now Rhodes) in Memphis, Tennessee (SE)

UTennessee (SE)

-

UTennessee (SE)

Skull Base Lesions

67

54

2014

Troy M. Tippett [31]

UMissouri (MW)

UTennessee (SE)

UTennessee (SE)

Spine

68

8

2015

Arthur Day [32, 33]

Louisiana Tech University (SE)

Louisiana State University Medical School in NO (SE)

Boston, MA (NE)

UF (SE)

Cerebrovascular

67

151

2016

Ralph G. Dacey [15]

Harvard (NE)

UVA (SE)

Boston, MA (NE)

UVA (SE)

Cerebrovascular

68

276

2017

Robert F. Spetzler [16]

Knox College (MW)

Northwestern (MW)

Stierhoefstetten, Germany (EU)

UCSF (W)

Cerebrovascular

72

1120

2018

James R. Bean [16]

UVA (SE)

Tulane (SE)

-

UKentucky (SE)

Spine

70

2019

James T. Rutka [15]

Princeton (NE)

Queen's (CA)

Toronto, Canada (CA)

University of Toronto (CA)

Pediatric

63

693

2020

H. Hunt Batjer

University of Texas in Austin (SE)

University of Texas Southwestern (SE)

Burlington, Vermont (NE)

University of Texas Southwestern (SE)

Cerebrovascular

68

572

2021

Robert E. Harbaugh

Lebanon Valley College (NE)

Penn (NE)

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (NE)

Cerebrovascular

69

196

2022

William T. Couldwell

Ubritish Columbia and Dalhousie University (CA)

McGill University (CA)

British Columbia (CA)

University of Southern California (W)

Skull Base Lesions

66

554

  1. NE Northeast, SE Southeast, MW Midwest, SW Southwest, W West, CA Canada, CN China, EU Europe, CU Cuba, UNC University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UW University of Washington, MGH Massachusetts General Hospital, NYC New York City, WASHU Washington University in St. Louis, Uiowa University of Iowa, Univ University, BWH Brigham and Women’s Hospital, UPenn University of Pennsylvania, UTennessee University of Tennessee, UMinnesota University of Minnesota, UCincinnati University of Cincinnati, UPittsburg University of Pittsburg, URochester University of Rochester, UCBerkeley University of California, Berkeley, UCSF University of California, San Francisco, UVA University of Virginia, UUtah University of Utah, OSU Ohio State University, UChicago University of Chicago, UMichigan University of Michigan, UKentucky University of Kentucky, UIllinois University of Illinois, UF University of Florida, NE Northeast, SE Southeast, MW Midwest, SW Southwest, W West, CA Canada, CN China, EU Europe, CU Cuba