The Annual Neurosurgery Charity Softball Tournament , hosted by Columbia University, returned to New York City’s Central Park on Saturday, June 4, 2022. Proceeds benefit the Andrew T. Parsa Honor Your Mentor Fund for brain tumor research through the NREF.

The tournament featured teams from across the U.S, Canada and Caribbean. A post-tournament reception was held in midtown Manhattan for all participants.

Donations to the Parsa HYM Fund, along with tournament proceeds, make the annual $50,000 Andrew T. Parsa Research Fellowship Grant possible. Congratulations to the 2022 awardee, Ashish Shah, MD, of the University of Miami.

Previous grant recipients include:

2017 Darryl Lau, MD, University of California-San Francisco

2018 Teddy Kim, MD, Wake Forest School of Medicine

2019 Benjamin T. Himes, MD, Mayo Clinic

2020 Victoria E. Clark, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital

2021 Michael B. Keough, MD, PhD, Stanford University

For more information regarding the 2023 tournament, please contact Ricardo J. Komotar, MD, FAANS (rkomotar@med.miami.edu); or Jeffrey N. Bruce, MD, FAANS (jnb2@columbia.edu).