Individual Donor Recognition

The Neurosurgery Research & Education Foundation Recognizes 2025-2026 Donors

Each year, the NREF conducts a charitable campaign to raise funds for research, education and outcomes studies in neurosurgery. These areas are vital to the advancement of neurosurgery.

The NREF fiscal year is from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. The Board of Directors of the NREF is grateful for the support of donors whose contributions support research and education that enhance and confirm the critical role neurosurgeons play in improving lives.

I give to NREF to improve the care I can offer my patients. I give to NREF to help expand the scientific curiosity of the best and brightest young physicians. I give to NREF to advance the science and understanding of nature that we all need to know. I give to NREF because I love my profession. Please, give to NREF — for your patients, for the future, and for neurosurgery.

SUMMA CUM LAUDE ($5,000 and above)

Daniel B. Ahlberg, MD, FAANS(L)

Sepideh Amin-Hanjani, MD, FAANS

Adam S. Arthur, MD, MPH, FAANS, FACS

Brown Neurosurgery

Timir Banerjee, MD, FAANS(L)

Nicholas M. Barbaro, MD, FACS, FAANS

Frederick G. Barker, II, MD, FAANS, FACS

Jefferson W. Chen, MD, PhD, FAANS

Hans C. Coester, MD, FAANS, FACS

Domenico Antonio Gattozzi, MD, FAANS

Joanna Elizabeth Gernsback, MD, FAANS

Dr. and Mrs. Regis W. Haid, Jr.

Jason H. Huang, MD, FAANS, FACS

Theodore R. Jacobs, MD, FAANS

Michael Kaiser, MD, FAANS, FACS

Shekar N. Kurpad, MD, PhD, FAANS

Allan D. Levi, MD, PhD, FACS, FAANS

L. Dade Lunsford, MD, FAANS

Paul B. Nelson, MD, FAANS(L)

Jeremy Charles Peterson, MD, FAANS

Jeremy Todd Phelps, MD, MBA, FAANS

Miriana Popadich, NP, MSN

Shaun Thomas O’Leary, MD, PhD, FAANS

Society of Neurological Surgeons (SNS)

Larry Van Carson, MD, MBA, FACS, FAANS

Erol Veznedaroglu, MD, FAANS, FACS, FAHA

Seth M. Weingarten, MD, FAANS(L)

MAGNA CUM LAUDE ($2,500 to $4,999)

Mark D. Bain, MD, FAANS

Andrew Michael Bauer, MD, MBA, FAANS

Mohamad Bydon, MD, FAANS

Bharat Guthikonda, MD, MBA, FACS, FAANS

Constantinos Hadjipanayis, MD, PhD, FAANS

Carl B. Heilman, MD, FAANS

Mark E. Linskey, MD, FAANS

Catherine Anne Mazzola, MD, FAANS

Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD, MBA, FAANS

Eric W. Nottmeier, MD, FAANS

Susan Oldfield

Ashutosh Ashok Pradhan, MD, FAANS

John Kevin Ratliff, MD, FACS, FAANS

Kaplan Rosenow Family Foundation/Joshua M. Rosenow, MD, FAANS

Jonathan Harris Sherman, MD, FAANS

Robert A. Solomon, MD

Hai Sun, MD, PhD, FAANS

Nitin Tandon, MD, FAANS, FACNS, FAES

Luis Manuel Tumialan, MD, FAANS

Gabriel Zada, MD, FAANS

Gregory J. Zipfel, MD, FAANS

CUM LAUDE ($1,000 to $2,499)

Todd D. Alexander, MD, FAANS

Ronald I. Apfelbaum, MD, FAANS(L)

Anthony L. Asher, MD, FACS, FAANS

Richard W. Byrne, MD, FAANS

Michael Joseph Caron, MD, FAANS

Michael A. Chabraja, Esq.

Andrew Chan, MD

Lawrence S. Chin, MD, FAANS, FACS

Christopher Paul Cifarelli, MD, PhD, MMM, FACS, FAANS

Kevin M. Cockroft, MD, FAANS, FACS

Robert J. Dempsey, MD, FAANS

Stewart B. Dunsker, MD, FAANS(L)

Dario Englot, MD, PhD, FAANS

Jeremy L. Fogelson, MD, FAANS

Hugh J. L. Garton, MD, MHSc, FAANS

Holly S. Gilmer, MD, FAANS

Andrew W. Grande, MD, FAANS

Jonathan A. Grossberg, MD, FAANS

David Gruber, MD, MBA, FACS, FAANS

Robert L. Grubb, Jr., MD, FAANS(L)

Stephen J. Haines, MD, FAANS(L)

David J. Hart, MD, FAANS

Alastair Tucker Hoyt, MD, FAANS

Bermans J. Iskandar, MD, FAANS

Jeremiah Nicholas Johnson, MD, FAANS

Christopher P. Kellner, MD, FAANS

Ranjit Kumar Laha, MD, FAANS(L)

Sean D. Lavine, MD, FAANS

Benjamin B. LeCompte, III, MD, FAANS(L)

Joseph Charles Maroon, MD, FAANS(L)

Daniel L. McKinney, MD, FAANS(L)

Fredric B. Meyer, MD, FAANS

Nina Moore, MD, FAANS

Peter Nakaji, MD, FAANS

Katie O. Orrico, JD, CEO

Rabia Qaiser, MD, FAANS

Paul Park, MD, FAANS

Jonathan A. Pindrik, MD, FAANS

Webster H. Pilcher, MD, PhD, FAANS

Joseph H. Piatt, Jr., MD, FAANS

Eric Loren Rhoton, MD, FAANS

Rush University Medical Center Department of Neurosurgery

Ali Sadr, MD, FAANS

Patrick Sartore

Clemens M. Schirmer, MD, PhD, MBA, FAANS, FACS, FAHA

Jason Schwalb, MD, MBA, FCNS, FAANS, FACS, FAES

Daniel M. Sciubba, MD, FAANS

Steven J. Schiff, MD, PhD, FAANS

Kushal J. Shah, MD, FAANS

Konstantin V. Slavin, MD, FAANS

Jodi L. Smith, MD, PhD, FAANS

Stavropoula Tjoumakaris, MD, FAANS

Dennis A. Turner, MD, MA, FAANS

Jay D. Turner, MD, PhD, FAANS

Juan Santiago Uribe, MD, FAANS

Kevin A. Walter, MD, FAANS

Michael Y. Wang, MD, MBA, FAANS

Jonathan Lee Wilson, MD, FAANS

Lisa and Brian Zippin

GIFTS OF SUPPORT (Up to $999)

Beverly Aagaard Kienitz, MD

Emad T. Aboud, MD, IFAANS

John M. Abrahams, MD, FAANS

Joseph Ghassan Adel, MD, FAANS

Nima Alan, MD

Ali M. Alaraj, MD

Puya Alikhani, MD

Paul M. Arnold, MD, FACS, FAANS

Nazih Nabil Aziz Assaad, MBBS, IFAANS, FRACS

Andrew Michael Bauer, MD, MBA, FAANS

Giovanni Barbagli, MD

Esther Cleveland Beeson Dupepe, MSPH, MD, FAANS

Amiel W. Bethel, MD, FAANS, FACS

Mandy Jo Binning, MD, FAANS

Lee A. Birnbaum, MD

Jeffrey Blount, MD, MPH, FAANS

Bradley N. Bohnstedt, MD

Niall Buckley, MD

Ketan R. Bulsara, MD, FAANS

Michael Joseph Caron, MD, FAANS

David A. Carter, MD, PhD, FAANS(L)

Imram Chaudry

Daniel Clay Cochran, MD, FAANS

Ondrej Choutka, MD, FAANS

John A. Clough, MD, FAANS

E. Sander Connolly, Jr., MD, FAANS

Daniel Consigny

Joanne Constantine

Anthony L. D’Ambrosio, MD, FAANS

Reza Dashti, MD, PhD

Anthony M. DiGiorgio, DO, MHA, FAANS

Dzung H Dinh, MD, FAANS, FACS

Mladen Djurasovic

Edward A. M. Duckworth, MD, MS

Alison Dye, MHSM

Robert D. Ecker, MD, FAANS

Benjamin Daniel Elder, MD, PhD, FAANS

Lucas Elijovich, MD

David Estin, MD, FAANS

Najib El Tecle, MD

Michael H. Freed, MD, FAANS(L)

Marc H. Friedberg, MD, PhD, FAANS

Stephen R. Freidberg, MD, FAANS(L)

Allan H. Friedman, MD, FAANS, FACS

Michael Froehler, MD

Kai-Ming Fu, MD, PhD, FAANS

Grant E. Gauger, MD

Marc S. Goldman, MD, FAANS

Shankar P. Gopinath, MD, FAANS

Oren N. Gottfried, MD, FAANS

Cesar E. Guerrero, MD, FAANS

Harish Chandra Gupta, MBBS, MS, MCh

Nalin Gupta, MD, PhD, FAANS

Mark G. Hamilton, MD, FAANS

Brenda and Robert Heath

Rajiv R. Iyer, MD, FAANS

Babak S. Jahromi, MD, PhD, FAANS

Randy Lynn Jensen, MD, PhD, FAANS

J. Patrick Johnson, MD, MS, FACS, FAANS

Iain H. Kalfas, MD, FAANS

Michael Kelly, MD, MSCI

Nickalus R. Khan, MD, FAANS

John Joseph Knightly, MD, FACS, FAANS

Jay I. Kumar, MD, MBA

Michael J. Lang, MD

Sheng-fu Larry Lo, MD, FAANS

Michael T. Lawton, MD, FAANS

Allan B. Levin, MD, FAANS(L)

Ronald Loftus

Mohamed Macki, MD

Grant William Mallory, MD, FAANS

Justin Robert Mascitelli, MD, FAANS

Taras Masnyk, MD, PhD, FAANS

John M. McGregor, MD, FAANS

Israel Melamed, MD, IFAANS

Camilo A. Molina, MD, FAANS

Jay K. Morgan, MD, FAANS

Jeffrey Paul Mullin, MD, FAANS

Jeremy Charles Peterson, MD, FAANS

Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD, MBA, FAANS

Stephan A. Munich, MD, FAANS

Gregory J. A. Murad, MD, FAANS

Aurangzeb Nafees Nagy, MD

Hiroshi Nakagawa, MD, IFAANS

David R. Nerenz, PhD

Charith Ishan Janendra Nanayakkara, MBBS, MRCS

David R. Nerenz, PhD

Vincent N. Nguyen, MD, FCNS

Christopher Michael Nickele, MD, FAANS

James Nolan

Joshua William Osbun, MD, FAANS

Gaston Oumarou, MD

Paul Park, MD, FAANS

Russel H. Patterson, Jr., MD, FAANS(L)

Marc Andrew Prablek, MD

Morris Wade Pulliam, MD, FAANS(L)

Donald O. Quest, MD, FAANS(L)

Rudy Rahme, MD, FAANS

Eytan Raz, MD

Patrick Julian Reid, MD, FAANS

Angela M. Richardson, MD, PhD, FAANS

John D. Rolston, MD, PhD, FAANS

Rafael Rodriguez-Mercado, MD, FAANS, FACS

Bonnie Sartore

Stephen Scott Scibelli, MD, FAANS

Joseph Carl Serrone, MD, FAANS

Adnan H. Siddiqui, MD, PhD, FAANS

Scott Douglas Simon, MD, FAANS

Kyle Smith, MD, FAANS

Matthew D. Smyth, MD, FAANS

Samir Sur, MD, FAANS

Viktor Szeder, MD, PhD, MSc

Philipp Taussky, MD

Steven Tenny, MD, MPH, MBA, FAANS

D. Roxanne Todor, MD, MBA, FAANS, FACS

Frank J. Tomecek, MD, FAANS

John R. Tompkins, MD, FAANS

Jamie Blake Toms, MD, FAANS

Jamie S. Ullman, MD, FAANS, FACS

Cheerag Dipakkumar Upadhyaya, MD, MBA, MSc, FACS, FAANS

Rodrigo Manuel Vallejo, Sr., MD, IFAANS

Todd W. Vitaz, MD, FAANS

Kevin Wade, MD

Andrew E. Wakefield, MD, FAANS

Jeremy C. Wang, MD, FAANS

Peter M. Ward, MD, FAANS

Clarence B. Watridge, MD, FAANS(L), FACS

Martin H. Weiss, MD, FAANS(L), FACS

Antoinette Wyszynski

Daniel S. Yanni, MD, FAANS

Philip A. Yazbak, MD, FAANS, FACS

Timothy J. Yee, MD

Chun-Po Yen, MD, FAANS

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