Honor Your Mentor Funds
Training with the best leads to success, which benefits patients. Now you can show your gratitude through the NREF by honoring a mentor who helped you succeed.
Honor Your Mentor (HYM) Funds celebrate the luminaries of neurosurgery who have advanced our specialty.
The program started in 2014 with total pledges of $177,195 from 37 donors. Today, HYM funds represent total pledges of over $9M from more than 3,000 donors.
Each mentor fund has a specific purpose. Funds support leadership endeavors, research projects, educational initiatives and outcomes studies. To date, HYM funds have provided almost $2M in support of initiatives
across North America and abroad.
Your gift will fund a chose research or educational endeavor in the mentor’s name.
Mentor & Interest
To support global neurosurgical programmatic efforts
To support the annual Harbaugh - Drake Neurovascular Outcomes...
To support staff and resident education and research within the department...
To support research into the molecular mechanisms of neurosurgical diseases...
To promote resident attendance at national meetings and continued...
To support resident education, training, and research within the Department...
To fund resident and staff research and education in the Department of....
To promote resident educational activities including the development...
To support research in cerebrovascular or skull base neurosurgery or the investigation of neuroanatomy, by a resident or fellow.
To support the Tumor Section in their area of greatest need.
To be utilized for NREF-funded resident education and resident education...
To support pain education and research.
Why we should honor our mentors
by Timir Banerjee, MD, FAANS(L)
Mentors need love and care
Much like we do.
They have traveled the path and reached their destinations
To help us ride the waves that at times are out of proportion
Guru at times appears harsh but with no malice intended
To refine care of the disabled often a lot energy is expended.
I don’t care if it is Khichuri or Mujadara that we need to consume
To show honor and gratitude we must not just assume
But demonstrate by our actions
That to uplift a mentor is our pecuniary obligation!
To joyfully celebrate their efforts to find new horizons,
I want to engrave their names in plaques, for future generations.