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 the R. Michael Scott Lectureship and related educational...
To fund the Ralph Dacey Cerebrovascular Research Lectureship...
To support an annual award for the most successful Neurosurgical Oncology Fellow.
To be utilized for support of spinal clinical outcomes studies and fellowship...
To support basic or clinical research directed toward developing or evaluating...
To support mentorship of medical students and residents as well as...
To support clinical or bench research by a neurosurgical resident, awarded purely...
To support education and research within the University of Tennessee...
To support research in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery.
To fund an award for best spine research paper at the AANS...
To fund an international pediatric neurosurgery, pediatric epilepsy...
To support leadership development for all young neurosurgeons.
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.