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$76,749 and counting The NREF is Building the Future of Neurosurgery one donation at a time. 2007-2008 NREF Campaign Donors

The NREF gratefully acknowledges all AANS members, groups, hospitals, practices, corporate partners and members of the general public who contributed to the Foundation in 2007: 2007 NREF Donor Pamphlet

The Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (NREF) Recognizes 2009 Campaign Donors

Each year the Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (NREF) of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) conducts a charitable campaign to raise funds to award research fellowships. These fellowships are vital to the advancement of neurosurgery.

The 2009 NREF "Advancing Neurosurgery through Research" campaign is based on a fiscal year from July 2008 through June 2009. Recognition is afforded to supporters based on a calendar year for tax purposes.

The Executive Council of NREF is pleased to acknowledge the generous contributions received from AANS members, corporations, and the general public:

NREF Cushing Donors

Summa Cum Laude-Gifts of $5,000 and above

Griffith R. Harsh IV & Margaret C. Whitman Fdn.

Cum Laude-Gifts of $1,000 to $2,499

Dr. Ronald Apfelbaum & Dr. Kathy Murray James R. Bean MD Deborah L. Benzil MD Henry Brem MD FACS William T. Couldwell MD PhD Robert J. Dempsey MD Fernando G. Diaz MD PhD Muftah Sam Eljamel MD FRCS Willard Emch MD John G. Golfinos MD Regis W. Haid Jr. MD Dr. & Mrs. Robert Harbaugh Theodore R. Jacobs MD Myron B. Kratzer Michael H. Lavyne MD Dr. & Mrs. Praveen Mummaneni Stuart Glen Rice MD FACS Raymond Sawaya MD Michael B. Shannon MD Gary K. Steinberg MD PhD Eric L. Zager MD

Honor Roll -- Gifts of $500 to $999

Jaime A. Alvarez MD Gary Paul Colon MD Michael M. Haglund MD PhD Diana L. Kraemer MD Frederick F. Lang Jr. MD Michael Schulder MD Philip A. Starr MD PhD Bruce Tranmer MD

Sponsor - Gifts of $250 to $499

Laurie Lynn Ackerman MD Jose Fausto Alvarez-Dib MD Arturo Ayala-Arcipreste MD Dr. & Mrs. Mitchel Berger William F. Ganz MD FACS Dr. & Mrs. Grant Gauger M. Peter Heilbrun MD John S. Kuo MD PhD Emilio M. Nardone MD William George Obana MD Richard A. Olafson MD Atom Sarkar MD PhD Randall W. Smith MD Gregory E. Walker MD Clark Watts MD JD H. Richard Winn MD

Supporter - Gifts of $100 to $249

Ryojo Akagami MD Felipe C. Albuquerque MD Mathew T. Alexander MD Marshall B. Allen Jr. MD Jonathan D. Altland MPAS PA-C Bruce James Andersen MD PhD Cynthia W. Anderson RN CCRN Nathan C. Avery MD Robert J. Backer MD Walter L. Bailey MD Ulrich Batzdorf MD Steven Joseph Beer MD Robert J. Bohinski MD PhD John Brayton MD FACS Michael H. Brisman MD FACS Derek A. Bruce MD Russell I. Buchanan MD Ali Bydon MD Mr. and Mrs. Gil Rodriguez Peter W. Carmel MD E. Thomas Chappell MD FACS Jefferson W. Chen MD PhD George I. Chovanes MD FACS Sean D. Christie MD Young Chung MD Ronald J. Cohen MD E. Sander Connolly Jr. MD Judson H. Cook MD MS John V. Cuff MD Arthur Robert Cushman MD Scott G. Cutler MD John D. Davis IV MD Maurice J. Day Jr. MD Alain C. J. de Lotbiniere MD FRCS(C) Fernando Delasotta MD FACS Paul David Dernbach MD William O. DeWeese MD Mr. & Mrs. Marguerite Dewitt James D. Dillon MD PC Eugen James Dolan MD Jill W. Donaldson MD Andrea F. Douglas MD Werner K. Doyle MD FACS Kent R. Duffy MD Scott C. Dulebohn MD Scott T. Dull MD FACS Steven A. Dutcher DO PhD Dr. & Mrs. Michael Edwards Bruce L. Ehni MD William Jeffrey Elias MD Nancy Epstein MD FACS Phillip G. Esce MD Shahin Etebar MD Bruce A. Everett MD Robert A. Fenstermaker MD Vincent Louis Ferrara II MD FACS E. Malcolm Field MD Paul M. Francis MD FACS Clifford Miles Gall MD Paul K. Gardner MD H. Harvey Gass MD Lynn M. Gaufin MD Richard E. George Jr. MD Kevin J. Gibbons MD FACS Stephen I. Goldware MD FACS Jordan C. Grabel MD Vicente C. Gracias MD Jeffrey Allen Greenberg MD Frederick K. Gregorius MD FACS Murali Guthikonda MD FACS Souheil F. Haddad MD Michael V. Hajjar MD Edward George Hames III MD PhD William C. Hanigan MD PhD Robert Lee Hash II MD Michael A. Healy MD Yoshitaka Hirano MD Jeffrey Hirschauer MD Eric K. Holm MD FACS George Ingorokva MD PhD Hiroshi Inoue MD Eric M. Jackson MD John A. Jane Jr. MD Ramin J. Javahery MD Nigel Ross Jenkins MD Balraj S. Jhawar MD DSc Timothy J. Johans MD FACS Ronald E. Jutzy MD Jordi X. Kellogg MD PC Amy H. Kelly NP David G. Kennedy MD Dr. & Mrs. Ghassan Khayyat Thomas A. Kingman MD FACS Daniel L. Kitchens MD FACS Dr. & Mrs. Larry Kleiner David G. Kline MD David S. Knierim MD Ezriel Edward Kornel MD Steven Gerard Kraljic MD David C. Y. Kung MD Charles Kuntz IV MD Kosuke Kuribayashi MD Thomas A. Lansen MD Edmund P. Lawrence Jr. MD Michael A. Lefkowitz MD Elad I. Levy MD Mark A. Liker MD Kenneth M. Little MD James J. Lynch MD Stavros N. Maltezos MD Thomas C. Manning MD PhD Clinton Edward Massey MD Peter L. Mayer MD Duncan Q. McBride MD Patrick W. McCormick MD FACS Morris E. McCrary III MD Gerald T. McGillicuddy MD Robert C. Meredith MD FACS Ray N. Miller MD Jay D. Miller MD Joseph C. Mirabile MD Horace Lee Mitchell MD Mark A. Mittler MD Michael C. Molleston MD Michael K. Morgan MD Richard J. Moulton MD Kevin J. Mullins MD PC Ilyas Munshi MD Paul L. O'Boynick MD Masaki Oishi MD PhD Jeffrey J. Olson MD Joseph G. Ong MD John Robert Pace MD Joseph C. Parker Jr. MD Erik C. Parker MD Wayne S. Paullus Jr. MD Nettleton S. Payne MD Jeff Erle Pearce MD Bruce Pendleton MD Gautam Phookan MD Randall W. Porter MD Vikram C. Prabhu MD Stefan G. Pribil MD Michael Howard Rabin MD Howard R. Reichman MD Charles C. Rich MD Robert Ronald Richardson MD Thomas W. Rigsby MD Kyoo S. Ro MD Scott C. Robertson MD Bruce R. Rosenblum MD Christopher S. Rumana MD Stephen M. Russell MD James T. Rutka MD PhD Patrick G. Ryan MD James Karl Sabshin MD Faheem A. Sandhu MD PhD Gerald R. Schell MD Steven J. Schneider MD FACS James M. Schumacher MD William A. Schwank MD Lali H. S. Sekhon MD PhD Bello B. Shehu MD Khawar M. Siddique MD Adnan H. Siddiqui MD PhD Julius Anthony Silvidi MD Harold Karrlin Smith MD Philip Yoder Smucker MD Daniel Gerard Spomar MD Richard A. Stea MD Jack Stern MD PhD Ann R. Stroink MD Peter P. Sun MD Arno S. Sungarian MD Shigeharu Suzuki MD Kiyoshi Takagi MD DMSc Brad A. Thomas MD Eve C. Tsai MD PhD Hani J. Tuffaha MD Christopher Uchiyama MD PhD Timothy Vogel MD Rand M. Voorhies MD Franklin C. Wagner Jr. MD Andrew E. Wakefield MD Brad Allen Ward MD G. Alexander West MD PhD William L. White MD Timothy F. Witham MD Wayne L. Wittenberg MD PhD Aizik L. Wolf MD Daniel Won MD Seth M. Zeidman MD

Contributor - Gifts of up to $99

Doreen L Allen Cheryll R Collier Marvin R. Cressman MD Dr. & Mrs. Stewart Dunsker Robert M. Hess MD Fred M Klemperer Yzabel France Michaud MD Jorge Marcelo Mura Castro MD Helen M North Karl D. Schultz Jr. MD Joni L. Shulman Masao Sugita MD John Trice

Group Gifts

Upstate Medical University Washington University in St. Louis

Corporate Associates

The Executive Council of the Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation applauds the efforts of these companies for providing their generous support to the 2009 NREF Campaign.

Corporate Gifts under $5000

In-Store Marketing Institute International Business Machine

Memorials and Tributes

Doreen L Allen in memory of Robert King, MD Dr. Ronald Apfelbaum & Dr. Kathy Murray in memory of Robert King, MD Deborah L. Benzil MD in memory of Frieda Scharf Mr. and Mrs. Gil Rodriguez in memory of Rita Ramirez Cheryll R Collier in memory of Jamie Bradfield Robert J. Dempsey MD in memory of Donald J. Dempsey Mr. & Mrs. Marguerite Dewitt in memory of John Sandin III, MD Dr. & Mrs. Stewart Dunsker in memory of Robert B. King, MD Dr. & Mrs. Michael Edwards in memory of Robert King, MD Willard Emch MD in memory of Sharon Emch Dr. & Mrs. Grant Gauger in memory of Julian T. Hoff, MD John G. Golfinos MD in honor of Patrick J. Kelly, MD William C. Hanigan MD PhD in memory of Louis V. Pupillo, MD Dr. & Mrs. Robert Harbaugh in honor of Richard L. Saunders, MD In-Store Marketing Institute in honor of Louis V. Pupillo, MD  in memory of Louis V. Pupillo, MD Dr. & Mrs. Ghassan Khayyat in memory of Robert B. King, MD Dr. & Mrs. Larry Kleiner in honor of Eleanor S. Metcalf, MD Fred M Klemperer in memory of Robert King, MD Myron B. Kratzer in honor of Robert King, MD Michael H. Lavyne MD in honor of Russel Patterson, Jr., MD Dr. & Mrs. Praveen Mummaneni in honor of Philip Weinstein Helen M North in memory of Louis Pupillo, MD Raymond Sawaya MD in memory of Robert Bainton King, MD Joni L. Shulman in honor of Richard G. Fessler, MD Upstate Medical University in memory of Robert B. King, MD Washington University in St. Louis in memory of Robert B. King, MD

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