NREF Honor Your Mentor Funds Announce Awards

Honor Your Mentor (HYM) Funds recognize the incredible people who have advanced neurosurgery. Each mentor fund has a specific purpose, and donations fund a chosen research or educational endeavor in the mentor’s name across a variety of subspecialties.

The NREF congratulates the latest recipients of awards from HYM funds:

CHARLES H. TATOR FUND

2021 Tator Lecture
Allan D. Levi, MD, PhD, FAANS

Charles Tator Spinal Cord Injury Resident Research Award
Khaled Alok, MD, (Presenting Author) “The Effects of Connexin Inhibitors on the Behavioral, Cellular and Molecular Outcomes in a Porcine Spinal Cord Injury Model”

DONALD O. QUEST FUND

Donald O. Quest Basic Science Award for Medical Student
2021 Keyan Peterson

Donald O. Quest Clinical Science Award for Medical Student
2021 Caroline Goedmakers

Donald O. Quest Basic Science Award for Resident
2021 Panagiotis Mastorakos, MD, PhD

Donald O. Quest Clinical Science Award for Resident
2021 Jacob S. Young, MD

WARREN C. BOOP FUND

The fund supports resident education and research within the department of neurosurgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

2021 Matthew Helton, MD

On behalf of the NREF Board of Directors, we congratulate all Honor Your Mentor Fund award recipients and offer our best wishes for continued success.