Medical Student MISSION Fellowship
Medical students interested in neurosurgery as a career are urged to apply for the 2022 Medical Student MISSION Fellowship. MISSION stands for Medical Student in Organized Neurosurgery. To be eligible, you must graduate in 2024 or later.
The two-year fellowship allows a North American medical student to attend and participate on subcommittees under the direction of assigned AANS YNC mentors. Applicants will propose a research topic that addresses a system/practice issue. The completed project will be presented as an abstract at the spring YNC meeting at the completion of the Fellowship.
Selection of the Medical Student MISSION Fellow will be based on essay and CV. The $1000 annual award will be given for the Fellow to travel to the AANS Annual Scientific Meeting.
The application may be accessed by logging in to https://myaans.aans.org/myaans.aspx and selecting My Applications – Medical Student Fellowship. For questions, contact memberservices@aans.org.
Applications will be accepted for the 2022 MISSION fellowship from September 15, 2021 through December 1, 2021
| Year | Awardee | Medical School | Research Project |
| 2014 | Daniel Lubelski | Case Western Reserve | Improving Medical Student Recruitment to Neurosurgery |
| 2015 | Michael J. Strong | Tulane University | Medical Student Recruitment to Neurosurgery |
| 2016 | Nancy Abu-Bonsrah | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | Global Neurosurgery |
| 2017 | Joseph R. Linzey | University of Michigan | The Young Neurosurgeons Committee: The Training Ground for the Future Leaders in Organized Neurosurgery |
| 2018 | Prateek Agarwal | University of Pennsylvania | Annual Meeting Involvement and Research Productivity of AANS Medical Student Chapters |
| 2019 | Sakibul Huq | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | Recruiting Medical Students to Neurosurgery Through the Gross Anatomy Lab |
| 2020 | Neil Almeida | George Washington University School of Medicine | Utilizing Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality to Optimize Basic Science Education in Gross Anatomy and Stimulate Student Interest in Neurosurgery |
| 2021 | Andrew Wang | UCLA | Standardizing Virtual Neurosurgical Training and Improving Diversity in Neurosurgery Recruitment. |