Past Van Wagenen Fellows
Since 1968, more than 50 fellows have pursued research and academic interests in neurosurgery abroad through the Van Wagenen Fellowship. See below for a listing of fellowship awardees for each year and location of their sponsoring institution.
| Year | Fellow | Sponsor Institution(s) | Country |
| 2024 | Brandon P. Lucke-Wold, MD | Fujita Health University | Japan |
| 2022 | Bhuvic Patel, MD | Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ)/ Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg | Germany |
| 2020 | Ezequiel D. Goldschmidt, MD, PhD | Karolinska Instituet | Sweden |
| 2018 | Kai Joshua Miller, MD | University Medical Center, Utrecht | The Netherlands |
| 2017 | Darrin J. Lee, MD, PhD | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 2016 | S. Kathleen Bandt, MD | Aix-Marseille Universite | France |
| 2015 | Lisa Anne Feldman, MD | University of Auckland | New Zealand |
| 2014 | Ausaf A. Bari, MD | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 2013 | David Ryan Ormond, MD | Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn | Germany |
| 2012 | Matthew Christopher Tate, MD, PhD | Hopital Guide Cliauliac; Hopital Saint Eloi | France |
| 2011 | Nicholas F. Marko, MD | University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) | United Kingdom |
| 2011 | Ben Waldau, MD, FAANS | University of Dresden (Center for Regenerative Therapies) | Germany |
| 2010 | Andrew W. Grande, MD | Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen | Germany |
| 2009 | Michael C. Park, MD, PhD | Assistance Publique L' Hospital d' Adulte de la Timone | France |
| 2008 | Samuel H. Cheshier, MD, PhD, FAANS | Lund University | Sweden |
| 2007 | James C. Miller, MD, FAANS | University of Tubingen | Germany |
| 2006 | Yu-Hung Kuo, MD, PhD, FAANS | Fliders Medical Centre | Australia |
| 2006 | Uzma Samadani, MD, PhD, FAANS | University of Goettingen | Germany |
| 2005 | Devin K. Binder, MD PhD FAANS | University of Bonn Medical Center | Germany |
| 2004 | Stephen M. Russell, MD, FAANS | Ludwig Maximilians, University of Munich | Germany |
| 2003 | Odette Althea Harris, MD, MPH, FAANS | University Hospital of the West Indies | Jamaica |
| 2002 | Saadi Ghatan, MD | Institute of Child/Health/Great Ormond Street Hospital | England |
| 2001 | Shekar N. Kurpad, MD, PhD, FAANS | Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
| 2000 | P. Charles Garell, MD, FAANS | Centre Hospitalier Universitaire | France |
| 1999 | Theodore H. Schwartz, MD, FAANS | Tobias Bonheoffer Max-Planck Institute for Neurobiology | Germany |
| 1998 | Kamal Thapar, MD, FAANS | University of Erlagen-Nurnberg | Germany |
| 1997 | Zelma HT Kiss, MD PhD | Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble | France |
| 1996 | Howard L. Weiner, MD, FAANS | Institut d'Embryologie Cellulaire et Moleculaire | France |
| 1995 | Timothy C. Ryken, MD, FAANS | Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair | United Kingdom |
| 1994 | Ivar M. Mendez, MD, PhD, FAANS | University of Lund | Sweden |
| 1993 | Mark E. Linskey, MD, FAANS | Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research | England |
| 1992 | Mary Louise Hlavin, MD, FAANS | Cambridge University | England |
| 1991 | Ian F. Pollack, MD, FAANS | Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois/University of Uppsala | Switzerland/Sweden |
| 1990 | Walter A. Hall, MD, FAANS | Norwegian Radium Hospital/Frenchay Hospital | Norway/England |
| 1989 | David W. Newell, MD, FAANS | Inselpital | Switzerland |
| 1988 | Mark W. Jones, MD, FAANS | Queens Square | England |
| 1987 | Emily D. Friedman, MD, FAANS | Sandoz Institute/Hospital Salpetriere/Laboratory of Professor Bjorklund | England/France/Sweden |
| 1986 | Edward George Hames III, MD, PhD, FAANS | Kings College | England |
| 1985 | Marc R. Mayberg, MD, FAANS | Queens Square | England |
| 1984 | Edmund Frank, MD | Universitaire Vaudis | Switzerland |
| 1983 | Lawrence F. Borges, MD, FAANS | Merck, Sharpe & Dohme Research Laboratories | England |
| 1982 | Larry Van Carson, MD, MBA, FAANS | Hospital Foch | France |
| 1981 | Stephen J. Haines, MD, FAANS | Radcliffe Infirmary | England |
| 1980 | L. Dade Lunsford, MD, FAANS | Karolinska Sjukhuset | Sweden |
| 1979 | George W. Tyson, MD, MBA, FAANS(L) | Institute of Neurological Sciences | Scotland |
| 1978 | Jay D. Law, MD | Centro Ramon y Cajal | Spain |
| 1977 | William F. Chandler, MD, FAANS(L) | Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
| 1976 | Patrick J. Kelly, MD, FAANS(L) | Saint Ann and Foch Hospitals/Western General Hospital | France/Scotland |
| 1975 | Lawrence H. Pitts, MD, FAANS(L) | Institute of Neurological Sciences | Scotland |
| 1974 | W. Michael Vise, MD | Max Planck Institute | Germany |
| 1973 | Joan L. Venes, MD | Wellcome Research Institute | Scotland |
| 1972 | Robert A. Ratcheson, MD FAANS(L) | Brain Research Laboratory | Sweden |
| 1971 | Ira C. Denton Jr., MD, FAANS(L) | Kantonsspital Zurich | Switzerland |
| 1970 | M. Peter Heilbrun, MD | Bispejerg & Rigs Hospitals | Denmark |
| 1969 | John M. Tew Jr., MD, FAANS(L) | Kanatonsspital Zurich | Sweden |
| 1968 | Richard M. Bergland, MD | Oxford University | United Kingdom |