AANS Neurosurgical Top Gun Competition
Represent your residency program and face off against your colleagues in a challenging competition of neurosurgical skills, hosted by the Young Neurosurgeons Committee (YNC) at the AANS Annual Scientific Meeting.
Each year since 2006, the AANS Neurosurgical Top Gun Competition has provided a forum for residents, fellows and medical students to test their skills at various surgical simulation stations and be awarded a score for their efforts. Top scorers at each station are awarded cash prizes. The participant with the best overall score receives a cash prize as well as a prize for his or her residency program.
Plan to attend and compete at the upcoming AANS Annual Scientific Meeting.
Highest scoring competitors at the AANS Neurosurgical Top Gun Competition, by year:
| Year | Top Honors Winner |
| 2019 | Timur Urakov, MD Jackson Memorial Medical Center |
| 2018 | Ryan Austerman, Methodist Hospital Neurosurgical Residency |
| 2017 | Timur Urakov, MD University Of Miami |
| 2016 | Jarod Roland, MD Washington University |
| 2015 | Timur Urakov, MD Jackson Memorial Medical Center |
| 2014 | Chine Logan, DO Virginia Tech Carillion School of Medicine |
| 2013 | Jonathan Forbes, MD Vanderbilt University |
| 2012 | Amer Khalil Ahmad Khalil, MD Cleveland Clinic |
| 2011 | Jason Rahal, MD Tufts Medical Center |
| 2010 | Betty YS Kim, MD University of Toronto |
| 2009 | Shahid Mehdi Nimjee, MD, PhD Duke University Medical Center |
| 2008 | Richard B. Rhiew, MD, PhD Wayne State University |
| 2007 | Carla Sofia Reizinho, MD Lisbon, Portugal |
| 2006 | Matthew R. Johnson, MD University of Nebraska |