Ashkan Shoamanesh
PHRI Senior Scientist Ashkan Shoamanesh received the 2024 American Neurological Association (ANA) Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award for the Physician-Scientist – Clinical category. The award was presented at ANA’s 149th Annual Meeting held on September 16.
The Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award, ANA’s highest and most prestigious honor, recognizes early- to mid-career neurologists and neuroscientists. It is awarded to those in the first 12 years of their career at the assistant/associate faculty (or equivalent) level, who have made outstanding basic or clinical scientific advances toward the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure of neurological diseases.
Shoamanesh is the founding Director of PHRI’s Hemorrhagic Stroke Research Program, which focuses on advancing treatment and establishing new standards of care to prevent stroke or reduce stroke-related death and disability. He is also an Associate Professor of Medicine and a stroke neurologist at McMaster University, where he holds the Marta and Owen Boris Chair in Stroke Research and Care.
Shoamanesh has received numerous awards for his impactful research from major international organizations, including: the American Academy of Neurology Pessin Award, the American Heart/Stroke Association (Globus Award, Siekert Award, Dudley White Award), the European Stroke Organization Young Investigator Award and Scientific Excellence Award, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada National New Investigator Award and Barnett Scholarship, and the World Stroke Organization Future Leaders Program Award.
