Cloward Award Recipients

2022 Gary Steinberg, MD, PhD
Professor and Former Chair of Neurosurgery and the Neurosciences, Stanford University
Lecture: A Lifelong odyssey to understand and treat cerebrovascular disease, with a few detours

2021 Richard Ellenbogen, MD
Chairman and Professor of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington
Lecture: The Myth of Equipoise

2019 Robert Spetzler, MD
President and CEO Emeritus, Barrow Neurological Institute
Lecture: My Journey in Neurosurgery

2018 Edward R. Laws, Jr., MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
Lecture: Virtuosity in Surgery and Neurosurgery

2017 Volker K.H. Sonntag, MD
Vice Chairman Emeritus, Barrow Neurological Institute
Lecture: The Journey of Spinal Neurosurgery in the United States

2016 Donald Becker, MD
Professor Emeritus, UCLA
Lecture: Lecture: Stepping-Out of the OR: A Surgeon’s Foray into Entrepreneurship

2015 Edward H. Oldfield, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery and Internal Medicine, University of Virginia
Lecture: Lecture: Brain Trauma and Beyond: A Career in Neurosurgery

2014 Andres M. Lozano, MD
Professor and Chairman of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto
Lecture: Taming Dysfunctional Brain Circuits

2012 John R. Adler, Jr., MD
Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology, Stanford University
Lecture: Stepping-Out of the OR: A Surgeon’s Foray into Entrepreneurship

2011 John A. Jane, Sr., MD, PhD
Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia
Lecture: Anterior versus Posterior Approaches to the Cervical Spine

2010 Sean Mullan, MD
Professor Emeritus of Neurosurgery, University of Chicago
Lecture: Some Neurosurgical Fossils

2009 L. Nelson Hopkins, MD
Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Neurosurgery, SUNY-Buffalo,
Lecture: Neurosurgeons and Stroke: From Prevention to Treatment

2008 Peter Jannetta, MD
Past Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, U. of Pittsburg
Lecture: Vascular Compression in the Brainstem: Main Streaming Neurosurgery

2007 Charles B. Wilson, MD
Past Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, UCSF
Lecture: The Future of Neuroscience

2006 Martin Weiss, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, U.S.C.
Lecture: A Historical Walk through Pituitary Surgery

2005 Donald Prolo, MD
Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford University
Lecture: Legacy of Giants in the Treatment of Spinal Disorders:Ralph Cloward and Marshall Urist

2003 George Ojemann, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Washington
Lecture: Investigating Human Cognition during Epilepsy Surgery