With Cerebrovascular Section Chairs
Honored Cleveland Clinic Alumnus
Professor Awad as CNS President
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES, AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
Professor Issam Awad’s contributions have been recognized for more than two decades, through numerous honors and awards, visiting professorships, invited jury for doctoral dissertations and publications, editorial activities, elected membership and the leadership of professional and learned societies, including several honor societies in medicine and neurosurgery. Some of these recognitions are listed below. For more comprehensive listing of extramural and intramural activities please refer to the full copy of Professor Awad’s Curriculum Vitae.
Membership and Leadership of Professional Societies
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (Elected 1980)
Angioma Alliance (Chairman Scientific Advisory Board 2001 to present)
American Academy of Neurological Surgery (Elected 1996)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Member since 1993)
American Association of Neurological Surgeons (Member since 1988)
American College of Surgeons (Fellow since 1991); Board of Governors (1997-2001)
American Epilepsy Society (Member since 1989)
American Stroke Association (Fellow since 1987); Executive Council (1997-2001)
American Society of Neuroimaging
Chilean Society of Neurosurgery (Honorary Corresponding Member 1991)
Congress of Neurological Surgeons (Member since 1985); Historian and Archivist, 51st Past President
Foundation for International Education in Neurosurgery (Board of Trustees 1998-2001)
International Platform Association (Elected Member 1995)
Joint Section on Cerebrovascular Diseases, American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons (Past Chairman 2001-2002)
Joint Section of Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery, American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons (Member since 1988)
Joint Section on Trauma and Critical Care, American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons (Member since 1998)
New England Neurosurgical Society (Member 1993)
New York Academy of Sciences (Elected Member 1998)
North American Skull Base Society (Member since 1998)
Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française (Membre Correspondant 1989-1995; Membre Titulaire 1995-present; Honored Guest 2001)
Society of Neurological Surgeons, “Senior Society” (Elected May 2001); Research Update in Neuroscience for Neurosurgeons (RUNN) Course Director 1998-2003; codirector 2004- present
United States Section, International College of Surgeons (Elected Fellow 1987)
World Association of Lebanese Neurosurgeons (Founding President 1992-1997)
Awards and Honors
The Pudenz Award for “Excellence in Hydrocephalus Research”, 1988.
The Oldendorf Award, American Society of Neuroimaging, 1989.
Who's Who in Medicine and the Health Professions. 1990, 1994.
Harry Wilkins Visiting Professor, University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, 1994.
Honorary Master of Arts (Privatim), Yale University. 1995.
The Rasmussen Lecturer, Montreal Neurological Institute, 1995.
Best Doctors in America (Neurosurgery), Good Housekeeping Magazine, 1996.
Best Doctors in America (Northeast Region), 1996.
Best Doctors in America (National listing), 1998-2010.
Invited Nominator, The Nobel Committee for Physiology and Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (1997, 1999 and 2001 prizes).
The Nixdorff-German Endowed Professorship Chair in Neurosurgery, Yale University, 1997-2000.
Strathmore’s Who’s Who, 1998-2001.
The 4th Tindall Distinguished Professor, Emory University, 1999.
Honored Alumnus. The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 1999.
President, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 2000-2001.
Chairman, Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery of American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 2001-2002.
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Neurosurgical Society Visiting Professor, 2000.
The Ogsbury-Kindt Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 2001-2003.
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2002-2003.
Who’s Who Among executives and Professionals, 2005-2006 (Honors Registry).
America’s Top Doctors, Castle Connolly Guide, 2002- 2003.
2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century , International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, 2002-2004.
Twenty Second J. Jay Keegan Visiting Professor, University of Nebraska, 2002.
Butcher Award for Genomics Research, University of Colorado, 2003.
Foundations in Doctoring Teacher Award, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 2003.
World Innovation Foundation (Invited Fellow), United Kingdom, 2003.
21st Century Award for Achievement, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, 2002-2004.
International Health Professional of the Year, Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, 2004.
Distinguished Service Award, World Association of Lebanese Neurosurgeons, 2004.
Commission des Theses, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France, These de Doctorat, 2004.
Academic Excellence Award, Department of Surgery (Neurosurgery), Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, 2005-2007.
University of New South Wales, PhD Thesis Committee, Sydney, Australia, 2006.
Symposium Co-Chairman, National Institutes of Health Workshop on Biology of Vascular Malformations of the Brain, March 2008
Publication and Editorial Peer Review
Neurosurgery (Editorial Board, Editor CPC Special Feature, Editor Science Times in Neurosurgery, Associate Editor)
Techniques in Neurosurgery (Editorial Board)
Seminars in Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke (Editorial Board)
Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica, Japan (International Advisory Board)
Pan Arab Journal of Neurosurgery (International Advisory Board)
Ad Hoc Reviewer Journal of Neurosurgery, Surgical Neurology, British Journal of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Archives of Neurology, Stroke, Cancer, Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, Epilepsia, Annals of Neurology, American Journal of Neuropsychology, American Journal of Neuroradiology, Surgical Neurology (Reviewer)
Links to Selected Professional Organizations
Congress of Neurological Surgeons www.cns.org
American Association of Neurological Surgeons www.aans.org
Angioma Alliance www.angioma.org
Society of Neurological Surgeons www.societyns.org
World Association of Neurological Surgeons www.waln.org/awad.html
