Child Neurology Society 2009

HONOR A FOUNDING GIANT IN CHILD NEUROLOGY...
help find and fund new ones.

CONTRIBUTE TO THE PHILIP R. DODGE
YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD FUND

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Philip R. Dodge, MD
March 16, 1923 – August 30, 2009

One of the founding giants of child neurology, Dr. Philip R. Dodge, died on Sunday, August 30, in St. Louis, MO. Dr. Dodge, recipient of the 1978 Hower Award, was honored at the 2004 Child Neurology Society Annual Meeting in Ottawa with the renaming of the CNS Young Investigator Award in his honor. In March of this year the CNS Executive Committee announced plans to establish an endowment fund in support of the Philip R. Dodge Young Investigator Award with a campaign launch scheduled to coincide with the CNS Annual Meeting in Louisville, October 14-17; honorary chairs of the endowment fundraising campaign include four prominent past trainees of Dr. Dodge’s: Drs. Darryl De Vivo, Marvin Fishman, Stanley Johnsen, and Joseph Volpe

CNS Members are invited to e-mail testimonials related to their personal interaction with and/or professional and intellectual debts to Dr. Dodge to the CNS National Office. Selected testimonials will be included in the Annual Meeting edition of the CNS Newsletter as well as a special display honoring Dr. Dodge and highlighting the Philip R. Dodge Young Investigator Award as part of the campaign to raise endowment funds in its support. Send testimonials to: nationaloffice@childneurologysociety.org.

Click here to link to the 2004 profile of Dr. Dodge written by CNS Archives Committee Chair, Robert S. Rust, MD

The four recipients of the 2009 CNS Outstanding Junior Member Award to be recognized at the CNS Annual Meeting in Louisville in October are:

Bennett Gertz, MD (Children’s National Medical Center)
Ryan Lee, MD (Kennedy Krieger Institute)
John Mytinger, MD (University of Virginia)
Brandon Zielinski, MD (UCSF)

Each year, the CNS confers the honor of “Outstanding Junior Member” on the first authors of the four top-ranked abstracts submitted by Junior Members currently in a three-year pediatric neurology or developmental pediatrics training program. Recipients receive a plaque, recognition from the podium, as well as travel and hotel accommodations.

Dr. Uduak Mayen Offiong, from Abuja, Nigeria has been selected as the 2009 Bernard D’Souza International Fellowship Award to be presented at the CNS Annual Meeting in Louisville. In addition to presenting a poster and participating in the Annual Meeting, Dr. Offiong will visit the Johns Hopkins Hospital following the meeting at the invitation of Eric Kossoff, MD.

The 39th Annual CNS Meeting will be held October 13-16, 2010 at the Rhode Island Convention Center and the adjoining Westin Providence Hotel.

The 40th Annual CNS Meeting brings us back to Savannah, GA, site of the 9th Annual CNS Meeting in 1980. Dates of the meeting to be held at the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center and adjoining Westin Hotel are October 26-29, 2011.

After considerable discussion at the March Executive Committee meeting, it was decided that the CNS will initiate an effort to develop an endowment for the lectureships, awards and prizes which are given each year at the annual meeting. This includes the Hower Award, the Sachs Lectureship, the D’Souza International Travel Award, The Dodge Young Investigator Award, the Lifetime Achievement Awards, Neuroscience Research Prize for the outstanding paper by a high school science student (Jointly sponsored with the AAN) and the Outstanding Junior Member awards. If we do not have to depend on corporate funding for these fundamental components of our meeting it would do two things:

1. Ensure that the awards and prizes are secure and can reliably be given each year
2. Allow greater flexibility in the use of the corporate support we do get for the annual meeting.

Its clear that to build an endowment of this magnitude will take time, effort and generosity, but I have no doubt that we can and should do it. Accordingly, an endowment fund pledge drive will be launched in conjunction with this year's meeting which will give everybody the opportunity to participate in the effort. Other endowment campaigns may also be initiated as this process begins to be more clearly defined. This would include the possibility of the creation of separate funds to support individual awards, the Phil Dodge Young Investigator Award, for example. (More...)

• A list of accepted abstracts will be posted May 18.
• Registration will open July 1
• Hotel booking information will be posted June 15

Louisville is a lively, hidden jewel among American cities featuring lots of downtown restaurants, bars and clubs as well as a variety of great museums and family attractions, including:

• Churchill Downs/Kentucky Derby Museum
• Louisville Slugger Museum
• Frazier International History Museum
• Actor’s Theater of Louisville—one of America’s great regional theaters (epicenter of the country’s best known theater festival, the Humana Festival)
• The Muhammad Ali Center
• Speed Art Museum

The Claire Chee Award for Excellence in Child Neurology Nursing was established by the Association of Child Neurology Nurses in the year 2000. This award, given annually, recognizes and honors the nurse who, as a member of the ACNN, has rendered distinguished service within the profession of child neurology nursing. The recipient is one who demonstrates, through strength of character and competence, a commitment to the care of children and their families with neurological disorders. She/he is acknowledged by her/his peers as one who renders qualities of compassion, resourcefulness, leadership, knowledge, communication, and inspiration.

Candidates for the Award for Excellence may be submitted by any member of the Association of Child Neurology Nurses or the Child Neurology Society to the Award Committee. The Award Committee will evaluate the nominations and determine the most deserving candidate for the year. The Award will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Child Neurology Nurses. Please submit nominations by April 30, 2009 using the ACNN nomination form posted on the CNS website Annual Meeting page; you may also request a copy directly from Tamara H. Langhoff, RN, MS, CPNP (langhoff@mcw.edu).

On 22 November 2008 in Los Angeles, California, one month short of his 80th birthday, the world of paediatric neurology lost an icon and one its contemporary fathers, and the World at large lost a true Renaissance Man – physician; scientist; playwright; philosopher; connaisseur of good literature, art, music and food; humanist and liberal thinker who deplored discrimination, intolerance, prejudices and false values of all types. The life he lived was as interesting and inspiring as were his contributions to paediatric neurology and his understanding of the world around him, both medical and social. He succumbed to colonic carcinoma and complications of chemotherapy. More