American Neurological Association

He's been an award-winning researcher, winning the Hewn Award in PO- for the POSNA, um, uh, career research.

He's, uh, won the Hibbs Award for Scoliosis Research Society, and probably the only person in our s-society who will ever do this, he's also won the Yamaguchi Award for best paper in pediatrics by the American Neurological Association.

On top of that, he's received the Marfan Award from the National Marfan's Foundation and has been a stalwart in education and research at Johns Hopkins for so long, where, uh, he won Teacher of the Year twice.

Um, on top of that, Paul has been one of the, uh, most productive members within the Harm Study Group and is a just giant in our field.

Students are born with these literacy challenges, but with proper training, proper remediation, proper support, they can be helped and that hope is there for them to learn how to read.

Following a presentation of his studies of MP and the other Iowa cases to the American Neurological Association in the spring of 1925, Dr. Orton received a grant of $60,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation to continue the mobile mental hygiene clinics and his research in language disabilities.

After a trip abroad to confer with Dr. Henry Head and other neurologists, Dr. Orton assembled an outstanding clinic and research staff, which included a brain anatomist from Holland, a psychologist, Ms. Marion Monroe from Harvard, graduate students in psychology and speech and other disciplines.

Coordinated studies of stutterers were carried on by Dr. Orton and Dr. Lee Travis while Dr. Loretta Bender worked in brain pathology on a fellowship in Europe.

So I think it's just an amazing recognition and sort of well-deserved recognition for Michael and his vision.

Mark, a friend of the foundation, the president of the American Neurological Association, Dr. Dimitri Crank, he wrote a tribute around the news of this award.

And he wrote that scientific progress depends not only on brilliant investigators, but also upon visionary advocates.

How would you characterize Michael's visionary advocacy?

Butterbur creates a desensitized effect on these hyper-excited neurons, so you get less throbbing, less knife pain, less nausea, and overall pain goes down, and less light sensitivity because with migraines a lot of people are sensitive to bright lights.

The American Neurological Association once gave it its highest evidence rating until 2015.

They withdrew that rating not because the herb did not work.

It was because of a manufacturing problem because if you don't process this herb correctly, it can be very toxic, so you want the version without the toxicity that actually has a good reputation to make sure that this is PA-free.

At the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, she leads a research group studying the neurodegenerative diseases and maintains a clinical practice caring for those with Parkinson's disease.

Dr. Chen Plotkin has also won top awards from the American Academy of Neurology, the American Neurological Association, the Doris Duke Foundation, and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for her research efforts.

Dr. Chen Plotkin, thank you so much for being with us today.

We really appreciate