A number of prestigious awards were made at the Irish Neurological Association meeting:

The John Kirker Prize for best Epilepsy related paper was awarded to Dr. Stephen Hunt for his paper 'Topiramate therapy in human pregnancy. Preliminary experience from the UK epilepsy and pregnancy register'

Mr. John Gray presents his award to Dr. Stephen Hunt

The Harold Millar Prize for best overall presentation was awarded to Dr. Peter Kinirons for his paper 'A novel locus for Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy in French Canadian families maps to 10p11'

The prize for best Neurosurgical paper was awarded to Dr. Desiree Fernandez for her paper 'Fatal Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): A 6 year audit'
Mr. John Gray presents her award to Dr. Desiree Fernandez

The BiogenIdec Prize for best Multiple Sclerosis related paper was awarded to Dr. Lisa Costelloe for her paper '20 year follow up of a benign MS cohort'

Mr. John Gray, presenting her award to Dr. Lisa Costelloe, with Ms. Paula Cobb, Biogen Idec.

 Two prizes were awarded in the poster section as there was a 'very high standard of poster presentations' (Mr. John Gray)

Poster Prize - Dr. Renga Renganathan 'Documentation of Neurological assessment in routine clerking – A snapshot'.
Poster Prize - Dr. Liam Smyth 'Impact of acute seizure admissions on resources of a large teaching hospital'.

To view the prize winning abstracts please click on the link to follow Abstracts