Omid Nikoubashman recently received the Lucien Appel Prize for best research paper from the European Society of Neuroradiology Scientific Awards Committee. This honor was presented for his article “Prospective Hemorrhage Rates of Cerebral Cavernous Malformations in Children and Adolescents Based on MRI Appearance,” which appeared in the November 2015 issue of the American Journal of Neuroradiology.
Seven neuroradiologists comprised the ESNR Scientific Awards Committee, which evaluated submitted papers and determined the recipients of each prize. The members of this committee were Nadine Girard (France), Sven Haller (Switzerland), Marco Leonardi (Italy), Per Nakstad (Norway), Isil Saatci (Turkey), Joanna Wardlaw (UK), and Chairman Rüdiger von Kummer (Germany). Members based their ratings of each submission on the following criteria: 1) publication in a high-ranking scientific journal, 2) scientific integrity, 3) advances in knowledge, and 4) implications for patient care. Dr. Nikoubashman’s paper was among 5 submissions considered for the Lucien Appel Prize, and the committee’s decision was unanimous.
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Dr. Omid Nikoubashman was born in Tehran, Iran in 1983. He studied Human Medicine in cities such as Düsseldorf, Paris, and London. After completing his education in 2010, he began his residency in the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology at the University Hospital Aachen. He also spent a year in the institution’s Department of Neurology. Since 2014, he has served as a research fellow at the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (medical imaging) at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany. He earned his doctorate degree in 2013 upon the completion of his thesis, “Natural History of Cerebral Cavernous Angiomas in the Paediatric Age Group.” The German Society of Neuroradiology previously awarded Dr. Nikoubashman the Marc-Dünzel Award. He has authored and co-authored 33 peer-reviewed articles in the field of diagnostic and interventional neuroradiology.
An expanded version of this article appeared in Neuroradiology 2016;58:1051–53
