INS Distinguished Career Award
The Distinguished Career Award has been established by the INS Board of Governors to recognize individuals who are at or near the ends of their careers, and who have made major, sustained contributions to the field of neuropsychology as well as to the INS.
Award Qualifications
| Eligible Period: | At/near end of career |
| Description: | The Distinguished Career Award has been established by the INS Board of Governors to recognize individuals who are at or near the ends of their careers, and who have made major, sustained contributions to the field of neuropsychology as well as to the INS. |
| INS Membership Required: | Yes |
| Requirements: | 1 nomination letter and 2 letters of support |
| Presentation Yes/No: | No |
| Annual/Mid-Year: | Both |
Application Materials: The application should consist of a nominating letter, a CV plus 1-2 letters of support (see criteria). The nominating statements should be written as relating to the specific award for which the member is being nominated (1-2 page max). Nominating statements should be written in English, letters of support may be written in other languages (although English is preferred). Anyone can nominate and write support letters, but we do not accept self-nominations. Please submit all application materials to ins@the-ins.org
Due Date: Nominations may be submitted at any time. Ideally, awards nominations will be received four months prior to the meeting where the award is to be given (either the Annual or Mid-Year Meeting). For an award to be considered for the INS Mid-Year Meeting, please submit nominations by March 31st. For an award to be considered for the INS Annual Meeting, please submit nominations by September 30th of the prior year. Nominations are typically kept under consideration for future meetings if not awarded at a certain meeting (unless the nomination is not eligible).
1 Terminal degree can be either a PhD degree, a master or a certified clinical degree (may vary across countries)
Award Recipients
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Robyn Tate
INS 2021 Mid-Year Meeting Melbourne,
Australia – June 30 – July 3, 2021
It is my pleasure to nominate Professor Emerita Tate for the Distinguished Career Award. I believe she is a worthy recipient having made major, sustained contributions to the field of neuropsychology in its true interdisciplinary sense and forging new directions. Specifically, she is an internationally recognized leader in four inter-related areas of empirical research that have directly improved treatment and rehabilitation procedures for persons who must contend with the disabilities associated with acquired brain disorders: Her contributions can be summarized as leading major initiatives to improve (i) outcome instruments, (ii) evidence-based clinical practice, (iii) rehabilitation options, (iv) research methodology for single-case designs.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Sureyya Dikmen
INS 48th Annual Meeting Denver,
Colorado, USA – February 5-8, 2020
As a researcher, Professor Dikmen has made seminal contributions to the field of traumatic brain injury over more than 40 years. Beginning in the 1970s, she conducted some of the first and certainly most important studies of outcome following mild moderate and severe TBI. These studies were so important because they included large samples, were carefully controlled and achieved outstanding follow-up rates. Sureyya thereby brought objectivity and rigour to this field.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Kathy Haaland
INS 48th Annual Meeting Denver, Colorado,
USA – February 5-8, 2020
Dr. Haaland joined INS in 1975, just 8 years after INS was founded and the same year she completed her postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Charles Matthews at UW Madison. Her commitment to INS is easily seen in her decades of service to our Society. She was a member of the Board of Governors from 1983-1986 and has been on the INS Continuing Education Committee since 2004. She was Symposium Editor for the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society from 1995 to 2005, and served as Editor-in Chief of JINS from 2005 to 2013. And, of course, she was President of our Society in 2016-17, preceded by the 2 preparatory years as President-Elect and Incoming-President.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Lucia Braga
INS 2019 Mid-Year Meeting Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil – July 10-12, 2019
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Jiri Diamant
INS 2018 Mid-Year Meeting Prague,
Czech Republic – July 18-20, 2018
Dr. Jiří Diamant received his MSc and achieved his PhD. in psychology and philosophy in Brno in 1953. He completed his internship and fellowship training at the Department of Psychiatry, 1st Faculty of Medicine, General University Hospital, Charles University, Prague, and founded and developed clinical neuropsychology approach as an integral part of clinical psychology and psychiatry since 1953. Thus, he is the Godfather of Czechoslovak neuropsychology.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Eli Vakil
INS 2017 Mid-Year Meeting Cape Town,
South Africa – July 5-8, 2017
Eli Vakil is a full professor and former departmental chairman in the Department of Psychology at Bar Ilan University, Israel, where he directs the Memory and Amnesia Laboratory at the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center. Professor Vakil received his Ph.D in Clinical Neuropsychology in 1985 from the Graduate School of the City University of New York, Queens College. His dissertation on memory deficits among closed-head-injured patients and the elderly was the starting point of a long and fruitful scientific career in memory research. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and the same amount of conference presentations, on memory disorders in various clinical populations.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Tom McMillan
INS 2016 Mid-Year Meeting London,
England, UK – July 6-8, 2016
Tom is Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology in the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow. He was the first Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology in the UK and was the founder of the professional sub-division for clinical neuropsychology in the UK. He received the Division of Neuropsychology Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. He has engaged in clinical and research work in head injury and neurorehabilitation for over 35 years and has published almost 200 articles. He serves on the Board of Governors of the International Brain Injury Society and was a past president.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
INS 2016 Mid-Year Meeting London,
England, UK – July 6-8, 2016
Faraneh is Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, and Head of Section on Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychiatry at the UCL Institute of Child Health in London, UK. As the Senior Consultant Neuropsychologist, she also leads the Department of Clinical Neuropsychology at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Ken Adams
INS 44th Annual Meeting Boston, Massachusetts,
USA – February 3-6, 2016
Kenneth M. Adams graduated with his Bachelor of Science from Wayne State University with a major in psychology and a minor in mathematics. He was drawn to the world of neuropsychology during his undergraduate career via laboratory experiences in psychophysiology, followed by exposure to the clinical use of integration of clinical psychology and brain research in a hospital setting.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Russell Adams
INS 44th Annual Meeting Boston, Massachusetts,
USA – February 3-6, 2016
Russell Adams is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC). Dr. Adams received his Bachelor’s degree from Texas A & M University and his PhD in psychology from the University of Texas. He served as a Captain in the US Army Medical Service Corps from 1967 to 1969. Dr. Adams has been the Director of the Neuropsychological Assessment Laboratory and Psychology Internship Program at the OUHSC since 1978.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Linas Bielauskas
INS 44th Annual Meeting Boston, Massachusetts,
USA – February 3-6, 2016
Dr. Linas Bieliauskas has played an instrumental role in Clinical Neuropsychology’s development and evolution as a professional discipline. During the course of his distinguished career, Linas has worked diligently in establishing and implementing models for training and in maintaining quality and integrity in professional practice. He has personally trained and served as a role model for a generation of neuropsychologists entering the field over the past 30 years.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Diane Howieson
INS 44th Annual Meeting Boston, Massachusetts,
USA – February 3-6, 2016
Diane Howieson is an Associate Professor Emerita of Neurology at the Oregon Health & Science University, where she was a clinician and investigator in the Layton Aging and Alzheimer’s Research Center. Her principle research areas were aging and dementia. She was Head of the Neuropsychology Division at the Portland VA Medical Center for many years where she trained predoctoral and postdoctoral students. She is a co-author with Muriel Lezak, Erin Bigler, and Daniel Tranel on the fifth edition of Neuropsychological Assessment.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Jenni A. Ogden
INS 2015 Mid-Year Meeting Sydney,
Australia – July 1-4, 2015
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Jason Brandt
INS 43rd Annual Meeting Denver, Colorado,
USA – February 4-7, 2015
Jason Brandt, PhD, ABPP is a gifted neuropsychologist whose contributions have shaped our field as a science and as a profession. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Jason received his formative undergraduate education at Brooklyn College. He then completed master’s and doctoral degrees in experimental and physiological psychology at Boston University. There, he trained with Allan Mirsky at the School of Medicine and Nelson Butters (and a host of other neuropsychology luminaries) at the Boston VA Medical Center.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Dean Delis
INS 43rd Annual Meeting Denver, Colorado,
USA – February 4-7, 2015
Dean Delis is currently a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, where he has been on the faculty for the past 29 years. During this time, he also served as the Director of the Psychological Assessment Unit at the VA San Diego Healthcare System, and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Dan Hoofien
INS 2014 Mid-Year Meeting Jerusalem,
Israel – July 9-11, 2014
Professor Dan Hoofien is one of the senior rehabilitation psychologists and clinical neuropsychologists in Israel and has had a tremendous impact on the development and quality of these professions during the last four decades. He received his academic education in psychology at Tel-Aviv University (Ph.D., 1994). His involvement in neuropsychological rehabilitation began relatively early, during his graduate studies at TAU, when he served as the clinical coordinator of an experimental trial in the behavioral rehabilitation of young patients with severe TBI.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Ida Sue Baron
INS 42nd Annual Meeting Seattle, Washington,
USA – February 12-15, 2014
Ida Sue Baron is a pioneer in pediatric neuropsychology. She received her doctorate from the University of Maryland in school psychology (Psychological Services in the Schools) with a minor in neuropsychology. Her dissertation work, a study of normal pressure hydrocephalus in children, arose from collaboration with pediatric neurosurgery. She established an active neuropsychology service at Children’s National Medical Center, breaking new ground in the neurobehavioral assessment of children with medical and neurological disorders
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Robert J. Ivnik
INS 42nd Annual Meeting Seattle, Washington,
USA – February 12-15, 2014
Robert J Ivnik, PhD, ABPP-CN is Professor of Psychology in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and a Consultant in the Division of Neurocognitive Disorders at Mayo Clinic. A native of Joliet, IL he completed his undergraduate degree at Yale in 1971, and his PhD at Washington University in 1975. He interned at the University of Colorado Medical Center and then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Health Science Center. In 1977, he was recruited to Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN to establish a neuropsychology practice.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Catherine A. Mateer
INS 42nd Annual Meeting Seattle, Washington,
USA – February 12-15, 2014
Dr. Catherine Mateer is well known internationally for her work in the clinical assessment and management of cognitive and emotional difficulties following neurological injury. She began her career with a Master of Science degree in Communication Disorders from the University of Wisconsin, and then pursued a PhD in Psychology from the University of Western Ontario, and postdoctoral training in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington. In the 1980’s, she began pioneering work in the area of cognitive rehabilitation as Clinical Director of the Good Samaritan Hospital Neuropsychology Service in Washington.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Edith V. Sullivan
INS 42nd Annual Meeting Seattle, Washington,
USA – February 12-15, 2014
Edith V. Sullivan, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Connecticut. Following graduate school, she was a research scientist in the Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory at Brandeis University and the Department of Psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Edie is a neuropsychologist who has championed putting the “neuro” back into neuropsychology and has done so in her research and through her editorship of Neuropsychology Review.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Michael Kopelman
INS 2013 Mid-Year Meeting Amsterdam,
the Netherlands – July 10-13, 2013
Michael Kopelman is an internationally recognised authority on memory disorders. For over 30 years, his seminar neuropsychological and neuropsychiatric work on the subject has shaped the development of cognitive neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry in Britain and beyond. Mike’s first degree was in Psychology before he completed his medical degree at the University of London in 1978 and received his PhD from the Institute of Psychiatry ten years later. In 1998, he became a Professor of Neuropsychiatry at Guy’s King’s & St Thomas’s School of Medicine, now part of the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London. He has authored around 200 scientific articles and four seminal books on memory, including The Handbook of Memory Disorders, a major reference volume in the field.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Michael Corballis
INS 41st Annual Meeting Waikoloa, Hawaii,
USA – February 6-9, 2013
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
H. Julia Hannay
INS 41st Annual Meeting Waikoloa, Hawaii,
USA – February 6-9, 2013
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Harvey Levin
INS 41st Annual Meeting Waikoloa,
Hawaii, USA – February 6-9, 2013
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Kevin Walsh
INS 41st Annual Meeting Waikoloa,
Hawaii, USA – February 6-9, 2013
Distinguished Career Award Recipient – (posthum.)
Marit Korkman
INS 2012 Mid-Year Meeting Oslo,
Norway – June 27-30, 2012
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Jarl Risberg
INS 2012 Mid-Year Meeting Oslo,
Norway – June 27-30, 2012
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Maureen Dennis
INS 40th Annual Meeting Montreal, Quebec,
Canada – February 15-18, 2012
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Leslie Gonzalez-Rothi
INS 40th Annual Meeting Montreal, Quebec,
Canada – February 15-18, 2012
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Kerry Hamsher
INS 40th Annual Meeting Montreal, Quebec,
Canada – February 15-18, 2012
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Andrew Kertesz
INS 40th Annual Meeting Montreal, Quebec,
Canada – February 15-18, 2012
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Morris Moscovitch
INS 40th Annual Meeting Montreal, Quebec,
Canada – February 15-18, 2012
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Marlene Oscar Berman
INS 40th Annual Meeting Montreal, Quebec,
Canada – February 15-18, 2012
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Ralph Reitan
INS 40th Annual Meeting Montreal, Quebec,
Canada – February 15-18, 2012
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Ennio De Renzi
INS 39th Annual Meeting Boston, Massachusetts,
USA – February 2-5, 2011
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Eileen Fennel
INS 39th Annual Meeting Boston, Massachusetts,
USA – February 2-5, 2011
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Marcel Kinsbourne
INS 39th Annual Meeting Boston, Massachusetts,
USA – February 2-5, 2011
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Steven Mattis
INS 39th Annual Meeting Boston, Massachusetts,
USA – February 2-5, 2011
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
James Reed
INS 39th Annual Meeting Boston, Massachusetts,
USA – February 2-5, 2011
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Barbara C. Wilson
INS 39th Annual Meeting Boston, Massachusetts,
USA – February 2-5, 2011
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Dirk Bakker
INS 37th Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia,
USA – February 11-14, 2009
Dirk Bakker has been a true pioneer in the Netherlands within the field of neuropsychology, especially child neuropsychology. His research career spanning about forty years of work has specifically focused on dyslexia related to the hemispheric specialization of functions. Dirk started his intriguing research by developing a neuropsychological model of the process of normal and abnormal reading. He validated his model of developmental dyslexia with electrophysiological (ERP) measures in longitudinal studies of normal children as well as of children with different subtypes of dyslexia.
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Alexandre Castro-Caldas
INS 37th Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia,
USA – February 11-14, 2009
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Martha Denckla
INS 37th Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia,
USA – February 11-14, 2009
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Gerald Goldstein
INS 37th Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia,
USA – February 11-14, 2009
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Ken Heilman
INS 37th Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia,
USA – February 11-14, 2009
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Allan Mirsky
INS 37th Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia,
USA – February 11-14, 2009
Distinguished Career Award Recipient
Sara Sparrow
INS 37th Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia,
USA – February 11-14, 2009
