INS recognizes lifetime achievement for contributions in research, education or service in the field of neuropsychology.
INS Lifetime Achievement Award For Research Qualifications:
| Eligible Period: | >25 years |
| Description: | Independent established senior researcher, international reputation, substantive research impact. May or may not be active in her/his career; impact transformative for the field; i.e. by the development of a significant body of knowledge within an area of neuropsychology; promotion of a theory. |
| INS Membership Required: | No |
| Requirements: | 1 nomination letter and 2 letters of support |
| Presentation Yes/No: | No |
| Annual/Mid-Year: | Both |
INS Lifetime Achievement Award for Education Qualifications:
| Eligible Period: | Senior |
| Description: | Recognition of a senior individual who has furthered the development of the field of neuropsychology beyond their own institution. Methods of educational impact are not limited (books, courses) with (intern)national impact. May or may not be active. |
| INS Membership Required: | No |
| Requirements: | 1 nomination letter and 2 letters of support |
| Presentation Yes/No: | No |
| Annual/Mid-Year: | Both |
INS Lifetime Achievement Award for Education Qualifications:
| Eligible Period: | Senior |
| Description: | Recognition of an individual who has made a significant contribution to INS through commitment and support of the goals of the society. Criteria for the service to INS award are wide (eg pioneer status in the development of INS, leadership at transformational times). May or may not be active. |
| 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)
INS 2025 Mid-Year Meeting
Brisbane, Australia – July 2 – 5, 2025
Professor Leanne Togher is a full Professor, NHMRC Investigator Grant Research Fellow (Level 3) with a speech pathology background at The University of Sydney. Togher’s work has improved management of cognitive communication disorders for people with brain injury, particularly in evaluating and disseminating evidence-based advances for people with brain injury and their families. Togher is responsible for the first communication partner training program for families and friends of people with brain injury called TBI Express which is accessed by clinicians, families, and people with brain injury from more than 130 countries. Togher’s strong commitment to knowledge translation led to the 420-page TBI Express treatment manual being available from the Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment Resources website and which is now in regular clinical use in the UK, USA, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Belgium, Sweden and The Netherlands. It has been adapted for video teleconferencing (TBI ConneCT) and via a clinician directed responsive web design app (Convers-ABI-lity). Interact-ABI-lity is another communication partner training program which she developed with her team. This self-directed training program is for people wishing to learn about how to communicate with a person with brain injury has been accessed 4000 times from 28 countries to date. Professor Togher is internationally recognised in speech pathology, with more than 350 papers, 4 books and over 20 book chapters.
INS 53rd Annual Meeting
New Orleans, USA – February 12 – 15, 2025
Every learning process requires reflection on how the structure of knowledge is formed and how it is transformed. This research examines the influence of beliefs on students, whether or not they achieve radical conceptual change. Its main objectives were to analyze the relationship between beliefs and radical conceptual change, determining the degree of involvement of variables such as motivation level, metacognitive skills development, and conceptions of learning, in 116 undergradyate psychology students, beginning and ending their studies, from a school in Asunción and three branches in the interior of the country, belonging to the same private university.
INS 52nd Annual Meeting
New York, USA – February 14 – 17, 2024
Dr. Bilder’s research focuses on dimensional approaches to understanding mental disorders and the continua that bridge from mental illness to healthy states and exceptional cognitive abilities. Dr. Bilder directs the Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity, the NIMH-sponsored National Neuropsychology Network, and the National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab at UCLA. He also serves as Co-PI of an NIMH study examining the neural correlates of “positive valence systems” using fMRI and online behavioral assessments. Dr. Bilder is Chief of the Division of Psychology within the Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences in the David Geffen School of Medicine, which currently involves approximately 160 psychology faculty and staff, and approximately 100 trainees at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels.
INS 51st Annual Meeting
San Diego, USA – February 1-4, 2023
Professor Anderson is a paediatric neuropsychologist, working across clinical, research and academic sectors. She held the position as the Director of Psychology Services at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia from 2002 to 2023. She holds executive roles at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), including Director, Clinical Sciences Research and Clinical Lead of the Digital Health program. She is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne (Psychology & Paediatrics). Her primary research and clinical interest focuses on improving outcomes from early childhood brain disorders. Her research team, Brain and Mind Research, has contributed to this field over 25 years, establishing the vulnerability of the young brain to injury and working to better understanding factors contributing to resilience and vulnerability in young children. Her recent work ha built upon evidence for the importance of the family in maximising recovery from childhood injury and illness, and her team is exploring paren-focused e-health interventions as a means of maximising child outcomes and improving family function.
INS 51st Annual Meeting
San Diego, USA – February 1-4, 2023
Dr Spitznagel has been the Director of the INS Global Engagement Committee Research and Editing Consultant program since 2008. This program is a priority at the GEC because it facilitates and supports colleagues and science around the world. The program provides, among others, research design, statistical advice, and English language editing, to colleagues who are planning research projects or want to develop international collaborations. The programm matches colleagues who need support with English or statistical advice with other colleagues with expertise in these areas to support writing papers of sufficient quality likely to be published in international journals. Dr Spitznagel developed a key role for 14 years as the director of the program identifying and encouraging colleagues to offer their time and expertise to increase global collaborations in the world and to increase the quality of their science and the impact of their publications. More than 100 articles were handled by Dr Spitznagel at this program, some of which were published at JINS. Twenty two professionals are currently acting as Consultants in this program, and Dr Spitznagel not only coordinates their work, but engage them to invest their time and knowledge in a very generous way and motivates them to support the program on regular basis. She is always diligent and accomplishes each task in time facilitating the GEC’s job as Chair not only with regular reports for the BOD, but also with advice and bright ideas.
INS 2022 Mid-Year Meeting
Barcelona, Spain – July 6 – July 8, 2022
Dr. Junque was formerly adjunct faculty in the Neurology Department of the Hospital de la Santa Creu and Sant Pau, Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychobiology, and the coordinator of the doctoral program in Medicine. Dr. Junque is currently professor of Psychobiology at the University of Barcelona and head of studies at the bachelor’s degree in Medicine. She has supervised 44 doctoral these, twenty-one of which have obtained an international mention. Her research has focused on the study of the relationship between brain and behavior through magnetic resonance imaging. She has more than 300 articles indexed in Pub Med.
INS 2022 Mid-Year Meeting
Barcelona, Spain – July 6 – July 8, 2022
Dame Til Wykes is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation and Head of Mental Health & Psychological Sciences at King’s College London, and a consultant clinical psychologist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. She led the UK NHS-wide infrastructure to support mental health research for the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR). Her research has had impact through the development of the CIRCuiTSTM cognitive remediation software and novel co-production methods that are used internationally. She influenced national and international research strategies through the European ROAMER (2015) and UK Mental Health Research Goals projects (2021). She champions Patient and Public Involvement and founded the renowned Service User Research Enterprise which employs excellent researchers with experience of using mental health services. Her influence has been recognised by the British Psychological Society (2014), a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDTM for the Largest Mental Health Lesson, a Damehood from the Queen (2016) and by the EPA for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in Working to Improve Mental Health Care in Europe. She has been secretary, treasurer, and president of the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS). She is an elected fellow of the Academies of Medical Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Arts, and has two honorary Doctor of Science degrees. She ran the national campaign for a statutory minimum wage when a PhD student and now campaigns on gender pensions equity in the periods between being a proud grandmother.
INS 2021 Mid-Year Meeting
Melbourne, Australia – June 30 – July 3, 2021
Dr. Borod has created a scientific legacy through her own research and through the training of neuropsychologists who are now themselves leaders in practice, training, and research. The brilliance of her research and the humanity of her character have contributed to our field in ways that will reverberate well beyond her lifetime. It is with profound appreciation for the many ways that Dr. Borod has touched our lives that we enthusiastically nominate her to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for Research.
INS 49th Annual Meeting
San Diego, Virtual Meeting – February 2-5, 2021
He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Neurology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health where he served as Director of the Charles G. Matthews Neuropsychology Section for 23 years. This position followed prior appointments at the Semmes-Murphey Clinic and Departments of Neurosurgery and Psychiatry at the University of Tennessee in Memphis, and the Department of Neurology at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. His primary work has characterized the cause and course of diverse neuropsychological and behavioral complications of the epilepsies as well as the impact of epilepsy on developmental and aging processes, with additional efforts in the areas of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease and cerebrovascular disease.
INS 2020 Mid-Year Meeting
Virtual Event Meeting – July 1-2, 2020
He is recognized for his educational activities that have broadly impacted the development and dissemination of neuropsychological knowledge across disciplines.
INS 47th Annual Meeting
New York City, New York, USA – February 20-23, 2019
When you talk with him he is fully present, focused, and engaged despite the swirl of issues he manages as Executive Director. He is a master of organizational detail, which makes for some of the longest emails any of us have ever seen! As a result, though, he leaves a legacy of clearer and more transparent society procedures, which will be the critical foundation for the society’s future growth. Gordon has always taken pride in representing INS in a positive way.
INS 2018 Mid-Year Meeting
Prague, Czech Republic – July 18-20, 2018
He worked as a clinical psychologist in the Thomayer Hospital in Prague and in The Military Rehabilitation Facility Slapy. Before the fall of the communist regime, he organized seminars and lectures for many Czech psychologists in experimental and clinical neuropsychology. In his clinical practice, he was influenced by Luria and he is one of the main exponents of Luria’s work in the Czech Republic.
INS 45th Annual Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA – February 1-4, 2017
No individual has ever been honored — or even nominated — to receive the INS Lifetime Achievement in Service Award, but it is difficult to imagine anyone in the history of the Society who is more deserving than Dr. Robert A. Bornstein.
INS 41st Annual Meeting
Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA – February 6-9, 2013
Dr. Stuss pursued neuropsychological research at the University of Ottawa and also clinical work at the Ottawa General Hospital, where he served as Director of Clinical Neuropsychological Services from 1978 to 1989 and wrote the seminal 1986 volume, The Frontal Lobes, with Frank Benson. He moved to Toronto in 1989 when he was appointed as the first Director of the Rotman Research Institute (RRI), and later to the position of Vice-President of Research at Baycrest. At the RRI he continued his increasingly influential research on frontal lobes and their role in attention, memory and cognitive control. His impressive legacy as a psychologist rests on his over 200 journal publications (cited 48,000 times), on his books (Stuss & Benson, 1986; Stuss & Knight, 2002, 2013), his numerous mentees, and on the ongoing success of the RRI and OBI.
INS 2009 Mid-Year Meeting
Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia – July 29-1, 2009
Barbara A. Wilson, OBE, PhD, a clinical neuropsychologist, is founder of the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Ely, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. She has worked in brain injury rehabilitation since the 1970s. Dr. Wilson has published 26 books, over 300 journal articles and book chapters, and 8 neuropsychological tests, and is editor of the journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. She has won many awards for her work, including five lifetime achievement awards, the Ramón y Cajal Award from the International Neuropsychiatric Association, and the M. B. Shapiro Award from the British Neuropsychological Society. She is past president of the British Neuropsychological Society and the International Neuropsychological Society, and is currently president of the Encephalitis Society and on the management committee of the World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation. Dr. Wilson is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Academy of Social Sciences. She is an honorary professor at the University of Hong Kong, the University of Sydney, and the University of East Anglia, and holds honorary degrees from the University of East Anglia and the University of Córdoba in Argentina.
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