Awards

History of INA Awards

At the 4th Congress of the International Neuropsychiatric Association in Buenos Aires in September 2002, the Alwyn Lishman Award and the Santiago Ramon Y Cajal Award were established. The Lishman Award established in honour of Prof. Alwyn Lishman, the pioneer of modern Neuropsychiatry, is presented to a clinician who has made significant contribution to clinical neuropsychiatry in practice, teaching and/or service delivery beyond the boundaries of their own country while the Cajal Award in honour of Prof. Santiago Ramon Y Cajal, the father of neuroscience, recognises the contribution of a neuroscientist with application to Neuropsychiatry that has resulted in a paradigm shift in conceptual understanding and/or contributed to the development of novel diagnostic or management strategies. The awards are presented very two years at the INA congress.

In 2025, the INA partnered with the American Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA) to create the Solomon Carter Fuller Award, named in memory of the first African American neuropsychiatrist, who studied neurofibrils in neurodegenerative diseases under Alois Alzheimer in Emil Kraepelin’s department in Frankfurt and became America’s foremost expert on Alzheimer Disease in the first decade of the 20th century. The Fuller Award is presented annually at the INA congress or the ANPA annual meeting to a trainee pursuing a career in neuropsychiatry in recognition of an outstanding poster submission.