Distinguished Lifetime Contribution to Neuropsychology Award

NAN’s most prestigious award is given to a senior scholar who has made significant scientific, intellectual, and training-related contributions to the field of neuropsychology. Recipients give an invited address at the Annual Conference, which is subsequently published in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology.



2022 Elizabeth Warrington, Ph.D.

2021 Allan F. Mirsky, Ph.D. | View Distinguished Lifetime Contribution to Neuropsychology Address 

2020
Professor A D Baddeley CBE, FRS, FBA, FMedSci | View Distinguished Lifetime Contribution to Neuropsychology Address 

2019 Kenneth M. Heilman, MD

2018  Bryan E. Kolb, Ph.D. 

2017  Larry R. Squire, Ph.D. 

2016  Jerry J. Sweet, Ph.D. 

2015  Gordon J. Chelune, Ph.D. 

2014  Barbara A. Wilson, OBE, Ph.D. 

2013  Dean C. Delis, Ph.D. 

2012  Kathleen Y. Haaland, Ph.D. 

2011  Donald Stuss, Ph.D.

2010  Jeffrey Kreutzer, Ph.D.

2009  David Loring, Ph.D.

2008  Gerald Goldstein, Ph.D.

2007  Igor Grant, M.D.

2006  Bruce Hermann, Ph.D.

2005  Jeffrey Barth, Ph.D.

2004  George Hynd, Ph.D.

2003
  Charles Golden, Ph.D.

2002  Carl Dodrill, Ph.D.

2001  George P. Prigatano, Ph.D.

2000  Cecil R. Reynolds, Ph.D.

1999  Erin D. Bigler, Ph.D.

1998  Harvey Levin, Ph.D.

1997  Robert Heaton, Ph.D.

1996  Muriel D. Lezak, Ph.D.

1995  Charles G. Matthews, Ph.D.

1994  Brenda Milner, Ph.D.

1993  Edith Kaplan, Ph.D.

1992  Harold Goodglass, Ph.D.

1991  Nelson Butters, Ph.D.

1990  Oscar Parsons, Ph.D.

1989  Arthur Benton, Ph.D.

1988  Ralph Reitan, Ph.D.