Casey Holter Essay Winners
Casey Holter Memorial Prize Essay Winners
The Casey Holter Memorial Prize is awarded to the author of an
outstanding essay on any aspect of hydrocephalus or spina bifida.
The Executive Committee looks for a high standard and has
previously decided not to award a prize if no entry is judged to be
deserving. Persons considering entering for this prize are advised
to read recent winning essays as a guide to both format and
standard.
Past winners of the Holter Essay Prize are:
2010 Not awarded
2007 Helen Williams "An Essay Concerning the
Pathogenesis of hydrocephalus"
2004 Behroze Vaccha, Richard Adams
"A Temperament for Learning: The Limbic
System and Myelomeningocele"
2001 Jaleel Miyan, Carole Sobkowiak, Clare Draper
"Humanity lost - the cost of cortical maldevelopment - is there
light ahead?" ( dedicated to the memory of Michaela and Angela
Miyan)
1998 Not awarded
1995 M Jouet "The genetics of Hydrocephalus"
1992 C A Sobkowiak (First Prize) "Effect of
Hydrocephalus on Neuronal Migration and Maturation" G S Liptak
(Special Prize) "Tethered Spinal Cord: An Analysis of Clinical
Research"
1989 Not awarded
1987 Not awarded
1985 A I P Maas"The Rotterdam Teletransducer: State
of the Device"
1983 Not awarded
1981 M Sellar "An Essay on Research into the
Causation and Prevention of Spina Bifida"
1979 Not awarded
1977 B Williams "The Pathogenesis of the Chiari
malformation"
1975 Not awarded
1973 S R Wealthall "An Investigation of Factors
Involved in Regulating Ventricular Size and the Production of
Hydrocephalus"
1971 G Stark and M Drummond "The
Spinal Cord Lesion in Myelomeningocele"
1969 H F Grundy "Circulation in
the Cerebrospinal Fluid in the Cat and Rabbit"
1967 A J Barson "Spina
Bifida - the Significance of the Level and of the Extent of the
Defect to the Morphogenesis"
