Stanley Appel Receives 2005 Forbes Norris Award

Neurologist Stanley Hersh Appel, who directs the MDA/ALS Center at Methodist Neurological Institute in Houston and is a member of MDA’s Board of Directors, is the 2005 winner of the Forbes Norris Award from the International Alliance of ALS/MND Associations.

This award, named for neurologist Forbes Norris, who died in 1993, goes to professionals who have made major contributions to ALS patient care and research.

Appel graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1960. He has authored some 175 articles in medical journals and is on the editorial board of the journal ALS and Other Motor Neuron Disorders.

He says the award, announced in December at the 16th International Symposium on ALS/MND, was “totally unexpected. I wasn’t even wearing a tie.”