Honours and awards

2024

• Valery Feigin named as GBD Principal Collaborator
  In November 2024, Valery Feigin was named as a GBD Principal Collaborator. This recognition is a testament to Valery’s invaluable contributions to the Global Burden of  Disease (GBD) Study. The GBD started as a small group of 488 Collaborators in 2007 and has grown to an expansive network of 13,049 Collaborators from 163 countries and 
  Territories. It’s scope now includes quantifying 376 diseases and injuries, 99 risk factors, and 34 etiologies across 1,075 geographic locations.
• Lily Yee (Research Officer) won the Best Presentation Award at the Centre of Asian and Ethnic Minority Health Research and Evaluation National Symposium on 14 September 2024. Lily's presentation was entitled "Bridging linguistically diverse populations towards equity with digital health technology for stroke prevention". This innovative work addresses the critical issue of health disparities among Asian and ethnic minority populations. By leveraging the power of digital health, NISAN’s digital tools, PreventS-MD and Stroke Riskometer, aim to bridge the gap in healthcare access and enhance stroke prevention efforts for linguistically diverse communities. Lily’s presentation underscored the importance of collaboration and partnership in achieving such health gains for these populations.

  

2023

• On 16 October 2023, Valery Feigin was honoured to be selected to deliver the Soriano Award Lecture at the XXVI World Congress of Neurology meeting, Montreal, Canada. Watch a recording of the ceremony

• PM's Science Prize for advancing global stroke epidemiology and prevention
• Rita was awarded the Auckland Medical Research Foundation Best Senior Researcher Presentation for a paper presented at the Te Whatu Ora Waitematā, University of Auckland, and AUT Collaborative Research Symposium on 22 May. The work was first presented at the Symposium Awards event on 24 July, followed by a formal presentation of the award at the Auckland Meical Research Foundation on 21 November. Papers were judged on their connection to the Waitematā District community through population, location, or contributors and weighting was given to projects which have a strong connection to the Waitematā District, and which align with the national research strategy.

  

  

2022

• Valery Feigin won the New Zealand Health Research Council Liley Medal. Ten medals and awards were presented by Royal Society Te Apārangi and the Health Research Council of New Zealand to recognise researchers in New Zealand who have achieved excellence in scholarship, innovation or who have made a significant contribution to Aotearoa through their research and career. Valery Feigin was awarded the HRC Liley Medal for published research that makes a significant contribution to health and medical sciences.

• Valery Feigin was one of the 29 winners of the WHO (World Health Organization) Western Pacific Innovation Challenge for the work entitled “Digital solutions for primary stroke and CVD prevention”. This work was selected from over 400 applications entered to the first WHO Western Pacific Innovation Challenge. It reflects his work on the Stroke Riskometer app for lay people and the PreventS-MD webapp for health professionals that are being offered for implementation across the globe. View his winning presentation

2021

• The paper: Barker-Collo, S., Theadom, A., Jones, K., Starkey, N., Fernando, K., Kahan, M., ... & Feigin, V. (2021). Three methods for examining trajectories in neuropsychological performance across the first 4 years after mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Brain Impairment, 22(1), 20-33 was awarded the 2022 Douglas and Tate prize for the Best Research paper published in Brain Impairment in the year 2021.

2019

• Valery Feigin won the 2019 AUT Research Excellence Award in the category “Research Impact”.
• Valery Feigin was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and Fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

2018

• Valery Feigin won the 2018 Stroke Society of Australasia Excellence in Stroke Award in recognition of his contribution to the field of stroke.

2016

• The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) presented Valery Feigin with an established researcher award as part of its 25-year anniversary celebrations. HRC Research Excellence award

2015

• Valery Feigin was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand McDiarmid Medal for his research into understanding stroke epidemiology worldwide and the development of a mobile app that can help people assess their stroke risk.

• Valery Feigin was awarded the 2015 AUT Vice Chancellor’s award for Research Excellence.

2014

• Valery Feigin won the World Stroke Organization President’s Award for his contributions to Clinical Stroke Research. Read more

2010

• Valery Feigin and the NISAN team were awarded the 2010 AUT Vice Chancellor’s Team Research Excellence Award.