Awards and Honors
Dr. Forbes accepting the award for the Innovator category at the Cincinnati Business Courier’s HealthCare Hero Awards in 2023
Awards and Achievements: Post-Residency
2023 Cincinnati Business Courier’s 2023 Health Care Hero Award: Innovation Category
2023 2023 “Top Doctor”, Cincinnati Magazine
2022 Finalist, Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) “Innovator of the Year.”
2021 UC “Top 1% of Patient Experience” Award Winner
2021 Winner, Clinical Research Category, Senior Author: University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience Institute Research Day. April 2021. “Electrospinning of Cyanoacrylate for Dural Repair in Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery.”
2021 Second Place, Clinical Research Category, Senior Author: University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience Institute Research Day. April 2021. “Creation of an Automated Freeware Software for Patient-Specific Cranial Implants using 3D Printing Technology.”
2020 Cincy Magazine “Best Doctors”
2019 Winner, Clinical Research Category, Senior Author: University of Cincinnati COM Research Symposium. August 2019. “Additive Manufacturing: A Global Health Solution for Cost-Effective Cranioplasty Implants.”
2019 Second Place, Best Faculty Abstract: University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience Institute Research Day. 16 April 2019. Towards Development of a Minimally-Invasive Option for Occipitocervical Fusion: From the Cadaveric Lab to the 3D Printer to the Bedside.
2018 Selected for CNS Leadership Institute
2018 CNS SANS Challenge, Member, 2nd Place Team
2018 Best Basic Science Abstract NASBS 2018
David Connor, D.O. congratulating Dr. Forbes for earning the ‘Top Gun’ award at the annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons in 2013
Awards and Achievements: Residency
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS: RESIDENCY
2013 AANS Top Gun Award
2013 Vanderbilt Dept. of Neurosurgery Resident National Prominence Award
2012 CSNS Socioeconomic Fellow
2011 AANS Synthes Craniofacial Award for Research in Neurotrauma
2011 Vanderbilt Dept. of Neurosurgery Resident National Prominence Award
2010 Best Oral Presentation: Tennessee Neurosurgical Society