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