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AANS honors the co-inventor of the Glasgow Coma Scale
SAN FRANCISCO ── The American Association of Neurological Surgeons awarded its 2014 Distinguished Service Award to Sir Graham Teasdale to recognize his service to the association and the neurosurgical specialty.
“The award of this great honor to someone working outside the United States is at once thrilling and profoundly humbling,” Teasdale stated in an American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) press release. “The connections between neurosurgeons in Scotland and North America have always been strong and we have gained much – personally as well as professionally – and colleagues in the list of highly distinguished previous awardees are well known to me.”
Teasdale has served as the head of the University of Glasgow, Department of Neurosurgery since 1982. Along with Brian J. Jennett, Teasdale invented the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). Published in 1974, the GCS is used worldwide as an objective way to measure the conscious state of a patient.
Teasdale is the neurosurgical editor of the Journal of Neurology and Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. He served as president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 2003 to 2006, and was the first president of the International Neurotrauma Society.