Pittsburgh, December 12, 2011 -- PGY-6 resident Edward A. Monaco, III, MD, PhD, has been selected to receive the 2012 Leksell Radiosurgery Award by the AANS/CNS Section on Tumors. The award, in recognition for Dr. Monaco's paper "The risk of leukoencephalopathy after whole brain radiation therapy plus radiosurgery versus radiosurgery alone for metastatic lung cancer," will be presented at the 2012 AANS Annual Scientific Meeting in Miami, FL, in April.

The award is sponsored by Elekta, a world leader in image-guided and stereotactic clinical solutions for radiosurgery and radiation therapy, and recognizes the year's best research paper on stereotactic radiosurgery related to brain tumors among the Tumor Section members of AANS and CNS.