Furr Stimming receives TNS Lifetime Achievement Award
Erin Furr Stimming, MD, professor and Memorial Hermann Endowed Chair in the Department of Neurology, has been honored with the 2024 Texas Neurological Society Lifetime Achievement Award at the society’s 50th Anniversary Celebration in Austin.
The TNS Lifetime Achievement Award is a peer-recognition award honoring a member in the state of Texas for outstanding service to patients and the specialty of neurology. Eligible candidates must be members of the Texas Neurological Society, show a lifetime of commitment to fostering and stimulating improvement in neurological health care, and display outstanding and noteworthy leadership in neurology.
“I am deeply honored and profoundly humbled to accept the TNS Lifetime Achievement Award,” Furr Stimming said in her acceptance speech. “This recognition holds such a special place in my heart, not only for the honor it bestows upon me but for the privilege it represents in being part of the largest and best neurological state society in the country.”
Furr Stimming is a neurologist with clinical expertise in evaluating and treating patients with Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, atypical Parkinsonian syndromes, focal and generalized dystonia, essential tremor, and spasticity. In 2016, she was awarded one of 39 designated Level 2 Huntington’s Disease Society of America Centers of Excellence in the country, and the only one in Texas.
She currently serves as the director of the Neurology Clerkship and the Huntington’s Disease Society of America Center of Excellence at UTHealth Houston. Furr Stimming was named the Huntington Study Group Investigator of the Year in 2023 and earned McGovern Medical School’s Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award the same year. Additionally, she was the 2016 winner of the Herbert L. and Margaret W. DuPont Master Clinical Teaching Award
She received her medical degree at Finch University of Health Sciences, The Chicago Medical School, before completing a movement disorder fellowship, a neurology residency, and an internal medicine internship at McGovern Medical School. Furr Stimming joined the faculty at McGovern Medical School in 2007.
“As I accept the TNS Lifetime Achievement Award during the 50th anniversary celebration, I do so with a renewed sense of purpose and dedication to the ideals and values that define our profession,” Furr Stimming said. “It is a privilege and joy to be a part of the TNS and to serve alongside each and every member in the pursuit of a better neurologic future for our patients and families living in Texas and beyond.”