| Award | Leibrock Lifetime Achievement Award |
| Name | Robert Florin |
| Year | 2009 |
| Description | It is with great pleasure that the Council of State Neurosurgical Societies presents the Lyal Leibrock Lifetime Achievement Award to Robert Florin, M.D. of Whittier, California.
Bob has been a stalwart servant to medicine and neurosurgery throughout his career. He served on many hospital Boards in his area and was Chief-of-Staff at his main hospital, Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier. He served the California Association of Neurological Surgeons in many roles, most prominently as its Vice President. He functioned as a CSNS delegate from California over a dozen times. He received the CANS Cone Pevehouse Distinguished Service Award in 1998. He also served as President of the Western Neurosurgical Society in 1996-97. He was very active in the AANS chairing the Guidelines and Outcomes Committee, the Quality Assessment Committee and the Physician Reimbursement Committee. He was the Southwest Quadrant Regional Director from 1993-1996, served as consultant to the Washington Committee and was a member of the Nominating Committee in 1996. He received the AANS Distinguished Service Award in 1996. His role in the CSNS was marked by serving on the Reimbursement Committee for 5 years and he was Chairman of the Health Systems Cost Control Committee from 1991 to 1993. In his spare time he has served on the AMA/Specialty Societies RVU Committee from 1992 to present and was instrumental to neurosurgeons’ practices in his participation in the CPT Code Revisions for Spinal Surgical Procedures from 1994 to 1998. It is hard to imagine anyone who has worked harder to keep all our neurosurgical practices functioning in an ongoing viable condition and harder still to imagine how he did this totally as a volunteer while maintaining his own practice back home. Add to this his most pleasant and even-tempered personality and his unending patience when dealing with those who would decrease our value in the marketplace, and one can begin to understand how his lovely wife Greta chose him as a life mate and functioned as a sane beacon for him in our increasingly insane world. Greta, kudos for a job well done and it is nice to see that he turned out as you had planned. As they say in parts of southern California, Bob is a persona exquisito. |