In 2016, Dr. Lunsford received the Cushing Award for Technical Excellence and Innovation in Neurosurgery from the American Association of Neurological Surgery. In December of 2017, he received the prestigious Herbert Olivecrona Award—considered by some as the “Nobel Prize of Neurosurgery”—from the Karolinska Institute & Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. In April of 2018, he was honored to present the 2018 Van Wagenen Lecture during the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting in New Orleans. On June 19, 2020, he delivered the inaugural Dan Leksell Lecture at the fourth meeting of the International Radiosurgery Research Foundation. In 2021, Dr. Lunsford received the Andrew Parsa award for mentorship from the AANS-CNS Section on Tumors and delivered the annual Ronald Bittner Lecture. In May 2022 he delivered the inaugural Lunsford Radiosurgery Lecture at the Miami Baptist Cancer Institute. In 2024, Dr. Lunsford received the Congress of Neurological Surgery Founders Award.