WOA 2024 Awards

Top Resident Awards

Lloyd Taylor Award Winner – $2,000
IL-1 Antagonist Prevents Chondrocyte Death in a Porcine Pilon Model
Tyler Thorne, University of Utah

Vernon Thompson Award Winner – $2,000
DLK1 from Fibroadipogenic Cells Prevents Fatty Muscle Degeneration in Humans
Steven M. Garcia, MD, University of California, San Francisco

Harold and Nancy Willingham Award Winner – $2,000
Risk Factors for the Development of Femoral Head Collapse in Osteonecrosis
Jacob Ball, MD, University of Southern California

Sanford and Darlene Anzel Award Winner – $2,000
Outcomes of Planned vs. Unplanned Upper Extremity Sarcoma Excisions
Seth Ahlquist, MD, University of California, Los Angeles

WOA/WOF Resident Award Winner – $2,000
Quantified MRI Measurements Show the Significance of Indirect Decompression in the Lumbar Spine
Casey A. Slattery, MD, University of New Mexico

WOF Resident Award Winners (3) – $1,000
Preoperative Closed Reduction of Pediatric Type 3 Supracondylar Humerus Fractures
Colin J. Carroll, MD, University of New Mexico

Machine Learning Algorithms Predict Deleterious Outcomes After Elective Trimalleolar ORIF
Richard C. Rice, MD, Loma Linda University Medical Center

Diabetes and Obesity Are Associated with Poor Postoperative Outcomes Following Multiligamentous Knee Reconstruction
Sean Sequeira, BS, Union Memorial Hospital

Clarence and Sherril Splithoff Pediatric Orthoapaedic Surgery Award – $2,000
Bedside Aspiration for Workup of the Pediatric Septic Hip
Kira F. Skaggs, MD, Stanford University

WOA/WOF Resident Travel Grant Award Winner – $1,000
Methamphetamine Use is Associated with Over Two Times Greater Post-Operative Morphine Milligram Equivalent Consumption in Orthopaedic Trauma Patients
Garrett K. Berger, MD, PharmD, University of California, San Diego

WOA/WOF Donor Travel Grant Awards - $1,000

Nitin N. Bhatia, MD Travel Grant Award – Spine
Effect of Positional Graft Placement on Pseudarthrosis Rates in Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion
Soroush Shabani, BS, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine

Paul Collins, MD Travel Grant Award – General
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibition: A Potential Risk Factor for Periprosthetic Infection
Rishi Trikha, MD, University of California, Los Angeles

John M. Itamura, MD Travel Grant Award – Sports Medicine, Trauma, Upper Extremity
Medial Meniscus Tears with Grammar Signs Benefit from Operative Intervention
Lydia McKeithan, University of California, Davis

Robert R. Slater Jr., MD Travel Grant Award – Hand/Upper Extremity
De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis: As Seen from the Perspective of the Patient
Harin B. Parikh, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Lawrence R. Walker, MD Travel Grant Award – General
Extended Prophylactic Antibiotics for Primary and Aseptic Revision Total Joint Arthroplasty: A Meta-Analysis
Suhas P. Dasari, University of Washington

Lawrence R. Walker, MD Travel Grant Award – General
Arthroscopy vs. Arthrotomy for Treatment of Septic Arthritis: A Systematic Review
Brandon Nudelman, MD, Southern California Orthopedic Institute

WOF/OREF Young Investigator Awards - $1,000

Modern Cementless Total Knee Arthroplasty is not Associated with Increased Revision Risk
Ryland P. Kagan, MD, Oregon Health & Science University

Discrete Choice Experiment: Patient Preferences for LC1 Pelvis Fracture Treatment
Joseph T. Patterson, MD, Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California

High Rates of Venous Thromboembolism Following Closed Hip Reduction
Nathanael D. Heckmann, MD, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine

Most Outstanding Participation Awards

Keck Medicine of University of Southern California (Large)

Cedars Sinai Medical Center (Small)