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)
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