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EFORT Awards of the 19th EFORT Congress Barcelona
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The EFORT scientific awards are selected among the many high-quality abstracts submitted to the congress. Among the traditional Free Paper and Jacques Duparc (poster) Awards, EFORT last year introduced the EFORT/Medtronic Award for Excellence in Bone Repair Research and this year for the first time, the EFORT Michael Freeman Award. The latter was created in memory of Professor Michael Freeman, one of the founding fathers of EFORT and EFORT President 1994 to 1995, to honor his lifetime contribution to both the European and the International Orthopaedic Community after he passed away in September 2017.
Following are the award winners of the 19th EFORT Congress.
Free Paper Awards – Orthopaedics & Trauma
The 40 best-rated free papers, 20 each in orthopaedics and trauma, were given the option of competing for the EFORT Free Paper Award. Among all submitted presentations, the EFORT Award Committee has chosen the winners in each of the two categories. Winners also receive a financial reward (gold: EUR 1,500; silver: EUR 1,000; bronze: EUR 500).
GOLD Orthopaedics
Victor van de Graaf, the Netherlands, and colleagues
Paper Title: Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy in The Degenerative Knee: Why Do We Still Do It?
SILVER Orthopaedics
Hemant Pandit, United Kingdom, and colleagues
Paper Title: Do Trabecular Metal Acetabular Components Reduce the Risk of Re-Revision Following Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty? A Propensity Score Matched Study from The National Joint Registry for England And Wales
BRONZE Orthopaedics
Tesfaye H. Leta, Norway, and colleagues
Paper Title: Outcome of Revision Surgery for Infected Total Knee Arthroplasty: Do Surgical Strategies Matter?
GOLD Trauma
Bjarke Viberg, Denmark, and colleagues
Paper Title: Introduction of A Restrictive Blood Transfusion Threshold for Hip Fracture Patients – A Consecutive Cohort Study Based on Complete Follow-up in National Databases
SILVER Trauma
Alexandre Sitnik, Belarus, and colleagues
Paper Title: The Use of Augmented Reality Technology in The Treatment of Severe Intraarticular Fractures of Distal Tibia
BRONZE Trauma
Patrick Haubruck, Germany, and colleagues
Paper Title: Comparison of The Clinical Effectiveness of Bone Morphogenic Protein (BMP)-2 and -7 in the Adjunct Treatment of Lower Limb Non-Unions: A Matched Pair Analysis.
EFORT/Medtronic Award
From the best-rated poster abstracts submitted in bone research, EFORT identified one winner of the joint EFORT/Medtronic Award. The winner or rather respective research institute will be awarded with a grant of EUR 5,000.
Edward Harvey, Canada, and colleagues
Paper Title: Cold Delivered to Bone Causes Bone Growth
Michael Freeman Award
With the Michael Freeman Award, EFORT recognizes an outstanding scientific contribution made to the EFORT Congress. This year’s award is related to knee biomechanics, kindly supported by Medacta International SA. The award comes with a financial reward of EUR 3,000.
Martin Pietsch, Austria, and colleagues
Paper Title: Stiffness of Monoplanar and Biplanar Lateral Open Wedge Supracondylar Femur Osteotomies. A Comparative, Biomechanical Study
Jacques Duparc Awards
The 10 best-rated poster abstracts submitted to the EFORT Congress receive the Jacques Duparc Award, which includes a grant of EUR 500 and a certificate to acknowledge the work. The 2018 winners are as follows:
Tetsuya Hattori, Japan, and colleagues
Paper Title: TNIIIA2 As a Candidate for Preventing Articular Cartilage Degeneration
Simon Abram, United Kingdom, and colleagues
Paper Title: Rates of Arthroscopic Knee Surgery Are Declining in England – Results from a Review of 2 Million Hospital Episodes
Ali Turgut, Turkey, and colleagues
Paper Title: Significant Factors in the Development of Tight Cast Syndrome After Closed Reduction and Casting of Pediatric Distal Radius Fractures
Lukasz Lapaj, Poland, and colleagues
Paper Title: Catastrophic Wear-Through of Ceramic-on-Polyethylene Bearings: Retrieval Analysis of Ten Implants, Characterization of Wear Debris and Reactions of Periprosthetic Tissues
Terje Osmund Ugland, Norway, and colleagues
Paper Title: Biomarkers of Muscle Damage Increased in Anterolateral Versus Direct Lateral Approach to the Hip, but No Correlation to Clinical Outcome. Results from a Randomized Clinical Trial in Patients with a Displaced Femoral Neck Fracture
Efthymios Iliopoulos, United Kingdom, and colleagues
Paper Title: Alternations of Single Leg Landing Following Partial Medial and Lateral Meniscectomy. A Kinetic and Kinematic Analysis.
Lara Jayatilaka, United Kingdom, and colleagues
Paper Title: Anatomy of The Lateral Plantar Ligaments of The Transverse Metatarsal Arch - Is There a Lateral Lisfranc Ligament?
Matteo Baldassarri, Italy, and colleagues
Paper Title: In ACL Partial Injury Can the Sparing of Intact Bundle Get Benefits to a Population of Sports Patients? Retrospective Analysis of Two Surgical Techniques Compared
Martin Ostadal, Czech Republic, and colleagues
Paper Title: The Proteomic Comparison of Medial and Lateral Soft Tissue of Clubfoot
Veronica Zarra, Italy, and colleagues
Paper Title: Correlation Between Gamma Glutamyl Transferase (GGT) and Bone Quality
If you would like the chance to be awarded for your work, abstract submission for the 20th EFORT Congress in Lisbon, Portugal opens on 10 September 2018.