Ghert receives Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughn Award at AAOS Annual Meeting
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Michelle Ghert, MD, FRCSC, received the Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughn Award on behalf of the Prophylactic Antibiotic Regimens in Tumor Surgery investigators at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting.
Ghert and Prophylactic Antibiotic Regimens in Tumor Surgery investigators received the award for their international, multicenter randomized controlled trial on antibiotic prophylaxis following reconstructive surgery for bone tumors.
“In the field of medicine, conducting a 600-patient randomized study isn’t out of the ordinary,” Ghert, principal investigator and professor of surgery at McMaster University, said in the release. “However, in orthopedic oncology, where we treat rare diseases, it was a shift in our research paradigm. While initially there wasn’t much optimism that this study would work, we believed it was time to move forward for our patients and the research question really resonated. I give a lot of credit to the first few clinical sites that joined the study as they took a leap of faith,” she said.
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