Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium receives Elizabeth Winston Lanier Award
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The Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium received the Kappa Delta Elizabeth Winston Lanier Award at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting.
The Kappa Delta Elizabeth Winston Lanier Award recognizes musculoskeletal research that exhibits the potential to advance patient care, according to a press release. The Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium (METRC) received the award for its multidisciplinary research on extremity trauma, specifically military trauma.
“By establishing a military-civilian research collaboration, investigators could translate learnings across sectors, research could continue during interwar periods and the research dollars could benefit from an economy of scale by sharing resources and reducing the cost per study, while increasing productivity,” Michael J. Bosse, MD, FAAOS, clinical chair emeritus of METRC, said in the release. “Over the past decade, the consortium has grown to over 400 investigators, and what’s really impressive is the caliber of those who are involved,” Bosse added.
“We knew this initiative would not be successful unless we adopted a culture of collaboration among the researchers at our institutions,” Ellen J. MacKenzie, PhD, founding director of the METRC coordinating center, said in the release. “We worked hard to develop processes that were engaging, made everybody feel included, gave everybody a voice and recognized the collective accomplishments of the team,” she said.
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