WOA 2025 Awards

Top Resident Awards

Lloyd Taylor Award Winner – $2,000
Anterior-Humeral-Circumflex Artery Ligation Ablates Blood-Flow to Lesser Tuberosity Osteotomies
Tyler Thorne, MD, University of Utah

Vernon Thompson Award Winner – $2,000
Dynamic Limb Assessment of High-Energy Lower Extremity Trauma Improves Prediction of Amputation
Christopher Stewart, MD, University of California, San Francisco

Harold and Nancy Willingham Award Winner – $2,000
Surgeon vs. Hospital Medicare Reimbursement for Revision Total Joint Arthroplasty
Jack Haglin, MD, Mayo Clinic

Sanford and Darlene Anzel Award Winner – $2,000
Wait to Check: Do Early Post-Intervention Radiographs Change Management After Pediatric Femur Fractures?
Kylie Shaw, MD, University of Colorado

WOA/WOF Resident Award Winner – $2,000
Aspirin is an Effective Method of Prophylaxis in Primary TJA Patients with a History of VTE
Jens Verhey, MD, Mayo Clinic Arizona

WOF Resident Award Winners (3) – $1,000
Revision and Postoperative Complication Rates after Conversion Total Hip Arthroplasty after Cephalomedullary Nailing of Intertrochanteric Femur Fractures: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Harsh Wadhwa, BS, Stanford University

Patients Receiving GLP-1 agonists Have Reduced Odds of Pseudoarthrosis Following Lumbar Decompression and Fusion Surgery
Abhinav K. Sharma, MD, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine

Randomized Controlled Trial: Multimodal Pain Protocol After Outpatient Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeries
Brendan C. O’Leary, MD, University of California, San Diego

Clarence and Sherril Splithoff Pediatric Orthoapaedic Surgery Award – $2,000
Pediatric Fracture Healing from Skeletal Perspective
Kira F. Skaggs, MD, Stanford University

John S. Smith Sr., MD, Military Resident Research Award
Unidirectional Shoulder Instability Portends Larger Glenoid Bone Loss than Combined
Annette Yoon, MD, William Beaumont Army Medical Center

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

Nitin N. Bhatia, MD Travel Grant Award
Evaluating the Long-term Sustainability of an Electronic Health Record System For Short-Term Global Surgical Outreach
Andrew Gatto, DO, University of California, San Francisco

Jennette Boakes, MD Travel Grant Award
Functional Bracing vs. Spica for Pediatric Femur Fractures: Cost Reduction
Nicholas Stamatos, MD, UC Davis Health

David H. Chafey, MD Travel Grant Award
Thrombelastography as a Predictive Tool for Thromboembolic Events After Extremity Trauma: A Prospective Secondary Analysis of PREVENT-CLOT
Cory K. H. Mayfield, MD, University of Southern California

Richard F. Santore, MD Travel Grant Award
Postoperative Kinematics Between Anterior and Posterior THA Using a 3D Markerless Motion Capture System
Brandon E. Lung, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Robert R. Slater Jr., MD Travel Grant Award
Treating Shoulder PJI with Humeral Bone Loss Using Long Spacer
Cameron R. Guy, MD, University of Utah

Lawrence R. Walker, MD Travel Grant Award
How Safe Are Minimally Invasive Photodynamic Intramedullary Implants?
Christen E. Chalmers, MD, University of California Irvine

WOF/OREF Young Investigator Awards - $1,000

Delaying DOACs Reduces Bleeding Without Increasing VTE Risk Following THA
Nathanael D. Heckmann, MD, Keck School of Medicine of USC

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Autograft Outcomes: A Cohort Study of 27,715 Patients
Colin Mansfield, MD, Kaiser Permanente, TPMG: Drexel University College of Medicine

Trends and Risk Factors in Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty
Ashish Mittal, MD, Mountain View Center

WOA Research Awards

First Place
Tibia Fracture and Blast Injury to Porcine Limb Generates Extremity Compartment Syndrome
Justin Haller, MD, University of Utah 

Second Place
Radiographic Outcomes of Müller-Weiss Patients after Central Column Restoration with Structural Allograft
Daniel K. Moon, MD, MS, MBA, University of Colorado 

Third Place
 Poor Clinical Outcomes Following Total Knee Arthroplasty-Associated Revision Extensor Mechanism Allograft Reconstruction
Edward J. McPherson, MD, University of California, Los Angeles

Most Outstanding Participation Awards

Keck Medicine of University of Southern California (Large)

Cedars Sinai Medical Center (Small)