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)
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