Awards

ROSEMONT, Ill. (March 30, 2020)—The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) presented its 2020 Diversity Award to James A. Hill, MD, FAAOS. The Diversity Award recognizes members of the Academy who have distinguished themselves through their outstanding commitment to making orthopaedics more representative of, and accessible to, diverse patient populations.…

ROSEMONT, Ill. (March 30, 2020)—The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons  (AAOS) presented its 2020 Humanitarian Award to Steven J. Meyer, MD, FAAOS, of Dakota Dunes, S.D.

The Humanitarian Award honors members of the Academy who have distinguished themselves through outstanding musculoskeletal-related humanitarian activities in the United States or abroad.…

ROSEMONT, Ill. (March 30, 2020)—The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) presented its 2020 William W. Tipton Jr., MD, Leadership Award to Scott Beecher Scutchfield, MD, FAAOS.

The Tipton Leadership Award recognizes AAOS members who have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities that have benefitted the orthopaedic community, patients, and/or the American public.…

ROSEMONT, Ill. (February 5, 2020)—Carl Deirmengian, MD, FAAOS, received the Kappa Delta Elizabeth Winston Lanier Award. His body of work includes 15 years of synovial fluid research, eventually leading to the Alpha-defensin Lateral Flow Test, the first Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared diagnostic test in the field of orthopaedic surgery, as an adjunct aid in the evaluation and detection of Periprosthetic Joint Infection (PJI).…

ROSEMONT, Ill. (February 5, 2020)—The 2020 Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughn Award was presented to Marc Swiontkowski, MD, FAAOS, for his research in the operative management of hip fractures, which identified the optimal surgical approach, helping to improve patients’ lives. The Kappa Delta Awards recognize research in musculoskeletal disease or injury with great potential to advance patient care.…

ROSEMONT, Ill. (February 5, 2020)—Alice Huang, PhD, is this year’s recipient of the Kappa Delta Young Investigator Award, which recognizes outstanding clinical research related to musculoskeletal disease or injury by investigators under 40 years old. Dr. Huang, along with co-authors Ronen Schweitzer, PhD and Leesa Galatz, MD, studied the basic biology of tendon development and scar formation to ultimately improve healing through regeneration.…

ROSEMONT, Ill. (February 5, 2020)—Braden C. Fleming, PhD, received the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) Clinical Research Award. The award recognizes outstanding clinical research related to musculoskeletal disease or injury.

As lead researcher, Dr. Fleming, along with co-authors Gary Badger, MS, Paul D.…