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David Bozentka, MD

Chief - Orthopaedic Surgery, Presbyterian Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania
Member or the Resident Education Committee for the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH)
Member of the Member Communications Oversight Group for the AAOS

John P. Dormans, MD

Elected into the Presidential line of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA) Membership (Will be President in 2009-2010)

2009-2010 President
2008-2009 President Elect
2007-2008 Vice President, Board of Directors

2007 Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA) Raymond T. Morrissy Scientific E-Poster Award
2007 Children’s Circle of Care (Recognition Society of Philanthropists to Children’s Hospitals throughout North America)

Dawn M. Elliott, PhD

Winner of the 2008 ISSLS Prize for Lumbar Spine Research in Bioengineering
Board Member of the Orthopaedic Research Society
Program Committee for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society
Program Chair for the 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference
Invited speaker on "Intervertebral Disc Tissue
Engineering" for 2006 Gordon Research Conference on Musculoskeletal Biology and Bioengineering
AAOS/ORS Symposium organizer 'Total Disc Arthroplasty' for 2007 AAOS meeting NIH Study Section Member, Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering (MTE) 2005 - 2008 Published 10 peer-reviewed journal articles
Awarded grant bridge funding for R01 (1 Year)
Awarded grant from AO Foundation (Co-PI, 5 Year)
Awarded grant from NFL Charities Foundation (1 Year)

John M. Flynn, MD

Selected as co-editor to the two major pediatric orthopaedic texts (Rockwood and Green and Lovell and Winter) for next editions
Recommended to AAOS Nominating Committee for Board of Directors "At Large Member under 45"
Elected by membership to serve on Nominating Committees of both the Scoliosis Research Society and the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America
Named “Course Director” (5 year term) for the International Pediatric Orthopaedic Symposium, the world’s biggest pediatric orthopaedic course
Chaired the Scoliosis Research Society's Growing Spine Committee
Pediatric Section editor for OKU 9 and Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics

Theodore J. Ganley, MD

Received the 2007 Physician State Award for Excellence, from the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
Appointed to the Publications Committee - American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Jonathan P. Garino, MD

Appointed Vice President of the Philadelphia Orthopedic Society
Editor of new publication, "Adult Reconstruction and Arthroplasty:Core Knowledge in Orthopedics"

Helen M. Horstmann, MD

Orthopaedic Management in Cerebral Palsy, Second Edition

Mary Ann E. Keenan, MD

The 1st Annual Ladies' Home Journal Health Breakthrough Awards
Selected as one of the 75 Greatest Living Philadelphians in October 2007 by the Philadelphia Eagles and Dunkin Donuts Corporation

Frederick S. Kaplan, MD
2007

The MORE (Media Orthopaedic Reporting Excellence) Award of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
Weldon FOP Award
Certificate of Appreciation - Saitama Medical University; Saitama, Japan
Presidential Award - Eastern Orthopaedic Association
Flag of the United States of American flown over the Capitol of the United States at the honor of Congress” for Dr. Frederick S. Kaplan and his team at The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine to commemorate the announcement of the discovery of the gene which causes FOP.
“We’ve Reached the Summit.” Award for the Discovery of the FOP Gene. Board of Directors International FOP Association
Inaugural Scientific Lecture; The First International Scientific & Patient Meeting of FOP Italia. Aula Magna, Institute Giannina Gaslini and University of Genoa; Genoa, Italy
Honorary Lecture; Dahlem Colloquia in Molecular Genetics. Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics. Berlin, Germany
Plenary Lecture; International Conference on Children’s Bone Health. Montréal, Canada
Honorary Lecture on the Discovery of the FOP Gene. Research Center for Genomic Medicine. Saitama Medical University. Saitama, Japan
Honorary Inaugural Lecture. The First Meeting of FOP Japan, The Japanese FOP Association. Osaka, Japan
Honorary Scientific Lecture on the Discovery the FOP Gene. Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of The Japanese Society for Bone & Mineral Research. Osaka, Japan
Presidential Guest Speaker, Eastern Orthopaedic Association Annual Meeting. Victoria. British Columbia, Canada
Plenary Research Lectures. The Fourth International Symposium on Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva. Orlando, Florida

2006

Associate Director, Core Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders
Newsweek Magazine: The Giving Back Award - 15 People Who Make America Great: “THE GENIUS.” “For imaginative approaches to difficult problems: the disease (FOP) was so rare, nobody wanted to deal with it until he came along.” (2006)
The President & Founders Award of the International FOP Association for the Discovery of the FOP gene. “For leadership, dedication, and monumental contribution in discovering the skeleton key.”
The President’s Award of The American Society for Bone & Mineral Research, “In appreciation & gratitude for extraordinary devotion and service to the ASBMR as associate editor of The Primer on the Metabolic Diseases and Disorders of Mineral Metabolism (edition III through VI), and in recognition of dedication to sustaining the highest standards of educational excellence.” American Society for Bone & Mineral Research
The Glass Globe Award - FOP World for Dedication to the FOP Community - FOP Midwest
Charles Herndon Orthopaedic Society
Plenary Scientific Lecture of the First Australasian Conference on FOP & POH. Melbourne, Australia
Plenary Scientific Lecture of The Second International Meeting of The Scandinavian FOP Association. Stockholm, Sweden
Honorary Historical Lecture. The Skeleton in the Closet & the Discovery of the FOP Gene. Adult Bone & Mineral Working Group of The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. Philadelphia, PA
Citation of Honor - For Discovery of the FOP Gene. From the Ministry of Science, Education & Sports - The Republic Croatia
United States Honorary Co-Chairman of the Third International European Conference on Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP). European Neuromuscular Centre. Naarden, The Netherlands
Honorary Lecture on the Visit of Mrs. Eva Luise Kohler, The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Patroness of the ACHSE, The German Alliance for Rare Diseases. The German Consulate - United Nations. New York (2006, 2007))

Richard D. Lackman, MD

2008 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) recognized as one of 10 national recipients of the. This award is presented to distinguished program directors in recognition of their commitment to teaching and development of innovative and effective residency programs
Treasurer, Musculoskeletal Tumor Society, AAOS

Robert L. Mauck, PhD

Winner of the 2008 ISSLS Prize for Lumbar Spine Research in Bioengineering

Samir Mehta, MD

American Orthopaedic Association's North American Traveling Fellow
AO North America John Border European Trauma Fellow
OTA Fellowship Committee
AOA Emerging Leaders Planning Committee
Course Faculty, AAOS Course for Orthopaedic Educators

Eileen M. Shore, PhD

DNA Diagnostic Test for the ACVR1 c.617G>A Mutation in FOP. Developed with Arupa Ganguly PhD, Genetic Diagnostic Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Genetics; 2006
Mutated ACVR1 for Diagnosis and Treatment of Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (P-8682-USP); Patent filed April 18, 2006; April 18, 2007
Board of Directors (2003-2006), Advances in Mineral Metabolism/ASBMR John Haddad Young Investigators Annual Meeting
Elected Vice-President, April 2007, Advances in Mineral Metabolism
Editorial Board Member, Journal for Bone and Mineral Research
Ad Hoc Member, NIAMS/NIH Skeletal Biology Development and Disease (SBDD) Study Section
Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 2006 Raisz-Drezner Award to Jennifer Fiori for the Best First Paper as a First Author. Senior Author
Endocrine Fellows Foundation (EFF) Award to Qi Shen, PhD to attend the First Annual Fellows Forum in Metabolic Bone Diseases, Philadelphia, PA. September 13-14, 2006. Sponsor

Louis J. Soslowsky, PhD

Completed term on the Executive Committee and as Chairman of the Bioengineering Division of ASME (a national bioengineering society with several thousand members)
Invited Panelist for the Biomechanics Summit, sponsored by the United States National Committee on Biomechanics

Marvin Steinberg

Guest Editor for Techniques in Orthopaedics

AAOS Annual Meeting

Residents from University of Pennsylvania Department of Orthopaedic Surgery had the highest number of presentations by residents from an individual program in 2006

AAOS/OREF/ORS Clinician Scientist Development Program

Penn residents have placed six residents in the past four years in the program. The program selects up to 13 residents per year. Penn has placed two residents in each class In 2007 and 2008

Jaimo Ahn, MD, PhD

2006-2007 - Editor-in-chief, University of Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Journal
2006 - Invited participant, AOA Emerging Leaders Forum (2005 CSDP & RLF)
2006 - Resident Advisory Board, Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
2006 - Reviewer, Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
2007-2008 - Administrative Chief Resident, Orthopaedic Surgery
2007 - Member by invitation, Foundation for Orthopaedic Trauma
2007 - Invited member, Consensus Conference on the Revitalization of the Nation’s Physician-Scientist, The Association of Professors of Medicine and The National Institutes of Health
2007 - Board of Directors, American Physician Scientist Association
2007 - Section Editor, Trauma in "Orthopaedia," a living on-line textbook, The Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons
22 peer reviewed articles published or in press
11 chapters published or in press
13 invited lectures/Invited member

Joshua Auerbach, MD

2006 - First Prize, OREF/NY Metropolitan Area Resident Research Competition
2006 - Russell Hibbs Award in Clinical Science at the Scoliosis Research Society, 2006 (Best Clinical Presentation)
Stanley Chung Award for Excellence in Research, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Co-Guest Editor, Seminars in Spine Surgery, June 2007, Imaging Techniques
Research Grants/Awards for 2006-2007:
PI - Scoliosis Research Society, 2007- 2008 An in vivo porcine animal model to detect spinal cord vascular flow in spinal deformity surgery using transcranial motor evoked potential monitoring
Co-Investigator Synthes, Spine 2007 - The mechanical characterization of intervertebral disc soft tissues
PI -Depuy Spine 2007 - Intradiscal pressures below scoliosis constructs of varying lengths using an in vitro cadaveric model
18 peer reviewed publications (published or in press 2006-2007)
9 book chapters (2006-2007)
Abstracts/Presentations 2006-2007

7 AAOS
5 Orthopaedic Research Society
30 Others, including Scoliosis Research Society (SRS), North American Spine Society (NASS), International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (IMAST), Spine Arthroplasty Society (SAS), International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Andrea Bowers, MD

4 peer reviewed publications (published or in press
2 posters at AAOS
1 podium at COA
2 book chapters

Gregory Deirmengian, MD

2 book chapters
4 review papers
2 peer reviewed articles
1 podium presentation (AAOS)
1 poster (non-aaos)

Harish S. Hosalkar, MD

2007, R. T Morrissy Award for best Poster in POSNA 2007
2006-2007 AAOS, Jacqueline Perry Award for excellence on a research paper
2007, Administrative Chief Resident
2007, Editor-in-Chief, University of Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Journal
Orthopaedia Section Editor, Pediatrics; Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons/Clinical Orthopedics and Related Research
2006- Clinician Scientist Development Program AAOS/AOA/OREF
24 peer reviewed publications (published or in press)
20 book chapters
6 review articles
Abstracts/Presentations 2006-2007

4 IPOS, Orlando, FL - 2007
3 AAP, San Francisco, CA - 2007
1 NMA, Honolulu, Hawaii - 2007
9 POSNA, Hollywood, FL - 2007. 8 POSNA, San Diego, CA- 2006
2 ISOLS, Hamburg, DE - 2007
9 AAOS, San Diego, CA - 2007
1 CTOS, Venice, IT - 2006
1 44th ASNR, San Diego, CA - 2006
1 2nd AO Spine NA Fellows Forum, Banff, CA - 2006
4 AAOS, Chicago, IL - 2006
2 2nd Congress of MHE Coalition, Houston, TX - 2006
1 AAP, Washington, DC - 2006

Smith & Nephew Resident Research Competition Participant

Andrew F. Kuntz, MD

podium presentation 2008 AAOS

J. Todd Lawrence MD/PhD

2007 Clinician Scientist Development Program AAOS/AOA/OREF

Meira McKeever, MD

podium presentation at the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference in Colorado
podium presentation 2008 AAOS
2 Abstracts accepted 2008 ORS

Surena Namduri, MD

3 peer reviewed publications (published or in press)
2008 AAOS podium presentation

Nirav Pandya, MD

2008 Clinician Scientist Development Program AAOS/AOA/OREF
Abstracts/Presentations

3 ORS
1 AAOS
1 AANA

Publications / Book Chapter

8 peer reviewed publications (published or in press)
2 book chapters
Contributing author to www.pepidonline.com (online primary care database)

Stephan Pill, MD, MPT

2008 Clinician Scientist Development Program, AAOS/AOA/OREF
Best clinical project, Smith and Nephew National Resident Research Competition, Memphis, August 25-26, 2006
Eastern Orthopaedic Association Resident and Fellow Travel Award, 2005
26 peer review publications
7 book chapters
16 podium presentations
4 poster presentations

Sudheer Reddy, MD

2006, Editor in Chief of UPOJ
2006 AAOS Resident E-letter advisory board member
2005-2006 Jacqueline Perry Award for excellence on a research paper
2006 Smith & Nephew Resident Research Competition Participant 8 peer reviewed publications (published or in press)
8 book chapters
7 presentations at AAOS/ORS (2005-2006)

Eric T. Ricchetti, MD

2006-Resident Research Grant, Orthopaedic Research & Education Foundation (OREF)
2007- Top scored poster in Shoulder and Elbow section of 2007 Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) Annual Meeting
2007- AAOS/OREF/ORS Clinician Scientist Development Program (CSDP), Resident Leadership Forum (RLF)
2007- Stanley Chung Award for Excellence in Research, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2007-Present Associate Member, Orthopaedic Research Society
2005-2007-Associate editor and head, publication staff. University of Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Journal, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
8 peer reviewed publications (published or in press)
16 abstracts
5 book chapter
9 podium presentations
2006 Resident Research Grant (1 year, $15,000), Orthopaedic Research & Education Foundation (OREF)

Neil P. Sheth, MD

2006 – Second Place poster Prize, Musculoskeletal Disorder Symposium, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
2006 – Third Prize, OREF/NY Metropolitan Area Resident Research Competition
2006 – Second Prize, Philadelphia Orthopaedic Society for Sports Resident Research Competition
Advanced Trauma Life Support; Instructor
Abstracts/Presentations/Lectures 2006-2007

2 Orthopaedic Research Society
1 Arthroscopy Association of North America
12 invited lectures
9 peer reviewed publications (published or in press)
3 book chapters (published or in press)

Jesse Torbert, MD, MS

4 peer reviewed publications (published or in press)
6 book chapters
2007-present, Orthopaedic representative, Disaster Planning Committee, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
2005-06, Member of Editorial Board, UPenn Orthopaedic Journal
Patent, Multilumen Steerable Catheter-Approved May 2, 2006; U.S. patent 7,037,290