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Congratulations to Whitecloud Award Winners

The Scoliosis Research Society is proud to announce the winners of the 2010 Thomas Whitecloud Award. The Whitecloud Awards are given to the best Basic Science and Clinical Science papers presented at the International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (IMAST).

The winners from the 17th IMAST in Toronto, Canada are:

Best Clinical Science Paper: Correlation of Early Pain and Long-Term Functional Results from a Multi-Center, Prospective, Randomized, Controlled FDA-IDE Vertebroplasty Trial
Hyun W. Bae, MD
 

Best Basic Science Paper: Facet Joint Biomechnics at the Treated and Adjacent Levels After Total Disc Replacement
Sergiu Botolin, MD; Christian Puttlitz, PhD; Todd Baldani, MS; Anthony Petrella, PhD; Evalina L. Burger, MD; Celeste Abjornson, PhD; Vikas V. Patel, MD

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