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Asia-Pacific Fellowship

2018

  • Mandar Borde, Pune, India
  • Pankaj Kandwal, Dehradun, India
  • Hardik Suthar, Gandhinagar, India

2017

  • Siddharth Narasimham Aiyer, Mumbai, India
  • Nishant Nishant, New Delhi, India

2016

  • Hyoungmin Kim, Seoul, Korea
  • Xianglong Meng, Beijing, China
Edgar Dawson Visiting Fellowship

2022

  • Hai V. Le, MD, MPH

2021

  • Amit Jain, MD

2020

  • Kenneth D. Illingworth, MD
  • Kamran Majid, MD

2019

  • Jennifer M. Bauer, Seattle, WA

2018

  • Emmanuel N. Menga, Rochester, NY
  • Khoi D. Than, Portland, OR
  • Kushagra Verma, Seattle, WA
  • Michelle Welborn, Portland, OR

2017

  • John Caridi, New York, NY
  • Manish Kasliwal, Cleveland, OH
  • Jonathan Sembrano, Minneapolis, MN
  • Anuj Singla, Charlottesville, VA

2016

  • Jeffrey L. Gum, Louisville, KY
  • Steven W. Hwang, Philadelphia, PA
  • Cheerag D. Upadhyaya, Kansas City, MO

2015

  • Hamid Hassanzadeh, Charlottesville, VA
  • Michael P. Kelly, Saint Louis, MO

2014

  • Matthew E. Oetgen, Washington D.C.
  • Joshua M. Pahys, Philadelphia, PA

2013

  • Han Jo Kim, New York, NY

2012

  • Justin Smith, Charlottesville, VA

2011

  • Jacob Buchowski, Saint Louis, MO

2010

  • Robert A. Hart, Portland, OR
  • Amer Samdani, Philadelphia, PA

2009

  • Yongjung J. Kim, New York, NY
  • Jean-Marc Mac-Thiong, Montreal, Canada
  • Klane White, Seattle, WA

2008

  • Michael D. Daubs, Las Vegas, NV
  • Matthew Geck, Austin, TX
  • Robert Po-Chen Huang, Pensacola, FL
  • Ronald A. Lehman, Jr., St. Louis, MO
  • P. Justin Tortolani, Baltimore, MD

2006

  • Atiq A. Durrani, Cincinnati, OH
  • Ron El-Hawary, Halifax, Canada
  • Michael W. Peelle, Dayton, OH
  • Anthony A. Scaduto, Los Angeles, CA
  • Arya Nick Shamie, Los Angeles, CA
  • James Channing Tassone, Milwaukee, WI

2005

  • Amit Agarwala, Golden, CO
  • Nitin Bhatia, Orange, CA
  • James T. Guille, Pottstown, PA
  • Scott Luhmann, Saint Louis, MO
  • Praveen Mummaneni, San Francisco, CA
  • Avraam Ploumis, Ioannina, Greece
  • Anthony S. Rinella, Homer Glen, IL
  • Richard C. Rooney, El Paso, TX
  • Jeffrey R. Sawyer, Germantown, TN
Eduardo R. Luque Award

2022

  • Andres E. Cobar, MD

2021

  • Ignacio A. Yaven, Jr., MD
  • Dante Bernardes Giubilei, MD

2020

  • Rodrigo G. Remondino, MD
  • Fernando Rios, MD

2019

  • Alexandre Fogaça Cristante, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2018

  • Andrei Joaquim, Campinas, Brazil
  • Ignacio Yaven Jr., Buenos Aires, Argentina

2017

  • Alexandre Fogaça Cristante, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2016

  • Felipe Pontes, Maceió, Brazil

2015

  • Marcelo Loquette Damasceno, Manaus, Brazil

2014

  • Maria Cristina Sacramento DominguezMadrid, Spain

2013

  • Javier Pizones, Madrid, Spain

2012

  • Mauricio Montalvo, Mexico City, Mexico
SRS Educational Scholarship

2019

  • Weng Hong Chung, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Akshay Gadiya, Jalna, India
  • Robert Harper, Folsom, CA
  • Sharif Ahmed Jonayed, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Sohael M. Khan, Chandrapur, India
  • Rapheal Martus Marcon, San Paulo, Brazil
  • Michelle Mo, Saint Louis, MO
  • Naveen Pandita, Gautam Buddha Nagar, India
  • Jwalant Yogesh Patel Sr., Mumbai, India
  • Tarush Rustagi, Colombus, OH
  • Tom PC Schlösser, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  • Jesse Shen, Montreal, Canada
  • Anil M. Solanki, Ahmedabad, India
  • Alisson R. Teles, Montreal, Canada
  • Darya Tesakova, Minsk, Belarus
  • Vikas Trivedi, Allahabad, India
  • Shaleen Vira, New York, NY
  • Vibhu Viswanathan, Halifax, Canada

2018

  • Shahidul Islam Akon Sr., Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Shashidhar Bangalore Kantharajanna, Bengaluru, India
  • Hussain Bohra, Mumbai, India
  • Rajat Mahajan, Delhi, India
  • Panna Mishra, Allahabad, India
  • Dattaraj Sawarkar, New Delhi, India
  • Siddharth Shah, Mumbai, India
  • Pankaj Kumar Singh, New Dehli, India
  • Vikas Trivedi, Allahabad, India
Fikry MENA Scholarship

2018

  • Mohamed Fawzy Khattab, Cairo, Egypt

2017

  • Mohamed Fathy, Cairo, Egypt
Global Outreach Program (GOP) Educational Scholarship

Congratulations to the following recipients:

2020

  • Rajdeep Singh Bagga
  • Nima Derakhshan Almadarloo, MD
  • Rakesh P. Dhake, MBBS, MS
  • Shumayou Dutta, MS(Ortho)
  • Mohamed Elkhososi, MD
  • Anuj Gupta
  • Saurabh Gupta, MS, DNB Orthopaedics
  • Sanyam Jain, Sr.
  • Abhishek Mannem, MS Ortho , DNB Ortho
  • Saijyot Santosh Raut
  • Abhinandan Mallepally Reddy, MBBS MS ORTHO
  • Valentyn Rogozynskyi, MD
  • Shardul Soman Sr., Assistant Professor

2019

  • Ashish Dagar, Chandigarh, India
  • Nikita Khusainov, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  • Nishant Kumar, Mumbai, India
  • Ravish Shammi Patel, Gujarat, India
  • Olga Sergeenko, Kurgan, Russia
  • Dipak Shrestha, Nepal
  • Adetunji Toluse, Lagos, Nigeria

2018

  • Mohammad Al Sayyed, Amman, Jordan
  • Rashid Anjum, Ambala, Haryana, India
  • Sanjoy Biswas Jr., Kolkata, India
  • Mandar Borde, Mumbai, India
  • Abad Cherif El Asri, Temara, Morocco
  • Mohamed Hussein Sr., Cairo, Egypt
  • Nikhil Ramdas-Nalini Malewar, Nagpur(Maharastra), India
  • Walid Osmane Sr., Sousse, Tunisia
  • Ankit Patel, Mumbai, India
  • Raviranjan Shiodayal Rai, Mumbai, India
  • Tarush Rustagi, New Delhi, India
  • Mehul Anil Sarkar Sr., Mumbai, India
  • Vishwajeet Singh, New Delhi, India
  • Hany Soliman, Cairo, Egypt
  • Abhishek Srivastava, New Delhi, India
  • Darya Tesakova, Minsk, Belarus

2017

  • Pallav Bhatia, Delhi, India
  • Sharif Ahmed Jonayed, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Taopheeq Damidele Rabiu, Osogbo, Nigeria
  • Tushar Rathod, Mumbai, India
  • Dattaraj Sawarkar, New Delhi, India
  • Kunal Chandrakant Shah, Mumbai, India
  • Ayman Suliman, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Enrique Vargas, Guadalajara, Mexico

2016

  • Sarvdeep S.Dhatt, Chandigarh, India
  • Vikas A. Jain, Mumbai, India
  • Sohael M. Khan, Chandrapur, India
  • Rajat Mahajan, Delhi, India

2015

  • Md. Shahidul Islam Akon Jr., Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Shashidhar Bangalore Kantharajanna, Bengaluru, India
  • Mohamed Fathy Elkhosousy, Cairo, Egypt
  • Mohammed Ibrahim, Mysore, India
  • Nikhil N. Joshi, Thane, India
  • Ajay R. Kothari, Pune, India
  • Panna Mishra, Allahabad, India
  • Ranjith Unnikrishnan, Trivandrum, India
  • Evgeni N. Vlaev, Sofia, Bulgaria

2014

  • Md. Yousuf Ali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Wael AlkasemErbil, Iraq
  • Anupreet Bassi, Ludhiana, India
  • Amitava Biswas, Kolkata, India
  • Nishant NishantPatna, India
  • Najmus Sakeb, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Vikas Trivedi, Allahabad, India

2013

  • Ahmad F. Allam, Minia, Egypt
  • Hrutvij Rajendra Bhatt, Nadiad, India
  • Gaurav Raj Dhakal, Kolkata, India
  • Ndubuisi E. Duru, Enugu, Nigeria
  • Andrei F. Joaquim, Campinas, Brazil
  • Naveen S. Tahasildar, Bangalore, India

2012

  • Pankaj Kandwal, New Delhi, India
  • Sambhav Shah, Mumbai, India

2011

  • Nariman Abol Oyoun, Assiut, Egypt
  • K. Narayana Acharya, Bellary, India
  • Anne Kathleen B. Ganal-Antonio, Pasig City, Philippines
  • Xin-Feng Li, Shanghai, China

2010

  • Abdul Rakib Saleh Al-Mirah, Sana'a, Yemen
  • Kshitij Subhash Chaundhary, Mumbai, India
  • Raul Javier Chimbo Jurado, Guayaquil, Ecuador
  • Khalid M.S. Swailem, Sana'a, Yemen
  • Bin Yu, Beijing, China

2009

  • Ashish Jaiswal, Bilaspur, India
  • Suhel Kotwal, Mumbai, India
  • Luben Dimitrov Stocov, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Vikas Trivedi, Allahabad, India

2008

  • Tushar Agrawal, Mumbai, India
  • Siddharth A. Badve, Mumbai, India
  • Yakiv Fishchenko, Kiev, Ukraine
  • Shailesh Hadgaonkar, Mumbai, India
  • Raghavendra Shankar, Bangalore, India
  • Harsha C K Sree, Mysore, India
  • Vidyadhara Srinivasa, Bangalore, India

2007

  • Alla Azmi Ibrahim Ahmad, Ramallah, Palestine
  • Alaric Aroojis, Mumbai, India
  • Gustavo Carrico de Oliverira, Florianopolis, Brazil
  • Robert Dunn, Constantia, South Africa
  • Jae-Joon Lee, Gwangju, Korea
  • Anatolii Levytskyi, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Yan-Wu Liu, Xian, China
  • Andriy Mezentsev, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • Jambuladinne Naresh Babu, Hyderabad, India
  • Dmytro Petrenko, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • Ronald Tangente, Davo City, Philippines
  • Thanh Van Vo, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • Hua Xu, Wenzhou, China

2006

  • Atul Bhaskar , Oshiwara, India
  • Manish Chadha, New Dehli, India
  • Sebastian Charosky, Lorient, France
  • Menhal Abou Hamdan, Swaida, Syrian Arab Republic
  • Naresh Babu Jambuladinne, Hyderabad, India
  • Subir Nipunbhai Jhaveri, Ahmedabad, India
  • Ketan Khurjekar, Pune, India
  • Xavier Roberto Ramirez, Guayaquil, Ecuador
  • Amit Sharma, India
  • Suyra Prakash Rao Voleti, Abids Hyderabad, India

2005

  • Mihir Bapat, Mumbai, India
  • Manish Chadha, New Dehli, India
  • Mario Gonzalez, Cali, Colombia
  • Nandumar Kondiba Katakdhond, Mumbai, India
  • Arvind Kulkarni, Singapore
  • Sheetal Mohite, New Bombay, India
  • Vikas Trivedi, Meerut, India
  • Ashish Upadhyay, Manchester, UK
  • Juan Uribe, Colombia
  • Raghuprasad Varma, New Bombay, India
  • Yan Wang, Shanghai, China
  • Yong-gang Zhang, Beijing, China

2004

  • Joaquin Alvarado, Salta, Argentina
  • Leonardo Ayala, Colombia
  • Saumyajit Basu, Kolkata, India
  • Pedro Luis Bazán La Plata, Argentina
  • Juan Pablo Bernasconi, Capital Federal, Argentina
  • Eduardo Berté, Mendoza, Argentina
  • Alejandro Raul Betemps, San Isidro, Argentina
  • Erol Bulent, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Miguel Angel Busquet, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Esteban Calcagni, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Sebastian Charosky, Lorient, France
  • Alejandro Cuneo, Montvideo, Uruguay
  • Francisco Prado E. dos Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • André Flávio Freire Pereira, Jaboatao dos Guararapes, Brazil
  • Eduardo Galaretto, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Marcus Ganga, Santiago, Chile
  • Jolida Gomes, Salvador CEP, Brazil
  • Mario Gonzalez, Cali, Colombia
  • Khalil Issa, Nablus, Palestine
  • Arvind Kulkarni, Singapore
  • Nicolás Macchiavello, Santiago, Chile
  • Javier Ricardo Mendez, La Plata, Argentina
  • Robert Meves, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Abhay Nene, Bombay, India
  • Mauricio Perez Corradini, Guaymallen, Argentina
  • Javier Portel, Posadas, Argentina
  • Ricardo Restrepo, Bogota, Colombia
  • José Aurelio Roch Benitez, Corrientes, Argentina
  • Jorge Salas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Anibal José Sarotto, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Ronald Schulz, Santiago, Chile
  • Nelson Sopalda, Panama
  • Mauro Tropini, Capital Federal, Argentina
  • Juan Uribe, Velle, Colombia
  • Marcelo Alejandro Valacco, Capital Federal, Argentina
  • Luis Felipe Villota, Cali, Colombia
  • Marcelo Wajchenberg, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Wenjian Wu, Shanghai, China
Global Outreach Program (GOP) Visiting Fellowship

Congratulations to the following recipients:

2022

  • Sharif Ahmed Jonayed, MS, FCPS
  • Tushar N. Rathod, MS FCPS Orthopaedics

2021

  • Subramaniam Macherla Haribabu
  • Arkadiy Kazmin, MD, PhD
  • Ammar Dogar, Assistant Professor
  • Abdullah Shah, FCPS

2020

  • Sharif Ahmed Jonayed, MS, FCPS (BD)
  • Saurabh Kapoor, MS DNB MRCS
  • Mohamed Fawzy Khattab, MD PhD
  • Zhi Zhao, MD, PhD

2019

  • Mandar D. Borde, Pune, India 
  • Nitesh Gahlot, Rajasthan, India
  • Anne Kathleen B. Ganal-Antonio, Pasig City, Philippines
  • Nikhil Malewar, Nagpur, India
  • Abhinandan Mallepally, Vasanth Kunj, India
  • Najmus Sakeb, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2018

  • Mohamed Fawzy Khattab, Cairo, Egypt
  • Rajat Mahajan, Delhi, India
  • Dattaraj Sawarkar, New Delhi, India
  • Abhishek Srivastava, New Delhi, India
  • Vikas Trivedi, Allahabad, India

2017

  • Alexandre Fogaça Cristante, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Dhiraj Sonawane, Mumbai, India

2016

  • Andrei F. Joaquim, Campinas, Brazil
  • Feng Zhu, Nanjing, China

2015

  • Giedrius Bernotavicius, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Bangping Qian, MD – Nanjing, China

2014

  • Santiago Balderrama, Sr., Posadas, Argentina
  • Kai Cao, Nanchang, China
  • Andrei F. Joaquim, Campinas, Brazil
  • Ajay R. Kothari, Maharashtra, India
  • Ying-Song Wang, Kunming, China
  • Qianyu Zhuang, Beijing, China

2013

  • Kawu Ahidjo Abdulkadiri, Gwagwalada, Nigeria
  • Fady Michael Ibrahim, Cairo, Egypt
  • Tie Liu, Beijing, China
  • Tomas Rolando Minueza Mejia, San Pedro Sula, Honduras

2012

  • Abdul Rakib Saleh Al-Mirah, Sana'a, Yemen
  • Krishna Kumar Ramachandran Nair, Cochin, India

2011

  • Mirza Biscevic, Sarajevo, Bosnia
  • Bhavuk Garg, New Delhi, India

2010

  • Kawu Ahidjo Abdulkadiri, Gwagwalada, Nigeria
  • Jau-Ching Wu, Taiwan

2009

  • Van Thanh Vo, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • Zhaomin Zheng, Guangzhou, China
Globus Medical Fellowship

2018

  • Andrei Joaquim, Campinas, Brazil
  • Pankaj Kandwal, Dehradun, India
  • Vishal Kumar, Chandigarh, India
  • Siddharth Shah, Mumbai, India

2017

  • Ndubuisi Duru, Enugu, Nigeria
  • Andrei Joaquim, Campinas, Brazil
  • Panna Mishra, Allahabad, India
  • Kedar Phadke, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

2016

  • Ahmad F. Allam, Minia, Egypt
  • Nelson Astur, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Sarvdeep S.Dhatt, Chandigarh, India
  • Natascha Gomez, Caracas, Venezuela
  • Olavo B. Letaif, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Rajat Mahajan, Delhi, India
  • Nishant Nishant, Jaipur, India
  • Aditya Prasad Panda, Brahmapur, India
  • Tushar N. Rathod, Mumbai, India

2015

  • Abdul Rakib Saleh Al-Mirah, Sana’a, Yemen
  • Mohamed Fathy Elkhosousy, Cairo, Egypt
  • Ajay R. Kothari, Pune, India
  • Tushar N. Rathod, Mumbai, India
  • Vikas Trivedi, Allahabad, India
John H. Moe Best Basic Research Poster Award

Best Basic Science/Translational Research Poster

2024
Randomized Clinical Trial to Compare the Impact on Quality of Life Between Full-Time and Night-Time Braces in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: 12-Month Treatment Outcomes Alejandro Peiro-Garcia, MD; Inmaculada Vilalta-Vidal, MD; Victor Martin-Gorgojo, MD; Carles Fabres-Martin, MD; Rocio Garcia-Garcia, MS

2022
Poster 201. Transforming Electronic Health Records (EHR) of Scoliosis Patients Into Clinical Registries Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision Methods
Shi Yan, MS; Elham Sagheb Hossein Pour, MS; Caroline Constant, DMV; Taghi Ramazanian, MD; Carl-Eric Aubin, PhD; Sunghwan Sohn, PhD; Hilal Maradit Kremers, MD; A. Noelle Larson, MD  

Best Basic Research Poster

2021
Screw Malalignment May Explain Cord Rupture in Vertebral Body Tethering: A Finite Element Analysis
Wanis Nafo, PhD; Kenny Y. Kwan, MD; Jason Pui Yin Cheung, MD, MBBS, MS, FRCS; Kenneth MC Cheung, MD, MBBS, FRCS

SRS Lifetime Achievement Award

2022

  • Michael John McMaster, MD, DSc, FRCS

2021

  • Donald P.K. Chan, MD
  • Robert N. Hensinger, MD

2020

  • Jean Dubousset, MD
  • Stuart L. Weinstein, MD

2019

  • Juergen Harms, MD
  • Alberto Ponte, MD

2018

  • John "Tony" Herring, MD
  • Se-Il Suk, MD

2017

  • G. Dean MacEwen, MD
  • Howard H. Steel, MD

2016

  • John E. Lonstein, MD
  • Harry L. Shufflebarger, MD

2015

  • Behrooz A. Akbarnia, MD
  • Randal R. Betz, MD

2014

  • David S. Bradford, MD
  • Alvin H. Crawford, MD

2013

  • George H. Thompson, MD
  • Ian A.F. Stokes, PhD

2012

  • Robert B. Winter, MD
  • Vernon T. Tolo, MD

2011

  • Ronald L. DeWald, MD
  • Denis S. Drummond, MD

2010

  • John P. Kostuik, MD
  • Clyde Lester Nash, MD

2009

  • Marc A. Asher, MD
  • David B. Levine, MD

2008

  • John E. Hall, MD
  • Jacqueline Perry, MD, DSc
Louis A. Goldstein Best Clinical Research Poster Award

2024
Clinical and Radiological Outcomes of Posterior-Only Hemivertebra Resection and Short-Segment Fusion with Pedicle Screw Fixation in Children Under the Age of 5, Followed Until Skeletal Maturity
Bilge K. Yilmaz, MD; Ugur Yuzuguldu, MD; Hamisi M. Mraja, MD; Halil Gok, MD; Emre Kurt, MD; Baris Peker, MD; Tunay Sanli, BE, MA; Selhan Karadereler, MD; Meric Enercan, MD; Azmi Hamzaoglu, MD

2022
Poster 219. Pre-Operative Carbohydrate Drink for Early Recovery in Pediatric Spine Fusion: Randomized Control Trial
Jennifer M. Bauer, MD; Kathryn B. Anderson, BS; Eliot B. Grigg, MD  

2021
Is Thorascopic VBT a Pulmonary Function Declining or Improving Surgery?
Burcu Akpunarli, MD; Altug Yucekul, MD; Kadir Abul, MD; Peri Kindan, MD; Gokhan Ergene, MD; Sahin Senay, MD; Tais Zulemyan, MD; Yasemin Yavuz, PhD; Caglar Yilgor, MD; Ahmet Alanay, MD

North American Resident/Fellow Meeting Scholarships

2022

  • Nauman S. Chaudhry, MD
  • Hao-Hua Wu, MD

2021

  • Nitin Agarwal, M.D.
  • Taylor Jackson, MD
  • Smitha E. Mathew, MD
  • Andrew Zhang, MD

2019

  • Derek G. Ju, West Hollywood, CA
  • Elizabeth L. Lord, New York, NY
  • Richard P. Menger, Shreveport, LA

2018

  • Krishn Khanna, San Francisco, CA
  • Hai Le, Boston, MA

2017

  • Deeptee Jain, San Francisco, CA
  • Richard Menger, Shreveport, LA
  • Catherine Miller, St Louis Park, MN
  • Tina Raman, Baltimore, MD
  • Comron Saifi, Chicago, IL
  • Kenneth Shaw, Grovetown, GA
  • Adam Wegner, Sacramento, CA

2016

  • Owoicho Adogwa, Chicago, IL
  • Hector E.R. Echevarria, Managua, Nicaragua
  • Amit Jain, Baltimore, MD

2015

  • Jason M. Cage, Honolulu, HI
  • Ryan E. Fitzgerald, Akron, OH
  • Ehsan Jazini, Baltimore, MD
  • So Kato, Toronto, ON
  • Venu M. Nemani, St. Louis, MO
  • Alexander A. Theologis, San Francisco, CA
  • Todd D. Vogel, San Francisco, CA
  • Scott Yang, Charlottesville, VA

2014

  • Faiz Ahmad, Miami, FL
  • David B. BumpassSaint Louis, MO
  • Alan H. Daniels, Providence, RI
  • Doniel DrazinLos Angeles, CA
  • Christopher T. Martin, Coralville, IA
  • Ali Maziad, Hartford, CT
  • Catherine Miller, Minneapolis, MN
  • Khoi D. Than, Ann Arbor, MI

2013

  • Elias Dakwar, Philadelphia, PA
  • Avrum Joffe, San Diego, CA
  • Brian Kaufman, Washington DC
  • Brett Lafleur, Kettering, OH
  • Michael Merrick, Grand Rapids, MI
  • Robert Murphy, Memphis, TN
  • Courtney O’Donnell, Seattle, WA
  • Andrew Pugely, Iowa City, IA
OrthoPediatrics International Pediatric Traveling Fellowship

2017

  • Federico Canavese, Clermont Ferrand, France
  • Javier Pizones, Madrid, Spain

2016

  • Raphael M. Marcon, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Rodrigo Goes Medea de Mendonca, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2015

  • Anupreet Bassi, Ludhiana, India
  • Denis Sakai, São Paolo, Brazil

2014

  • Mehmet B. BaliogluIstanbul, Turkey
  • Agnita Stadhouder, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2013

  • Mohsen Karami, Tehran, Iran
  • Miklos Tunyogi-Csapo, Pecs, Hungary
Robert B. Winter Global Outreach Fellowship

2022

  • Evgeni N. Vlaev, MD  

2021

  • Adetunji Toluse, MD

2019

  • Ankit S. Patel, Vasai-West, India

2018

  • Ahidjo Kawu, Gwagwalada, Nigeria

2017

  • Nam QD Vo, Hochminh, Viet Nam

2016

  • Shashidhar Bangalore Kantharajanna, Bengaluru, India

2015

  • Battugs Borkhuu, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

2014

  • Andriy Mezentsev, Kharkiv, Ukraine

2013

  • Krishna Kumar Ramachandran Nair, Cochin, India
Russell A. Hibbs Awards

Best Basic Research Paper

2021
Genetic Age Determined by Telomere Length is Significantly Associated with Risk of Complications in Adult Deformity Surgery despite No Significant Difference in Chronological Age: Pilot Study of 43 Patients
Michael Safaee, MD; Jue Lin, PhD; Christopher P. Ames, MD

Best Clinical Research Papers

2024
Long-Term Outcomes of Operative Versus Nonoperative Treatment for Adult Symptomatic Lumbar Scoliosis (ASLS): Durability of Treatment Effects and Impact of Related Serious Adverse Events Through 8-Year Follow-Up Justin S. Smith, MD, PhD; Michael P. Kelly, MD; Elizabeth L. Yanik, PhD; Christine Baldus, RN; Vy Pham, MD, MPH; David Ben-Israel, MD; Jon D. Lurie, MD, MS; Charles C. Edwards, MD; Steven D. Glassman, MD; Lawrence G. Lenke, MD; Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, MD; Jacob M. Buchowski, MD; Leah Y. Carreon, MD; Charles H. Crawford III, MD; Stephen J. Lewis, MD, FRCS(C); Tyler Koski, MD; Stefan Parent, MD, PhD; Virginie Lafage, PhD; Munish C. Gupta, MD; Han Jo Kim, MD; Christopher P. Ames, MD; Shay Bess, MD; Frank J. Schwab, MD; Christopher I. Shaffrey, MD; Keith H. Bridwell, MD

2022
Paper 65. Curve Progression and Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in Idiopathic Scoliosis: 40-Year Follow-Up From Diagnosis
Lærke C. Ragborg, MD; Casper Dragsted, MD, PhD; Soren Ohrt-Nissen, MD, PhD; Thomas B. Andersen, DMSc; Martin Gehrchen, MD, PhD; Benny T. Dahl, DMSc  

2021
Adverse Events in Multilevel Surgery in Elderly Patients with Spinal Deformity: Report of the Prospective Evaluation of Elderly Deformity Surgery (PEEDS)
Sigurd H. Berven, MD; Lawrence G. Lenke, MD; Michael Venezia Venezia, DO; John T. Street, MD; Allan R. Martin, MD, PhD, FRCS(C); Justin S. Smith, MD, PhD; Eric O. Klineberg, MD; Michael P. Kelly, MD; Christopher I. Shaffrey, MD; Benny T. Dahl, MD, PhD, DMSc; Marinus De Kleuver, MD; Maarten Spruit, MD; Ferran Pellisé, MD, PhD; Kenneth M. Cheung, MD, MBBS, FRCS; Ahmet Alanay, MD; David W. Polly, MD; Jonathan N. Sembrano, MD; Yukihiro Matsuyama, MD, PhD; Stephen J. Lewis, MD, FRCS(C)

Comparison of Patient Factors (Frailty) vs. Surgical Factors (Invasiveness) for Optimization of 2-Year Cost-Utility: We Should Focus on the Patient Factors 
Jeffrey L. Gum, MD; Samrat Yeramaneni, PhD; Kevin Y. Wang, BS; Richard Hostin, MD; Khaled M. Kebaish, MD; Brian J. Neuman, MD; Amit Jain, MD; Michael P. Kelly, MD; Douglas C. Burton, MD; Christopher P. Ames, MD; Christopher I. Shaffrey, MD; Eric O. Klineberg, MD; Han Jo Kim, MD; Themistocles S. Protopsaltis, MD; Peter G. Passias, MD; Gregory M. Mundis, MD; Robert K. Eastlack, MD; Frank J. Schwab, MD; Robert A. Hart, MD; Munish C. Gupta, MD; Alan H. Daniels, MD; Justin S. Smith, MD, PhD; Virginie Lafage, PhD; Breton G. Line, BS; Shay Bess, MD; International Spine Study Group

Best Basic Science/Translational Research Paper

2024
Examination of an Epigenetic Biomarker for Risk Stratification in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgeries Michael P. Kelly, MD; Lawrence G. Lenke, MD; Justin S. Smith, MD, PhD; Shay Bess, MD; Justin K. Scheer, MD; Breton G. Line, BS; Virginie Lafage, PhD; Renaud Lafage, MS; Eric O. Klineberg, MD; Ferran Pellisé, MD, PhD; Mitsuru Yagi, MD, PhD; Khaled M. Kebaish, MD; Robert K. Eastlack, MD; Munish C. Gupta, MD; Frank J. Schwab, MD; Christopher I. Shaffrey, MD; Douglas C. Burton, MD; Christopher P. Ames, MD; International Spine Study Group

2022
Paper 68. Variants in Collagen Homeostasis Genes are Associated with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
Carol A. Wise, PhD; Anas M. Khanshour, PhD; Hao Yu, PhD; Aki Ushiki, PhD; Xiao-Yan Li, PhD; Nao Otomo, MD; Yoshinao Koike, MD; Elisabet Einarsdottir, PhD; Yan-Hui Fan, PhD; Lilian Antunes, PhD; Yared Kidane, PhD; Rory Sheng; Yichi Zhang, BS; Richa Singhania, PhD; Jimin Pei, PhD; Nick Grishin, PhD; Bret Evers, MD, PhD; Jason Pui Yin Cheung, MD, MBBS, MS, FRCS; You-Qiang Song, PhD; John A Herring, MD; Christina Gurnett, MD, PhD; Paul Gerdhem, MD, PhD; Shiro Ikegawa, MD, PhD; Jonathan J. Rios, PhD; Stephen Weiss, PhD; Nadav Ahituv, PhD  

SRS-Medtronic Research Fellowship

2017

  • Felipe G. Campos researching at Campbell Clinic in Germantown, TN, USA

2016

  • So Kato researching at Toronto Western Hospital

2015

  • Daniel M. Sciubba researching at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, NY, USA
Thomas E. Whitecloud Awards

Best Clincial Paper

2025
Age-Adjusted Alignment Goals Inadequately Represent Asymptomatic Adults and are Prone to Undercorrection
Sarthak Mohanty, BS; Justin L. Reyes, MS; Fthimnir Hassan, MPH; Jean-Charles Le Huec, MD, PhD; Stephane Bourret, PhD; Hee-Kit Wong, FRCS; Dennis Hey, MD, MBBS, FRCS; Michael Kelly, MD; Zeeshan M. Sardar, MD; Lawrence G. Lenke, MD

2022
Randomized Controlled Trial of Instrumented vs. Uninstrumented Posterolateral Fusion for Lumbar Spondylolisthesis
Andreas K. Andresen, MD; Leah Y. Carreon, MD, MS; Mikkel Østerheden Andersen, MD

2021
The Harms Study Group Retrospective Comparison Study on Anterior Vertebral Body Tethering (AVBT) versus Posterior Spinal Fusion (PSF) for Primary Thoracic Curves
Peter O. Newton, MD and co-authored by Stefan Parent, MD, PhD; Firoz Miyanji, MD; Ahmet Alanay, MD; Baron Lonner, MD; Kevin M. Neal, MD; Daniel Hoernschemeyer, MD; Burt Yaszay, MD; Laurel C. Blakemore, MD; Suken A. Shah, MD; and the Harms Study Group

Best Basic Science/Translational Paper

2025
A Novel Growth Guidance System: Research and Development
You Du, MD; Jianguo Zhang, MD

2022
The Role of Vitamin D Deficiency in the Onset of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Validation Study on Bipedal Mice Model
Zhen Liu, MD; Jie Li, MD; Zhikai Qian, MD; Ziyang Tang, MD; Kiram Abdukahar, MD; Zongshan Hu, PhD; Zezhang Zhu, MD; Yong Qiu, MD; Jian Cao, PhD

SRS Traveling Fellows

2023

  • Kenny Yat Hong Kwan, BMBCh(Oxon), FRCSEd
  • Seung-Jae Hyun, MD, PhD
  • Emmanuelle Ferrero, MD, PhD
  • David Marks, FRCS, FRCS(Orth) – Senior Traveling Fellow

2021

  • Hamid Hassanzadeh, MD
  • Steven W. Hwang, MD
  • Michelle C. Welborn, MD
  • Robert Gaines, MD – Senior Traveling Fellow

2020

  • Javier Pizones, MD, PhD
  • Dong-Gune Chang, MD, PhD
  • Qianyu Zhuang, MD (will travel with 2023 group)
  • René M. Castelein, MD, PhD – Senior Traveling Fellow

2019 Traveling Fellows

  • John Caridi, MD
  • Addisu Mesfin, MD
  • Gregory Mundis Jr., MD
  • George Thompson, MD - Senior Traveling Fellow

2018 Traveling Fellows

  • Kariman Abelin Genevois, MD, PhD
  • Kai Cao, MD, PhD
  • ZeZhang Zhu, MD, PhD
  • Francisco Javier Perez-Grueso Sr., MD - Senior Traveling Fellow

2017 Traveling Fellows

  • Samuel K. Cho, MD
  • Han Jo Kim, MD
  • Joshua Pahys, MD
  • Richard E. McCarthy, MD - Senior Traveling Fellow

2016 Traveling Fellows

  • Brice Ilharreborde, MD, PhD
  • Bangping Qian, MD
  • Kota Watanabe, MD, PhD
  • Keith D K Luk, MD - Senior Traveling Fellow

2015 Medtronic Traveling Fellows

  • Patrick J. Cahill, MD
  • Stefan Parent, MD, PhD
  • Burt Yaszay, MD
  • Behrooz A. Akbarnia, MD - Senior Traveling Fellow

2014 DePuy Spine International Traveling Fellows

  • Meric Enercan, MD, Turkey
  • J. Naresh-Babu, MS, FNB(Spine), India
  • Nasir Ali Quraishi, FRCS, United Kingdom
  • Daniel Henri Chopin, MD, Franve - Senior Traveling Fellow

2013 Medtronic Traveling Fellows

  • Amer Samdani, MD
  • Firoz Miyanji, MD, FRCS
  • Vikas Patel, MD
  • Randal Betz, MD - Senior Traveling Fellow

2012 DePuy Spine International Traveling Fellows

  • Ian J. Harding, BA, FRCS (Orth), United Kingdom
  • Vidyadhara Srinivasa, MS, DNB, FNB (Spine), India
  • Elias C. Papadopoulous, MD, Greece
  • Michael J. McMaster, MD, DSc, FRCS, United Kingdom - Senior Traveling Fellow

2011 Medtronic Traveling Fellows

  • Ronald A. Lehman, Jr., MD
  • Khaled Kebaish, MD
  • Jean-Marc Mac-Thiong, MD, PhD
  • Harry L. Shufflebarger, MD - Senior Traveling Fellow

2010 DePuy Spine International Traveling Fellows

  • S. Rajasekaran, MD, PhD, India
  • Katsushi Takeshita, MD, Japan
  • Jun-Young Yang, MD, PhD, Korea

2009 Medtronic Traveling Fellows

  • Jacob M. Buchowski, MD, MS
  • Frank La Marca, MD
  • Francis H. Shen, MD
  • Alvin Crawford, MD - Senior Traveling Fellow

2008 DePuy Spine International Traveling Fellows

  • Kyu-Jung Cho, MD, South Korea
  • Kan Min, MD, Switzerland
  • Avraam Ploumis, MD, Greece

2007 Medtronic Traveling Fellows

  • Youngjung Kim, MD
  • Praveen Mummaneni, MD
  • Jean Ouellet, MD
  • James Ogilvie, MD - Senior Traveling Fellow

2006 DePuy Spine International Traveling Fellows

  • Theodoros B. Grivas, MD, Greece
  • Ashok Johari, MD, India
  • Reinhard D. Zeller, MD, France

2005 Medtonic Somamor Danek Traveling Fellows

  • Matthew B. Dobbs, MD
  • Charles T. Mehlman, MD
  • Suken Shah, MD
  • Donald P.K. Chan, MD - Senior Traveling Fellow

2004 DePuy Spine International Traveling Fellows

  • Ahmet Alanay, MD, Turkey
  • Kenneth M.C. Cheung, MD, Hong Kong
  • Ulf R. Liljenqvist, MD, Germany

2003 Medtronic Sofamor Danek Traveling Fellows

  • Timothy R. Kuklo, MD
  • Daniel J. Sucato, MD
  • Alexander R. Vaccaro, MD
  • Courtney W. Brown, MD - Senior Traveling Fellow

2002 DePuy AcroMed International Traveling Fellows

  • Bruce F. Hodgson, FRACS, New Zealand
  • Jin-Hyok Kim, MD, Korea
  • Muharrem Yazici, MD, Turkey
  • (Note: Tamás Illés, MD, Hungary, was originally selected but unable to participate)

2001 Medtronic Sofamor Danek Traveling Fellows

  • Peter O. Newton, MD
  • Richard M. Schwend, MD
  • Edward P. Southern, MD
  • John P. Kostuik, MD - Senior Traveling Fellow

2000 DePuy AcroMed International Traveling Fellows

  • Ufuk Aydinli, MD, Turkey
  • Henry F.H. Halm, MD, Germany
  • Yutaka Hiraizumi, MD, PhD, Japan

1999 Medtronic Sofamor Danek Traveling Fellows

  • Serena S. Hu, MD
  • Joseph Y. Margulies, MD, PhD
  • Rolando M. Puno, MD
  • Kirkham B. Wood, MD
  • Clyde L. Nash, MD - Senior Traveling Fellow

1997 Medtronic Sofamor Danek Traveling Fellows

  • Vincent Arlet, MD
  • Allen L. Carl, MD
  • Michael F. O’Brien, MD
  • Ronald L. DeWald, MD - Senior Traveling Fellow

1995 Medtronic Sofamor Danek Traveling Fellows

  • Howard S. An, MD
  • Hubert H.L. Labelle, MD
  • Lawrence G. Lenke, MD
  • John E. Hall, MD - Senior Traveling Fellow

1993 Medtronic Sofamor Danek Traveling Fellows

  • George S. Bassett, MD
  • J. Kenneth Burkus, MD
  • Ensor E. Transfeldt, MD
  • Robert B. Winter, MD - Senior Traveling Fellow

1971

  • Donald P.K. Chan, Vermont
  • Gourish R. Palekaar, India

1970

  • John D. King, California
  • Jen Fang Wang, Taiwan
Turkish Spine Society Marc Asher Endowment Fund

2022

  • Altug Yucekul, MD

2017

  • Yilgor Caglar, Istanbul, Turkey

2016

  • Z. Deniz Olgun, MD

2015

  • Halil Gokhan Demirkiran, MD
Walter P. Blount Humanitarian Award

2022

  • Lawrence G. Lenke, MD

2021

  • Kenneth MC Cheung, MD

2020

  • Francisco J. Sánchez Pérez-Grueso Sr., MD

2019

  • Theodore Wagner, MD

2018

  • Richard M. Schwend, MD

2017

  • Kenneth Paonessa, MD

2016

  • David A. Spiegel, MD

2015

  • S. Rajasekaran, MD, FRCS, MCh, PhD

2014

  • Steven M. Mardjetko, MD, FAAP

2013

  • Bettye A. Wright, PA, RN

2012

  • Anthony Rinella, MD

2011

  • James Ogilvie, MD

2010

  • Jean Dubousset, MD

2009

  • Robert M. Campbell, Jr., MD

2008

  • Behrooz A. Akbarnia, MD

2007

  • John CY Leong, FRCS

2006

  • Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, MD

2002

  • James E. Holmblad, MD

2001

  • Charles F. Heinig, MD

1998

  • L. Ray Lawson, MD

1997

  • Albert E. Sanders, MD

1996

  • David B. Levine, MD

1992

  • Laura Gowen

1989

  • Howard and Barbara Schulman

1987

  • Marc Asher, MD