OREF Announces 2013 Research Grants, Awards

Jean McGuire

On March 19, the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) announced the recipients of 62 research grants and awards totaling $1.7 million. A complete listing of OREF’s awardees—including graduate medical education fellowships and residency enhancement grants funded through OREF’s Clinician Development Program—can be found in the Grants Awarded handout available at the OREF booth in Academy Hall B of McCormick Place’s North Building, and also online at www.oref.org

Highlights
Research grants and awards funded included the following:

Two Career Development Grants ($225,000) to Roger Cornwall, MD, and Brian T. Feeley, MD
One Clinical Research Award ($20,000) to Robert F. LaPrade, MD, PhD
Two OREF Prospective Clinical Research Grants ($150,000) to Andrew C. Hecht, MD, and Javad Parvizi, MD, FRCS
Seven Research Grants (totaling more than $298,000) to Joseph A. Abboud, MD; Cristin M. Ferguson, MD; Mininder S. Kocher, MD, MPH; Mark A. Lee, MD; Lauren H. Redler, MD; Weiping Ren, MD; and Katherine R. Saul, PhD
Eight Young Investigator Grants ($50,000 each) to Samuel B. Adams, MD; Oke A. Anakwenze, MD; Nicholas M. Bernthal, MD; Samuel K. Cho, MD; Christopher J. Dy, MD; Saadiq F. El-Amin III, MD, PhD; Patrick A. Holt, MD, PhD; and Hyun-Min Kim, MD
Seven Resident Clinician Scientist Training Grants (totaling $152,000) to Daniel N. Bracey, MD; Joshua Gordon, MD; Natalie L. Leong, MD; Jose M. Mejia Oneto, MD, PhD; Jesse E. Otero, MD, PhD; Amanda T. Whitaker, MD; and Phillip Williams, MD
Twenty-five Resident Research Project Grants—made possible by support from DePuy, Exactech, MAKO and OREF—totaling $120,500
Four Educational Grants totaling $75,000
Two ORS/OREF Travel Awards in Orthopaedic Research Translation totaling $1,500
One ORS/OREF Distinguished Investigator Award
Two OREF/Current Concepts in Joint Replacement Clinical Practice Awards totaling $4,000

Congratulations
OREF received 249 research grant applications requesting $14.4 million in funding. In the fall of 2012, OREF’s Peer Review Committee volunteers evaluated the scientific merit of each application through a rigorous peer-review process modeled after the National Institutes of Health. The applications were then ranked, and funding decisions were made by the Research Grants Committee. OREF’s board of trustees congratulates the 2013 grant recipients!

Learn more

For more information about any of these grants, or to sign up for OREF’s eMinder service to be notified as news develops on additional grants and awards, visit www.oref.org/grants

Jean McGuire, OREF vice president, grants, may be reached at mcquire@oref.org

2013 Annual Meeting News
Tuesday through Friday, February 19 – 23, 2013.
http://www.aaos.org/news/acadnews/2013/AAOS14_3_20.asp