Recent Orthopaedic Research UK prize winners

Wednesday, 11th April 2012

A joint award given at the annual meeting of the British Hip Society

We are delighted to announce the names of this year's British Orthopaedic Research Society/BHS Best Poster presentation donated by Orthopaedic Research UK.

The winning papers from the joint BORS/BHS session are detailed below. The prize winners are the first authors in each case.

WHY DON'T ALL MALPOSITIONED RESURFACED CUPS HAVE HIGH WEAR? - A DYNAMIC, GAIT LAB STUDY.

G Grammatopoulos, S Mellon, M Anderson, H Pandit, R Gundle, P McLardy- Smith, D Murray, H Gill NDORMS, University of Oxford, Oxford.

SYSTEMIC HEALTH EFFECTS OF CHRONIC METAL EXPOSURE AFTER METALON- METAL HIP RESURFACING.

J Prentice, M Clark, N Hoggard, I Stockley, AC Morton, C Tooth, M Hadjivassiliou, JM Wilkinson University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Sheffield.

The judging was undertaken by Mr Gordon Bannister, Mr John Timperley, Mr Dominic Meeks, Mr Steve Krikler and Dr Richie Gill. Please note that if any the papers were from a judge's institution they did not mark that presentation.

Mr George Grammatopoulos, prize winner, Mr John Hodgkinson, President of the BHS 2011 and Ms Jennifer Prentice, prize winner (left to right)