2005 Awards
Mark S. Bloomberg Memorial Research Award
Lee Breshears, DVM. Breshears, L.A., J.L. Cook, A.M. Stoker, K. Kuroki, D.B. Fox, and M.K. Cockrell. Evaluation of biochemical and gene expression patterns in normal and pathologic cranial cruciate ligament explants.
Comparative Orthopaedic Laboratory Clinical Aptitude Award
Steven Curry. This award is presented by the Comparative Orthopaedic Laboratory (COL) to the graduating senior who demonstrates potential and interest in clinical orthopaedics.
Comparative Orthopaedic Laboratory Excellence in Research Award
Aaron Stoker, DVM. This award is presented by the Comparative Orthopaedic Laboratory (COL) to the graduate student who has demonstrated the ability to contribute original research in orthopaedics to the scientific community.
1st Year Residents, Interns, and Grad. Student's Presentation
Jennifer Warnock, DVM. (First Place) Warnock, J., Fox, D., Stoker, A., Cockrell, M., Janicek, J. and Cook, J. Evaluation of static and dynamic seeding of equine fibroblast - like synoviocytes on OPLA (Open-cell poly-L-lactic acid) and PGA (poly glycolic acid) tissue scaffolds.
2nd and 3rd Year Residents and Grad. Student's Poster
Lee Breshears, DVM. (Third Place) Breshears, L.A., Cook, J.L., Stoker, A.M., Kuroki, K., Fox, D.B. and Cockrell, M.K. Evaluation of biochemical and gene expression patterns in normal and pathologic anterior cruciate ligament explants.
Best Podium Presentation
Derek B. Fox, DVM. Correction of radial deformities via dome osteotomy utilizing a biradial saw and the center of rotation of angulation (CORA) methodology. This talk was presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Veterinary Orthopaedic Society in March 2005 at Aspen, Colorado.
Alavi-Mendell Award
Stephanie C. Essman, DVM. Dr. Stephanie Essman recently received the Alavi-Mendell Award for her paper published in The Journal of Nuclear medicine entitled, The effects of 153-samarium-EDTMP on physeal and articular cartilage in juvenile rabbits.
This work was done in collaboration with the Comparative Orthopaedic Laboratory in 2003. This paper was selected from 9,000 others and the award recognizes contributions of authors in training at the time of publication. This work is of particular importance as being the only award winning paper in 2002-2003 that was first-authored by a veterinarian.
U of M Health Sciences Research Day Award
Brandon Roller. This award was received for outstanding research in a poster presentation, Correlation of clinical assessment of meniscal pathology to biochemical and molecular analyses.