Past Award Winners

This fellowship is open to Spinal Deformity surgeons, 45 years old or younger. Fellows visit 2-3 experienced Spinal Deformity Centers during a year-long intensive program to optimize their education, knowledge, clinical research acumen and technical skills in the field.

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

This scholarship awards a North American SRS Candidate Member a two - three day visit at a designated spine deformity center throughout North America for the purpose of enhancing their education and skills.

2023
Jaysson T. Brooks, MD

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

This scholarship is open to surgeons from Mexico, Central or South America, or the Iberian Peninsula who have completed a fellowship in spinal deformity. It may be used to attend the SRS Annual Meeting & Course or visit a spinal deformity center for two weeks.

2023
Susana Nunez Pereira, MD, PhD

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 Dominguez, Madrid, Spain

2013
Javier Pizones, Madrid, Spain

2012
Mauricio Montalvo, Mexico City, Mexico

This meeting scholarships offers the opportunity for high-ranking SRS Awards applicants to attend either the International Meeting on Advance Spine Techniques or the Annual Meeting. Recipients are from both the US and outside the US.

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

This scholarship was created in memory of Tarik Fikry, a Moroccan orthopaedic surgeon who was actively involved in outreach. This scholarship is for orthopaedic or neurosurgeons practicing and residing in a Middle East/North African country to attend either the International Meeting on Advance Spine Techniques or the Annual Meeting & Course.

2018
Mohamed Fawzy Khattab, Cairo, Egypt

2017
Mohamed Fathy, Cairo, Egypt

This scholarship is for qualified individuals involved in spinal surgery (Orthopaedic or Neurosurgeon) under 45 years of age and from a developing nation to attend either IMAST or the SRS Annual Meeting & Course.

Congratulations to the following recipients:

2023
Nishank Mehta, MBBS, MS
Ghassen Gader, MD
Daniel Cunha Araujo, MD
Kushal Gohil, MBBS, MS, DNB, FASSI
Taofeek O. Adeyemi, MD
Pramod Baral, MD
Hriday Acharya, MS
Mohamed Fathy Hussein Elkhosousy, Sr., MD
Z M Dastagir
Ibrahim Elsayed Morsi, Sr.

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 Alkasem, Erbil, Iraq
Anupreet Bassi, Ludhiana, India
Amitava Biswas, Kolkata, India
Nishant Nishant, Patna, 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

This fellowship is for a surgeon to spend 2 - 3 weeks participating in a spine traveling fellowship visiting SRS members currently practicing vertebral body tethering.

2023
Alice Baroncini, MD, PhD
Mario Ganau, MD, PhD, MBA, LLM

This fellowship awards an individual under the age of 45, with a minimum of two years of independent spine surgery experience, from developing nation a three to four week fellowship in observing clinical care and spinal deformity surgeries with a volunteer SRS Active Fellow.

Congratulations to the following recipients:

2023
Zhen Liu, MD
Uchenna Ajoku, MD

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

This fellowship is open to all spine surgeons outside of North America, practicing in a developing or underserved area of the world, regardless of age.

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

This meeting scholarships offers the opportunity for high-ranking SRS Awards applicants to attend either the International Meeting on Advance Spine Techniques or the Annual Meeting & Course. Recipients are from outside of the USA with no age requirement.

2017
Ramiro Barrera, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
Hussain J. Bohra, Mumbai, India
Andrei Joaquim, Campinas, Brazil
Kostyantyn Lytvynenko, Kharkov, Ukraine
Panna Mishra, Allahabad, India
Nishant Nishant, Patna, India
Siddharth S. Shah, Mumbai, India
Pankaj Kumar Singh, New Delhi, India
Nam QD Vo, Hochminh, Viet Nam
Kwadwo Poku Yankey, Accra, Ghana

2016
Mario A. Condal Moore, Concepción, Chile
Natascha Gomez, Caracas, Venezuela
Sergey I. Kirilenko, Gomel, Belarus
Pradeep Kumar, Wardha, India
Olavo B. Letaif, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Amit Thapa, Kathmandu, Nepal

2015
Ujjwal K. Debnath, Kolkata, India
Tarik Fikry, Marrakech, Morocco
Mario Germán Gonzalez Tenorio, Cali, Colombia
Abdul Nasser Kaadan, Aleppo Syria
Max D. Mendez Salazar, San Jose, Costa Rica
Marcin Tyrakowski, Warsaw, Poland

The Moe award is given to the best basic science poster or e-poster at the SRS Annual Meeting.

Best Basic Science/Translational Research Poster

2023
Soft-tissue Insufficiency as a Predictor for Proximal Junctional Kyphosis and Failure in Patients with Adult Spinal Deformity
Bahar Shahidi, PhD; Eli O’Brien, BS; Brianna Kuhse, BS; Courtney Moltzen, BS; Christopher B. Colwell, BS; Camille Nosewicz, BS; Tina L. Iannacone, BSN; Robert K. Eastlack, MD; Gregory M. Mundis, MD

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

The SRS Lifetime Achievement Award honors an SRS member for distinguished service to the Society as well as significant contributions to spinal deformity care.

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

The Goldstein award is given to the best clinical poster or e-poster at the SRS Annual Meeting.

2023
Influence of Smoking on Patient-reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Adult Spinal Deformity. A Propensity Score-matched Analysis Excluding Known Tobacco-related Complications
Alejandro Gomez-Rice, MD, PhD; Maria Capdevila Bayo, MS; Susana Nunez Pereira, MD; Sleiman Haddad, MD, PhD, FRCS; Francisco Javier S. Perez-Grueso, MD; Frank S. Kleinstueck, MD; Ibrahim Obeid, MD; Ahmet Alanay, MD; Ferran Pellise, MD, PhD; Javier Pizones, MD, PhD; European Spine Study Group

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

This scholarship awards orthopaedic/neurosurgery residents and pediatric/spine fellows, with a strong interest in pursuing pediatric spinal deformity, attendance to the SRS Annual Meeting & Course or International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (IMAST).

2023
Christopher L. McDonald, MD
Lauren Stone, MD

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. Bumpass, Saint Louis, MO
Alan H. Daniels, Providence, RI
Doniel Drazin, Los 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

This fellowship is for highly-motivated surgeons who are currently in clinical practice and are in a position to disseminate acquired knowledge in their country upon completion of a pediatric fellowship. Experienced surgeons looking to enhance or develop a new technique related to pediatric spine deformity are encouraged to apply.

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. Balioglu, Istanbul, Turkey
Agnita Stadhouder, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2013
Mohsen Karami, Tehran, Iran
Miklos Tunyogi-Csapo, Pecs, Hungary

This four - six week spine fellowship is for highly-motivated spine surgeons who are currently in clinical practice in any financially-challenged underserved area worldwide, and who are in a position which will enable them to disseminate knowledge acquired during the fellowship to others in their home country upon their return. It is imperative that the fellow be from a site that has the ability to perform complex spine surgery after completion of the fellowship.

2023
Vikas Navin Trivedi, MBBS, MD, DNB, FACS, PhD
Pramod D. Bhilare, MD

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

The Russell A. Hibbs awards are given to both the best basic science and clinical papers presented at the SRS Annual Meeting. The top five abstracts of both categories are invited to submit their manuscripts for consideration.

Best Clinical Research Papers

2023
The Reunion with my Patients. Their Journey and Experience 30 Years after Their Intervention for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) via CD Instrumentation
Francisco Javier Perez-Grueso, MD; Lucía Moreno-Manzanaro, BS; Javier Pizones, MD, PhD

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

2023
Hierarchical Evaluation of Mechanically Induced Growth Modulation of the Spine in a Growing Pig Model
Madeline Boyes, DVM; Axel C. Moore, PhD; Julie Engiles, VMD, DACVP; Benjamin Sinder, PhD; Rachel Hilliard ; Jason B. Anari, MD; Sriram Balasubramanian, PhD; Edward Vresilovic, MD, PhD; Thomas P. Schaer, VMD; Dawn M. Elliott, PhD; Brian D. Snyder, MD, PhD; Patrick J. Cahill, MD

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 

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

This grant provides travel and living expenses to a young surgeon/researcher who will spend time at a selected SRS member center. They will have the opportunity to improve investigative skills while working on a research project. The grant is available to SRS candidate members age 40 or younger at the time of selection.

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

The Whitecloud awards are given to both the best basic science and clinical papers presented at the IMAST meeting.

Best Clincial Paper

2024

Cervical Spinal Cord Signal Changes in the Absence of Apparent Compression Indicate Dynamic Compression - Insights from Load-Bearing Positional Sitting MRI in Patients with Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy
J. Naresh-Babu, MS

2023
Decompression With or Without Fusion for Grade 1 Degenerative Lumbar Spondylolisthesis: 60-Month Outcomes From the QOD
Andrew K. Chan, MD; Erica F. Bisson, MPH; Mohamad Bydon, MD; Steven D. Glassman, MD; Kevin T. Foley, MD; Christopher I. Shaffrey, MD; Eric A. Potts, MD; Mark E. Shaffrey, MD; Domagoj Coric, MD; John J. Knightly, MD; Paul Park, MD; Michael Y. Wang, MD; Kai-Ming G. Fu, MD, PhD; Jonathan R. Slotkin, MD; Anthony L. Asher, MD; Michael S. Virk, MD, PhD; Vivian Le, MPH; Dean Chou, MD; Regis W. Haid Jr., MD; Praveen V. Mummaneni, MBA

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

2024

Pseudotime Analysis and mRNA-lncRNA-mRNA Network Co-Analysis Reveals Abnormal Bone Marrow Niche Leads to Reduced Osteogenesis and Chondrogenesis of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Patients
Qianyu Zhuang, MD; Yuechuan Zhang, MD; Terry Jianguo Zhang, MD

2023
What Are We Transfusing? A Prospective Trial Evaluating the Quality of Intraoperatively Salvaged Red Blood Cells in Spinal Deformity Surgery
David Kurland, MD, PhD; Daniel Alber, BS; Darryl Lau, 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

This annual traveling fellowship sponsors three SRS fellows to visit major spinal deformity centers in the different regions under the guidance of a senior SRS fellow. The award alternates between North American fellows (US, Canada, and Mexico) which visit centers in Europe/Asia and international fellows which visit deformity centers in North America. The visit lasts three to four weeks and end at the Annual Meeting if possible.

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

Established in honor of Professor Marc A. Asher from Kansas City, KS and his decades-long commitment to tutoring Turkish spine surgeons, this endowment fund gives Turkish spine surgeons the opportunity to attend the SRS Annual Meeting in hopes to continue Professor Asher’s legacy.

2023
Buse Sarıgul, MD
Ali Teoman Evren, MD

2022
Altug Yucekul, MD

2017
Yilgor Caglar, Istanbul, Turkey

2016
Z. Deniz Olgun, MD

2015
Halil Gokhan Demirkiran, MD

The Blount Award is a humanitarian award given to an individual who has provided outstanding service for those with spinal deformities, through their generous actions out of a sense of service to larger social and professional goals. Nominations are sought from the Fellows each year.

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

2024

Radiation-Free Assessment of the 3D Morphology of the Adolescent Scoliotic Spine: A Feasibility Study in Synthetic (S)CT
Lorenzo Costa, MD; Tijl van der Velden, PhD; Tom P. Schlösser, MD, PhD; René M. Castelein, MD, PhD; Peter R. Seevinck, PhD