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Awards
The COA has the honour of granting special awards for outstanding service, excellence and merit to its members who have gone over and above the standard call for duty. On behalf of Dr. Marc J. Moreau, Immediate Past President, we are pleased to congratulate the following members who were presented awards during the Opening Ceremonies in Québec City:

Presidential Award for Excellence
Dr. Cecil H. Rorabeck

Award of Merit
Dr. Carroll A. Laurin

J.A. Nutter Award
Dr. Marlis Sabo, from the University of Western Ontario, was awarded the J.A. Nutter Award for the best paper presented during the Canadian Orthopaedic Residents' Association (CORA) Annual Meeting.  Her winning abstract, "Comparing the Fixation of a Novel Hollow Screw and Conventional Solid Screw In Human Sacra Under Cyclic Loading", along with the 2nd Prize (Dr. Wadih Matar, University of Ottawa) and 3rd Prize (Michael Monument, University of Calgary) abstracts will be published in the Autumn 2008 edition of the COA Bulletin.