Doug Thomson
CEO, The Canadian Orthopaedic Association &
The Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation

The Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation (COF), at its most recent Board Meeting, approved the re-naming of the Young Investigator's Award as the Alexandra Kirkley Young Investigator Award. This will be an endowed special fund of the Foundation awarded annually to a young (less than five years post training) orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Canada whose grant application scores highest in the COF research grant competition as evaluated by the Executive of the Canadian Orthopaedic Research Society (CORS).  

The 2003 research grant application process will be announced before year-end.

The COF congratulates the following successful applicants for the 2002 COF research grants and awards:

1. Dr. Ken Faber, London (ON). The Robert B. Salter Award for his research project: "Analysis of Beta-Catenin Expression in Frozen Shoulder Syndrome."
   
2. Dr. Mark Glazebrook, Halifax (NS). The Carroll A. Laurin Award for his research project: "Experimental Overuse Tendinopathy: Characterization of: Molecular Cross-linking, Collagen Types I and III, Biomechanical Properties and the Effect of Mechanical Stress."
   
3. Dr. Nelson Greidanus, Vancouver (BC). The Young Investigator's Award for his research project: "A Randomized Controlled Trial of Outpatient Physiotherapy (OP) versus a Self-Administered Home Exercise Programme (HEP) Following Discharge Home from Total Hip Arthroplasty-A Feasibility Study."
   
4. Dr. Fackson Mwale, Montreal (QC) for his research project: "Tissue Engineering of Intervertebral Disc Using Mesen- chymal Stem Cells."
   

The prestigious J. Edward Samson Award, recognizing the best orthopaedic research realized during the year at a Canadian Centre has been awarded to Dr. Erin Boynton of Toronto (ON).

Congratulations to all of the 2002 COF grant and award winners.