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1) NATF FELLOWSHIP - APPLY TODAY!
Applications for the North American Travelling Fellowship (NATF) are being accepted until December 30, 2010. This dynamic fellowship is open to surgeons who have completed their residency training in Canada up to three years ago. The tour of Canadian and American centres will begin in the Fall of 2011. We encourage all eligible members to apply. Complete criteria and a downloadable application form can be found at www.coa-aco.org: click on Medical Education in the top menu bar, then click on Travelling Fellowships.
Ready to apply? Click here to download the application form now!
2) CALLING All RESEARCHERS!
The Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation invites applications for:
The J. Edouard Samson Award, sponsored by Bayer HealthCare, and
The Canadian Orthopaedic Research Legacy Grant.
The deadline for applications is October 31, 2010.
Application forms and guidelines are available at www.canorth.org: click on About Us, then For Professionals, then scroll down and click on Apply for a Grant.
3) ANNUAL MEETING WEBCASTS
All COA members recently received email notifications announcing that the webcasts from the Edmonton Annual Meeting are now online. Your login information to view the webcasts was included in the email notifications. To view the webcasts from both the Whistler and Edmonton meetings, click on the corresponding banners in the right margin of the COA homepage just under the poll question. New webcasts were added every week throughout the month of August. Visit www.coa-aco.org to see them all today!
4) CJRR AND UPCOMING CONFERENCES
CJRR will be participating in two upcoming provincial orthopaedic association conferences for the remainder of 2010 as part of our ongoing strategy to highlight the value of CJRR's data.
The Quebec Orthopaedic Association (QOA) conference will be held on September 30 - Oct 1, 2010 in La Malbaie, Quebec and the Ontario Orthopaedic Association (OOA) meeting will be held on November 4 - 6, 2010 in Toronto.
At both conferences, CJRR will have a booth presence, where we will be promoting the latest products, have a demonstration of the web-based application and be available to respond to enquiries about CJRR. We will also have a poster presentation at the QOA on Quebec specific data.
To learn more about CJRR or our web-based data submission tool, please visit our booth at these conferences. For more information, contact
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5) 2010 FOUNDERS MEDAL WINNERS
The Canadian Orthopaedic Research Society (CORS) awarded the 2010 Founders' Medal to two research teams after their recent Annual Meeting in Edmonton. Dr. Michèle Angers (Quebec City) and her coauthors received the award for their research paper: "Randomised Clinical Evaluation of Bone Mineral Density Variation Using Cemented Titanium versus Non-cemented Trabecular Metal Tibial Base Plates in Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty." Dr. Fackson Mwale's (Montreal) and his coauthors also received the same honour for their paper: "Effect of Link-N on Disc Repair in a Rabbit Model of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration." The Founders' Medal is awarded each year to the top paper or papers presented at the CORS scientific sessions. Congratulations to these two groups!
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Member in the Spotlight
Peter B. MacDonald, MD, FRCSC will be honoured with the 2010 Ignatian Challenge Award from St. Paul's High School in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Dr. MacDonald graduated from St. Paul's in 1976 and will receive his award at the upcoming Tribute Dinner in November. St Paul's initiated the Ignatian Challenge Awards in 1994 in order to recognize individuals within the community for their leadership and commitment to service. St. Paul's President Fr Alan Fogarty SJ said this of Dr. MacDonald's nomination: "It is a great pleasure to have Dr MacDonald as our 2010 Honouree. Dr. MacDonald's reputation as a world class surgeon and his impact on the medical community locally, nationally and internationally is a true testament to his passion and brilliance in his field."
Dr. MacDonald holds several academic appointments and is currently Medical Director, Department of Surgery, at the Pan Am Clinic. In addition, he is Head, Section of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Manitoba and is the current Treasurer of the COA. He lives in Winnipeg with his wife of 25 years, Sherry, and their three children.
A different member of the COA will be highlighted in each edition of the Dispatch. Would you like to be featured? Contact Cynthia Vezina for details.
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