POSNA Annual Meeting May 6 — May 9, 1998 Location: Cleveland, OH Chair Person:William A Herndon, MD Precourse May 6, 1998 Theme:Bone Tumors Chair Person:Mark Gebhardt, MD 1998 Recognition Awards Distinguished Achievement Award Paul Griffin, MD For his enormous impact as a teacher and for his vision which led to the creation of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society. The vision played a major role in establishing the entire field of pediatric orthopaedic surgery as a separate specialty within orthopaedics. Presidential Guest Speaker Bruce Latimer, PhD 1998 Research Awards Best Clinical Paper Hamlet A Peterson, MD; Michael J Seel, MD Management of Posttraumatic Chronic Radial Head Dislocation in Children Best Scientific Paper James G Jarvis, MD; Claude Sagi, MD; Hans K Uhthoff, MD Histomorphic Analysis of the Development of the Pars Interarticularis and its Association with Isthmic Spondylolysis