POSNA Annual Meeting May 3 — May 6, 2000 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Chair Person:Kenneth L.B. Brown, MD 2000 Recognition Awards Distinguished Achievement Award Mercer Charles Rang, M.D. For his role as a teacher and compassionate clinician, especially in the care of children with cerebral palsy. For his ability to raise serious issues masked in gentle and entertaining humor. For his uniquely recognizable authorship of books on children's fractures and the history of medicine. And for his enthusiastic and devoted vision of internationalism which sees children worldwide as the scope of pediatric orthopedic surgery. Presidential Guest Speaker Norris C. Carroll, MD 2000 Research Awards Best Clinical Paper Alain Dimeglio, MD Pubital Peak Irradiate Cartilage and Apophysis of the Greater Trochanter Best Scientific Paper Benjamin Alman, MD., Sevan Hopyan, MD., Raynond Poon, MSc., William G. Cole, MESS, PhD, FRCSC., Robert Bell, MD, FRCSC,. Irene Andrulis, PhD,. Jay Wunder; MD, FRCSC, Nalan Gokgoz, MSc The Molecular Etiology of Enchondromatosis and Implications for Therapy Best Poster Frederick Dietz, MD, SL Weinstein, MD,. IV Ponseti, MD The Technique and Results of the Ponseti Method for Treatment of Congenital Clubfoot