Research Recipients

Research Award List

POSNA Research Grant

Year	Grant Recipient	Title
2024	Nina Lightdale-Miric, MD Children's Hospital Los Angeles	Evaluating Adaptive Rock Climbing on Children with Upper Limb Differences
2024	Todd Milbrandt, MD Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN	Development of AI Tool to Predict the Need for MRI in Scoliosis
2023	Allen Kadado, MD The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital	Sensitivity, Specificity, and Accuracy of Dynamic Spinal Cord Mapping
2023	Richard Schwend, MD The Children’s Mercy Hospital	Why Do Patients with SCFE Have Increased Mortality and Morbidity?
2023	Alex Arkader, MD The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Genetic Profiling in Multiple Hereditary Exostosis
2022	Carol A. Wise, PhD Scottish Rite for Children, Dallas, TX	In Vivo Analysis of Pathologic Cells from NF1 Patient Pseudarthroses
2022	Chi Ma, PhD Scottish Rite for Children, Dallas, TX	Uncovering the Efficacy of Stem Cell Therapy for Pediatric Osteonecrosis
2022	Peter D. Fabricant, MD, MPH Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY	Development of a Preseason Injury Risk Calculator for Adolescent Athletes
2022	Maryse Bouchard, MD, FRCSC The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Accelerating the Learning Curve in Pediatric MSK Radiograph Interpretation
2021	Jonathan Rios, MD Scottish Rite for Children, Texas	Novel mouse models of osteofibrous dysplasia and pseudarthrosis
2021	Kishore Mulpuri, MD University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada	Observation vs bracing in dysplastic, stable hips in infants
2021	Jeffrey Martus, MD Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee	Pain Control in Infants Undergoing Tendoachilles Lengthening for Clubfoot
2021	Henry B Ellis Jr., MD Scottish Rite for Children, Texas	Compliance and biomechanical efficacy of unloader brace for stable OCD
2020	Jason Howard, MD Nemours/Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children	Muscle Stiffness in Cerebral Palsy: The Effect of Botulinum Toxin
2020	Yinshi Ren, PhD; Harry Kim, MD, CoPI Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Dallas	Determining the Effect of Obesity on Necrotic Bone Healing in Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease
2020	Jennifer Laine, MD Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare, St. Paul, MN	Development of a Minimally Invasive Model of Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease
2020	Kristen Tulchin-Francis, PhD Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Dallas	Outcomes of Amputation or Limb Reconstruction in Severe Fibular Deficiency
2019	Roger Cornwall, MD Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center - Research Foundation	Proteasome Inhibition for Contracture Prevention in NBPI
2019	Charles Johnston, MD Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children	Thoracic volume expansion by ventral directed costo-sternoplasty
2019	Todd Milbrandt, MD Mayo Clinic	Anterior Vertebral Body Tethering vs. Fusion for Idiopathic Scoliosis
2019	David Podeszwa, MD Texas Scottish Rite Hospital	Are patients as active as they say: Subjective/objective activity measures
2018	Jay Albright, MD Univeristy of Colorado, Denver	Prevention of Post Traumatic Osteoarthritis in an Animal Model with Post-traumatic Injection of a Chondroprotective Agent
2018	Raymond Liu, MD Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH	Risk of Distal Femoral Physeal Arrest Following Intramedullary Rod Removal & Fat Grafting
2018	Daniel Sucato, MD TSRH, Dallas	Functional and Gait Outcomes of Hip Preservation Surgery in Adolescents with Femoroacetabular Impingement/Acetabular Dysplasia at 5 to 10 Year Follow-up
2018	Lindsay Andras, MD Children's Hospital of Los Angeles	Prospective Randomized Study Comparing Functional Bracing vs Hip Spica Cast in Pediatric Femur Fractures
2017	Matthew Dobbs, MD Washington Univeristy, St. Louis, MO	Improving Variant Interpretation of Aortic Aneurysm Disease Genes
2017	Unni Narayanan, MD Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto	Measuring Priorities and Goals of Children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy to Develop a Meaningful Patient Reported Outcome Measure
2017	Michael Aiona, MD Shriners Hospital for Children, Portland, OR	Measuring the Impact of Orthpedic Surgery on Community Participation in CP with GPS
2016	Coleen S. Sabatini, MD University of California-S.F./UBC Makerere University School Of Public Health (Kobusingye)	Post-injection Injury in Ugandan Children: Prevalence, Risk Factors, Surgical Outcomes
2016	Shital N. Parikh, MD Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	JUPITER (Justify Patellar Instability Treatment by Early Results)
2016	Matthew E. Oetgen, MD Children's Research Institute at Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC	3D Printed Highly Functional Implants for Osetochondral Repair & Bone/Cartilage Regrowth
2015	Unni G Narayanan, MBBS - Clinical Research Holland Bloorview Kids Rehab Hosp & Hosp for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada	Validation of the Gait Outcomes Assessment List (GOAL) Questionnaire
2015	Matthew Milewski, MD - Clinical Research Connecticut Childrens Med. Ctr.	Return to Play and Mid-Term Assessment of Asymmetries Using 3D Motion Analysis Post ACL Reconstruction in Adolescents
2015	Kerwyn C Jones, MD - Basic Science Childrens Hospital Med Ctr of Akron, OH	Dynamic Analysis of Anatomical Parameters that Limit the Effectiveness of MPFL Reconstruction in Pediatric Patellar Instability
2014	Joseph Janicki, MD - Clinical Lurie Childrens Hospital, Chicago	Evaluation of the Necessity of Operative Irrigation & Debridgement: Pediatric Randomized Trial of Type One Open Fractures (PROOF Study)
2014	Lewis E Zionts, MD - Clinical Orthopaedic Institute for Children, Los Angeles	The Objetive Determination of Compliance with the Use of Post-corrective Braces in the Treatment of Infants with Idopathic Clubfoot
2014	Shawn Gilbert, MD - Basic Sci. University of AL, Birmingham	Effects of Obesity on the Physis
2013	Jonathan J Rios, PhD TX Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Dallas	Genome-wide Approach to Genetic Causes of Congenital Pseudoarthrosis of the Tibia (CPT)
2012	Jonathan Schoenecker, MD, PhD Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Staphylococcus Aureus Virulence Factor PVL: The Etiology of DVT in Children with Musculoskeletal Infections
2011	Todd Milbrantdt, MD Kentucky Clinic, Lexington	Cell Enhanced Hybrid Hydrogel Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering to Regenerate a Native Physis
2010	Reggie C Hamdy, MD Shriners Hosptial, Montreal, QC Canada	Long-term Radiological and Clinical Effects of Botulinum Toxin-A on Muscle in Children Undergoing Limb Lengthening
2009	Laura Tosi, MD Children's Research Institute, Washington, DC	Genetic Determinants of Peak Bone Mass in Males: A Genome-Wide Search
2008	Wentian Yang, MD, PhD Rhode Island Hospital, Providence	Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Shp2 in Osteoclastogenesis and Bone Remodeling
2008	Isabelle Villemure, P.Eng, PhD Research Ctr-CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal	Comparative mechanobiological Response of Growth Plate Explants under Static and Dynamic Loading
2008	Matthew Dobbs, MD St. Louis Children's Hospital, MO	Gene Discovery in Idiopathic Clubfoot
2007	Vishwas Talwalker, MD Shriners Hospital for Children, Lexington, KY	Three-dimensional Morphological Analysis to Determine the Efficacy of Petrie Casting in Children with Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease
2007	Jonathan Schoenecker, MD, PhD Vanderbilt Univ. Med. Ctr., Nashville, TN	The Role of Protease Activated Receptors in Fracture Repair
2007	Ryan Goodwin, MD Cleveland Clinic, Ohio	Evaluation of the SF-10 for Children in a Pediatric Orthopaedic Population
2007	Cathleen Raggio, MD Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY	Identification of Skin Abnormalities in OI Patients by MR Imaging
2006	Mark Lee, MD Rhode Island Hospital, Providence	Feasibility of Biologic Ephphysiodesis with Stroma Call-derived Fractor-1 in a Rabbit Model
2006	Joseph Vacanti, MD Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston	Transplanting Autologous Bone Marrow Derived Stromal Osteoblasts into an Experimental Animal Model of Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease
2006	Unni Narayanan, MBBS,FRCPS	Functional Outcomes Following Orthopaedic Surgery Based on Gait Laboratory Versus Observational Gait Analysis in Ambulatory Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
2005	J Michael Wattenbarger, MD Miller Orthopaedic Clinic, Charlotte, NC	Physeal Bar Formation in Physeal Fractures
2005	Michael Vitale, MD, MPH Childrens Hospital of New York	Assessing Outcomes in Childrens with Neuromuscular Disease
2005	Arabella Leet, MD Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD	The Effect ofPamidronate on Bone Healing in the OIM Mouse Model of Osteogenesis Imperfecta (Resubmission)
2004	Brad Bennett, PhD KCRC, Charlottesville, VA	Determinants of Gait and Center of Mass Movement in Children with Cerebral Palsy
2004	Kenneth Noonan, MD K4/734 Clinical Science Center, Madison, WI	Epidural Baclofen for Postoperative Lower Extremity pain and Muscle Spasm in Children with Cerebral Palsy
2004	Unni Narayanan, MD Hospital For Sick Children, Toronto, ON	Caregiver Priorities & Child Health Index of Life with Disabilities (CPCHILD): Development & Validation of a New Disease-specific Measure of Health Related Quality of Life in Children with Severe Disabilities Due to CP
2003	Joshua Hyman, MD Childrens Hospital of New York	Impact of Pediatric Orhopaedic Injuries and Treatments on School Attendance
2003	Fred Dietz, MD University of Iowa, Dept. of Ortho. Surgery	Treatment of Ustable Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis
2003	Danielle Katz, MD Children's Hospital of Boston	Does Two Hours per Day of Weight-bearing Improve Bone Mineral Density in Non-ambulatory Children?
2002	Ira Zaltz, MD	Cellular Mechanisms of Staple Epiphyseodesis and Recovery
2001	Peter Waters, MD	Multi-center Prospective Randomized Study of the Surgical treatment of Brachial Plexus Birth Palsy
2001	Harry KW Kim, MD	Role of Biomechanical Properties in Development of Femoral Head Defomrity Following Ischemic Necrosis
2000	James Wright, MD	A Multi-center, randomized Clinical Trial, comparing Intralesional Methylprednisolone and Bone Marrow Injections for Treatment of Simple Bone Cysts
2000	Nancy Hadley-Miller, MD	Genetic Linkage Analysis and Fine Mapping of Familial Idiopathic Scoliosis
1999	Kit Song, MD Children's Hospital Medical Center, Seattle, WA	Use of Polymerase Chian Reaction (PCR) for the Detection and Speciation of Bacterial Bone and Joint Infections in Children
1998	Mark F Abel, MD	Relationships Among Musculoskeletal Impairments & Functional Health Outcomes in Spastic CP: A Multi-center Evaluation
1998	Jose Morecuende, MD	Molecular Genetics of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
1996	Benjamin Alman, MD	Clubfoot Regulation of Contracture by Growth Factor Manipulation