Brian Cole, MD, earned the 2025 Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation Clinical Research Award, according to a Feb. 7 news release. He was recognized for his 25 years of work to advance osteochondral allograft transplantation for cartilage and bone defects.
Nicholas Piuzzi, MD, earned the 2025 Kappa Delta Young Investigator Award for research on advanced analytics and personalized prediction tools in total hip and knee replacements.
Matthew Provencher, MD, earned the 2025 Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughn Award for research he conducted over 25 years on anterior shoulder instability research. He and his team studied the early identification of glenohumeral pathomorphology and optimized return-to-duty strategies in military populations.
Brian Feeley, MD, earned the 2025 Kappa Delta Elizabeth Winston Lanier Award for research in advancing the understanding of muscle degeneration in rotator cuff injuries and outcomes. Over the last 15 years he and his team found the source of fatty infiltration that causes muscle atrophy, leading to poor functional outcomes in rotator cuff repairs.
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