The winners of Outstanding Paper awards include:
• Zack Abbott, DO; Kavita Nair, PhD; Richard Allen, MS; Venu Akuthota, MD, for their paper titled “Utilization Characteristics of Spinal Interventions.”
• John Street, MD, PhD; Brian Lenehan, MD; Christian DiPaola, MD; Michael Boyd, MD; Charles Fischer, MD; Brian Kwon, MD, PhD; Scott Paquette, MD; Yoga R. Rampersaud, MD; Marcel Dvorak, MD, for their paper titled “Morbidity and Mortality of Major Adult Spinal Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Analysis of 942 Consecutive Patients.”
• Steven Leckie, MD; Bernard Bechara, MSc; Robert Hartman, MSc; Gwendolyn Sowa, MD, PhD; Barrett Woods, MD; Paulo Coelho, MSc; William Witt, MSc; Qing Dong, MSc; Brent Bowman; Kevin Bell, MSc; Nam Vo, PhD, Bing Wang, MD, PhD; James Kang, MD, for their paper titled “Injection of AAV2-BMP2 and AAV2-TIMP1 into the Nucleus Pulpous Slows the Course of Intervertebral Degeneration by MRI, Histological, Serum Biomechanical and Biomechanical Criteria.”
• Salin Kim, RN, MN, PhD; Sorooush Mortaz, MD, PhD student; Peter Coyte, PhD; Raja Rampersaud, MD, for their paper titled “Cost-Utility of Lumbar Decompression With or Without Fusion for Patients With Sympotomatic Degenerative Lumbar Spondylolisthesis.”
The Editors’ Choice Award was given to Scott D. Daffner, MD; Henry J. Hymanson, BS; and Jeffrey C. Wang, MD, for their paper titled “Cost and Utilization of Conservative Management of Lumbar Disc Herniation Prior to Surgical Discectomy.”
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