Darla Conrad (left), Senior Director, North America Education Solutions, Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices, presents Kalpit N. Shah, MD (right) with his plaque for the second-place Resident Writer’s Award, and Christopher Rice, MD (center) with his plaque for the third-place Resident Writer’s Award at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) in San Diego.

Winners of the 2016 Resident Writer’s Award

First-Place Award

An Original Study

Clinical Outcomes of Anatomical Total Shoulder Arthroplasty in a Young, Active Population

Nicholas Kusnezov, MD, John C. Dunn, MD, Stephen A. Parada, MD, Kelly Kilcoyne, MD, and Brian R. Waterman, MD

Dr. Kusnezov is a senior resident, completing his orthopedic surgery residency training, at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center/William Beaumont Army Medical Center joint military-civilian program in El Paso, Texas. Prior to residency, he completed both his undergraduate education and medical school at the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating Summa Cum Laude and AOA, respectively. Dr. Kusnezov is currently engaged in a multitude of ongoing projects with over 50 peer-reviewed publications to date. His research interests include trauma and limb salvage, complex total joint reconstruction, and interdisciplinary system improvement.

Second-Place Award

An Original Study

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: How Do Digital Tablets Stack Up to Paper Forms? A Randomized, Controlled Study

Kalpit N. Shah, MD, Martin R. Hofmann, MD, Ran Schwarzkopf, MD, Deeba Pourmand, BSc, Nitin N. Bhatia, MD, Gregory Rafijah, MD, and S. Samuel Bederman, MD, PhD

Dr. Shah is currently in his third year of orthopedic surgery residency training at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Prior to residency, he completed undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley, and medical school at the University of California, Irvine. He hopes to pursue a hand and upper extremity fellowship after residency. His research interests include upper extremity trauma and surgical complications, as well as technology and its implications on orthopedic surgery.

Third-Place Award

An Original Study

Treating Tibia Fractures With Far Cortical Locking Implants

Christopher Rice, MD, Thomas Christensen, MD, Michael Bottlang, PhD, Dan Fitzpatrick, MS, MD, and Erik Kubiak, MD

Dr. Rice is an orthopedic surgery resident at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He received his medical degree from the University of Utah and attended Brigham Young University for his undergraduate studies. He has a special interest in disorders of the hand and upper extremity trauma.

Presentation of the 2016 Resident Writer’s Award