Frank R. Noyes M.D., President and Medical Director of Cincinnati SportsMedicine and Orthopaedic Center and several of his colleagues were awarded today with the 2004 Clinical Research Award. View Entire Story

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The John Kennedy Memorial Lectureship is awarded each year to one orthopaedic surgeon by the President of the American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine (AOSSM). This honor recognized Dr. Noyes’ outstanding career as a surgeon, educator, and researcher in the field of orthopaedics and sports medicine. Dr. Noyes addressed the AOSSM on the topic of the physician-scientist and the difficulties surgeons face in trying to balance clinical and research responsibilities.

Dr. Noyes, along with Cincinnati researchers Edward Grood, Ph.D. and Sue Barber-Westin, B.S., and Standford University professor Thomas Andriacchi, Ph.D., were awarded the 2004 Clinical Research Award during the opening ceremony of the AAOS Annual Meeting, held today at the San Francisco Convention Center. This award is presented annually by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF). The award is reserved for the most outstanding clinical research study in orthopaedics; the highest such honor awarded jointly by the AAOS and OREF. Dr. Noyes and researchers received this award for a series of studies conducted over a 17-year period that revolutionized how orthopaedic surgeons treat patients that have bowed legs and knee ligament injuries.

The work of Noyes and his colleagues focused initially on patients who came to Cincinnati Sportsmedicine after undergoing knee ligament reconstructions that failed to restore knee stability. Many of the patients had undergone four or more previous operations and were desperate for answers as to why they still suffered pain, instability and limitations with daily activities. Through a series of biomechanical, dynamic gait, and clinical investigations, the researchers developed a treatment approach for these complex knees. They recommended for the first time that the bowed leg condition had to be treated first with an operation (osteotomy) that corrected the alignment, and then the knee ligaments could be reconstructed successfully.

Women have a significantly greater chance of serious knee injuries during the ovulatory phase of their menstrual cycle, says orthopaedic surgeon Thomas N. Lindenfeld, MD of Cincinnati Sportsmedicine Research and Education Foundation.

Dr. Lindenfeld presented his findings at the annual American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s meeting. The study is the recipient of the AOSSM’s O’Donoghue Sports Injury Research Award, given to the best overall paper that deals with clinical -based research or human in-vivo research. Both Drs. Lindenfeld and Noyes are past recipients of this prestigious award.

Frank R. Noyes, MD, returned to the University of Michigan as their Keynote Speaker for the Department of Orthopaedics’ annual meeting. Dr. Noyes’ roots to the University run deep having completed his residency there. The invitation to speak at the University is an honor; the lectureship chooses national leaders in orthopaedics to present current advances to the University’s physicians and alumnae. “We were pleased Dr. Noyes could join us. Through his research and extensive knowledge of sports medicine he has earned a reputation as one of the top experts in the country,” said Edward Wojtys, MD, team physician for the University of Michigan. “His presentation was one of the most well received this lectureship has ever had.”

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Dr. Thomas N. Lindenfeld was elected into the prestigious American Orthopaedic Association (AOA). The association elects new members each year based on their significant contribution to education, research, and the practice of orthopaedic surgery. The AOA currently has 580 active members from the 23,243 board certified orthopaedics in the country. Dr. Lindenfeld joins Dr. Noyes who was inducted in 1979. The mission of the AOA is to enhance the quality of musculoskeletal healthcare nationally and internationally through the recognition and provision of leadership in the field of orthopaedics.

Researchers from the Noyes-Giannestras Biomechanics Laboratories at the University of Cincinnati received the Cabaud Award from the AOSSM on two separate occasions for studies which best exemplified clinically relevant laboratory basic science research. View Entire Story