Sofamor Danek Paper and Poster Awards 2007

PAPER AWARDS
  Paper #15: Surgical versus non-operative treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis: Two year results of the spine patient outcomes research trial
1JN Weinstein, 1JD Lurie, 1TD Tosteson, 1E Blood, 1ANA Tosteson, 2T Albert, 3FP Cammisa, 4H Herkowitz 1Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH; 2Rothman Institute of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA; 3Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY; 4William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI
Acknowledgement: The authors would like to acknowledge funding from the following sources: The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (U01-AR45444-01A1) and the Office of Research on Women's Health, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center in Musculoskeletal Diseases is funded by NIAMS (P60-AR048094-01A1). Dr. Lurie is supported by a Research Career Award from NIAMS (1 K23 AR 048138-01).

Paper #17: Surgery versus prolonged conservative treatment for sciatica
Wilco C, Peul, Hans C van Houwelingen, PhD, Wilbert B van den Hout, PhD, Ronald Brand, PhD.3. Just A.H. Eekhof, M.D., PhD, Joseph Th J Tans, M.D., PhD, Ralph T.W.M. Thomeer M.D., PhD, Bart W. Koes, PhD, for the Leiden-The Hague Spine-Intervention-Study Group

SPECIAL POSTER AWARDS
  Special Poster #134: Linkage Analysis On Familial Early-Onset Degenerative Disc Disease
Daniel W.H. Ho1, Kenneth M.C. Cheung2, Danny Chan1, Jaro Karppinen4, SP Yip5, Jurg Ott6, Keith D.K. Luk2, John C.Y. Leong2, Kathryn S.E. Cheah1, Pak Sham7 and You-Qiang Song1, 2, 3
1Department of Biochemistry, 2Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology and, 3The Genome Research Centre, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 4Department of Rehabilitation, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. 5Department of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, , Hong Kong. 6Laboratory of Statistical Genetics, Rockefeller University, New York, USA. 7King’s College, London, UK

Special Poster #140: TNF Alpha In Nucleus Pulposus Mediates Pain, But Not Inflammation, Associated With Nerve Damage In Mice
Masaomi Yamashita, Seiji Ohtori, Tomoko Watanabe, Gen Inoue, Takana Koshi, Kazuyo Yamauchi, Toshinori Ito, Munetaka Suzuki, Hideshige Moriya, Kazuhisa Takahashi, Chiba, Japan