Henri Horoszowski Award

This award was established in 1998 in memory of Professor Henri Horoszowski, former chairman of the Musculoskeletal Committee. The award was established to encourage musculoskeletal specialists to become involved in Hemophilia care.

Presenters of any free papers selected for inclusion in each Musculoskeletal Congress and each MSK program of the WFH Congress are eligible for the award, with two exceptions:

current or past members of the MSK Executive Committee are not eligible.
previous winners of the award are not eligible.

Presentations are judged on Scientific Methodology, Originality, Relevance and Quality of the presentation by a panel of judges appointed by the MSK executive.

Musculoskeletal Awards at the MSK Congress in Dubai,
March-April, 2011

The Henri Horoszowski Award was presented to Dr. Monique van Meegeren from The Netherlands for her paper entitled “Early-onset administration of IL-4 and IL-10 prevents blood-induced cartilage damage in vitro,” and to Nicholas Goddard from the U.K. for his paper “Perioperative Clotting Factor Replacement and Infection in Total Knee Arthroplasty.”

For more information please contact Pamela Narayan at pamelanarayan@yahoo.co.in.

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Past recipients

Year	Place of Conference / Title (Eligibility criteria refined in 2008)	Authors
2010	Spain Influence of an Aquatic Training Protocol on the Reduced Risk of Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality in a Hemophiliac	Lydia Abad-Franch (Spain)
2009	Cartagena, Colombia Impact of Hemophilia Ankle Arthropathy on Gait Disability: Analysis of Energetic and Mechanical Variables	Sebastien Lobet (Belgium)
2008	Istanbul,Turkey Bone Turnover Markers and Bone Mineral Density in Children with Hemophilia	Jose Alberto Tlacuilo-Parra (Mexico)
2007	Stresa, Italy Degenerated Cartilage is as vulnerable to blood-induced cartilage damage as healthy cartilage is	Nathalie Jansen, Goris Roosendaal, JWJ Bijlsma, M Theobald, FPJG Lafeber, (Netherlands)
2006	Vancouver, Canada MultiCenter Study of Orthopedic Outcome of the Lower Extremities in 249 Children with Hemophilia	Axel Seuser and E Kusch (Germany)
2005	Istanbul, Turkey The Hemophilia Activities List: Final development and validation of a hemophilic-specific self-assessment questionnaire on functional abilities	Frank van Genderen, Nico van Meeteren, Lily Heijnen, Piet de Kleijn, Marijke van den Berg, Paul Helders (Netherlands)
2004	Bangkok, Thailand Radiosynoviorthesis using YTTRIUM-90 results in adverse direct effects on cartilage: a human in vitro study.	Goris Roosendaal, N Jahangier K Jacobs, H Bijlsma, F Lafeber (Netherlands)
2003	Bonn, Germany How to advise young haemophiliacs to find the right sport? A new and safe algorithm!’	Axel Seuser, Thomas Wallny, G.Schumpe, E.Trunz, H-H Brackman (Germany)
2002	Seville, Spain Long Term Review of Total Knee Arthroplasty	James Luck Jr, M Silva (USA)
2001	Lahore, Pakistan Oxytetracycline Chlorohydrate: A new material for chemical synovial orthoses	Federico Fernandez-Palazzi (Venezuela)
2000	Montreal, Canada Pseudotumours	Horacio Caviglia (Argentina)
1999	Sydney, Australia Communication and Co-operation for the New Millenium - The future of the Musculoskeletal Committee in the 21 st Century	William J. Ribbans, J.L. Hicks (UK)
1998	The Hague, Netherlands Chromic phosphate synoviorthesis without age restriction should be the first treatment option for chronic active hemophilic synovitis.	Adolfo Llinas, M. Silva, M. Duarte, G. Ucros, G. Perini, A.M. Cerquera, A. Forero (Columbia)