AOA presents a number of awards and medals for outstanding contributions to various areas of orthopaedic endeavour.
Unless otherwise specified, the honours and awards listed below are judged by the Honours and Nominations Committee.
Please send nomination forms via email to admin@aoa.org.au or via post to:
Australian Orthopaedic Association
Level 26
201 Kent Street
Sydney NSW 2000
2022 AOA Award recipients
2022 Awardee: John Tuffley
The L O Betts Memorial Medal was established by Mrs Beatrice Betts, widow of the second President of AOA. The medal is awarded for outstanding contribution to the science and practice of orthopaedics or to AOA.
The L O Betts Memorial Medal is an accolade of the highest order of the Association.
2022 Awardee: Claudia De Bella
This award recognises outstanding leadership potential in a member of AOA under the age of 50 (at 30 June in the year of the award), who has made a substantial contribution to AOA either at branch or federal level, and other areas of professional endeavour.
Award for Service to Orthopaedic Education
2022 Awardee: Bruce Foster
This award recognises substantial contributions to the field of the education of orthopaedic trainees by Fellows of AOA, at both a regional level and federal level.
Award for Service to Orthopaedic Research
2022 Awardee: Kevin Tetsworth
This award recognises significant contribution by an AOA member to international orthopaedic research, which has contributed to the orthopaedic and wider community.
Humanitarian Service Award
2022 Awardees: John Clifford and Li-On Lam
This award recognises an outstanding contribution to humanitarian services in orthopaedics by an AOA member.
Award for Meritorious Service
2022 Awardee: Michael Falkenberg
The AOA Medal for Meritorious Service is awarded to a member who has made an outstanding contribution to the work of the Association over many years.
Life Fellow
2022 Awardee: Jegan Krishnan
Life Fellowship is awarded to a Fellow whom the Association considers has given long and faithful service to the Association.
Corresponding Fellow
Corresponding Fellowship is awarded to distinguished surgeons or persons practising in related disciplines not residing in Australia.
Honorary Fellow
Honorary Fellowship is awarded to a scientist, medical practitioner, distinguished public figure or a person practising in related disciplines recognised by the Association for his or her contributions to orthopaedic surgery, other branches of surgery, medicine or human endeavour.
Philip Segelov Award
Awarded by the Australasian Orthopaedic Trauma Society, this award is for the best trauma paper presented by a registrar or training doctor at the AOA Annual Scientific Meeting.
The 2008 winner of the Philip Segelov Award was Chere McCamley.
Recipients
L O Betts Memorial Medal
2022 – John Tuffley
2021 – Michael Bellemore
2020 – Paul Stalley
2019 – Graham Mercer
2018 – Ian Dickinson
2017 – A Sutherland
2016 – M Fogarty
2015 – S Graves
2014 – B Einoder
2013 – D Sonnabend
2012 – J Bartlett
2011 – M Cross
2010 – J M Harrison
2009 – D McNicol
2008 – D McIntyre
2007 – J H Rush
2006 – K F King
2005 – I B McPhee
2004 – B D Shepherd
2003 – C M Maxwell
2002 – D C Davidson
2001 – J M Ellis
2000 – B H Casey
1999 – N L Thomson
1998 – No award
1997 – J A L Hart
1996 – D R Dickens
1995 – No award
1994 – R D Fraser
1993 – T K F Taylor
1992 – W G Cole
1991 – B J Dooley
1990 – E H Bates
1989 – B L Cornish
1987 – W J Cumming
1986 – H D Tyer
1985 – M B Menelaus
1984 – No award
1983 – R L Huckstep CMG
1982 – G Kerridge AM
1981 – A R Hamilton
1980 – Sir Dennis Paterson
1979 – No award
1978 – H C Barry
1977 – No award
1976 – H V Crock
1975 – W A Smith
1974 – No award
1973 – P F Williams
1972 – Sir George Bedbrook
1971 – A F Dwyer
Award for Humanitarian Service
2022 – John Clifford and Li-On Lam
2021 – Leonard Kuo
2020 – Paul Hitchen
2019 – Stuart Myers
2018 – P Lugg and M McAuliffe
2017 – A Beischer
2016 – T Keenan
2015 – D Young
2014 – R Genat
2013 – G Forward
2012 – G Gumley
2010 – Y A E Ghabrial
2010 – W J Cumming
2008 – D McNicol
2008 – A Nicholl
2007 – J S Bosanquet
2006 – P E Giblin
Award for Leadership
2022 – Claudia De Bella
2021 – Catherine McDougall and Ben Gooden
2020 – Katherine Stannage
2019 – Andrew Wines
2018 – Ali Gursel
2017 – S Vrancic and N Williams
2016 – C Kondogiannis
2015 – O Khorshid
2014 – K MacGroarty
2014 – S Zilko
2012 – P Pinkus
2011 – V J Mamo
2010 – I Incoll
2007 – S Liew
2005 – R Sorial
2005 – P Choong
Award for Services to Orthopaedic Education
2022 – Bruce Foster
2021 – Andrew Hardidge and Gary Nielsen
2020 – Richard Angliss, Angus Gray, Ian Incoll, Omar Khorshid and John Walsh
2019 – Paul Pincus and Kevin Woods
2017 – J Krishnan
2015 – P Tran
2014 – G Gumley
2013 – P Cundy
2012 – R Ivers
2011 – D Sonnabend
2010 – R J Beaver
2009 – R L Boulton
2008 – S M L Nade
2007 – M Goldwasser
2006 – J P H Stephen
2005 – A P Skirving
Award for Services to Orthopaedic Research
2022 – Kevin Tetsworth
2021 – David Parker and Justin Roe
2020 – Marcus Kuster
2019 – Paul smith and Piers Yates
2017 – R Fraser
2016 – K Graham
2015 – P Choong
2014 – M Schuetz
2014 – Z Balogh
2013 – M Coolican
2012 – D Howie
2012 – I Harris
2011 – R W Crawford
2010 – D G Little
2009 – G I Bain
2008 – I Henderson
2007 – W R Walsh
2007 – D H Sonnabend
2006 – L A Pinczewski
Corresponding Fellow
2017 – J Bagian, S Emery and I Curran
1999 – R S M Ling
1998 – S L Weinstein
1996 – C H Feng
1994 – R L Larson
Honorary Fellows
2020 – Colin Barnes
2019 – Onder Aydingoz
2018 – J Bennett, Alan Kop and Jay Ebert
2017 – R Green, H Malchau and M Hollands
2016 – D Findlay
2016 – D Kerr
2015 – J Frank
2015 – S Milgate
2010 – R Day
2007 – G Warren
1999 – B Vernon-Roberts
Life Fellow
2022 – Jegan Krishnan
2021 – Roderick Thompson
2020 – Peter Bath
2019 – David Marshall
2019 – David McNicol
2019 – David Sonnabend
2016 – B Cornish
2016 – M Maguire
2014 – M Goldwasser
2014 – J Walters
2013 – M Cross
2013 – M Tiller
2012 – D Davidson
2012 – W Ryan
2012 – P Holman
2011 – L A Toft
2010 – A P Skirving
2010 – J S Harbison
2010 – B J Einoder
2009 – W L Thomas
2009 – J E Harris
2007 – J E Venerys
2007 – R W L Turner
2007 – T M Stevenson
2007 – P J Millroy
2007 – J G Allman
2005 – D W Walters
1999 – K F King
1999 – F J Harvey
1999 – W J Cumming
1997 – B J Dooley
1996 – B D Shepherd
1994 – T K F Taylor
1994 – Sir Dennis C Paterson
1994 – E D McIntyre
1993 – J S Roarty
1993 – W N Gilmour
1993 – T J Claffey
1993 – G R Anderson
1988 – G Kerridge
1983 – P F Williams
Date unknown – F B Webb
Date unknown – N L Thomson
Date unknown – W BClark
Date unknown – E H Bates
Medal for Meritorious Service
2022 – Michael Falkenberg
2021 – Kerin Fielding and Andrew Ellis
2020 – Colin Whitewood
2019 – Roger Hargraves, Stephen Ruff and George Sikorski
2018 – J Kagi
2016 – A Dunin
2016 – S Doig
2015 – D Mitchell
2015 – P Muscio
2015 – S Liew
2014 – M Sandow
2013 – R Wuttke
2013 – C B Thrum
2012 – D Stabler
2012 – G Bruce
2011 – L K Giutronich
2010 – J G Bodel
2009 – W L Thomas
2009 – J B North
2008 – H C Beh
2008 – G W Mutton
2007 – G W Morrison
2007 – Y A E Ghabrial
2006 – J S Harbison
2006 – P Dewey
2005 – B J Einoder
2004 – T K F Taylor
2003 – T P McGuire
2002 – P T Keenan
2001 – N I B Stratton
2001 – B J Dooley
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