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Lifetime Achievement Award 2024
The ISTA Lifetime Achievement Award honors an outstanding individual whose life’s work has significantly contributed to the advancement of the art and science of joint arthroplasty. Typically, there will have been a sustained and widely disseminated output over several decades, such that the individual is recognized as an authority in the field.
We are delighted to announce the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award 2024 Recipient is Dr Leo A. Whiteside.
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Dr. Leo A. Whiteside, an internationally known orthopaedic surgeon-inventor and educator from St. Louis, Missouri, is recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on osteointegration technology in total knee and hip arthroplasty. In the early 1980s he pioneered one of the first successful cementless total knee systems along with the first intramedullary alignment instrumentation system for knee surgery. He has designed three total hip systems, two total knee systems, a unicondylar knee system, and several surgical instruments. In the past decade he has dedicated much of his research effort to ligament balancing techniques in knee arthroplasty. After collecting and comparing extensive cadaveric laboratory and surgical-clinical data, he has developed protocols for balancing ligaments in primary and revision knees. As director of the Missouri Bone and Joint Center and its affiliated research foundation, Dr. Whiteside has published approximately 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. He also serves on numerous orthopaedic committees and journal review boards.
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| Year | Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients |
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| 2024 | Dr Leo Whiteside, MD – USA |
| 2023 | Tim Wright, MD/PhD – USA |
| 2022 | William H. Harris, MD – USA |
| 2019 | Harry McKellop, PhD – USA |
| 2018 | Harlan Amstutz, MD – USA |
| 2017 | A. Seth Greenwald, DPhil Oxon – USA |
| 2016 | Jorge Galante, MD – USA |
| 2015 | Brian Davies, PhD – UK |
| 2014 | Hiroshi Kudo, MD, PhD – Japan |
| 2013 | Thomas P. Andriacchi, PhD – USA |
| 2012 | Georg Bergmann, PhD – Germany |
| 2011 | Anthony Unsworth, PhD – UK |
| 2010 | Robin Ling, MD – UK |
| 2009 | Clifford Colwell Jr., MD – USA |
| 2008 | John Paul, PhD – UK |
| 2007 | Laurent Sedel, MD – France |
| 2006 | Albert Burstein, PhD – USA |
| 2005 | Hironobu Oonishi, MD – Japan |
| 2004 | Peter S. Walker, PhD – USA |
| 2003 | Takao Yamamuro, MD – Japan |
| 2002 | Michael Freeman, MD – UK |
| 2001 | Chitranjan Ranawat, MD – USA |
HAP Paul Award
Howard A (HAP) Paul, DVM, was a cross-disciplinary pioneer of surgical robotics and a founding member of ISTA. His insatiable curiosity combined with a quick mind and a surgeon’s practicality helped lead to the landmark use of a robotic device in human hip replacement surgery in 1992. HAP passed away at the young age of 44, but his contributions to our field continue to be built upon today. The HAP Paul Award is presented to an individual who has produced original work on the science and technology of arthroplasty which is likely to have an important impact on the field in the future.