Lifetime Achievement Award
-Tom Watson, CPO
Legislative Advocacy Awards
-James Young, Jr., CP, LP, FAAOP
-Scott Schneider
-Ralph Nobbe, CPO
Hamontree Award
The Sam E. Hamontree, CP(E), Business Education Award was created to recognize the best business education paper, idea and/or proposal submitted
for presentation.
-Molly McCoy, L/CPO, “Documentation Changes That Work! Proof that Better Documentation Leads to Overturn of Denials”
Thranhardt Award
Launched by a gift from J.E. Hanger in memory of Howard R. Thranhardt, CP, the series recognizes individuals committed to advancing O&P education and research.
-Kenton Kaufman, PhD, PE, “Functional Assessment and Satisfaction in K2 Transfemoral Amputees Receiving MPK Knees–Initial Findings”
-Beatrice Janka, MPO, CPO, “The Effects of AFO Stiffness and Alignment on Lower Extremity Kinematics in Stroke and Multiple Sclerosis”
Technical Fabrication Contest
This year’s technical fabrication contest featured two separate timed competitions.
Articulating AFO joint winners:
Practitioners:
1. Rich Federman, CO
2. Aaron Norell, BOCO, BOCP, CO
Technicians:
1. Michael Brandon
2. Tim Cunningham
Students:
1. Steve Daley
2. Todd Nakano
BK socket and foot winners:
Practitioners:
1. Michael Stull, BOCP
2. Julianne Gupta, CPO
Technicians:
1. Darrin Snowden, CPA, CTP
2. Michael Brandon
Students:
1. Ashley Rinck
2. Allison Snooks
Student/Resident Poster Contest:
The Otto and Lucille Becker Award is presented for the best orthotic abstract submitted and the Edwin and Kathryn Arbogast Award for the best prosthetic abstract submitted by a qualifying student or resident.
Edwin and Kathryn Arbogast Award
-Tyler Klenow, A Metric to Quantify the “Dead Spot” Phenomenon in Prosthetic Gait: An Analysis of Sagittal Center of Pressure Progression and Its Velocity
Otto and Lucille Becker Award
-Morgan Oxenrider and Megan Kelly, The Capacity Foot Orthoses to Modulate Plantar Foot Tissue Stiffness