The Orthodontic Oscars

One of the most eagerly awaited elements of the BOS Conference is the awards and prize giving session where the Oscars of the orthodontic profession are conferred by the Society’s Scholarships and Grants Committee.

And the winners were …

The first prize to be awarded was the Chapman prize, awarded to Joanne Collins, with a prize of £1200 for her research into ‘Changes in the gender and ethnic balance of the United Kingdom workforce’, which was presented to the Conference the previous day.The ‘Scientific paper of the year’ presented on behalf of Maney publishing, the publishers of the Journal of Orthodontics, was awarded to Joanne Russell.

Keith Pearson of the OSG and Andy Price representing ORMCO, sponsors of the award, presented the ‘Against the Odds’ award to Michael Cheung of Maple House Orthodontics in Slough, whose patient Carly Pink received a £750 travel award. In Michael’s absence, the prize was presented to his Associate- Sarah Felmingham. This year due to the extremely high quality of the entries, two further awards were given to runners-up- Peter Huntley of Quality Orthodontics in the West Midlands and Raja Mahesh from the West Lothian area of Scotland with patient prizes sponsored by Philips Sonicare.

The Laurence Usiskin award was presented to Catherine Kao Min Chee. The £1000 prize was awarded for Catherine’s research into thumb sucking in Trinidad and Tobago.Next were the awards for submitted MOrth cases, with Andrew Shelton being awarded the BOS medal and £800. Badri Thirurenkatacheri was awarded the second place prize of £500 and Kaliopi Kokosali coming third with a prize of £300.

The William Houston medal is bestowed annually to the best candidate at the MOrth examination in Edinburgh and supported by TP Orthodontics.This year was jointly awarded to Helen Flint and Sinead McAvinchey.

David Bearn presented the award of BOS Distinguished Nurse Award to Denise Douglas, who currently works at the Cumberland Infirmary with Consultant Fiona Nixon.

David Tidy was next to the podium to give the BOS Recognition award to Alan Hayward-Dunn from Dodds the Printers who have been printers for the BOS for many years, offering a consistently excellent service and often going above and beyond the call of duty.

The UTG award, supported by OrthoCare, which was presented to Jadbinder Seehra for his research on ‘Bullying in Orthodontic Patients and its relationship to malocclusion, self-esteem and OHRQoL.’ The session concluded with Jadbinder presenting his excellent work to the Conference delegates. whilst the second went to Helen Flint and the third to Sona Pabari.

Paroo Mistry won the audit prize which was sponsored by Hawley Russell whilst A Ahmed won the Houston Research Prize. Also presented was the Orthodontic Technician Award for Distinguished Service for 2009 which was bestowed on The Chief Orthodontic Technician at the Royal London Hospital, Kieran McLaughlin.