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Ambroise Paré Award Ceremony 2011/2012
The awards ceremony of the Ambroise Paré Prize 2011 took place at the Combat Trauma Innovation Conference in London on 18 January 2012 attended by more than 400 participants and numerous medical industry representatives.
The prize – consisting of a medal, a personal diploma and a cash award – was donated by Medical Corps International Forum (MCI-Forum) and handed over by Rear Admiral uh MC (ret.) Dr. Christoph Büttner, Editor-in-Chief of MCI-Forum, Helmar Winkel, Managing Director of Beta Publishing, and Vice Admiral Philip I. Raffaelli, Surgeon General of the British Armed Forces.
Since MCI-Forum has received many outstanding abstracts, it was difficult to decide on a winner. Therefore the Journal has decided – on an exceptional basis - to split the prize among three winners. The first prize was awarded to Ltc. Dr. Nnaemeka C. E. Okpala, United Kingdom, for his article on “Management of Blast Injuries in Mass Casualties”. The second prize went to Brig. Harjinder S. Bhatoe VSM from India, for his work on “Controversies in Operative Management in Case of Craniocerebral Missile Injuries”. Col. Anjum Anwar Qadri from Pakistan was awarded the third prize for his article describing the profile of injuries arising from the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. Unfortunately Brig. Bhatoe and Col. Qadri could not attend the ceremony. However, it was a great honour to welcome both Brig. Sandeepan Handa, the Military Advisor of the High Commission of India in London and Col. Omer Ahmed Bokhari, Army & Air Advisor of the High Commission of Pakistan in London who took the awards in their places. We would like to extend our warmest congratulations to the winners. Also, we would like to use this opportunity to call upon you, our readers, to submit your abstracts for the Ambroise Paré Award 2013.
The Ambroise Paré Award was first presented by our periodical in 1986 and is given every two years. Ambroise Paré (1510-1590, France) was a broadly educated and highly experienced medical practitioner and military surgeon who, besides exploring boundary-breaking new regimes in treatment of war inflicted wounds, practiced revolutionary methods in battlefield health care, invented new instruments for war surgery and led an engaged battle against wound infections and for the containment of other infectious diseases, such as plague and smallpox. In recognition of his exemplary efforts MCI-Forum decided almost 26 years ago to honor Ambroise Paré as one of the first military doctors and to dedicate this prize to his memory.
Heinz-Jürgen Witzke, founder of the MCI-Forum, in announcing the award some years ago, said: “The Ambroise Paré Prize is intended, in the spirit of the medical pioneer for whom it is named, to stimulate scientific thinking and action in the sphere of medicine”.
The next Ambroise Paré Award will be presented at the ICMM World Congress in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in December 2013.
Once again, let us thank all the participants who attended the ceremony and congratulate the winners. We are looking forward to seeing you in 2013!
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