About the Award
The William A. Grana Award, given by AOSSM and the Editorial Board representatives from its partner organizations, honors the best original research published in OJSM in the previous year.
The OJSM awards were established in 2016 to honor the best original research and clinical papers published in the journal during the previous calendar year. All published papers are eligible for this award. The winners receive a plaque and a waived article processing charge for the future published paper of their choice. The awards are named for William A. Grana, MD, and Douglas W. Brown, MD, AOSSM Past Presidents.
Past Award Recipients
Sung-Hwan Kim, MD, PhD
2024
Particulated Costal Allocartilage With Microfracture Versus Microfracture Alone for Knee Cartilage Defects: A Multicenter, Prospective, Randomized, Participant- and Rater-Blinded Study
Kwangho Chung, MD, Min Jung, MD, PhD, Ki-Mo Jang, MD, PhD, Sang-Hoon Park, MD, Bum Joon Nam, MD, Hyungjun Kim, MD
Kelechi R. Okoroha, MD
2024
Effects of a Perioperative Blood Flow Restriction Therapy Program on Early Quadriceps Strength and Patient-Reported Outcomes After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
Joseph S. Tramer, MD, Lafi S. Khalil, MD, Toufic R. Jildeh, MD, Muhammad J. Abbas, MD, Patrick J. Buckley, MD, Craig Lindell, DPT, Vasilios Moutzouros, MD
Jeffrey Kay, MD, MSc
2023
Nicole Simunovic, MSc, Olufemi R. Ayeni, MD, PhD, On Behalf of the FIRST Investigators, Mohit Bhandari, MD, PhD, Asheesh Bedi, MD, Teppo Jarvinen, MD, PhD, Volker Musahl, MD, Douglas Naudie, MD, MSc, Matti Seppanen, MD, Gerard Slobogean, MD, Lehana Thabane, PhD, Andrew Duong, MSc, Matthew Skelly, BSc, Ajay Shanmugaraj, BSc, Sarah Crouch, BSc(Pharm), Sheila Sprague, PhD, Diane Heels-Ansdell, MSc, Lisa Buckingham, BSc, Tim Ramsay, PhD, John Lee, MD, MSc, Petteri Kousa, MD, Sasha Carsen, MD, Hema Choudur, MD, Yan Sim, MD, Kelly Johnston, MD, Ivan Wong, MD, DipSportsMed, MACM, Ryland Murphy, BSc, Sara Sparavalo, MSc, Daniel Whelan, MD, MSc, Ryan Khan, BA, CCRP, Gavin C.A. Wood, MBChB, Fiona Howells, BPharm, Heather Grant, MSc, Bryn Zomar, MSc, Michael Pollock, MSc, Kevin Willits, MD, Andrew Firth, MSc, Stacey Wanlin, BSc, Alliya Remtulla, MSc, Nicole Kaniki, PhD, Etienne L. Belzile, MD, Slyvie Turmel, RN, Uffe Jorgensen, MD, DrMedSci, Annie Gam-Pedersen, Rn, Raine Sihvonen, MD, PhD, Marko Raivio Sihvonen, MD, Prijo Toivonen Sihvonen, PT, Mari Pirjetta Routapohja, RN
Hong-Chul Lim, MD
2022
Yong-Beom Park, MD, PhD, Chul-Won Ha, MD, PhD, Brian J. Cole, MD, MBA, Beom-Koo Lee, MD, Hwa-Jae Jeong, MD, Myung-Ku Kim, MD, Seong-Il Bin, MD, Chong-Hyuk Choi, MD, Choong Hyeok Choi, MD, Jae-Doo Yoo, MD, For the Cartistem Research Group, Jung-Ro Yoon, MD, Jun-Young Chung, MD
Sofi Sonesson, PT, PhD
2021
Joanna Kvist, PT, Prof, Jafar Yakob, MD, Henrik Hedevik, MSc, Hakan Gauffin, MD, PhD
Martha M. Murray, MD
2020
Leslie A. Kalish, ScD, Braden C. Fleming, PhD, BEAR Trial Team, Brett Flutie, BS, Christina Freiberger, MS, Rachael N. Henderson, BS, Gabriel S. Perrone, MS, Laura G. Thurber, BS, Benedikt L. Proffen, MD, Kirsten Ecklund, MD, Dennis E. Kramer, MD, Yi-Meng Yen, MD, PhD, Lyle J. Micheli, MD
Robert P. Runner, MD
2019
Stephanie A. Boden, MD, William S. Godfrey, MD, Ajay Premkumar, MD, Heather Samady, MD, Michael B. Gottschalk, MD, John W. Xerogeanes, MD
Jonathan M. Frank, MD
2018
Gilbert Moatshe, MD, Alex W. Brady, MS, Grant J. Dornan, MS, Ashley Coggins, BS, Kyle J. Muckenhirn, BS, Erik L. Slette, BA, Jacob D. Mikula, BS, Robert F. LaPrade, MD, PhD
Stephen J. Nicholas, MD
2017
Steven J. Lee, MD, Michael J. Mullaney, DPT, Timothy F. Tyler, MSPT, ATC, Takumi Fukunaga, DPT, ATC, CSCS, Christopher D. Johnson, MPT, Malachy P. McHugh, PhD
Tara Talaie, BS
2016
Stephen J.P. Pratt, BS, Camilo Vanegas, BS, Su Xu, PhD, R. Frank Henn, MD, Paul Yarowsky, PhD, Richard M. Lovering, PhD, PT