This prize, which is awarded every two years, was created to commemorate the memory of Didier Patte - an outstanding French shoulder surgeon who was one of the two Founder Members of SECEC/ESSSE with Norbert Gschwend. It has a value of € 3 000. The prize will be awarded for a piece of European scientific research of outstanding merit pertaining to the shoulder or the elbow.

The work must be presented in English or French and must not have received a comparable prize.

The research should NOT have been published before 1st May 2011 and the author should be under the age of 45 years.

Please send the form back to the secretary office together with six copies of the work by 30 April 2011. A jury will be appointed by the R and D Committee after the receipt of the works. The prize will be awarded at the SECEC congress and the prize winner will be asked to present his work in a ten minute presentation.

For further information please contact:

SECEC / ESSSE

50 – 52 Avenue Chanoine Cartellier
69230 Saint Genis Laval
France

Tel: 33 4 72 39 53 01
Fax: 33 4 72 39 53 02
Email: secec@wanadoo.fr

List of the past Didier PATTE Prizes

1992 : M. Kronberg

"Shoulder Joint Instability Aspects on Muscle Function and Skeletal Anatomy"

1994 : F. Gohlke

"Capsuloligamentous Control of the Glenohumeral Joint"

1996 : A. Schneeberger

"Structural Changes of the Rotator Cuff Caused by Experimental Subacromial Impingement in the Rat"

1998 : B.S. Olsen

"Posterolateral Elobw Joint Instability"

2001 : J. Armengol Barallat

"Influence of the Coracoacromial Morphology on Shoulder Elevation"

2003 : S.L. Jenssen

"Elbow Joint laxity after experimental excision of the radial head"

2005 : N. Pouliart Abstract

Shoulder Instability : Experimental Model and Related Anatomy"

2007 : M. Van de Sande Abstract

"Rotator Cuff Disease in the Rheumatoid Shoulder"

2009 : R. Bensson (UK)   abstract

"The Pathology of Rotator Cuff Failure"