AHTA Honour Roll

The AHTA Conference has three annual prizes:

  • The Jill Chapman award for Best Clinical Paper
  • Australian Hand Surgery Society Prize
  • The Leanne Breen Memorial Award for Best Poster (dedicated in 2010)
  Jill Chapman Award for Best Clinical Paper Australian Hand Surgery Society Prize Leanne Breen Memorial Award for Best Poster
2012 Jennie Graetz "Suicide: Is this relevant to Hand Therapists' Practice in Australia?" Lauren Miller "Recovery of motion after fixation of proximal phalangeal fracture" Adrienne Slaughter "Clinical complications of radiotherapy post plastic and reconstructive surgery"
2011

Jenny Ball "Addressing the Déjà vu and the Déjà Vague of staff education"

Celeste Glasgow ‘Exploring Time Dependent Parameters in Dynamic Splinting the stiff PIP Joint: The Importance of Duration of Treatment and Daily TERT’ Luke Elias, James Storman, Vanessa Grant "Trends and outcomes following rehabilitation of distal radius fractures at NSW Pubic Hospitals"
2010 Barbara Hall & Brent Byrne "How traumatic is it to be waitlisted?"

 Zoe Milner "Hand function following Brand Transfer"

 Erika Lassig "Myth Busters - Does smoking affect wound healing"
2009 Amy Geach "Pearls & pitfalls of marketing a hand therapy service" Lauren Miller "AROM following surgical fixation of finger PIP joints"  
2008

Jenny Ball "Apophyseal injuries in teenage athletes: 2 cases of overuse"

Sandra Kay "Does an advice and exercise program improve outcome in distal radial fractures" Rebecca Beard, Ted Browne, Lisa O'Brien "Evaluation of functional recovery after acute hand injury"
2007 IFSHT conference  IFSHT Conference  
2006  Ben Cunningham & Lisa O'Brien "CMC OA and carpal tunnel: the chicken or the egg"  Jill Thiele "Functional wrist splint for people with Chronic musculoskeletal wrist conditions"  
2005 Sue Shaw "Whirlpool - cleaning up our act"  Helen Burfield "A new management approach emphasising functional stability of lateral elbow for extensor tendinosis  
2004 Judith Morrin "Pre-triggering as a consequence of acute trauma"  Elizabeth Saleeba & Gary Alison "Patient compliance & spontaneous movements whilst following early active motion after flexor tendon repair"  
2003  Elizabeth Saleeba "A dynamic flexion splint & functional blocking splint for DIP joint"  Bev Trvithick "Muscle recruitment in normal shoulders during kayak stroke"  
2002  Catherine Menzies "Case study: the use of rings splints in a 37 y.o woman with psoriatic arthritis  Denise O'Connor "A systematic review of non surgical treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome"  
2001  Elizabeth Ward "A case of mild carpal instability"  Judith Wilton "An investigation into the relationship between gross grip strength & the perception of upper limb pain  
2000  Daisy Kong "Therapy management of the replanted hand, a case study"  Dianne Wilson "Clinical factors associated with the efficacy of splinted in the painful osteoarthritic TMC joint"  
1999  Cathy Thomas "Turnbuckle splints"  Tracey Clark "Relationship between sensitivity & dexterity following digital nerve repairs"  
1998      
1997      
1996      
1995  Sandra Kay "Management of carpal tunnel syndrome in pregnant women"    
1994  Not awarded  Not awarded  
1993  Suzanne Caragianis "Functional hand use following multiple finger replantation"    
1992  Janet Dindler "Management of metacarpal injuries in sport"    
1991  Jenny Ball "Use of US to determine the success/failure of flexor tendon repairs"    
1990  Jenny Ball "Flexor tendon repairs"    
1989  Not awarded  Not awarded  
1988  Simone Everat for Promotion of Hand Therapy