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Tim Pohlemann
AO Award AO Recognition Award 2012—Pietro Regazzoni Pietro Regazzoni, MD is the latest recipient of the prestigious AO Recognition Award. The award certificate reads: The AO Foundation awards this prize to Prof Dr Pietro Regazzoni, LuganoSoragno, Switzerland for his exceptional role in the development of new treatment options in surgery, and his enduring innovative contributions to the AOTK System.
Prof Dr Regazzoni (centre) receives his award from Tim Pohlemann and Norbert Haas. The AO Recognition Award is the highest prize of the AO Foundation and is awarded for life-time achievement and presented to exceptional recipients, at infrequent intervals (see below for the list of previous award recipients). Prof Dr Regazzoni was presented his award at a special ceremony during the AO Trustees Meeting in Davos in June 2012. Besides many other activities and achievements, Pietro Regazzoni is the promoter of the distal radius 3-column theory (together with Dr D Rikli). He has been passionate in improving the treatment of proximal femur fractures through intramedullary nailing and plating. Indeed, many of today's instruments for minimally invasive osteosynthesis have benefited from his expertise and creativity. He has been at the forefront of technology integration (computer-assisted surgery, pre-op planning, navigation etc.) since the early 1990s. And he has pursued, with modern tools as “Open Source” case documentation, the standards set by Maurice Müller to document our clinical outcomes, to learn from our mistakes, or to provide evidence of the advantages of one technique over another.