A. Seth Greenwald, D.Phil.(Oxon) and his co-authors Steven M. Kurtz, Ph.D., Jack E. Lemons, Ph.D. and William M. Mihalko, M.D., Ph.D., have been honored with the 2020 Charles B. Dudley Medal by ASTM International for two published papers: “Metal-on-Metal Total Hip Replacement Device” and STP 1591 “Modularity and Tapers in Total Joint Replacement Devices.” In addition to the medal, there is an honorarium in the amount of $5,000.00.
The Charles B. Dudley Medal which was first established in 1925, is an annual award that goes to an author(s) or editor(s) of a book or paper, or a series of books or papers, published by ASTM International, that make an outstanding contribution that is of widely recognized impact on a particular field of interest to ASTM International.
According to ASTM, the award is in honor of the first president (now termed Chair of the Board) of ASTM, whose inspiring leadership had a profound influence on the organization’s development. The award is intended to stimulate research leading to standardization, extend the knowledge of the properties of engineering materials and recognize meritorious contributions to the publications of ASTM International.
Dr. Greenwald, director of Orthopaedic Research Laboratories and the famed Current Concepts Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, told OTW, “The significance of the Charles B. Dudley Award rests with the fact that it acknowledges the contributions of myself along with the other co-editors in explaining the in-vivo performance characteristics of metal-metal articulations and the employ of modular tapers in contemporary hip arthroplasty designs. The Award is testimony to the reality that the sum of the parts is always greater than the contributions of an individual. For me, this is very satisfying both personally and professionally.”
The ASTM Committee on Publications noted, “The impact of these publications was enormous. These two publications were published prior to when a new problem in hip replacement surgery—mechanically assisted crevice corrosion and ALTR—was not an agreed-upon and recognized problem in our industry. These publications defined the problem and became a foundational reference. This was a very important step for the field of Adult Reconstruction in Orthopaedic Surgery.”
