• Home
  • Research
  • Didier Patte Prize

Didier Patte Prize

DIDIER PATTE PRIZE

This premier scientific award of the SECEC, which is granted every two years, was created to honour the memory of Didier Patte - an outstanding French shoulder surgeon who was one of the two founding members of the SECEC with Norbert Gschwend. It has a value of € 3,000.
The prize will be awarded for a body of European scientific research of outstanding merit pertaining to the shoulder.

  • The work must be presented in English
  • It must not have received a comparable prize
  • It should consist of a body of several original studies on the same or related topic
  • Single studies are not eligible
  • At least part of the work should not have been published before the submission deadline
  • The principal author should be under the age of 45

Application Info

Stay tuned for the next available application (2025)

List of the past Didier Patte Prize winners

  • 2023: P. Moroder (Switzerland) - "The ABC Classification of posterior shoulder instability"

  • 2021: F. Verhaegen (Belgium) - "Morphological and biomechanical aspects of glenoid erosions and humeral head migration in shoulder arthropathy: implications for 3D total shoulder arthroplasty planning"

  • 2019: M. Jacxsens (Switzerland) - "Morphology of the Most Common Shoulder Pathologies Using Conventional and Advanced Imaging"
  • 2019: L. Willemot (Belgium) - "Biomechanics of Bone Block Procedures in Anterior Shoulder Instability Surgery"

  • 2015: T. Alta (Netherlands) - "Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty. Does It Work? Kinematic Analyses, Clinical Evaluation & New Developments"

  • 2013: D. Van Kampen (Netherlands) - "Evaluation of diagnostic and prognostic performance of patient history, orthopaedic shoulder tests and shoulder-specific questionnaires"

  • 2009 : R. Benson (UK) - "The pathology of rotator cuff failure"

  • 2007 : M. Van de Sande (Netherlands) - "Rotator Cuff Disease in the Rheumatoid Shoulder"

  • 2005 : N. Pouliart (Belgium) - "Shoulder Instability : Experimental Model and Related Anatomy"

  • 2003 : S.L. Jenssen (Denmark) - "Elbow Joint laxity after experimental excision of the radial head"

  • 2001 : J. Armengol Barallat (Spain) - "Influence of the Coracoacromial Morphology on Shoulder Elevation"

  • 1998 : B.S. Olsen (Denmark) - "Posterolateral Elbow Joint Instability"

  • 1996 : A. Schneeberger (Switzerland) - "Structural Changes of the Rotator Cuff Caused by Experimental Subacromial Impingement in the Rat"

  • 1994 : F. Gohlke (Germany) - "Capsuloligamentous Control of the Glenohumeral Joint"

  • 1992 : M. Kronberg - "Shoulder Joint Instability Aspects on Muscle Function and Skeletal Anatomy"

Cookie Policy