Shohei Omokawa Director, Hand Surgery, Nara Medical University

【VISITING PROFESSOR】 Department of Anatomy, Chiang-Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand. (2018-Present) 【RESEARCH AWARDS】 1) Emanuel B Kaplan Award: 51st Annual Meeting of American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Nashville, USA, 1996. 2) New Investigator Recognition Award (Finalist): 46th Annual Meeting of the Orthopedic Research Society. Orland, USA, 2000. 3) JOS Best Paper Award: J Orthop Sci. 2013. 4) Best Presentation Award: 29th annual meeting of Central Japanese Society for Surgery of the Hand, Matsumoto Japan, 2012. 5) Best Paper Award: Journal of Japanese Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, 2013. 6) Best Paper Award: Journal of Japanese Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery. 2017. 7) Best Paper Award: 129th annual meeting of Journal of Central Japanese Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology. 2017. 8) JOR Early-Career Award (Finalist): Journal of Orthopaedic Research. 2017. 9) Tsuge Kenya Award: Japanese Journal of Hand Surgery, Tsuge Kenya Award, 2018. 10) Tsuge Kenya Award: Japanese Journal of Hand Surgery, Tsuge Kenya Award, 2019. 11) JOS Best Paper Award: J Orthop Sci. 2019. 12) Bruner Award or the Clinical Pearl Award: Top 5 posters, 74th Annual Meeting of American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Las Vegas, 2019.