New Member Award

This monetary award is selected by selecting the top 5 abstracts by new members who have joined the society in the past two years. These authors will then be contacted to request a full manuscript. Manuscripts will be scored by the Executive Committee, and the award will be adjudicated on the basis of the quality, novelty and clarity of the manuscript.

Manuscripts must be submitted before March 1, 2009 for review by the Executive committee which consists of the President, Past-president, Secretary, Treasurer, Recorder and Head of the Awards Committee.

As a condition of the award, all manuscripts must also be submitted to Surgical Infections for publication.