About the award
The 2018 Tanner-Vandeput-Boswick Burn Prize will be awarded during the 18th Congress of the International Society for Burn Injuries to be held in 2018. Applications to be accepted between October 1st, 2017 and January 31st, 2018.
Nomination Deadline: January 31st, 2018
Purpose of the Award: The Prize was conceived and established to promote the aims of the International Society for Burn Injuries and to motivate individual investigators to perform research, undertake patient care and treatment, and attempt to solve other aspects of the burn problem.
Eligibility
The prize will be awarded to a person (or persons) who have made an outstanding contribution to any aspect of the burn care field. This could be a specific achievement or might represent a body of work over a period of years. Colleagues may make nominations, or a candidate may make application on their own behalf. The recipient does not have to be a member of the ISBI nor a physician, but be responsible for major advancement of the field of burn care.
Award: The prize consists of a gold pin, and a cash payment in the amount of approximately $100,000.
History of the International Burn Foundation
The International Burn Foundation (IBF) was conceived and created by Dr. James Carlton Tanner, Jr. in 1983. Dr. Tanner's vision was to establish a prize to be awarded to a person or persons who has or have made an outstanding contribution to any aspect of burn management or to an outstanding practitioner of burn treatment. Dr. Tanner provided the initial trust fund for this award. It was also his goal to promote the aims of the International Society for Burn Injuries (ISBI) and to motivate individual investigators to perform research, undertake patient care and treatment, and attempt to solve other aspects of the burn problem. The primary purpose of the IBF is to administer the trust fund which was initially provided by Dr. Tanner and to choose the recipient of the prize.
Dr. Tanner enlisted the help of Dr. John A. Boswick, then the Secretary General of the ISBI, to be the first Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation. In recognition of Dr. Boswick's vital role in establishing the IBF, the prize is known as the Tanner-Vandeput-Boswick Prize (TVB Prize). It was Dr. Tanner’s desire to have the ISBI serve as the forum through which the prize is awarded. Beginning in 1986 The Burn Prize has been awarded every four years. The Prize consists of a gold pin, emblematic of the award, and a cash prize which has grown to be approximately $100,000 US dollars.
Dr. Tanner's passion for this field of medicine and research originated from his practice in Atlanta, Georgia where along with Dr. Jacques Vandeput, he developed the prototype instrument for meshing and expanding skin grafts knows as the Tanner-Vandeput mesh dermatome. The new method of expanding donor skin with the dermatome machine was a major advance in the care of burns at that time. It was through Dr. Tanner's lifetime of practice and research that he was motivated to establish the International Burn Foundation as a vehicle to carry on his goal to improve care of the burned patient.
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