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

Applications open on June 30th, 2025

(deadline on Sept 30th, 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 : G. Herzberg (France) - "3D Modelization of Latissimus Dorsi transfer in rotator cuff surgery : what point of fixation on the humeral 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"