Ruth Erwig Innovation Award
The Ruth Erwig Innovation Award is an innovation prize for medical and dental professionals. With this award, the DCS aims to honour individuals who have made a new contribution to surgical disciplines or surgery-related fields or who have communicated new findings from science and teaching. The aim is to strengthen the importance of application-oriented research and teaching in Germany. The award honours achievements in the following areas:
- The development of new surgical techniques, improvements to instruments and surgical procedures, and technical aids
- Development of innovative training concepts, particularly in the field of surgery
- Outstanding master's theses in the field of medicine and dentistry
Conditions of participation
Application deadline: 1 May each year
The prize is intended to recocnise innovations in the field of
- surgical procedures
- technical aids
- special teaching aids
The prize is divisible. The prize money is not earmarked for a specific purpose. The evaluation is based on a published work within the last three years. The submitted works are submitted to a panel of judges for review, who select the best works. The DCS prize committee then decides on the awarding of the prize. The Innovation Award is endowed with a prize sum of €5,000 and is presented at the IMC Award Ceremony.
Award guidelines
The Application deadline: 1 May each year.
The following documents must be submitted:
- Publication
- Summary in German
- If there are several authors, written consent of all authors If available, existing evaluations by other bodies, such as outstanding doctoral theses, diploma theses, master's theses, scholarships or prizes
Each author may only apply once during the application period. The decision of the advisory board based on the recommendation of the jury is final and cannot be appealed. The works must be submitted in electronic form under the heading "Ruth Erwig Innovation Award" to the following address:
- Deutsche Chirurgiestiftung
- Schorlemerstraße 26
- 48143 Münster
- Tel: +49 (0)251/1345801
- Fax: +49 (0)251/1345892
- dcs@chirurgiestiftung.de
- www.chirurgiestiftung.de
Receipt of the application will be confirmed within one week.
The winner must accept the prize in person during the "Fascination of Surgery" conference.
The work will be published on the DCS portal.
Award ceremonies
2024
Prize winner: Working group "Surgical Innovations, Technology and Teaching" of the Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery at the University Medical Centre Mainz.
Title of the work: “Real-time augmented reality annotation for surgical education during laparoscopic surgery: results from a single-center randomized controlled trial and future aspects”
As part of the 5th Sino-German Symposium from 14 to 15 October 2024, the Ruth Erwig Prize was awarded to the Aworking group "Surgical Innovations, Technology and Teaching" at the Clinic for General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery at Mainz University Medical Centre for their work “Real-time augmented reality annotation for surgical education during laparoscopic surgery: results from a single-center randomized controlled trial and future aspects”. The prize is endowed with €5,000.
2018
Prize winners (shared prize)
Kübra Bunte
Türkei
Title of the work:
Plant Derived Polyphenols: Antibacterial Effects
on
Periodontal Pathogens
Effects on Host Inflammatory / Immune Response
Ming Wei Goh
Malaysia/New Zealand
Title of the work:
Orthodontic Bracket Reuse: A feasible and economical option?
Harm-Dirk Steinkopf
Deutschland
Title of the work:
Dental Implants in Patients width Rheumatoid
Arthritis undergoing a Methotrexat (MTX) Therapy
Kevin Tse-Min Chang
Taiwan
Title of the work:
Two Implants vs. Three Implants
Dr. Sumeeta Dhanoa
Malaysia
Title of the work:
Can innovative implant Surfaces increase the
survival rate of short Dental Implants
2014
Award winner: Mr Dr. Marco R. Kesting
Title of the work: „Development of a Haptic Model for Teaching in Reconstructive Surgery – The Radial Forearm Flap“.
The Ruth Erwig Innovation Award was presented for the second time at the "Fascination of Surgery" congress. Dr Marco R. Kesting was honoured for his work: "Development of a Haptic Model for Teaching in Reconstructive Surgery – The Radial Forearm e Flap". The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros.
2013
Award winner: Mr Priv. Doz. Dr. med. Gerhard Stöhr
Title of the work: Near-Total Splenectomy A New Technique for the Management of Hereditary Spherocytosis
Gerhard A. Stoehr, MD,* Prof. Urs G. Stauffer, MD,† and Prof. Stefan W. Eber, MD
As part of the Fascination of Surgery conference, the Ruth Erwig Innovation Award for special innovative surgical achievements was presented for the first time, with a prize of €5,000. The award recognised an extraordinary new surgical procedure for spleen resection in spherocytosis. The winner is Priv. Doz. Dr. med. Gerhard Stöhr, Chief Physician of the Department of General, Visceral and Paediatric Surgery at Marienhospital Bottrop. Spherocytosis is the most common inherited haemolytic anaemia. In this disease, a congenital change in the shape of the erythrocytes leads to anaemia due to increased dissolution of red blood cells in the spleen. The standard surgical treatment is complete removal of the spleen. However, this leads to a lifelong immune deficiency, which necessitates lifelong antibiotic prophylaxis. In order to minimise this serious side effect, a standardised, spleen-preserving surgical procedure has been developed. The problem of spleen regrowth after surgery and bleeding during surgery on an organ with extremely high blood flow has been effectively solved by the surgical technique developed by Priv. Doz. Stöhr (Near Total Splenectomy, NTS), which also preserves the immune function. Priv. Doz. Dr. Stöhr thus played a key role in shaping the national treatment guidelines for forms of hereditary spherocytosis requiring treatment. The German Surgery Foundation is also supporting the final study with €15,000. The German Surgery Foundation is delighted to honour Priv.-Doz. Dr. Stöhr as a worthy award winner. 2013 award winner
