Awards

Inclusion in the Inventors Who’s who book, 1991

Hampton Prize for biomechanical study of the Lumbar spine,1992

1st Prize awarded by Scientific Committee at British Scoliosis Society Meeting, Edinburgh, March 2000 for paper entitled “A New SurgicalTechnique for Correction of Scheuermann’s kyphosis

SSE Award, Barcelona 2005 for a prospective Randomized Controlled Trial of Femoral Ring versus A Titanium cage in circumferential lumbar fusion

Whitecloud Award for Best Clinical Paper winner at the 22nd International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (IMAST). Predictors of Neurological Motor Decline in Complex  Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Results of the prospective, International, Multicenter Scoli-Risk-1 Study. Michael G. Fehlings, Lawrence G Lenke, Hiroaki Nakashima, Narihito Nagoshi, Christophert I Shaffrey, Branko Kopiar, Kenneth MC Cheung, Leah Carreon, Mark Dekutoski, Frank Schwab, Obeneba Boachie-Adjei, Khaled M. Kabaish, Christopher P Ames, Young Oiu, Yukihiro Matsuyama, Benny T. Dahl, Hossein Mehdian, Ferran Pellise-Urquiza, Stephen J Lewis, Sigurd H Berven.

Nomination for the prestigious Whitecloud Award for Best Clinical Paper
at the 22nd International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (IMAST, Kuala Lumpur July 2015) the abstract: Abstract ID#: 741 Paper #: 8 Paper Title: Clinical Outcome of Instrumented French Door Cervical Laminoplasty.
Authors: Hossein Mehdian, A.B. Perez, L.A. Nasto, O. M. Stokes