Category: Award Recipients

2025 O&P Foundation Tamarack Award

Tamarack Habilitation Technologies, Inc. continues to give back to the Orthotic & Prosthetic profession with their support of The O&P Foundation Tamarack Award for Outstanding Contributions to Orthotic Practice & Education, including a $10,000 award. This award recognizes and honors an individual who has significantly impacted Orthotics practice through their dedication to

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Fall 2024 Microgrants – Recipients

The O&P Foundation’s Microgrant Program is designed to spark scholarly work in the field of orthotics and prosthetics (O&P). This biannual program awards one-year grants of $2,000 to support clinically relevant projects that aim to empower health professionals, researchers, students, and residents to pursue activities that may contribute to clinical care in O&P, such as

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2024-25 ABC Scholarships – Announcing Recipients-

The O&P Foundation has partnered with the American Board of Certification for Orthotics, Prosthetics, and Pedorthics (ABC) to provide scholarships to Orthotic and Prosthetic students who are currently enrolled at O&P education institutions that are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP). These scholarships include a $10,000 cash award. Up to 10 ABC Orthotist and Prosthetist Scholarships and up to

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2024 Doctoral Training Award

The O&P Foundation recognizes and values the impact made by current and future clinician researchers on clinical practice and patient outcomes. Certified Orthotists and Prosthetists who choose to pursue a PhD, often no longer employed in clinical practice, frequently experience financial hardship in managing the expenses associated with professional engagement and maintaining

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2024 Mentored Pilot Research Grants

These grants are one-year awards in the amount of $5,000 that are intended to help trainees (e.g., masters/doctoral students, orthotics and prosthetics residents) or orthotics and prosthetics clinicians to complete a research project with the guidance of an experienced research mentor.  The Mentored Pilot Grants are awarded bi-annually, in the Spring and

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2024 Early Career Research Grant

This grant supports clinically-relevant, investigator-initiated research in orthotics and prosthetics (O&P). It is a one-year award in the amount of $30,000 that is intended to help early career investigators initiate lines of research that will be competitive for larger funding opportunities through agencies such as the National Institutes of Health

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2024 The Chester Haddan Scholarship Recipient

The O&P Foundation along with generous support from The American Board for Certification in Orthotics, Prosthetics and Pedorthics (ABC) offer a scholarship to honor the legacy and leadership of Chester Haddan to support individuals pursuing a clinical Master’s degree in orthotics and prosthetics (O&P). The Chester Haddan Scholarship includes a $2,500 cash award.     The Chester Haddan Scholarship was established

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2024 ABC O&P Technician Scholarships

CONGRATULATIONS 2024 ABC O&P Technician Scholarships The Orthotics and Prosthetics Foundation for Education and Research (The O&P Foundation) along with The American Board for Certification in Orthotics Prosthetics and Pedorthics (ABC), are proud to announce the 2024 recipients of the ABC O&P Technician and Technician Diversity Scholarships. ABC generously funds

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ABC Student Poster Prizes

The O&P Foundation and American Board of Certification for Orthotics, Prosthetics, and Pedorthics (ABC) partner to identify and celebrate outstanding research by orthotic and prosthetic students. Three ABC Student Poster Prizes were awarded to student-created posters accepted for presentation at the 2024 American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists (AAOP) Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium.  First

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2024 Carlton Fillauer Award

The O&P Foundation is honored to announce the recipient of the 2024 Carlton Fillauer Award for Outstanding Contribution to Prosthetics Science and Practice, sponsored by the Fillauer Companies Inc. This prestigious award recognizes a clinician’s contributions in clinical care, scientific research, and peer-reviewed publication in the area of prosthetics in the O&P

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