"Dr Rishi Kanna, Associate Consultant Spine Surgeon, won the Tamilnadu Orthopaedic Association Prof A Subramanium basic science research award, held at the Anuual meeting of TNOA, held at Salem, February 2015. He presented the research project conducted among 809 patients regarding the MRI features of Modic Vertebral Endplate Changes - Prevalence, Patterns and Genetic Association analysis to identify possible candidate genes."