Ideas & Innovation Award 2026
Prof. B. Jagannath Kamath Ideas & Innovation Award session at ISSHCON 2026, Kolkata.
The 2026 Prof. B. Jagannath Kamath Ideas & Innovation Award was presented at ISSHCON 2026, the 49th annual conference of the Indian Society for Surgery of the Hand, at the Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, New Town, Kolkata, on 2–4 October 2026. The call for entries was published in the ISSH newsletter of August 2026.
Award session
The Jagannath Kamath Award session was held on Day 1, Friday 2 October 2026, from 2:15 to 3:15 pm. The chairpersons were Dr. Byung Sung Kim and Dr. Bhaskarananda Kumar. Each finalist had eight minutes to present, followed by two minutes of discussion.
| Presentation | Presenter | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tendon transfer tensioning: an effort towards simple, objective and reproducible measurement | Dr. Rishika Bachani |
| 2 | The Injury–Occupation Mismatch Score (IOMS): an occupation-based tool to guide hand reconstruction and return to work | Dr. Bimal V. Balu |
| 3 | Platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) wrap-around technique for peripheral nerve repair and regeneration | Dr. Moumita De |
| 4 | ARMOR-D (Adjustable Radius Malunion Osteotomy Realignment Distractor) | Dr. Deepthi Paraj |
| 5 | The missing motor: triceps long head transfer for restoration of finger flexion | Dr. Praveen Bhardwaj |
| 6 | Hand strength assessment in Indian paediatrics: establishing age- and gender-specific normative data using digital dynamometry | Dr. Bipin A. Ghanghurde |
Source: ISSHCON 2026 scientific programme, pages 5–6.
Winner
The 2026 award was won by Dr. Praveen Bhardwaj for his entry “The missing motor: triceps long head transfer for restoration of finger flexion”.
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