Honors and Awards

Harris County Medical Society Alternate Delegate to the Texas Medical Association House of Delegates, 2010

President, Houston Orthopaedic Society, 2009

Education Committee Chair, Foundation of Orthopaedic Trauma, 2007

Who's Who in Medical Sciences Education (WWMSE), 2005

1st prize Freeman School of Business, Business Plan Competition. Advanced Orthopaedic Solutions. 2005.

New Orleans Magazine Top Doctor, 2004, 2005

Greater New Orleans Orthopaedic Society, President, 2001

AO International Fellowship, 1995

Ilizarov Fellowship, Lecco, Italy, 1995

AFOR Foundation Traveling Fellowship, Fractures of the Pelvis and Acetabulum Course and Workshop, Paris, France, 1995

Finalist, Alonzo J. Neufeld Award, Western Orthopaedic Association 57th Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, August 29-September 2, 1993, S Katzman MD*, KF Dickson MD, J Gibeault MD: Use of a Herbert Screw for Interphalangeal Arthrodesis.

1992 Orthopedic Review Resident Writer's Award, Honorable Mention, S Katzman MD*, KF Dickson MD, RG Volz MD: Determining the Prognosis for Limb Salvage in Major Vascular injuries with Associated Open Tibial Fractures.

First Place Presentation at the Twenty-Seventh Annual Scientific Program of the LeRoy C. Abbott Orthopaedic Society, San Francisco, CA, May 8, 1992, KF Dickson MD*, S Katzman MD, E Delgado MD, D Contreras MD: Angiography Correlated with Delayed Unions and Nonunions in Open Tibia Fractures.

Award Winning Research Paper Presented at 9th Annual Orthopaedic Residents' Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, August 23-24, 1991, KF Dickson MD*, S Katzman MD, E Delgado MD, D Contreras MD: Delayed Unions and Nonunions in Grade Three Open Tibia Fractures with Angiogram Proven Single Vessel Injury.

Regents Scholarship, UC San Diego, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988

A.B. Degree in Zoology with "Highest Honors", UC Berkeley, 1985

Student-Athlete Achievement Award, UC Berkeley, 1983, 1984

Presidential Fellowship for Research, UC Berkeley, 1984

Dean's List, UC Berkeley, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985

Valedictorian, Cherry Creek High School, 1981