[2] During his tenure with the Rams, Wright received the Cabaud Memorial Award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) for his paper Transcriptomic Signatures of Meniscal Tears and Articular Cartilage from Knees Undergoing Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy Show Evidence for Early Osteoarthritis.
[4] Following his appointment to head team physician in 2005, Wright also began directing Washington's orthopedic surgery residency program which later earned him a Distinguished Educator Award.
[5] While serving in this role, he became the principal investigator of the Multi-center ACL Revision Study, a research project which aimed to determine risk factors related to IKDC, KOOS and Marx activity rating scores.
[8] Three years later, while serving as Washington's Jerome J. Gilden Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, he was appointed AOA 132nd president taking over for Regis J.
[9] As a result of his medical research and experience, Wright was later elected president-elect of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) for a one year term from 2018 until 2019 and then president from 2019-present.