(Circulation. 1998;97:511-515.)
© 1998 American Heart Association, Inc.
Awards and Named Lecturers at the American Heart Association 70th Scientific Sessions
The 70th Scientific Sessions of the American
Heart Association were held in Orlando, Fla, November 8 through 12,
1997. A traditional highlight of the annual AHA Scientific Sessions is
the recognition of excellence in clinical and basic
cardiovascular research via the Scientific Councils'
distinguished lectureships, awards, and Young Investigator
competitions. The awardees and nominees for these distinguished
lectureships, awards, and Young Investigator competitions are as
follows.
Research Awards
Council on Cardiovascular Nursing New Investigator
Award: Sabina DeGeest (second place), Leuven University, Belgium;
Barbara Drew (first place), University of California, San Francisco;
and Shirley Moore (third place), Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio (Fig 1
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Figure 1. Cardiovascular Nursing New
Investigator Award. From left: Kathleen King, council vice chair;
nominees Sabina DeGeest, second place; Barbara Drew, first place; and
Shirley Moore, third place; Kathy Grady, program chair; and Gayle
Whitman, council chair.
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Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Research Award in
Epidemiology and Prevention for Investigators
in Training: Julie Dubnisson (winner), Bowman Gray School of
Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC; Amy Hakim, University of Virginia School
of Medicine, Charlottesville; and Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen, University of
Kuopio, Finland (Fig 2).
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Figure 2. (top) Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Research Award.
From left: Tom Pearson, council chair; nominees Tomi-Pekka
Tuomainen; Amy Hakim; and Julie Dubnisson, winner; and Aaron
Folsom, program chair.
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Irvine H. Page Arteriosclerosis Research Awards for
Young Investigators: Jan Boren (winner), Gladstone Institutes,
University of California, San Francisco; Stanley L. Hazen, Washington
University, St Louis, Mo; Makoto Kuro-o, National Institute of
Neuroscience, Tokyo, Japan; Toyoaki Murohara, St Elizabeth's Medical
Center, Boston, Mass; and Stephen Sturley, Columbia University, New
York, NY (Fig 3).
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Figure 3. (bottom) Irvine H. Page Award. From left: nominees
Jan Boren, winner; Stanley Hazen; Makoto Kuro-o; Toyoaki Murohara; and
Stephen Sturley; Alan Fogelman,
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular
Biology senior vice chair; and Alan Tall, Page Award
chair.
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Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Basic Science Research Prizes for Young
Investigators: Jan-Nian Chen, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown,
Mass; Daniel Garry (winner), University of Texas Southwestern Medical
School, Dallas; Li Li, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich; James R.
Miller, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and Ioakim
Spyridopoulos, St Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, Mass (Fig 4).
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Figure 4. (top) Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Basic Science
Research Prizes for Young Investigators. From left: nominees James R.
Miller; Ioakim Spyridopoulos; Li Li; Jan-Nian Chen; and Daniel Garry,
winner.
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Melvin Judkins Young Investigator Award in
Cardiovascular Radiology: winner, Shiuh-Yung J.
Chen, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver (Fig 5).
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Figure 5. (center) Melvin Judkins Young Investigator Award
in Cardiovascular Radiology. From left: Michael
Pentecost, council chair; Tony Venbrux, Judkins chair; Shiuh-Yung
J. Chen, winner; and Mrs Chen.
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Melvin L. Marcus Young Investigator Awards in
Cardiovascular Integrated Physiology: James L. Liu,
University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia; Daniel Pauley
(winner), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md; Alain Rivard, St
Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, Mass; Kalyanam Shivkumar, UCLA
School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Calif; and Masato Tsutsui, Mayo
Clinic, Rochester, Minn (Fig 6).
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Figure 6. (bottom) Melvin L. Marcus Young Investigator
Awards in Cardiovascular Integrated Physiology. From
left: nominees Daniel Pauley, winner; Alain Rivard; Kalyanam Shivkumar;
and Masato Tsutsui; Don Heistad, council chair; and Jim Downey, Marcus
chair. Not pictured: nominee James L. Liu.
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Samuel A. Levine Young Clinical Investigator Awards: Iris Baumgartner,
St Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, Mass; Rainer Boger (winner),
Stanford University, Stanford, Calif; Yutaka Otsuji, Massachusetts
General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston; Vincenzo Pasceri,
Catholic University, Rome, Italy; and Hideki Watanabe, University of
Tsukuba, Japan (Fig 7).
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Figure 7. (top) Samuel A. Levine Young Clinical Investigator
Awards. From left: nominees Iris Baumgartner; Rainer Boger, winner;
Yutaka Otsuji; Hideki Watanabe; and Vincenzo Pasceri; Charles Francis,
council chair; and Robert Bonow, council vice chair.
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The Cournand and Comroe Young Investigator Prizes in
Cardiopulmonary and Critical Care: Lawrence A. Garcia,
University of Iowa, Iowa City; Craig G. Gelband, University of Florida
College of Medicine, Gainesville; Volker Wenzel (winner), University of
Ulm, Germany; and Yoshio Yamanouchi, Cleveland Clinic Foundation,
Cleveland, Ohio (Fig 8).
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Figure 8. (bottom) Cournand and Comroe Young Investigator
Prizes in Cardiopulmonary and Critical Care. From left: A,
Michael Wolin, program chair; Volker Wenzel, winner; and
Richard Kerber, council chair. B, Nominees Lawrence A.
Garcia; Craig G. Gelband; and Yoshio Yamanouchi; Richard Kerber,
council chair; and Michael Wolin, program chair.
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Vivien Thomas Young Investigator Awards: Edward M. Boyle, Jr,
University of Washington, Seattle; Gideon Cohen, The
Toronto Hospital, Ontario, Canada; Raul Guzman,
Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, Calif; Joren Madsen,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Talia B. Spanier, Columbia
University, New York, NY; and Y. Joseph Woo (winner), University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Fig 9).
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Figure 9. Vivien Thomas Young Investigator Awards. From
left: Nominees Edward M. Boyle, Jr; Gideon Cohen; Raul Guzman; Joren
Madsen; and Y. Joseph Woo, winner; and Richard Weisel, program chair.
Not pictured: nominee Talia Spanier.
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Young Investigator Prizes in Thrombosis: shared by cowinners
Nicholas Schworak, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Hospital,
Cambridge, Mass, and Andrew S. Weyrich, University of Utah, Salt Lake
City (Fig 10).
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Figure 10. Young Investigator Prizes in Thrombosis. A,
From left: nominees Robert Rosenberg, council chair; Nicholas Schworak,
cowinner; and Garrett FitzGerald, program chair. B, Cowinner Andrew S.
Weyrich.
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Named Lectureships
Named lecturers for 1996 were, for the Lewis A. Conner Memorial
Lecture, David A. Satcher, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Ga;
for the Sol Sherry Lecture in Thrombosis, Shaun Caughlin,
Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of
California, San Francisco; for the Paul Dudley White International
Lecture, Marie-Germain Bousser, Hôpital Lariboisière,
Paris, France; for the George Lyman Duff Memorial Lecture, Angelo M.
Scanu, University of Chicago, Ill; for the Lewis K. Dahl Memorial
Lecture, L. Gabriel Navar, Tulane University, New Orleans, La; for the
William W.L. Glenn Lecture, Andrew S. Wechsler, Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond; for the Ancel Keys Lecture, Ralph S.
Paffenbarger, Jr, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif; for the
Dickinson W. Richards Memorial Lecture, Lewis J. Rubin, University of
Maryland Hospital, Baltimore; for the Laennec Society
Invited Lecture, William J. McKenna, St George's Hospital Medical
School, London, UK; for the Charles T. Dotter Memorial Lecture, Stanley
Baum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; for the George E. Brown
Memorial Lecture, James T. Willerson, University of Texas Medical
Center, Houston (Fig 11); and for the
William J. Rashkind Memorial Lecture, Robert Langer, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. This year also marked the
first year for the Thomas W. Smith Memorial Lecture, which was
given by Arthur Lee, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.
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Figure 11. Right, George E. Brown Memorial Lecturer James T.
Willerson; left, Donald Heistad, council chair.
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AHA Scientific Councils' Distinguished Achievement Awards
Recipients of the AHA Scientific Councils' Distinguished
Achievement Awards were Valentin Fuster, Mt Sinai Hospital, New York,
NY, Council on Clinical Cardiology; William H. Barry,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Council on Basic Science; James H.
Moller, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Council on
Cardiovascular Disease and the Young; and Martha N.
Hill, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, Council on
Cardiovascular Nursing.
Other notable awardees included Aubrey E. Taylor, University of
South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile (Fig 12), and Thomas W. Smith
(posthumously) (Fig 13), winners of the
Research Achievement Award; Mark T. Keating, University of Utah, Salt
Lake City (Fig 14) and Lewis T.
"Rusty" Williams, Cardiovascular Research
Institute, San Francisco, Calif (Fig 15), winners of the Basic Research
Prize; Laura L. Hayman, Cleveland, Ohio, winner of the Katharine A.
Lembright Award; Christine Seidman, Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Boston, Mass, winner of the Edgar Haber Cardiovascular
Medicine Research Award; Barbara Leeper, Dallas, Tex, winner of the
Excellence in Cardiovascular Nursing Clinical Practice
Award; Anna Gawlinski, Los Angeles, Calif, winner of the Council on
Cardiovascular Nursing Heart Failure Research Prize;
Karen A. Fagan, University of Colorado, Denver, winner of the 1997 Best
Abstract Award; J. Michael Criley, Torrance, Calif, winner of the
Laennec Special Recognition Award; and Douglas P. Zipes, University of
Indianapolis, Ind, winner of the James B. Herrick Award (Fig 16).
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Figure 13. A, Research Achievement Award winner Thomas
W. Smith; B, Mrs Smith (on right) receiving award for Thomas Smith
from Martha Hill (on left), AHA president.
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The Editors of Circulation
Footnotes
Correspondence to Douglas L. Mann, MD, Cardiology, Room 111B, VA Medical Center, 2002 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77005.
