AHA Council Early Career Investigator Awards 2009:

Cournand and Comroe Young Investigator Prize in Cardiopulmonary and Critical Care

Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Research Award in Epidemiology and Prevention for Investigators in Training

Functional Genomics and Translational Biology Young Investigator Award

Laennec Young Clinician Award

Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Basic Science Research Prize for Young Investigators

Martha N. Hill New Investigator Award

Melvin Judkins Young Investigator Award in Cardiovascular Radiology

Melvin L. Marcus Young Investigator Awards in Cardiovascular Science

NPAM New Investigator Award (winner)

Samuel A. Levine Young Clinical Investigator Award

Vivien Thomas Young Investigator Award

AHA Named and Invited Lectures 2009:

Core 1: Cardiovascular Imaging:

Applications of Strain, Stress, and Speckle Tracking

Cardiac CT: Non-Coronary Imaging

Cardiac CT: Technical Advances

Cardiac CT: Utilization and Risk Assessment

Cardiac MR Imaging I

Cardiac MR Imaging II

Cardiac MR Imaging III

Cardiac MRI: 3T, Plaque and Pacemakers

Cardiac MRI: Myocardial Delayed Enhancement

Cardiac MRI: Prognosis and Risk

Carotid and Peripheral Arterial Wall Imaging

Charles T. Dotter Memorial Lecture: Molecular Innovations in Cardiovascular Imaging

Coronary CT Angiography I

Coronary CT Angiography II

Coronary CT Angiography III

Coronary CTA: An Emerging Practice Standard

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Contrast Echocardiography

Echocardiography Evaluation of Atrial Function

Echocardiography in Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke

Echocardiography in CAD: Extending Stress Echo Applications

Echocardiography in Clinical Syndromes: Aortic Valve Disease

Echocardiography in Clinical Syndromes: Atrial Fibrillation

Echocardiography in Heart Failure with Preserved and Reduced Ejection Fraction

Echocardiography in Myocardial Disease: Novel Observations

Echocardiography in Valvular Heart Disease: Application of New Technologies

Echocardiography in the Evaluation of Systolic Function - Mechanistic Insights Through Strain and Evaluation of Dyssynchrony

Echocardiography: Applications of Speckle Tracking and Tissue Doppler

Echocardiography: Diastolic Function in Clinical and Population Studies

Echocardiography: Novel Techniques for the Assessment of Diastolic Function

Emerging Applications of 3D Echocardiography

Melvin Judkins Young Investigator Award

Multimodality Imaging for Subclinical Atherosclerosis

Multimodality Imaging for Valvular and Structural Heart Disease

Multimodality Stress Imaging

New Insights in the Evaluation of Systolic Function by Three-Dimensional Echocardiography

Non-Coronary Vascular

Novel Innovations in CT, MR and Nuclear Cardiology

Nuclear Cardiology: Clinical Applications of SPECT and PET

Nuclear Cardiology: Isotope Imaging and PET

Nuclear Cardiology: Novel Clinical Applications with SPECT and PET

Nuclear Cardiology: Optimizing Outcomes with SPECT and PET

Valvular Heart Disease: Diagnosis and Prognosis

Core 2: Epidemiology and Prevention of CV Disease: Physiology, Pharmacology, and Lifestyle:

Adipokines and Natriuretic Peptides

Ancel Keys Lecture: Primary and Secondary Risk Factor Interventions

Arterial Stiffness, ECG and Risks for CVD

Assessment of Risk for a Serious Cardiovascular Event

Assessment, Monitoring and Care of Acutely Ill Cardiac Patients

Atrial Fibrillation

Biomarkers for CVD

Biomarkers for Incident and Recurrent CVD

Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Training

Cardiac Structure and Diastolic Function

Cardiovascular Care and Outcomes

Cardiovascular Disease Management

Cardiovascular Outcomes Research

Clinical Risk Prediction in Diabetes

Clinical Trials in Diabetes: Cardiovascular Effects of Metabolic Interventions

Clinical and Experimental Aspects of Nutrition

Depression and Cardiovascular Disease

Detecting and Treating Symptoms

Diabetes and CVD: Influence of Adiposity and Lipid Metabolism

Diet, Physical Activity and Hypertension Management

Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Research Award for Young Investigators in Training

Epidemiology of CVD

Epidemiology of Sudden Death

Exercise Effects: Aging, Heart Failure and Rehabilitation

Exercise: Effects and Predictors in Cardiovascular Disease

Genetics and Metabolomics in CVD

HDL Metabolism and Related Mechanisms

Health Policy and Outcomes Research

Health Policy and Outcomes Research: Healthcare Equity and Safety

Health Policy and Outcomes Research: Healthcare Quality

Healthcare Quality Research

Heart Failure

Heart Failure and Cardiac Structure

Hypertension

Improving CVD Risk Estimation: Practice, Biomarkers and Imaging

Improving Care for Patients with Heart Failure

Influence of Diabetes and Hyperglycemia on CV Risk and Disease

Innovative Interventions that Improve Cardiovascular Care

Katharine A. Lembright Award/Lecture and Martha N. Hill New Investigator Award Finalists

Lifestyle, Risk Factors and CVD

Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism: Basic Science and Clinical

Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism: Clinical

Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism: Intermediary Metabolism

Lipids and Nutrition

Lipoproteins, Atherosclerosis and CVD

Mechanisms and Models of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy

Mechanisms of Endothelial Dysfunction and Nephropathy in Diabetes

Medication Adherence: Do Patients with Cardiovascular Disease Take Their Medications?

Models and Mechanisms of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy

Novel Mediators in Metabolic Pathways

Obesity and Diabetes Mechanisms

Obesity: Biomarkers and Vascular Function

Obesity: Causes and Cardiac Risk

Obesity: Mechanisms and Biomarkers

Obesity: Outcomes

Palliative Care and Cardiac Patients/Family Involvement in the Care of Patients with CVD (Co-Sponsored by AHA's Council of CVN and the European Council on CVN and Allied Professionals)

Physiology of Exercise

Physiology of Exercise and Pharmacologic Stress

Physiology of Exercise in Heart Failure and Other Conditions

Preventing Cardiovascular Events

Prevention Research: Assessments and Interventions

Psychosocial and Behavioral Aspects

Quality and Outcomes of Care

Reducing Negative Emotions, Promoting Health and Improving Quality of Life

Risk Factor Interventions: Effects and Impact

Risk Factors I

Risk Factors II

Risk Factors and Prevention

Robert Levy Memorial Lecture: Genetics of Lipid Metabolism

Screening Patients at High Risk for Cardiovascular Events

Screening and Intervening to Reduce Risk of a Serious Cardiac Event

Subclinical Atherosclerosis and Vascular Dysfunction

Subclinical CVD

Therapeutic Insights from Outcomes Research

Triglyceride Metabolism

Core 3: Genetics, Genomics, and Congenital CV Disorders:

Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Adult Congenital Heart Disease: Transposition of Great Arteries and Tetralogy of Fallot

Biology and Outcomes in Children with Heart Disease

Cardiac Development

Cardiovascular Disease in the Young

Cardiovascular Injury in Children with Heart Disease

Cardiovascular Pharmacogenetics

Clinical Problems in the Adult With Congenital Heart Disease

Early and Late Results After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Functional Genomics and Biomarkers in Cardiovascular Disease

Functional Genomics and Translational Biology Young Investigator Award

GWAS in Coronary Artery Disease and Its Risk Factors

Gene Expression/Molecular Biology I

Gene Expression/Molecular Biology II

Genetic Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases

Genetic Risk in Cardiomyopathy, Sudden Death, and CAD

Genetically Engineered Models of Human Disease

Genetics and Genomics of Cardiovascular Disease I

Genetics and Genomics of Cardiovascular Disease II

Genetics of Cardiomyopathy, Heart Failure, and Rhythm Disturbances

Genomics of Atrial and Ventricular Arrhythmias

Helen B Taussig Memorial Lecture and Outstanding Research Awards for Council of Cardiovascular Disease in the Young

In Vivo Gene Transfer: Animal Experience

Interventions in Congenital Heart Defects: Current Status

Late Outcomes in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease

Molecular Control of Myocyte and Vessel Growth

Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Pediatric Electrophysiology

Phenotyping Cardiac Disease in Children

Rhythm Disorders of the Young Heart

Risk Stratification of Heart Disease in Children: Genes and Population

Signaling Pathways in Embryonic, Postnatal, and Adult Progenitor Cells

Vascular Phenotype and Interventions in Pediatric Cardiac Disease

William WL Glenn Lecture and Pediatric Surgery Abstracts: Influence of Biology on Outcomes

Core 4: Heart Rhythm Disorders and Resuscitation Science:

Advances in Resuscitation

Arrhythmias and Intracellular Calcium Handling

Arrhythmias: Diagnosis and Electrophysiology

Atrial Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias

Atrial Fibrillation: Mechanisms and Implications for Ablation

Cardiac Arrhythmias

Cardiac Rhythmicity and Arrhythmias

Catheter Ablation of Atrial Arrhythmias

Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: Emerging Technologies

Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: Outcomes and Complications

Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: Outcomes, Complications, and Strategies

Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias

Catheter Ablation: Techniques for Anatomic Constraints

Cellular Aspects of Excitation-Contraction Coupling

Cellular/Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiac Arrhythmias

Cournand and Comroe Young Investigator Award

Dickinson W Richards Lecture: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation - Resuscitation Physiology, Hemodynamics, and Outcomes

ECG Findings and Prognosis

ECG Findings in Cardiac Disease: There is Still Something to Learn

ECG and Non-Invasive Arrhythmia Testing/Risk Assessment I

ECG and Non-Invasive Arrhythmia Testing/Risk Assessment II

ICD Function: Long-Term Issues

ICD Function: Magnetic Resonance, New Lead Functions

Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: Issues at Implant

Insights into the Mechanism and Treatment of AF and Other Arrhythmias

Ion Channels and Cardiac Rhythm

Ion Channels and Cellular Electrophysiology

Mechanisms of Atrial Fibrillation/Remodeling

New Resuscitation Horizons

Pacemakers and ICDs: It's All About the Leads

Post-Resuscitation Injury and Therapeutic Hypothermia: New Understandings, New Approaches

Regulation of Sarcolemmal, Sarcoplasmic Reticular and Gap Junction Channels

Resuscitation Science in EMS and the Community

Resuscitation Science: Biomarkers and Mechanisms

Samuel A. Levine Young Clinical Investigator Award Finalists

Signaling and Regulation of Cellular Electrophysiology

Structural Remodeling and Arrhythmias

Treatment of Arrhythmias

Treatment of Arrhythmias: Pharmacologic

Ventricular Arrhythmias/Fibrillation

Ventricular Arrhythmias: Brugada, ARVD/C, and Others

Ventricular and Atrial Arrhythmias

Core 5: Myocardium: Development, Function, and Failure:

Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension

Aortic Valve Surgery: Short and Long Term Outcomes

Apoptosis

Aspects of Special Populations

Basic Aspects of Protection of Ischemic Myocardium

Biological Functions of Proteases in the Heart

Biomarkers of Remodeling and Prognosis in Heart Failure

Burning Issues in Cardiac Transplantation

Cardiac Failure and Remodeling I

Cardiac Failure and Remodeling II

Cardiac Failure and Remodeling III

Cardiac Failure and Remodeling IV

Cardiac Failure and Remodeling V

Cardiac Regeneration - Mechanisms

Cardiac Regeneration and Cellular Therapy

Cardiac Regeneration/Cellular Therapy -Experimental I

Cardiac Regeneration/Cellular Therapy -Experimental II

Cardiac Regeneration/Cellular Therapy -Experimental III

Cardiac Regeneration/Cellular Therapy -Experimental IV

Cardiac Surgery: Valvular Heart Disease (not including Percutaneous Valves)

Cardiac Surgery: Valvular Heart Disease (not including Percutaneous Valves) I

Cardiac Surgery: Valvular Heart Disease (not including Percutaneous Valves) II

Cardiac Surgery: Valvular Heart Disease (not including Percutaneous Valves) III

Cardiomyocyte Apoptosis and Autophagy

Cardiomyopathy and Arrhythmias

Cell and Gene Therapy for Heart Failure

Cellular Mechanisms of Heart Failure

Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms in Heart Failure

Challenging Issues in Heart Failure Mild to Severe

Clinical Outcomes of Resynchronization Therapy

Clinical, Echocardiographic and Metabolic Changes in Heart Failure and Resynchronization Therapy

Established and Novel Biomarkers in Heart Failure

Heart Failure Outcomes in Community Settings

Heart Failure Outcomes: Transplant Evaluation and Assessment of Prognosis

Heart Failure, Pathophysiology, Energetics and Diagnosis

Heart Failure: Cell and Gene Based Therapies I

Heart Failure: Cell and Gene Based Therapies II

Heart Failure: Cellular Pathophysiology

Heart Failure: Disease Management, Quality of Care, and Clinical Outcomes I

Heart Failure: Disease Management, Quality of Care, and Clinical Outcomes II

Heart Failure: Genomics and Proteomics

Heart Failure: Inflammation and Nutritional Factors

Heart Failure: Measuring Outcomes

Heart Failure: Novel Aspects of Pharmacologic Therapy

Heart Failure: Pathophysiology and Mechanisms

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy/Pericardial Disease

Laennec Clinician/Educator Lecture: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction

Laennec Young Clinician Award

Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Basic Science Research Prize for Young Investigators Finalists

Mechanisms of Ischemic Cardiac Protection

Mechanistic Insights in Resynchronization Therapy

Melvin L. Marcus Young Investigator Award in Cardiovascular Sciences Finalists

Metabolic Signaling in Cardiovascular Diseases

Modulators of Ventricular Function: Experimental and Clinical Insights

Molecular Basis of Hypertrophy and Signaling

Molecular Involvement in Heart Failure and Remodeling

Myocardial Effects of Systemic Disease

Myocardial Protection/Intraoperative Management I

Myocardial Protection/Intraoperative Management II

Myocardial Structure and Pathology

Myocardial Structure and Signaling

Myocardium, Hypertrophy, Structure and Remodeling

Myocardium, Structure, and Heart Failure

Novel Approaches to Pharmacologic Intervention in Heart Failure

Novel Mechanisms Regulating Cardiac Hypertrophy

Novel Regulators of Hypertrophy

Novel Roles of Mitochondria in Heart Failure

Organ Injury and Protection in Cardiac Surgery: Novel Mechanisms and Strategies

Pharmacologic Agents for Cardioprotection and Reverse Remodeling

Pharmacologic Interventions and Heart Failure

Prognostic Variables in Resynchronization Therapy

Protection of Ischemic Myocardium I

Protection of Ischemic Myocardium II

Protection of Ischemic Myocardium III

Protection of Ischemic Myocardium IV

Protection of Ischemic Myocardium V

Pulmonary Circulation and Critical Care: Advances in Hypothermia and Cellular Injury

Pulmonary Hypertension: Novel Therapies and Imaging Methods

Surgical Treatment of Heart Failure, Transplantation, and Arrhythmias

Surgical Treatment of Heart Failure, Transplantation, and Arrhythmias I

Surgical Treatment of Heart Failure, Transplantation, and Arrhythmias II

Tako-tsubo Cardiomyopathy and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathies

Targeting Energy Metabolism for the Diagnosis and Therapy of Heart Diseases

Thomas Smith Memorial Lecture: Signaling Pathways and Heart Failure

Transcriptional Mechanisms for the Regulation of Cardiac Metabolism

Translational Aspects of Cardiac Protection in Ischemia

Translational Targets and Emerging Therapies: Pulmonary Circulation

Valvular Heart Disease: Diagnosis, Pathophysiology and Medical Management

Valvular Heart Disease: Novel Approaches

Ventricular Assist Devices: Novel Concepts

Ventricular Function/Mechanics

Ventricular Mechanics: Human Studies

Ventricular Mechanics: Molecular Mechanisms

Core 6: Vascular Disease: Catheter-Based and Surgical Interventions:

Acute Coronary Syndromes

Catheter-Based Coronary Imaging and Hemodynamics

Catheter-Based Coronary Interventions: AMI and Thrombus

Catheter-Based Coronary Interventions: Complications and Practice Patterns

Catheter-Based Coronary Interventions: Current Issues in PCI Pharmacology and Technology

Catheter-Based Coronary Interventions: Drug Eluting Stent Technologies

Catheter-Based Coronary Interventions: Experimental and New Technology

Catheter-Based Coronary Interventions: Risk versus Benefit for Drug Eluting Stents

Catheter-Based Coronary Interventions: Stent Thrombosis

Catheter-Based Coronary Interventions: Stents - Complex Coronary Anatomy

Catheter-Based Coronary Interventions: Strategies for Stent Revascularization

Catheter-Based Coronary Interventions: Understanding the Impact of Stent Types on Outcomes

Challenging Issues in Cardiac Catheterization And Coronary Intervention

Challenging Issues in PCI Pharmacology

Clinical Trials in ACS and Atheroma Regression

Complex PCI and High Risk Patients

Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Outcomes I

Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Outcomes II

Coronary Plaque Characteristics: Focus on OCT

Coronary Vascular Biology

Drug-Eluting Stents: Novel Methods to Promote Healing

Endovascular Therapy

Endovascular Therapy for Carotids and Lower Extremity

Intracoronary Imaging and Physiology to Guide PCI

Intracoronary Physiology

Ischemic Heart Disease

Multi-Vessel CAD: Comparative Studies of PCI vs CABG

Optical Coherence Tomography

Outcomes in Patients Undergoing CABG

PCI for STEMI: Technology, Systems and Outcomes

Percutaneous Non-Coronary Cardiac Intervention (including Percutaneous Valves)

Percutaneous Non-Coronary Interventions: Aortic Valve Disease

Percutaneous Non-Coronary Interventions: Atrium, Valves and Septum

Percutaneous Structural Heart Interventions: The Next Frontier

ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Stents, Diabetes and AMI

Thoracic Aortic Disease

Vivien Thomas Young Investigator Award Finalists

Vulnerable Plaques, Patients and Stents: Assessment and Outcomes

Women, STEMI and PCI Trials

Core 7: Vascular Disease: Biology and Clinical Science (Non-interventional):

ACS: Pathophysiological Subsets

Acute Coronary Syndrome: New Biomarkers

Adipose Tissue Inflammation

Advances in Vascular Medicine

Angiogenesis

Angiogenesis: Molecular and Signaling Mechanisms

Angiogenic Disturbances in Vascular and Cardiac Pathologies

Antithrombotic Therapies and PCI for Unstable Angina, NSTEMI, and STEMI

Antithrombotic and Novel Therapies for Unstable Angina, NSTEMI and STEMI

Atherosclerosis: Novel Mechanisms

CNS in Heart Failure

Cardiorenal Physiology/Pathophysiology

Cardiorenal Physiology/Pathophysiology I

Cardiorenal Physiology/Pathophysiology II

Cardiorenal Physiology/Pathophysiology III

Carotid Plaque Formation, Imaging, and Treatment

Cell and Developmental Vascular Biology

Cell-Based Therapies: Cell Characterization and Therapeutic Strategies

Cerebrovascular Disease/Stroke I

Cerebrovascular Disease/Stroke II

Cerebrovascular Disease/Stroke III

Cerebrovascular Disease/Stroke: Treatment and Detection

Clinical Hypertension: Vascular and Ventricular Interactions

Coronary Regulation in Health and Disease

Deprogramming and Reprogramming Stem and Progenitor Cells

ECG and Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Risk Prediction in ACS

Endothelium and Atherosclerosis

Endothelium and Hypertension

Endothelium, Diabetes, and Metabolic Syndrome

Endothelium, Vascular Tone, Nitric Oxide II

Endothelium, Vascular Tone, Nitric Oxide III

Endothelium, Vascular Tone, and Nitric Oxide I

Experimental Myocardial Infarction: Cell Therapy, Remodeling, Cardioprotection

Experimental Myocardial Infarction: Newer Therapies and Pathways

George E Brown Memorial Lecture: Molecular Signaling in Vascular Cells

George L Duff Memorial Lecture: Inflammation and Atherosclerosis

Hypertension and Cardiovascular Risk

Hypertension: Ambulatory and Vascular Risk Assessment

Hypertension: Defining CV Risk

Hypertension: Evaluation and Treatment

Hypertension: Experimental Mechanisms

Hypertension: Experimental Role of RAAS Activation

Hypertension: Mechanisms of Therapeutic Benefit

Hypertension: Molecular Pathways

Imaging in Acute Coronary Syndromes: Diagnosis and Pathophysiology

Inflammation

Inflammation and Atherosclerosis

Inflammation in the Vessel Wall

Inflammatory Cells in Plaque

Lipids and Atherosclerosis: Basic Mechanisms of Disease

Mechanisms of Atherosclerosis

Mechanisms of Atherosclerosis: Lipid Biology

Molecular Mechanisms in Pulmonary Hypertension

Molecular Signaling in Vascular Cells I

Molecular Signaling in Vascular Cells II

Neurohumoral Mechanisms in Heart Failure and Hypertension

Novel Biological Mechanisms of Atherosclerosis

Novel Findings in Vascular Disease

Novel Mechanisms and Molecules Involved in Platelet Activation

Novel Mediators of Vascular Pathophysiology

Novel Predictors of Vascular Disease

Novel Signaling Mechanisms in Atherosclerosis

Novel Signaling and Regulatory Mechanisms in the Coronary Circulation

Nox4: Friend or Foe?

Oxidative Signaling

Physiological Roles of Reactive Oxygen Species

Platelet Non-Responsiveness: What Are the Facts?

Platelet Receptors and Pathways

Proliferation, Remodeling, Extracellular Matrix

Proliferation, Remodeling, Extracellular Matrix I

Proliferation, Remodeling, Extracellular Matrix II

Pulmonary Hypertension: Basic Mechanisms

Pulmonary Hypertension: Novel Diagnostics

ROS and Cardiovascular Disease

Recanalization, Thromboembolism and Anticoagulation

Receptor Pharmacology

Russell Ross Memorial Lectureship in Vascular Biology: Inflammation in Atherosclerosis

Signaling Mechanisms in Angiogenesis

Signaling Pathways Affecting the Vasculature

Sol Sherry Distinguished Lecture in Thrombosis: Novel Mechanisms of Coagulation

Stem/Progenitor Cells: Basic Studies

Stem/Progenitor Cells: Translational Studies

The Pathophysiology of Peripheral Artery Disease

Thrombotic Risk and Thrombus Growth

Unstable Angina, NSTEMI and STEMI: Novel Therapies and Biomarkers

Unstable Angina, NSTEMI and STEMI: Prognosis, Epidemiology, and Outcomes

Unstable Angina, NSTEMI and STEMI: Risk Markers and Outcomes

Unstable Angina, NSTEMI, and STEMI: Comparison of Antiplatelet Agents

Unstable Angina, NSTEMI, and STEMI: ECG and Imaging Prognostic Markers

Vascular Disease, Oxidative Stress, and Nitric Oxide

Vascular Inflammation: Endothelial and Smooth Muscle Cells

eNOS and Nitric Oxide Signaling

Resuscitation Science Symposium:

Best Original Resuscitation Science, Moderated Poster Session

Best of the Best Oral Abstract Presentations