2022 AHA Scientific Council Awards
Congratulations to the 2022 recipients of the Distinguished Achievement Awards, Special Lectures, Named Lectures, Special Recognition, Best Abstracts and Early Career Abstracts awards.
Distinguished Achievement Awards
Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (ATVB) Distinguished Achievement Award in Thrombosis
Steven Lentz, MD, PhD, FAHA
Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences (BCVS) Distinguished Achievement Award
Sean M. Wu, MD, PhD
Council on Clinical Cardiology (CLCD) Distinguished Achievement Award
Robert A. Harrington, MD, FAHA
Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia (CVSA) Distinguished Achievement Award
Jennifer S. Lawton, MD, FACS, FAHA
Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Distinguished Achievement Award
Penny M. Kris-Etherton, PhD, RD, FAHA
Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) Distinguished Achievement Award
Mary M. McDermott, MD, FAHA
Special Lectures
Lewis A. Conner Presidential Address
Michelle A. Albert, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA
Annual Dr. Nanette K. Wenger Research Goes Red® Award for Best Scientific Article on Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke in Women
Harriette G.C. Van Spall, MD, MPH
Erica P. Gunderson, PhD, MS, MPH
Distinguished Scientist Lecture
Suzanne Oparil, MD, FAHA
Nobel Laureate Lecture
Gregg L. Semenza, MD, PhD
Paul Dudley White Lecture
Esther Duflo, PhD
Named Lectures
Ancel Keys Memorial Lecture
Donna K. Arnett, PhD, MPH, FAHA
Charles T. Dotter Memorial Lecture
Karen G. Ordovas, MD, FAHA
Dickinson W. Richards Memorial Lecture
Clifton W. Callaway, MD, PhD, FAHA
Genomic and Precision Medicine and Epidemiology Mid-Career Research Award and Lecture
Kathryn M. Rexrode, MD, MPH, FAHA
George E. Brown Memorial Lecture
Sumanth D. Prabhu, MD, FAHA
George Lyman Duff Memorial Lecture
Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc, FAHA
James B. Herrick Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cardiology
Pamela S. Douglas, MD, FAHA
Katharine A. Lembright Award and Lecture
Lorraine S. Evangelista, PhD, RN, CNS, WAN, FAHA
Kathleen A. Dracup Distinguished Lecture Exemplary Career in Mentoring Award
Bunny J. Pozehl, PhD, APRN-NP, FAHA
Kenneth D. Bloch Memorial Lecture in Vascular Biology
Rhian M. Touyz, PhD, MBBCh, MSc (Med), FAHA
Laennec Clinician-Educator Award & Lecture
Jon A. Kobashigawa, MD, FAHA
Robert Levy Memorial Lecture
William Virgil Brown, MD, FAHA
Russell Ross Memorial Lecture in Vascular Biology
William C. Sessa, PhD, FAHA
Sol Sherry Distinguished Lecture in Thrombosis
Marvin Nieman, PhD, FAHA
Stroke Council Award & Lecture
Nestor Gonzalez, MD, MSc, FAHA
T. Duckett Jones Memorial Lecture
Liesl Zühlke, PhD, MB ChB, DCH, FCPaeds, Cert Card, MPH, MSc
Thomas W. Smith Memorial Lecture
Leslie Leinwand, PhD, FAHA
William W. L. Glenn Lecture
Bartley P. Griffith, MD
William J. Rashkind Memorial Lecture
Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD, PhD
Special Recognition
Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (ATVB)
Special Recognition Award in Thrombosis
Magdalena Chrzanowska, PhD, MSc, FAHA
Special Recognition Award in Arteriosclerosis
Sean Davidson, PhD, FAHA
Special Recognition Award in Vascular Biology
Rebecca Haeusler, PhD
Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing (CVSN)
CVSN Clinical Article of the Year Award
Leslie L. Davis, PhD, ANP-BC, FAHA
CVSN Mathy Mezey Excellence in Aging Award
Misook Lee Chung, PhD, RN, FAHA
CVSN Research Article of the Year Award
Ruth M. Masterson Creber, PhD, MSc, RN, FAHA
CVSN Stroke Article of the Year Award
Ann Leonhardt-Caprio, DNP, RN, ANP-BC, SCRN, FAHA
Council on Clinical Cardiology (CLCD)
Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award
Sharmila Dorbala, MD, MPH, MASNC
Roxana Mehran, MD, FAHA
Laennec Master Clinician Award
JoAnn Lindenfeld, MD, FAHA
Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine (GPM)
GPM Medal of Honor
Daniel Rader, MD, FAHA
GPM Mentoring Award
Svati Shah, MD, MHSc, FAHA
Council on Lifelong Congenital Heart Disease and Heart Health in the Young (Young Hearts)
Outstanding Research Award in Pediatric Cardiology
Simon Lee, MD
Kimberley Miles, MD
Michael A. Portman, MD, FAHA
Young Hearts Meritorious Achievement Award
Roberta G. Williams, MD, FAHA
Best Abstract Awards
3CPR Best Abstract Award Winner (Cardiopulmonary/Critical Care)
Hyunbum Kim, PhD
CVSN Best Abstract Award
Geunyeong Cha, MSN
Early Career Abstracts Awards
Quest Diagnostics and Steve Rusckowski Early Career Investigator Award for Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine Research
Sponsored by Quest Diagnostics Center of Excellence for Cardiometabolic Testing at Cleveland Heart Lab
Tara Shrout Allen, MD, MSc
Amélie Paquin, MD, MSc
Renato Quispe, MD, MHS
Nilay S. Shah, MD, MPH
Sarah Margaret Urbut, MD, PhD
Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (ATVB)
Elaine W. Raines Early Career Investigator Award
Sarvesh Chelvanambi, PhD
Aikaterini Gatsiou, PhD, MSc
Khalia Primer
Adil Rasheed, PhD
Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences (BCVS)
Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Basic Science Research Prize for Early Career Investigators
Erik A. Blackwood, PhD
Yang Cao, PhD
Jingshu Chen, PhD
Inna Rabinovich-Nikitin, PhD
Melvin L. Marcus Early Career Investigator Award in Cardiovascular Sciences
Ajit Magadum, PhD
Shruti Rawal, PhD
Vagner O. C. Rigaud, PhD
Vivek P. Jani, MS
Council on Cardiopulmonary, Critical Care, Perioperative and Resuscitation (3CPR)
Cournand and Comroe Early Career Investigator Award
Zhiyu Dai, PhD, FAHA
Lloyd David Harvey, MD, PhD
Kenzo Ichimura, MD, PhD
Takamitsu Ikeda, MD, PhD
Jennifer Tegan Middleton, MBChB
Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia (CVSA)
Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia Early Career Investigator Abstract Award
Nikhil Mistry, MSc
Siavash Zamirpour
Vivien Thomas Early Career Investigator Award
Sharif A. Sabe, MD
Jakob Wollborn, MD
Cynthia Xu, MD
Weiang Yan, MD
Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing (CVSN)
Martha N. Hill Early Career Investigator Award
Soojung Ahn, PhD, RN
Solim Lee, PhD, RN
Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD, MPH, RN
CVSN Marie Cowan Promising Early Career Investigator Award
Windy W. Alonso, PhD, RN
Council on Clinical Cardiology (CLCD)
Laennec Fellow in Training (FIT) Clinician Award
Evan K. Harmon, MD
Anantha S. Madgula, MD
Nitin Malik, MD
John W. Ostrominski, MD
Ayesha Salahuddin, MD
Samuel A. Levine Early Career Clinical Investigator Award
Jonathan Ariyaratnam, MB Bchir, MA, Mres, MRCP
Aakriti Gupta, MD, MSc
Cian P. McCarthy, MB, BCh, BAO
Matthew W. Segar, MD, MS
Brian Yu
Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention (CVRI)
Melvin Judkins Early Career Clinical Investigator Award
Nasir Hussain, MD
Takako Nagata, MD
Chaitanya Rojulpote, MBBS
Lingyu Xu, MD, PhD
Council on Epidemiology and Prevention
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Research Award for Early Career Investigators
Joanna Nicole Assadourian
Minoo Bagheri, PhD, MSc
Kosuke Inoue, MD, PhD
Xiaoming Jia, MD
Veer Sangha
Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine (GPM)
Genomic and Precision Medicine Early Career Investigator Award
Derek Klarin, MD
Vibhu Parcha, MD
Prashant Rao, MBBS, MRCP
Elizabeth Zhao
Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health
Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Early Career Investigator Award
Nour Makarem, PhD
Amgad Mentias, MD, MS
Alice-Mihaela Mezincescu, PhD, MRCP, DM
Council on Lifelong Congenital Heart Disease and Heart Health in the Young (Young Hearts)
Young Hearts Early Career Investigator Award
Benjamin S. Frank, MD
Anastacia M. Garcia, PhD
Robin Perelli, MS
Aditya Sengupta, MD
Rachel Shustak, MD
Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD)
Jay D. Coffman Early Career Investigator Award
Jonathan Hanna, MD
Michael Levin, MD
