Awards - Scientific Sessions 2022
Scientific Sessions: November 5–7
Chicago, IL + Virtual
The AHA Scientific Council Awards applaud the achievements of researchers, scientists, clinicians, nurses, and allied health professionals, and provide opportunities for financial rewards, special presentations, and funding to attend the AHA Scientific Sessions and other council-sponsored meetings. Hundreds of awards are offered each year to meet our members where they are in their career.
2022 Winners
Lewis A. Conner Presidential Address
Michelle A. Albert, MD, MPH, FAHA
Chairman’s Award
Ivor Benjamin, MD, FAHA
Basic Research Award
Louise McCullough, MD, PhD, FAHA
Clinical Research Award
Eldrin Lewis, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA
Population Research Award
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD, MAS
Eugene Braunwald Academic Mentorship Award
Myron (Mike) Weisfeldt, MD, FAHA
Research Achievement Award
Christine Seidman, MD, FAHA
Joseph A. Vita Award
Paul Muntner, PhD, MHSc
- Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, FAHA
- Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH, FAHA (Hon)
- David A. Kass, MD, FAHA, Baltimore, MD
- Bruce Ovbiagele, MD, MSc, MAS, MBA, MLS, FAHA
- Susan E. Quaggin, MD, FAHA (Hon)
- Ralph L. Sacco, MD, MS, FAHA
- Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD, FAHA (Hon)
Lewis A. Conner Presidential Address
Michelle A. Albert, MD, MPH, 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
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
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
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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
3CPR Best Abstract Award Winner (Cardiopulmonary/ Critical Care)
Hyunbum Kim, PhD
ATVB Early Career Award for Outstanding Research
Amit Khera, MD, MSc
CVSN Best Abstract Award
Geunyeong Cha, MSN
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 Marie Cowan Promising Early Career Investigator Award
Windy W. Alonso, PhD, RN
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
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
- 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
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