Fernando Elijovich Early Career Clinician Scientist Award
Sponsored by the Council on Hypertension
Award submission for Hypertension Scientific Sessions will reopen in spring 2025.
The Fernando Elijovich Early Career Clinician Scientist Award recognizes an early career clinician/clinician scientist who manages hypertensive patients and is an active investigator working in hypertension or cardiovascular research who has significantly contributed to our understanding of the causes or treatments of hypertension and related cardiovascular disease.
This award is named after Dr. Fernando Elijovich, an academic internist and hypertension specialist who enhanced our understanding of hypertension through benchtop and clinical research, particularly on sodium handling and salt-sensitivity of blood pressure. He was also a lifelong active member of the council dedicated to the training of the next generation of translational researchers and hypertension specialists.
Award Recipients
- 2024 Luke Joseph Laffin, MD
Eligibility Criteria
- All applicants for the award must be members of the Council on Hypertension by the time of application submission. If you need to become an AHA Professional Member, you should do so before submitting your abstract and award application materials. Join or renew today!
- The applicant must be an active hypertension clinician and researcher and be within 10 years of completing medical fellowship (or residency as NIH states, MDs would be Fellows for 3-6 years of the 7-10), terminal degree or highest certificate (e.g., MD or MD PhD), as of the award application date.
- Notwithstanding the above, the AHA Officers have the discretion to determine eligibility for the award in extraordinary circumstances when there is an issue relating to AHA policy or positions or other potentially controversial issue relating to the positioning or perception of the AHA.
- Previous awardees are not eligible to re-enter the competition in subsequent years.
- Each recipient of AHA council-sponsored awards, regardless of award category, is eligible to receive only one council-sponsored award each year per AHA scientific meeting.
How to Apply/Required Documents
The following items must be submitted through the Council Awards Application System for consideration for this award:
- A full Curriculum vitae, including all publications (abstracts not necessary).
- Reprints of three first-authored publications by the applicant.
- A letter of nomination from a Council member detailing overall contributions of the applicant to hypertension and cardiovascular disease
Members of the Council on Hypertension Awards Committee are not eligible to apply, be nominated, or write support letters for applicants.
Visit the ProposalCentral Council Awards Applicant Instructions page to apply or submit a nomination.
Once logged in, you may apply for the Hypertension Scientific Sessions Awards for Early Career Investigators and select the HTN Fernando Elijovich Early Career Clinician Scientist Award from the award drop-down list.
Prize
- Complimentary registration to Hypertension Scientific Sessions
- One (1) ticket to the Hypertension Scientific Sessions Awards Banquet
- An engraved plaque
- $1,000 honorarium
- Reimbursement for eligible travel expenses up to $1,000
- For rules and regulations for submitting abstracts to the Hypertension Scientific Sessions, visit 2023 Abstract Submission Guidelines (PDF)
- Join or renew as an AHA Professional Member
- Submit your application in the Council Awards Application System
- Instructions for ProposalCentral, Council Awards platform
Questions
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