Council Named Lecturers
Council Named Lectures feature presentations from some of today’s foremost clinicians and researchers as well as those with a lifetime of contributions to the field of cardiovascular disease and stroke. The lecture is often named in honor of a pioneer and leader in the field related to one of the AHA’s 16 scientific councils.
These lectures are presented at the AHA’s Scientific Sessions and Specialty Meetings. Honorees are selected by the council leadership and are invited to present a lecture on a topic of their choice.
2025 AHA Council Named Lecturers
3CPR Mid-Career Award and Lecture
University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
George Lyman Duff Memorial Lecture
The Medical College of WisconsinMilwaukee, Wisconsin
Russell Ross Memorial Lectureship in Vascular Biology
NYU Langone HealthNew York, New York
Sol Sherry Distinguished Lecture in Thrombosis
Radboud University Medical CenterNijmegen, The Netherlands
George E. Brown Memorial Lecture
Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterLondon, United Kingdom
Kenneth D. Bloch Memorial Lecture in Vascular Biology
The University of Pittsburgh School of MedicineBaltimore, Maryland
Thomas Smith Memorial Lecture
Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station, Texas
James B. Herrick Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cardiology
Duke Clinical Research instituteDurham, North Carolina
Laennec Clinician/Educator Lecture
Baylor College of MedicineHouston, Texas
Charles T. Dotter Memorial Lecture
Weil Cornell Medical CollegeNew York, New York
William W. L. Glenn Lecture
Baylor Scott & White The Heart HospitalPlano, Texas
Katharine A. Lembright Award and Lecture
2025 Katharine A. Lembright Award and Lecturer – Cheryl R. Himmelfarb, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAHA, FPCNA
Kathleen A. Dracup Distinguished Lecture and Exemplary Career in Mentoring Award
University of Massachusetts BostonBoston, Massachusetts
Ancel Keys Memorial Lecture
Boston University School of Medicine and Public HealthBoston, Massachusetts
Genomic and Precision Medicine and Epidemiology Mid-Career Research Award and Lecture
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolBoston, Massachusetts
Robert I. Levy Memorial Lecture
Stanford UniversityStanford, California
William J. Rashkind Memorial Lecture
The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical SchoolAustin, Texas
T. Duckett Jones Memorial Lecturer
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research CentreCochin, Kerela, India
Dickinson W. Richards Memorial Lecture
NYU Grossman School of MedicineNew York, New York
Donald Seldin Lecture
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill, North Carolina
Excellence Award for Hypertension Research
Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterLos Angeles, California
Excellence Award for Hypertension Research
Experimental and Clinical Research Center & Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC)Berlin, Germany
Harriet Dustan Award
Tulane University School of MedicineNew Orleans, Louisiana
Harry Goldblatt Award for New Investigators
University of South AlabamaMobile, Alabama
Council on Hypertension Mid-Career Award for Research Excellence
Albert Einstein College of MedicineNew York, New York
KCVD Mid-Career Achievement Award
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta UniversityAugusta, Georgia
Lewis K. Dahl Memorial Lecture
Tulane University School of MedicineNew Orleans, Louisiana
David Kritchevsky Memorial Lectureship
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Frederick H. Epstein Memorial Lecture
McGill UniversityMontreal, Quebec
William B. Kannel, MD Memorial Lectureship in Preventive Cardiology
Emory University School of MedicineAtlanta, Georgia
Jeffrey M. Hoeg Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology Award for Basic Science and Clinical Research
Brigham and Women’s HospitalBoston, Massachusetts
PVD Mid-Career Award and Lecture
University of Michigan HealthMichigan Medicine
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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