What is FAHA?

AHA Professional Members may apply for election as a Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA). FAHA is an honorific designation that recognizes scientific and professional accomplishments and contributions, volunteer leadership and service supporting the overall AHA mission.

FAHA Benefits

• Recognition of accomplishments
• FAHA designation in credentials
• Acknowledgment of service
• Reduced fees for conferences
• FAHA lounge at Scientific Sessions

Three steps to apply:

1. Review the FAHA Tracks Document and select the track that best describes your career. 
2. Prepare your CV
3. Obtain Letter of Reference from a current FAHA

See details to become a FAHA

The AHA scientific councils recognize the achievements of researchers, scientists, clinicians, nurses, and allied health professionals throughout their careers. Council awards provide financial stipends, special presentations and travel funding to attend AHA scientific meetings. Each council sponsors awards for its members, and the links below will give details for each council. Become an AHA Professional Member prior to the application submission deadline.

Early Career Awards recognize promising and outstanding investigators and clinicians in the early stages of their careers and stimulate continued interest in basic, clinical, translational or population cardiovascular research. Applicant must be active in research and within 10 years of completion of terminal degree or highest certificate, or within 10 years of completing medical fellowship or residency. 

Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, instructors, and research associates are welcome to apply.

Mid-Career Achievement and Special Recognition Awards recognize investigators active in basic, clinical, translational or population cardiovascular research for specific career endeavors and achievements who made a significant impact on the field of cardiovascular disease and stroke. The awards also may honor those who have helped further the mission of the scientific councils and the AHA. Candidates include PhDs and or MDs who are within 5–20 years after their first faculty appointment.

Lifetime Achievement Awards recognize contributions to the fields of cardiovascular disease and stroke over a sustained period. Recipients of these awards exemplify excellence and are notable representatives of the best in their fields.

Council Named Lectures feature presentations from some of today’s foremost clinicians and researchers and those with lifetime contributions to the field of cardiovascular disease.

Travel Grants help defray costs for early career investigators, clinicians and students to participate in the AHA Scientific Sessions and specialty meetings.

Student Scholarships, administered under qualified supervision, provide an important stimulus to medical and graduate students conducting research projects related to cardiovascular diseases, stroke and basic scientific research.

The Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award recognizes the team of authors with the highest-ranked scientific abstract from every participating country for each AHA scientific meeting.