Published 22 April 2023
Each year at the Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions, ISHLT recognizes the best research being presented at the meeting. Awards highlight investigators in each of the ISHLT Professional Communities, and additional abstract awards focus on presentations from early career investigators.
ISHLT2023 featured more than 1,250 oral, mini oral, and poster presentations and awarded 13 different abstract awards to 14 presenters in six countries. Topics included the latest in machine learning, non-invasive therapy techniques, and barriers to donor acceptance, just to name a few.
All conference abstracts are available in a special supplement to the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation’s April 2023 issue. To see full details on all the winners, including presentation title and purpose, view the full press release.
2023 Philip K. Caves Award
Awarded to: Brian Wayda, MD, MPH
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA USA
2023 Early Career Scientist Award
Awarded to: Sambavan Jeyakumar
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
2023 Early Career Clinical Case Dilemmas Best Presentation Award
Awarded to: Rossa Brugha, BMBCh, MA(Oxon), MRCPCH, PhD
Great Ormond Street Hospital
London, UK
2023 Anesthesiology & Critical Care Professional Community Award for Excellence
Awarded to: Leonardo Salazar, MD, MSc
Fundación Cardiovascular de Colombia
Floridablanca, Colombia
2023 Cardiology Professional Community Award for Excellence
Awarded to: Christos Kyriakopoulos, MD
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT USA
2023 Cardiothoracic Surgery Professional Community Award for Excellence
Awarded to: Ezequiel Molina, MD, FACS
Piedmont Heart Institute
Atlanta, GA USA
2023 Infectious Diseases Professional Community Award for Excellence
Awarded to: Saima Aslam, MD, MS
University of California San Diego
San Diego, CA USA
2023 Nursing and Allied Health Professional Community Award for Excellence
Awarded to: Kathy Grady, PhD, RN, MS, FAAN
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL USA
2023 Pathology Professional Community Award for Excellence
Awarded to: Francesca Lunardi, MD, ScD, PhD
University of Padova
Padova, Italy
2023 Pediatrics Professional Community Award for Excellence
Awarded to: Madeleine Townsend, MD
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH USA
2023 Pharmacy Professional Community for Excellence
Awarded to: Erik Henricksen, PharmD
Stanford Medicine
Stanford, CA USA
2023 Pulmonology Professional Community Award for Excellence
Awarded to: Reda Girgis, MD
Spectrum Health / Michigan State University
Grand Rapids, MI USA
2023 Research and Immunology Professional Community Award for Excellence
Awarded to: Pieterjan Kerckhof, IR, MD
KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
2023 Research and Immunology Professional Community Award for Excellence
Awarded to: Kristina Andrijauskaite, PhD, MS, MEd
Vascular Perfusion Solutions, Inc.
San Antonio, TX USA
