ISHLT2025 Scientific Abstract Award Finalists Announced

Published 14 February 2025
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The ISHLT will present three scientific abstract awards at the upcoming Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions in Boston. Finalists for the Early Career and Trainee Clinical Case Dilemmas Best Presentation Award, Philip K. Caves Award, and Early Career Scientist Award are below. Abstract award recipients will be honored during the Awards Ceremony at General Session III at ISHLT2025 on Wednesday, 30 April.

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Early Career and Trainee Clinical Case Dilemmas: The Best of the Best Award Session
Oral Session 14 | Sunday, 27 April 4:30 – 5:45 p.m. ET

This award recognizes excellence by early career and trainees from top abstracts submitted in the Early Career Clinical Case Reports category.

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Ali Akamkam, MD, MSc
Greater Paris University Hospitals
Paris, France

Abstract Title: First Clinical Use of a Bioprosthetic Total Artificial Heart in a Patient with an Invasive Mediastinal Tumor

 

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Or Bruck, DO
Baylor College of Medicine 
Houston, TX USA

Abstract Title: Recurrence of Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease After Lung Transplant

 

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Anitha Chandrasekhar, DMSc, MSc 
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago, IL USA

Abstract Title: A Novel Approach to Balance Cardiac Ventricles and Maintain Tissue Perfusion After Pre-Emptive Bilateral Pneumonectomy

 

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Sarah Cipriano, MSN, AG-ACNP, CCRN
University of Maryland Medical Center
Baltimore, Maryland USA

Abstract Title: Noninvasive Monitoring Techniques in the Pregnant Heart Transplant Patient

 

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Stefan Elde, MD
Stanford University
Stanford, CA USA

Abstract Title: Ex Vivo Anomalous Right Coronary Artery Translocation in the Donor Heart Prior to Transplantation

 

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Barbara Karner, MD
Medical University of Vienna
Wien, Austria

Abstract Title: Right-Atrial Placement of a Durable Right-Ventricular Assist Device in Severe Cardiomegaly

 

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Jolyn Ng, MD
Fiona Stanley Hospital
Murdoch, WA Australia 

Abstract Title: Novel Case of Olipudase Alfa Enzyme Replacement Therapy to Treat Niemann-Pick Disease Type-B Following Lung Transplant

 

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Kathleen Osea, MD
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL USA

Abstract Title: 3D Modeling as an Integral Planning Tool for Successful Combined Heart-Liver Transplant in a Patient with Situs Inversus Totalis with Complex Fontan Circulation

 

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Lauryn Spinetta, AB
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX USA

Abstract Title: Re-Do Sternotomy in Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death (DCD) and Donation After Brain Death (DBD) Lung Donors - A Case Series

 

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Philip K. Caves Candidates Award Session
Oral Session 20 | Monday, 28 April 3:00 – 4:15 p.m. ET
Established in 1982, the Philip K. Caves Award encourages and rewards original high-quality research performed by residents, fellows, trainees, and graduate students. 

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Angelos Arfaras-Melainis, MD
Montefiore Medical Center 
Bronx, NY USA

Abstract Title: Predicting Early Failure After LVAD Explantation: A VAD Wean Registry Analysis

 

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Isabela Landsteiner, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA USA

Abstract Title: Characterization of Exercise Hemodynamic Profiles in Patients with Normal Resting Pulmonary Arterial Pressures

 

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Amir Mehdizadeh-Shrifi, MD
The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 
Cincinnati, OH USA

Abstract Title: Quantifying the Mental Health Burden of the Pediatric Lung Transplant Journey in the United States

 

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Christian O'Donnell, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine 
Stanford, CA USA

Abstract Title: The Reliability of Automated Artificial Intelligence Echocardiographic Detection of Abnormal Donor Heart Structure and Function

 

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Chengliang Yang, MD
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC Canada

Abstract Title: Circulating Metabolites for Non-Invasive Detection of Acute Cellular Rejection After Heart Transplantation

 

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Shivaram Yellamilli
University of California San Francisco 
San Francisco, CA USA

Abstract Title: Single Cell Sequencing Reveals Molecular Correlates of Progression from Acute Lung Allograft Dysfunction

 

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Early Career Scientist Award
Various Oral Sessions

This award aims to recognize excellence in research in the field of basic and translational science with the goal of encouraging non-clinicians in the early stages of their careers to submit their work for presentation at the ISHLT Annual meeting.

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Nicole Chrysler, BS
Toronto Lung Transplant Program
Toronto, ON Canada

Abstract Title: Anti-Donor T Cell Dynamics and Clad Risk in the Assessment of Lung Allograft Rejection - Measurement of T Cell Immune Synapses (ALARM-T) Study

 

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Moeed Fawad
Stanford University
Stanford, CA USA

Abstract Title:First Sub-Zero Cardiac Allograft Preservation and Reanimation Following 24-Hours of Isochoric Supercooled Preservation

 

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Joshua Preston, BS
Emory University 
Atlanta, GA USA

Abstract Title: Recipient Plasma Metabolome as a Predictor of Primary Graft Dysfunction in Orthotopic Heart Transplantation

 

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David Sebben, MSc
University Health Network
Toronto, ON Canada

Abstract Title: Expression of Trail and Trail Receptors by Club Cells in Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction (CLAD)


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Thirupura S. Shankar, PhD
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT USA

Abstract Title: Epigenetic Cues to Myocardial Recovery in HF Patients on LVAD Support

 

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