ISHLT2025: Early Career & Trainee Clinical Case Dilemmas - The Best of the Best Award Session
27 April, 2025 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. EDT
This award recognizes excellence by early career and trainees from top abstracts submitted in the Early Career Clinical Case Reports category. Expert senior clinicians are invited to discuss the intricacies of these cases and share clinical pearls. At the conclusion of the session, the best case presentation is selected by a panel of judges.
The winner will be announced during the General Session on Wednesday, 30 April.
Award Finalists
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
Or Bruck, DO
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX USA
Abstract Title: Recurrence of Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease After Lung Transplant
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
Sarah Cipriano, MSN, AG-ACNP, CCRN
Univerity of Maryland Medical Center
Baltimore, MD USA
Abstract Title: Noninvasive Monitoring Techniques in the Pregnant Heart Transplant Patient
Stefan Elde, MD
Stanford University
Stanford, CA USA
Abstract Title: Ex Vivo Anomalous Right Coronary Artery Translocation in the Donor Heart Prior to Transplantation
Barbara Karner, MD
Medical University of Vienna
Wein, Austria
Abstract Title: Right-Atrial Placement of a Durable Right-Ventricular Assist Device in Severe Cardiomegaly
Jolyn Ng, MD
Fiona Stanley Hospital
Murdoch, WA Australlia
Abstract Title: Novel Case of Olipudase Alfa Enzyme Replacement Therapy to Treat Niemann-Pick Disease Type-B Following Lung Transplant
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
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