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ISHLT is now accepting applications for two research grants to be awarded in 2022, both funding research in mechanical circulatory support. Applications for the ISHLT/O.H. Frazier Award and the ISHLT/ICCAC VAD Coordinator Award will be accepted from now through 31 January, 2022.

ISHLT Academies have returned. The ISHLT Academies are standalone educational courses designed to improve and maintain the highest possible standards in the care of patients with advanced heart and lung disease. While the 2021 Academies were not able to be held face-to-face, the ISHLT has released its Core Competencies course in Pulmonary Hypertension with an online, self-paced curriculum.

The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) has opened abstract submissions for its 42nd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions on 27-30 April, 2022. This event will include in-person and virtual elements and feature educational content spanning the breadth of clinical practice and research concerning heart and lung transplantation, advanced heart and lung disease, mechanical circulatory support, and pulmonary vascular disease.

ISHLT has announced the winners of the new ISHLT Professional Community Awards for Excellence. These awards recognize professional excellence in each of the Professional Communities represented within ISHLT, support the component groups that enable ISHLT’s interdisciplinary approach, and elevate and empower all Professional Communities equally.

As a Society committed to supporting and developing advanced heart and lung research—and to promoting the best work of the next generation of researchers—the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation gives three abstract awards each year to recognize high quality research from trainees, residents, fellows, and graduate students.

For the seventh year in a row, the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation’s Impact Factor earned the publication the number one ranking in the transplantation category. The Journal has also ranked number three in Surgery (from four in 2020), number five in Respiratory (from seven in 2020), and maintained its rank of number 13 in the highly competitive Cardiovascular category.

Evidence is emerging about the immunogenicity of vaccination to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in immune-suppressed individuals, including organ transplant recipients. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation (JHLT) presents two key studies in thoracic organ transplantation.

The International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) awarded three grants to researchers in the fields of heart transplantation, MCS, and VAD coordination at the closing plenary session of its Annual Meeting on Wednesday, 28 April 2021.

During its 2021 virtual Annual Meeting, the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) honored the recipients of its 2020 and 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awards, and announced the creation of the Amanda W. Rowe Distinguished Service Award.

ISHLT will host its 41st Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions on 24-28 April, 2021. The all-virtual event will include educational content spanning the breadth of clinical practice and research concerning heart and lung transplantation, advanced heart and lung disease, mechanical circulatory support, and pulmonary vascular disease.

International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation has announced the results of the member election for 2021 Board of Directors. The Society will welcome seven members of the Board of Directors at the 41st Annual ISHLT Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions in April 2021.

ISHLT has added Sue Bessner as the organization’s Director of Education and Research and Jess Burke as Director of Marketing and Communications.

A researcher at the University of Chicago Medical Center has been awarded a grant to assess whether telemedicine, imposed by the pandemic, leads to improved patient satisfaction and access to care. Karen Meehan MSN, ACNS-BC, CVRN, an advanced practice nurse and VAD coordinator at the University of Chicago Medical Center in Chicago, Ill., has been awarded the ISHLT/ICCAC VAD Coordinator Career Development Award, sponsored by Medtronic.

For the sixth year in a row, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation’s Impact Factor earned the publication the number one ranking in the transplantation category. In addition, the Journal also ranked number four in Surgery, number seven in Respiratory and number 13 in the highly competitive Cardiovascular category.

Jordan R.H. Hoffman, MD, Assistant Professor in Cardiac Surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, TN., has received the O.H. Frazier Award in MCS Translational Research sponsored by Medtronic and administered by the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT).

The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) announced the election of seven new board members and officers.

The International Society for Heart and Transplantation, which publishes The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, named Daniel R. Goldstein, MD, the new editor-in-chief of the Journal

The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation released the first report examining the impact of COVID-19 on two heart transplant recipients who contracted the virus in their native China. The study, the first of its kind globally, may provide insight into how the virus will impact transplant recipients around the world.

ISHLT has announced the addition of Aaron Adair as the organization’s Chief Operating Officer and Jacky Schweinzger, CMP, as the organization’s Director of Meetings and Education.

ISHLT has announced the appointment of Gregory L. Schultz, CAE as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective January 6, 2020. He will succeed retiring Executive Director Amanda Rowe, who has led ISHLT for 27 years.