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Professional Communities Awards for Excellence

The Professional Community Awards for Excellence will not be offered at ISHLT2024.

About the Awards:

The purpose of these awards is to recognize and encourage investigation and professional excellence in each of the Professional Communities represented within ISHLT, to support the component groups that enable ISHLT's interdisciplinary approach and to elevate and empower all Professional Communities equally.

This award category includes individual awards for each of the ten professional communities.

Anesthesiology and Critical Care Award for Excellence
Cardiology Award for Excellence
Cardiothoracic Surgery Award for Excellence
Infectious Diseases Award for Excellence
Nursing and Allied Health Award for Excellence
Pathology Award for Excellence
Pediatrics Award for Excellence
Pharmacy Award for Excellence
Pulmonology Award for Excellence
Research and Immunology Award for Excellence

Three eligible authors from each of the above Professional Communities whose top-scoring abstracts are selected for oral presentation will be named as finalists. These presentations will be recorded and judged online after the meeting by a panel of experts.

Each award recipient will receive complimentary registration to the next year's Annual Meeting.

Eligibility criteria:

Candidate must be a current member of ISHLT.
Candidate must be a current member of one of the ten ISHLT Professional Communities
Candidate must be the first author and presenter of the abstract.
Candidate must not have previously won an award in this category.

First authors who meet all eligibility criteria during abstract submission are automatically considered for the award sponsored by their Primary Professional Community (identified on their membership profile).

Current Recipients

	Anesthesiology & Critical Care Professional Community Award for Excellence Leonardo Salazar, MD, MSc Fundación Cardiovascular de Colombia Floridablanca, Colombia Presentation: Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation Outcomes: Single-Center Experience in a Latin American Advanced Heart Failure Reference Program
	Cardiology Professional Community Award for Excellence Christos Kyriakopoulos, MD University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT USA Presentation: Multicenter Development and Validation of a Machine Learning Model to Predict Myocardial Recovery During LVAD Support: The UCAR Score
	Cardiothoracic Surgery Professional Community Award for Excellence Ezequiel Molina, MD, FACS Piedmont Heart Institute Atlanta, GA USA Presentation: The Impact of Small Left Ventricular Dimension on Outcomes after HeartMate 3 LVAD Implantation
	Infectious Diseases Professional Community Award for Excellence Saima Aslam, MD, MS University of California San Diego San Diego, CA USA Presentation: Development of Burkholderia Cepacia Complex Targeted Clinical Registry and Phage Library
	Nursing and Allied Health Professional Community Award for Excellence Kathleen Grady, PhD, MS, RN Northwestern University Chicago, IL USA Presentation: A Comparison of Quality-Adjusted Life Years in Older Adults after Heart Transplantation Versus Long-Term Mechanical Support: Findings From SUSTAIN-IT
	Pathology Professional Community Award for Excellence Francesca Lunardi, MD, ScD, PhD University of Padova Padova, Italy Presentation: Phosphorylated S6 Ribosomal Protein as an Additional Marker of Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Lung Allografts: A Multicentre Study
	Pediatrics Professional Community Award for Excellence Madeleine Townsend, MD Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH USA Presentation: Statin Use May Not Benefit Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients: A PHTS Analysis
	Pharmacy Professional Community Award for Excellence Erik Henricksen, PharmD Stanford Medicine Stanford, CA USA Presentation: Bye-Bye Biopsy? Comparing Short and Long-Term Outcomes after Adopting Early Non-Invasive Rejection Surveillance
	Pulmonology Professional Community Award for Excellence Reda Girgis, MD Spectrum Health / Michigan State University Grand Rapids, MI USA Presentation: Predictors of Early Mortality after Lung Transplantation for Primary Pulmonary Hypertension: A UNOS Analysis
	Research and Immunology Professional Community Award for Excellence Pieterjan Kerckhof, Ir, MD KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium Presentation: Morphometric Airway Changes in Explanted Human Lungs with Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction
	Research and Immunology Professional Community Award for Excellence Kristina Andrijauskaite, PhD, MS, MEd Vascular Perfusion Solutions, Inc. San Antonio, TX USA Presentation: Novel Portable Hypothermic Perfusion Preservation Device Enhances Cardiac Output of Donated Human Hearts