American Heart Association honors eight leaders in cardiology

The American Heart Association will name eight leaders in the field of cardiology at its annual Scientific Sessions conference Nov. 16-18.

The awards were announced on November 6th. news releases from AHA.

Here are the names of the leaders who were honored:

• Katherine Gallagher, MDLeland Ira Doan, research professor of surgery and associate chair of the Department of Basic and Translational Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, will receive the 2024 Joseph A. Wieth Award.

  The award is given to a scientist whose work has been published in AHA journals and whose research has had an impact on the field of cardiovascular biology or cardiovascular health in the past five years.

• Robert Harrington, MDStephen and Suzanne Weiss, dean of New York-based Weill Cornell Medicine, vice chancellor for medical affairs at Cornell University and attending cardiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, will receive the 2024 Chairman’s Award.
• Virginia Howard, Ph.D.distinguished professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will receive this year’s Population Research Award.

  Dr. Howard is the lead stroke epidemiologist on the Causes of Geographic and Racial Disparities in Stroke study, which examines why black adults and individuals in the southeastern United States have higher stroke mortality rates.

• Jane Newburger, MDassociate chief of academic affairs in the Division of Cardiology at Boston Children’s Hospital and professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston, will receive the 2024 Eugene Braunwald Academic Mentorship Award.

  The award recognizes an individual who is dedicated to training and mentoring the next generation of researchers, educators and health care professionals.

• Roderick Pettigrew, MD, PhDRobert A. Welch Professor of Medicine and former inaugural dean of the School of Engineering Medicine at Texas A&M University at Houston, will receive the 2024 Scientific Achievement Award.

  Dr. Pettigrew was the founding director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the National Institutes of Health. Its latest development is the Siemens Cima.X, an MRI scanner to detect heart disease before people develop cardiovascular disease.

• Lauren Sansing, MDprofessor of neurology and vice chair of the department of neurology at Yale Medical School in New Haven, Connecticut, will receive a Basic Research Award.

  Dr. Sansing’s research focuses on the rehabilitation of complex neurovascular diseases.

• Sylvie Shah, MDassistant professor of nephrology and hypertension at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, will receive the 2024 Dr. Nanette K. Wenger Research Goes Red Award.

  The award recognizes the best research article or articles published in AHA journals during the previous year on cardiovascular disease and stroke in women.

  Dr. Shah receives the award for his article, “Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Kidney Failure,” published May 3 in the journal Journal of the American Heart Association.

• Herman Taylor Jr., MDtalented professor and director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, will receive a clinical research award.

  Dr. Taylor was the principal investigator and founding director of the Jackson Heart Study, which examines genetic and environmental factors that influence heart disease in black Americans.