Winner of the Prestigious Awards in the Past few Years

Year Month Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy
Young Investigator's Award
  Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh
Young Investigator's Award
2024 Nov  Anirudh Palicherla, MD 1 Abdulla Shahid, BS
2 Parag Bawaskar, MD, DM
2023 Nov  Priya Jain, MD 1 Parag Bawaskar, MD, DM
2 Nishant Vatsa, MD
2022 Nov  Akshay Machanahalli Balakrishna, MD 1 Kavin Raj MBBS
2 Naman S. Shetty,MD
2022  April Subash Dulal MBBS 1 Aniruddh P. Patel, MD
2021 Nov Monil Majmundar, M.D 1 Ishan Kirti, MBBS
May Vibhu Parcha, MD 1 Rajkumar Doshi MD MPH
2020
Mar  Ankita Aggarwal 1 Vikrant Jagadeesan M.D
Yashwant Agrawal, MD 2 Nilay S. Shah, MD,MPH
2019 Nov

Venkata Pujjra MD 


1

Vardhmaan Jain MD 

2

Mary E. Haas PhD

Mar

Sakthi Sundararajan, MD

1

 

Arman Qamar, MD

2

 

Kavisha Singh MD
2018 Nov Arnav Kumar MD 1 Karan Sud
2 Amit K. Dey MD
Mar Nitesh Patel, MD 1 Parth Parikh, MD
2 Parasuram Krishnamoorthy, MD
3 Ankur Gupta, MD, PhD
2017     Nov   Avirup Guha, M.B.B.S 1 Aparna Sajja BA BS
  Swetha Srialluri M.D
  Pradeep S. Rajendran, PhD
Mar  Abhishek Sharma, MD Aditya C. Shekhar
  Navkaranbir S. Bajaj MD, MPH
2016  Nov Yash B. Jobanputra, MD   Nirav Patel, MBBS
Apr Megha Prasad MD   Deepakraj Garjanana MD
2015  Nov   Kashish Goel MBBS   Garima Arora, MD 
Mar Mohit Pahuja MD   Ankur Kalra MD
 2014    Nov Apurva Patel MD    Arun Kanmanthareddy MD
Mar  Akhil Parashar, MD 1 Subroto Acharjee, MD
  2 Roosha Parikh, MD
2013    Nov   Ganesh Athappan, MD   Forum Kamdar, MD 
   Manavjot S.Sidhu, MD
Mar  Shikhar Agarwal MD MPH CPH 1 Amit K. Pursnani, MD
  2  Nirmanmoh Bhatia, MD
2012    Nov  Dharam J Kumbhani, MD, SM, MRCP 1 Partha Sardar MD
  2 Gaurav Tyagi MD
Mar  Arun Kannan MD 1 Venkatesh L. Murthy, MD, Ph.D
   2 Kunal Teli MBBS, MD 
2011    Nov  Amita Singh, MD 1 Raffay S. Khan, MD
   2 Danny J. Eapen, MD  
Apr Saurav Chatterjee, MD   1 Nikhil V. Munshi, MD  
 
Partho P. Sengupta, MD
2010 Nov Sandeep S. Patel, MD 1 Ravinder R. Valadri, MD
  2 Anand Rohatgi, MD
Mar Param Puneet Singh, MD 1 Sirtaz Adatya, MD
  2 Preeti Singh, MD
2009 Nov Navinder Sawhney, MD 1 Jon C. George, MD
  2 Nehal N. Mehta MD
Mar Jai Varma, MD 1 Dipanjan Banerjee, MD
  2 Abhinav Goyal, MD, MHS
2008 Nov Sarabjeet Singh, MD 1 Pawan D. Patel, MD
  2 Gautam R. Shroff, MBBS
Mar Vatsal Inamdar, MD   Charu Gandotra, MD
2007 Nov Mintu Turakhia, MD   Muthu Vaduganathan, MD
Mar Rajat Deo, MD   Apurva A. Motivala, MD
2006 Nov Pridhvi Yelamanchili, MD   Kalpana Prakasa, MD
Mar Rajni K. Rao, MD   Asim N. Cheema, MD
2005 Nov Sanjiv J. Shah, MD   Sunil C. Shroff, MD
Mar Uday Kumar, MD   Shekhar P. Kumar, MD
2004 Nov Sreekanth Vemulapalli, MD   Pradeep P.A. Mammen, MD
Mar Vishal Gupta, M.D., M.P.H   Dipan J. Shah, MD
2003 Nov Nirat Beohar, MD   Padmini Varadarajan, MD
Mar Dinesh Kalra,MD   Binoy K. Singh
2002 Nov Gurpreet Baweja, MD   Hitinder S. Gurm, MD
Mar Sujood Ahmed, MD   Kishore J. Harjai, MD


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Winning Abstracts

2024

April 2024

DR. KRISHNA RAMASWAMY AWARD 

EP/Interventiona

Optimal Management Strategies for Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOACs) in Cardiac Rhythm Device Surgery: A meta-analysis of Continued and Interrupted Approaches 

Anirudh Palicherla, MD1; Akshay Machanahalli Balakrishna, MD2; Venkata Mahesh Alla, MD2.

1Department of Internal Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE

2Department of Cardiology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE. 

 

DR. MADHUKAR DESHMUKH AWARD 

Basic Science 

Evaluating Cardiology Certification:  Large Language Models Vs. Physicians Using the ACCSAP Question Bank 

Abdulla Shahid, BS1, Naman S. Shetty, MD1, Nirav Patel, MD, MSPH1, Mokshad Gaonkar, MS1, Garima Arora, MD1, Pankaj Arora, MD1,2 

1Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

2Section of Cardiology, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA

 This was awarded in November 2023 and will be presented during the April 2024 meeting. 

Natural History of Left Ventricular Thrombus on Serial Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging 

Parag Bawaskar, MD, DM; Abel A. Hooker Mendez, MD; Pal Satyajit Singh Athwal, MBBS; Pratik S. Velangi, MD; Yugene Guo, BS; Chetan Shenoy, MBBS, MS

Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 


KISHORE HARJAI FAMILY AWARD

Impact of Endovascular Revascularization on Amputation Rates in Chronic Total Occlusion-Peripheral Artery Disease: Insights from a National Registry 

Chaitanya Rojulpote1, Anand Maligireddy2, Shivaraj Patil3, William Frick1, Debapria Das1, Divya Ratan Verma1, Vikas Aggarwal4, Kishore Harjai1, Chien-Jung Lin1

1Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO; 2Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education, Scranton, PA; 3Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; 4Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Henry Ford Health, Ann Arbor, MI

 

 

2023

November 2023

DR. KRISHNA RAMASWAMY AWARD

Interventional

A Loopy Course During Right Heart Catheterization

Priya Jain, MD; Niteesh Chitturu, MD; Tina Quach, BS; Ramy Shoela, MD; Chien-Jung Lin, MD

SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri


DR. MADHUKAR DESHMUKH AWARDS

Preventive/Imaging Cardiology

Natural History of Left Ventricular Thrombus on Serial Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Parag Bawaskar, MD, DM; Abel A. Hooker Mendez, MD; Pal Satyajit Singh Athwal, MBBS; Pratik S. Velangi, MD; Yugene Guo, BS; Chetan Shenoy, MBBS, MS

Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is Associated with Endothelial Dysfunction in Women Living with HIV

Nishant Vatsa, MD1; Alireza Rahbar, MD1; Tanveer Kauser, MPH1; Kiran Ejaz MD, MSBE, JM1; Ariel Kirksey, BS1; Heqiong Wang MD, MPH2; Christina Mehta, PhD2; Caitlin Moran, MD3; Kimbi Hagen EdD, MEd4; Ighovwerha Ofotokun MD, MSc3; Cecile Lahiri MD, MS3; Arshed A. Quyyumi, MD1; Gretchen N. Neigh, PhD5; Vasiliki Michopoulos, PhD6

  1. Division of Cardiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
  2. Department of Biostatistics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
  3. Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
  4. Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
  5. Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
  6. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

 


2022

November 2022

Akshay Machanahalli Balakrishna, MDa, Mahmoud Ismayl, MDa, Andrew M Goldsweig, MD, MSb, Luke A Peters, MDc; Venkata M Alla, MDd, Poonam Velagapudi, MD, MSb, David X Zhao, MD PhDc, Saraschandra Vallabhajosyula, MD MScselected for  DR. KRISHNA RAMASWAMY AWARD Interventional/EP, Title: "Intracoronary Imaging Versus Coronary Angiography Guidance for Implantation of Second and Third Generation Drug Eluting Stents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials". aDepartment of Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska bDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Nebraska School of Medicine, Omaha, NebraskacSection of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina dDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska

Kavin Raj MBBS1; KJ Pillai MBBS2; Surya Kiran Aedma MBBS1; Preetham Kumar MD1; Ramdas G Pai, MD, FACC1; Vrinda Vyas MBBS1; Umesh Bhagat MBBS3.selected for  DR. MADHUKAR DESHMUKH AWARDS Preventive and Imaging Cardiology. Title: “The Ganja Heart”-Marijuana use as a Risk Factor for Ischemic Heart Disease-A Retrospective Cohort Study from the National Inpatient Sample”. 1. University of California Riverside School of Medicine, Department of Cardiology 2. Government Kilpauk Medical College 3. Cleveland Clinic


  Naman S. Shetty, MD1, Vibhu Parcha, MD1, Akhil Pampana, MS1, Gnyata Patel2, Gina Josey1, Marguerite R. Irvin, PhD3, Pradeep Natarajan, MD, MMSc 4,5,6, Henry J. Lin, MD7, Xiuqing Guo, PhD7, Stephen S. Rich, PhD8, Jerome I. Rotter, MD7, Peng Li, PhD9, Suzanne Oparil, MD1, Garima Arora, MD1, Pankaj Arora, MD1,10 selected for  DR. MADHUKAR DESHMUKH AWARDS Basic science. Title: “Sex Differences in the Association of Multi-Ethnic Genome-Wide Blood Pressure Polygenic Risk Score with Hypertension” 1. Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.  2. Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. 3. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA.  4. Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston,  MA, USA.  5. Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical  School, Boston, MA, USA.  6. Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT,  Cambridge, MA, USA. 7. The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA USA.  8. Center for Public Health, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA USA  9. School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. 10. Section of Cardiology, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL.


April 2022

Subash Dulal MBBS1, Ming Hsiung MD2, Zeyad Elmarzouky MBBS1, Amr Darwish MD1, Bhanu Maturi MD3, Wei-Hsin Yin MD2, Yung-Tsai Lee MD2, Tien-Ping Tsao MD2, Navin C. Nanda MD11 Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama. 2 Division of Cardiology, Cheng Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.3 UAB Montgomery Internal Medicine Residency Program, Montgomery, Alabama selected for  DR. KRISHNA RAMASWAMY AWARD Interventional/EP. Title: "Utilization of two- and three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography in successfully guiding transcatheter mitral valve in bioprosthetic mitral valve implantation without complications in patients with thrombus in the left atrium/left atrial appendage".

 

Aniruddh P. Patel, MD1-5; Minxian Wang, PhD6; Yunfeng Ruan, PhD2,3; Patrick T. Ellinor, MD, PhD1-5; Hillary Martin, PhD7; Alicia Martin, PhD2; Krishna Aragam, MD1-5; David Van Heel, MD, PhD9; Pradeep Natarajan, MD, MMSc1-5; Amit V. Khera, MD, MSc1-5,9  1Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA2Center for Genomic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA3Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA4Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA5Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA6Laboratory of Genome Sciences, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China7Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK8Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University, London, UK.9Verve Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA selected for  DR. MADHUKAR DESHMUKH AWARDS Preventive and Imaging Cardiology. Title: "Polygenic risk score for individuals of South Asian ancestry improves risk prediction for coronary artery disease".


2021

November, 2021


Monil Majmundar, M.D.1,2 Justin Z Lee, M.B.B.S.3, Ashish Kumar, M.B.B.S.2,4, Samarthkumar Thakkar M.D.5, Dan Sorajja, M.D.6, Arturo M Valverde M.D.6, Ankur Kalra M.D.2,7, Yong-Mei Cha M.D.1, Siva K Mulpuru M.D.3, Samuel J Asirvatham M.D. 3, Christopher V Desimone , M.D, PhD3 , Abhishek J Deshmukh, M.B.B.S.3 selected for  DR. KRISHNA RAMASWAMY AWARD Interventional/EP. Title: Impact of Timing of Transvenous Lead Removal on Outcomes in Infected Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices.  

1 Department of Cardiology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY; 2 Section of Cardiovascular Research, Heart, Vascular, and Thoracic Department. Cleveland Clinic Akron General, Akron, OH; 3 Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 4 Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Akron General, Akron, OH; 5 Department of Internal Medicine, Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY; 6 Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; 7 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart, Vascular, and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

 

Ishan Kirti, MBBS - Research Intern, Ascension Borgess, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Anandbir S. Bath, MD - University of Tennessee Health Science Centre, Memphis, Tennessee; Shivam Gautam, Ascension Borgess, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Kalyan S. Bobba, Ascension Borgess, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Holly M. DeKilder, RN, MSN, Ascension Borgess, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Vishal Gupta, MD - Ascension Borgess, Kalamazoo, Michigan selected for  DR. MADHUKAR DESHMUKH AWARDS Preventive and Imaging Cardiology. Title: “DyeVert that contrast: Save the kidneys”




May 2021

Rajkumar Doshi MD MPH1, Priyank Shah MD2, Ashish Kumar MBBS3, Monil Majmundar MD4, Saraschandra Vallabhajosyula, MD5. selected for  DR. MADHUKAR DESHMUKH AWARDS Preventive and Imaging Cardiology. Title:  “Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials Comparing Supervised Exercise Therapy with or without Revascularization for the Management of Intermittent Claudication”1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine, Reno, NV, U.S.A.; 2Department of Cardiology, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany, GA, USA; 3Section of Cardiovascular Research, Heart, Vascular, and Thoracic Department, Cleveland Clinic Akron General, Akron, Ohio; 4Department of Internal Medicine, Metropolitan Hospital, New York Medical College, NY, NY, USA; 5Section of Interventional Cardiology, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

 

Vibhu Parcha, MD1, M. Ryan Irvin, PhD2, Leslie Lange, PhD3, Suzanne Judd, PhD4, Mariah Meyer, BS4, Ganesh V. Halade, PhD5, Thomas Cappola, MD, ScM6, Kenneth B. Margulies, MD6, Garima Arora, MD1, Pankaj Arora, MD1,7 selected for DR. MADHUKAR DESHMUKH AWARD Basic Science. Title: "Relationship of Corin Gene Variants with Blood Pressure and Hypertension Among Black Individuals”

1Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; 2Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; 3Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA; 4Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; 5Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Department of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA; 6Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Institute, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; 7Section of Cardiology, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA.


2020

November

Venkata S. Pajjuru, MD1; Akshay Machanahalli, MD1; Janaki Devera, MBBS2; Dhiraj R. S.3; Bhavani Papudesi, MD4; Krishna Pallamala, MD1; Abhishek Thandra, MD5; Arun Kanmanthareddy, MD5, 6. 1Department of Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA; 2Department of Medicine, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Andhra Pradesh, India; 3Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Research and Evaluative Sciences, St. John’s Research Institute, Bengaluru, India; 4Department of Medicine, Suburban Community Hospital, East Norriton, Pennsylvania, USA; 5Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA; 6Department of Medicine, Division of Interventional Cardiology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA selected for DR. KRISHNA RAMASWAMY AWARD Interventional/EP . Title:"In-hospital Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) in Nonagenarians: An Updated Systematic Review and meta-analysis."

Vardhmaan Jain, MD1 ; Kartik Gupta, MD2; Navin Nanda, MD3 ; Navkaranbir S. Bajaj, MD, MPH3. 1Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA; 2 Henry Ford Health System, Michigan, USA; 3 University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA selected for DR. MADHUKAR DESHMUKH AWARD Preventive/Clinical and Imaging Cardiology. Title "Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis"

Mary E. Haas PhD,1 James P. Pirruccello MD,1-3 Samuel N. Friedman PhD,1 Connor A. Emdin MD,1-3 Veeral H. Ajmera MD,4 Tracey G. Simon MD,5 Kathleen E. Corey MD,5 Rohit Loomba MD,4 Puneet Batra PhD,1 Amit V. Khera, MD, MSc1-3. 1Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; 2Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; 3Harvard Medical School; 4NAFLD Research Center, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego; 5Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospita selected for DR. MADHUKAR DESHMUKH AWARD Basic Science. Title: "Machine learning enables new insights into clinical significance of and genetic contributions to liver fat accumulation".

March

Ankita Aggarwal MD1 ; Anubhav Jain MD1 ; Varun Kohli MD2 .  1Wayne State University School of Medicine, Michigan; 2 East Tennessee State University, Tennessee selected for DR. KRISHNA RAMASWAMY AWARD Interventional/EP . Title:" Impact of Intraprocedural Stent Thrombosis on Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Meta-Analysis".

Yashwant Agrawal MD1 ; Dominika Zoltowska MD2 ; Nihar Jena MD1 ;Abdul R Halabi MD1 ;Kirit Patel MD1 .  1 St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital, Pontiac, Michigan, USA; 2University of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida USA selected for DR. KRISHNA RAMASWAMY AWARD Interventional/EP . Title:" Current Trends in the Utilization of Mitraclip: Analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample Database ".


Vikrant Jagadeesan M.D1 ; Austin Culver M.D 1 ; Nisha Raiker M.D 1 ; Quinn Halverson M.D 1 ;Sameer Prasada M.D1 ;Liqi Chen M.S1 ;Leah J. Welty Ph.D1 ;, Shyam Prabhakaran M.D. Ph.D2 ;,Kameswari Maganti M.D1

 1 Department of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Section of Cardiology, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL;
2 Department of Neurology, University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL selected for DR. MADHUKAR DESHMUKH AWARDS Preventive and Imaging Cardiology . Title:" Left Atrial Dilation and Risk of One-Year Readmission after Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source ".

Nilay S. Shah, MD, MPH1 ; Vedant Sathye 2 ; Janki B. Shah, MD 3 ; Pritha P. Gupta, MD, PhD 3 ;Latha P. Palaniappan, MD, MS2 .  1 Departments of Medicine (Cardiology) and Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; .  2 Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; 3Department of Medicine (Cardiology), University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA selected for DR. MADHUKAR DESHMUKH AWARDS Preventive and Imaging Cardiology . Title:" :"Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality in Asian Indians by Nativity in the United States, 2003- 2017".

 

2019

November

Kartik Gupta, MD1, Rajat Kalra, MBChB2, Ryan Sheets, MD3, Mike Pate1, Sudeep Aryal, MD1, Indranee Rajapreyar, MD1, Marc G. Cribbs, MD, MS1,4, Oscar Julian Booker, MD1, Navin C. Nanda, MD1, Sumanth D. Prabhu, MD1, Navkaranbir S. Bajaj, MD, MPH1,5.  1. Division of Cardiovascular Disease and Comprehensive Cardiovascular Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.; 2. Cardiovascular Division, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.; 3. Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.; 4. Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.; 5. Division of Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, U.S.A. selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Awards Preventive and Imaging Cardiology. Title: " Cardiac Function and Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Insights from the TOPCAT Trial"


March

Sakthi Sundararajan, MD1; Asim Mohammed, MD2.  1Fellow - Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; 2Assistant Professor - Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI selected for Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award Interventional/EP. Title:" Single Center Percutaneous Right Ventricular Assist Device Experience - 100% In-Hospital Survival Post-Left Ventricular Assist Device".


Arman Qamar, MD; Robert P. Giugliano, MD, SM; Erin A. Bohula, MD, DPhil; Jeong-Gun Park, PhD; Petr Jarolim, MD, PhD; Sabina A. Murphy, MPH; Christopher P. Cannon, MD; Eugene Braunwald, MD; David A. Morrow, MD, MPH.  TIMI Study Group, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Awards Preventive and Imaging Cardiology. Title: "Biomarkers and the Clinical Benefit of Ezetimibe: A Prespecified Analysis from IMPROVE-IT".



Kavisha Singh MD, Colby Ayers MS, Anand Rohatgi MD, MSCSUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Awards Preventive and Imaging Cardiology Title: "Novel HDL markers may improve risk prediction for stroke: A meta-analysis of large population-based cohort".

 

 

2018

November

Arnav Kumar, MD1; Kimi Sato, MD, PhD2; Yash Jobanputra, MBBS2; Jorge Betancor, MD2; Mohamed Halane, MD2; Robin George, BS2; Kinjal Banerjee, MBBS2; Divyanshu Mohananey, MD2; Vivek Menon, MD2; Yasser M. Sammour, MD2; Amar Krishnaswamy, MD2; Wael A. Jaber, MD2; Stephanie Mick, MD2; Lars G. Svensson, MD, PhD2; Samir R. Kapadia, MD2 1Andreas Gruentzig Cardiovascular Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA; 2 The Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation selected for Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award Interventional/EP.Title: " Hemodynamic Assessment of Paravalvular Regurgitation in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement".


Karan Sud1, Akhil Parashar2, Samir Kapadia3, 1Department of Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s-West, New York; 2Department of Cardiology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Iowa City VA medical center, Iowa; 3Interventional Cardiology, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Awards Preventive and Imaging Cardiology. Title: " Predictors for 30-Day Readmissions in Patients Admitted With St-Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Cardiogenic Shock: A 5-Year Nationwide Analysis"


Amit K. Dey MDa, Ranjitha Gaddipati MSb, Youssef A. Elnabawi BSa, Emily Ongstad PhDb, Aditya Goyal MDa, Justin A. Rodante PA-Ca, Aparna A. Sajja MDa, Alexander V. Sorokin MD PhDa, Jacob Groenendyk BAa, Heather L. Teague PhDa, Leonard Genovese MDa, Agastya Belur MDa, Aarthi S. Reddya, Milena Aksentijevich MSca, Charlotte L. Harrington BAa, Nevin J. Varghese BAa, Andrew Keel RNa, Noor Khalil BAa, Jenis Argueta-Ameya BSa, Harry Choi BAa, Yvonne Baumer PhDa, Aditya A. Joshi MDa, Veit Sandfort MDa, Martin P. Playford PhDa, Marcus Y. Chen MDa, David A. Bluemke MD PhDc, Sotirios Karathanasis PhDb, Joel M. Gelfand MD MSCEd, Ruchi Gupta PhDb and Nehal N. Mehta MD MSCEa  a) Section of Inflammation and Cardiometabolic Diseases, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; b) MedImmune LLC, One MedImmune way, Gaithersburg, MD; c) University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Madison, WI; d) University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Awards Preventive and Imaging CardiologyTitle: " Soluble Lectin-Like Oxidized Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor-1 is Associated With Subclinical Coronary Artery Diseases in Psoriasis"


March

Nish Patel, MD1; Alejandro Lemor, MD2; Gabriel Hernandez, MD3; Usman Baber, MD1, MS; Annapoorna Kini, MD1; Samin K. Sharma, MD1.  1The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY; 2Mount Sinai St Luke’s, New York, NY; 3Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN selected for Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award Interventional/EP.Title:"Trends and Outcomes of Intravascular Imaging-guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention from 2010 to 2014 in the USA".

Parth Parikh MD, Kinjal Banerjee MD, Anil Kumar Reddy Anumandla MD, Venu Menon MD, Brian Griffin MD, E. Murat Tuzcu MD, Samir Kapadia MD. Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA, OH, USA selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Awards Preventive and Imaging Cardiology. Title: " Outcomes of Patients with Tricuspid Regurgitation Undergoing Non-Cardiac Surgeries"

Parasuram Krishnamoorthy1, M.D., Akshaya Gopalakrishnan1, M.D., Akanksha Agrawal1, M.D., Sarah Amanullah2, B.A., Vincent M. Figueredo1, M.D., FACC, Aman Amanullah1, M.D., Ph.D., FACC.  1Department of Cardiology, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; 2Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson Medical University, Philadelphia, PA selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Awards Preventive and Imaging CardiologyTitle: " Temporal Trends and Association of Type 1 vs Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus with in-hospital outcomes in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction: Results from the National Inpatient Sample".

Ankur Gupta, MD, PhD1, Cary McLaughlin, MSc2, Brad Machen, MSc2, Roy Koomullil, PhD2.  1Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart & Vascular Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Awards Basic Science. Title: "Effect of Location, Severity and Eccentricity of Coronary Artery Stenosis on Pressure Loss Across It: A Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis".


2017

November

Avirup Guha, M.B.B.S Toshimasa Okabe, M.D., Benjamin Buck, M.D., Xu Gao, M.D., Ellen Liu, M.D., Michael Dunleavy, M.D., Devin Haddad, M.D., Emile G Daoud, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.H.R.S., Ohio State University, Columbus, OH selected for Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award Interventional/EP.Title: "Short- And Mid-term Hospitalization for Recurrent Atrial Fibrillation After Catheter Ablation In Obese Patients".

Aparna Sajja BA BS, Aditya Goyal MD, Agastya D. Belur MD, Amit K. Dey MD, Jonathan H. Chung BA, Joshua P. Rivers MS, Tushina Jain MD, Anshuma Rana MD, Justin A. Rodante PA-C, Charlotte L. Harrington BA, Gregory E. Sanda BS, Heather L. Teague PhD, Alexander V. Sorokin MD PhD, Yvonne Baumer PhD, Martin P. Playford PhD, Nehal N. Mehta MD MSCE FAHA, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Awards Preventive and Imaging Cardiology .Title: "Small Dense High-and Low-Density Lipoprotein Particle Number Relates to Coronary Plaque Burden Independent of Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Psoriasis".

Swetha Srialluri M.D., Mohammed J. Arisha M.D.1, Ming C. Hsiung M.D.2, Navin C. Nanda M.D.1, Ankur Gupta, M.D. Ph.D.3, David C. George M.D.4, Ahmed Elkaryoni M.D.5, Kirolos Barssoum M.D.,6 Ahmed H. Mohamed M.D.6 1Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; 2Division of Cardiology, Cheng Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; 3Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 4Division of Internal Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; 5Department of Internal Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA; 6Department of Medicine, Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY, USA selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Awards Preventive and Imaging Cardiology.Title:"Two- and Three- Dimensional Transthoracic Echocardiographic Assessment of Superior Vena Cava, Crista Terminalis and Right Atrial Appendage Using the Right Parasternal Approach".

Pradeep S. Rajendran, PhD,1-3 Jihana Mendu,1,2 Maria Jordan, MD,1,2 Olujimi A. Ajijola, MD, PhD,1,2, Marmar Vaseghi, MD, PhD,1-3 J. Andrew Armour, MD, PhD,1,2 Jeffrey L. Ardell, PhD,1-3, Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD1-3 1 Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA; 2Neurocardiology Research Center of Excellence, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California– Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA; 3Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Physiology Program, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA CA, USA selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Awards Basic Science.Title: "Viscerotopic Organization of the Stellate Ganglia".


March

Abhishek Sharma, M.D.1,2.; Carl J. Lavie, M.D.3; Sammy Elmariah, M.D.4,5, MPH; Jeffrey S. Borer, M.D1,6.; Samin K. Sharma, M.D.7; Sreekanth Vemulapalli, M.D.8; Babatunde A. Yerokun, M.D.8.9; Zhuokai Li, Ph.D.8; Roland A. Matsouaka, Ph.D.8,10; Jonathan D. Marmur, M.D.1 (1). Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, New York, NY; (2). Institute of Cardiovascular Research and Technology, Brooklyn, NY; (3). Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School-the University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA; (4). Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; (5). Harvard Clinical Research Institute, Boston; (6). The Howard Gilman Institute for Heart Valve Diseases and the Schiavone Institute for Cardiovascular Translational Research, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NY; (7). Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart & Vascular Institute, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; (8). Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC; (9). Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; (10). Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC selected for Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award Interventional/EP.Title:" Relationship of Body Mass Index with Outcomes after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Results From the National Cardiovascular Data- STS/ACC TVT Registry".



Aditya C. Shekhar, H. Kawai MD, Ph.D, F. Chaudhry MS, H. Boersma MD, Ph.D, T. Nakahara MD, Ph.D, T. Tanimoto MD, Ph.D, A. Petrov MD, Ph.D, N. Narula MD, J. Narula MD, Ph.D. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award Preventive/Imaging. Title: "Feasibility of Imaging of Apoptosis with Low Radiation in the Post Infarct Myocardium".



Navkaranbir S. Bajaj, MD MPHa, Orlando M. Gutiérrez MDb,c, Garima Arora MD, MRCPa, Suzanne E. Judd PhDd, Nirav Patel MDa, Aleena Bennettd, Sumanth D. Prabhu MDa, George Howard PhDc, Virginia J. Howard PhDc, Mary Cushman MD, MSce, Pankaj Arora MDa
aDivision of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.; bDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, U.S.A.; cDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.; dDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.; eDepartment of Medicine, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, U.S.A. NY selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award Basic Science Title: "NTproBNP and all-cause mortality by race: The Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort".

2016

November

Yash B. Jobanputra, MD, Brandon Jones, MD, Kimi Sato, MD, Arnav Kumar, MD, Samir R. Kapadia, MD, FACC. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio selected for Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award Interventional/EP. Title: "Difference in angle of orientation of the aortic valve in the annular plane on CTA compared to post valve deployment on fluoroscopy in TAVR patients".  


Nirav Patel, MBBS1, Rajat Kalra, MD2, Hemant Godara, MD1, Lorenzo Berra,MD3, Garima Arora, MD1, MRCP, Navkaranbir S Bajaj, MD1, Pankaj Arora, MD1. 1Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA; 2Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA; 3Department of Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award Basic Science title "Targeted Temperature Management Strategies After Cardiac Arrest: Should We Re-Evaluate the Role of Hypothermia?".


April

Megha Prasad MD, Jaskanwal Sara MBBS, Ryan Lennon MS, Rachel Le MD, Malcolm Bell MD, and Gregory Barsness MD. Mayo Clinic, Division of Cardiology, Rochester MN selected for Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award Interventional/EP. Title: "Utility of Zwolle Risk Score in identifying patients at risk for 30-day reshospitalization/mortality".


Deepakraj Gajanana MD, Edinrin Obasare MD, Vikas Bhalla MD, Mary Rodriguez Ziccardi MD, Vincent Figueredo MD, D. Lynn Morris MD, Gregg Pressman MD. Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA , selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award Preventive/Imaging. Title: "Does Diastolic Wall Strain Predict Mortality in Severe Aortic Stenosis?".


2015

November

1Kashish Goel MBBS, 1Rajiv Gulati MD, 1Guy S. Reeder MD, 2Ryan J. Lennon MS, 2Bradley R. Lewis MS, 1Atta Behfar, MD, PhD, 1Gurpreet S. Sandhu MD, 1Charanjit S. Rihal MD, 1Mandeep Singh MD. Combined Association of Body Mass Index and Serum Creatinine with Cause of Death in Elderly patients undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 1Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine; 2Division of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN


Garima Arora¹, Philimon Gona², Carol J. Salton³, David D. McManus³, Christopher J. O’Donnell³, Warren J. Manning³,4, Michael L. Chuang3,4. Impact of Sex and Advancing Age on Left Atrial Volume and Shape: the Framingham Heart Study
¹University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA, ²University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, USA ³NHLBI’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA. 4Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.


March

Mohit Pahuja M.D., Mohammad Zghouzi M.D., Vijay Swarup M.D., Akash Makkar M.D. St.Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center and Arizona Heart Rhythm Center, Phoenix, Arizona, selected for Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award Interventional/EP. Title: " Combining Radiofrequency catheter ablation and watchman procedure: A new approach to prevent thrombo-embolism in Atrial Fibrillation".

Ankur Kalra, MD,*¦ Yashashwi Pokharel, MD, MSCR,† Ravi S. Hira, MD,†Samantha Risch, BS,‡ Veronique Vicera, BS,‡ Qiong Li, PhD,‡ Ram N. Kalra, MD,*Prafulla G. Kerkar, MD,†† Ganesh Kumar, MD,‡‡ Thomas M. Maddox, MD,MSc,¶ William J. Oetgen, MD, MBA,‡ Nathan Glusenkamp, MA,‡ Mintu P.Turakhia, MD, MAS," Salim S. Virani, MD, PhD§§†. *Department of Medicine,Division of Cardiology, Kalra Hospital SRCNC (Sri Ram Cardio- thoracic &Neurosciences Centre) Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India; ¦Minneapolis Heart Institute atAbbott Northwestern Hospital and Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology,Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN; †Department of Medicine, BaylorCollege of Medicine, Houston, TX; ‡American College of Cardiology Foundation,Washington, DC; ††King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and Seth G S MedicalCollege, and Asian Heart Institute and Research Center, Mumbai, India; ‡‡L HHiranandani Hospital, Mumbai, India; ¶Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Health CareSystem, Denver, Colorado; University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver,Colorado; Colorado Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Consortium, Denver,Colorado; "Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Stanford UniversitySchool of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA; §§Health Policy, Quality & Informatics Program, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center Health Services Research andDevelopment Center for Innovations, Houston, TX
selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award. Title: "Cardiovascular Disease Performance Measures in the Outpatient Setting in India: Insights from the American College of Cardiology's PINNACLE IndiaQuality Improvement Program (PIQIP)".

2014

November

Apurva Patel MD, James Lai MD, Roosha Parikh MD, J.R. Exequiel Pineda MD PhD, Stephen G. Ellis MD, E. Murat Tuzcu MD, Samir R. Kapadia MD. Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio selected for Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award Interventional/EP. Title: " Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Reasonable Alternative to Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery for Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Occlusion presenting as ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction ?".


Arun Kanmanthareddy1, MD, MS, Madhu Reddy2, MD; Venkata Sandeep Koripalli2, MBBS; Avanija Buddam2, MBBS; Venkata Alla1, MD; Husseim Abuissa1, MD; Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy2, MD. 1. Cardiology Division, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE. 2. Cardiology Division, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS. selected for for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award. Title: " Efficacy of Cryoablation Technique for Atrial Fibrillation Ablation".


March

Dr Akhil Parashar, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH selected for Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award Interventional/EP. Title: " Renin-Angiotensin System Blockade after Percutaneous Intervention for ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction in Patients with Normal Ejection Fraction".

Dr. Subroto Acharjee, Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award Preventive/Imaging. Title: “Impact of High-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol on Revascularization Procedures in Patients With Stable Ischemic Heart Disease: A Post-hoc analysis from the COURAGE trial ".

Dr. Roosha Parikh Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award Preventive/Imaging. Title: " Different mortality predictors in aortic stenosis patients undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement ".
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2013

November

Dr Ganesh Athappan, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart & Vascular Institute, Case Western Reserve University/ MetroHealth Campus, Cleveland, Ohio selected for Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award Interventional/EP. Title: " Optimal Medical Therapy Compared to Revascularization for Stable Coronary Artery Disease: Evidence from a Comprehensive Mixed Treatment Comparison".

Dr Forum Kamdar, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award Preventive/Imaging. Title: "In Vitro Modeling of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Cardiomyopathy Using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSC)".

Dr Manavjot S. Sidhu, Cardiac MR PET CT program, Division of Cardiology and Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School selected for for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award Preventive/Imaging. Title: "Feasibility and Accuracy of Adenosine Dual-Energy CT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging to Detect Myocardial Ischemia"


March

Dr Shikhar Agarwal, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH selected for Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award Interventional/EP. Title: " Radiation Scatter and its Attributes in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory".

Dr. Amit K. Pursnani selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award Preventive/Imaging. Title: " Potential of Coronary CT Angiography to Optimize Medical Therapy in Patients With Acute Chest Pain: Insights from the Rule Out Myocardial Infarction Using Computer Assisted Tomography (ROMICAT) Trial ".

Dr. Nirmanmoh Bhatia selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award Preventive/Imaging. Title: " Saline Contrast Three-Dimensional Echocardiography Is Superior to Two-Dimensional Echocardiography for the Diagnosis of Intrapulmonary Shunt but Similar for Patent Foramen Ovale Detection ".



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2012

November

Dr Dharam J Kumbhani, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX selected for Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award Interventional/EP. Title: " A comparison of aspiration and mechanical thrombectomy versus primary angioplasty in patients with acute myocardial infarction: A meta-analysis of randomized trials".

Dr Partha Sardar, New York Medical College-Metropolitan Hospital Center, New York, New York, selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award Preventive/Imaging. Title: " New Oral Anticoagulants in patients with atrial fibrillation and previous stroke or transient ischaemic attack: meta- analysis of randomized trials and indirect treatment".

Dr Gaurav Tyagi, Department of Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA, selected for for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award Preventive/Imaging. Title: " Degenerative Mitral Stenosis: Natural History, Correlates Of Progression And Biological Predictors Of Survival ".

April
Dr Arun Kannan Canton Medical Education Foundation, Canton, OH selected for Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award Interventional/EP. Title: "Mortality Outcome in Patients With Impella Support- A Community Hospital Experience".


Dr Venkatesh L. Murthy Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Departments of Internal Medicine and Radiology and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award Preventive/Imaging. Title: "Gender Effects on Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction in Patients with Suspected Coronary Artery Disease". 

Dr Kunal Teli, St. Joseph Medical Center, Paterson, NJ, selected for for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award Preventive/Imaging. Title: "Correlation Between Clinical And Haemodynalic Parameters In Acute Decompensated Heart Failure".

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2011

November
Dr Amita Singh selected for Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award Interventional/EP. Title: "Does Triple Therapy with Cilostazol Reduce the Risk of Restenosis in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention? Insights from a Meta-analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials".

Dr. Raffay S. Khan selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award Basic Science Title: "Ventricular Assist Device Implantation Corrects Adipose Tissue Inflamation and Adiponectin Resistance in Patients with Advanced Heart Failure".

Dr. Danny J. Eapen selected for Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award Preventive/Imaging Title: "Migrant South Asian Women have increased arterial stiffness compared to Black and White Women residing in the United States".

April
Dr. Saurav Chatterjee received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award and presented the abstract on “Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Prevents Mortality and Heart Failure in Patients with   Prior Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia – A MADIT – CRT Subset Analysis”.

 

Dr. Nikhil V. Munshi received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award and presented the abstract on “Using Zebrafish to Dissect the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying AVN Formation”.

Dr. Partho P. Sengupta received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award and presented the abstract on “Left Ventricular Efficiency in Heart Failure is Related to the Sequence of Vortex Circulation:  Insights Using High Resolution Echo Particle Imaging Velocimetry”.


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2010

November
Dr. Sandeep S. Patel received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award and presented the abstract on "Safety and Efficacy of Pacemaker Reuse in a Charity Hospital in India". 

 

Dr. Ravinder R. Valadri received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award and presented the abstract on "Oxidative Stress Induced Vitamin D Deficiency can Lead to Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction".  

Dr. Anand Rohatgi received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award and presented the abstract on "Increased Plasma Levels of Growth Differentiation Factor-15 (GDF-15) Associate with Atherosclerosis and Mortality in a Young, Multi-Ethnic Population:  Observations from the Dallas Heart Study". 

 

March
Dr. Param Puneet Singh  received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award and presented the abstract on “Effectiveness and Safety of Transradial Approach for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials”


Dr. Sirtaz Adatya received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award and presented the abstract on “Circulating Caspase-3 P17 Levels and Echocardiographic Parameters in Decompensated Heart Failure Patients with Preserved Ejection Fraction”.

 

Dr. Preeti Singh received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award and presented the abstract on “The Relationship between Anthropometric Measures and Traditional Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors among Asian Indians in the United States”.

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2009

November
Dr. Navinder Sawhney received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award and presented the abstract on "Segmental Pulmonary Vein Isolation May be the Preferred Initial Ablation Approach in Patients with Symptomatic Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation."

Dr. Jon C. George received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award and presented the abstract on " Expanded and Genetically Modified Human Cord Blood-Derived CD133+ Stem Cells Improves Cadiac Function in a Rat Model of Acute Myocardial Infarction."

Dr. Nehal N. Mehta received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award and presented the abstract on " Insulin Resistance and Presence of the Metabolic Syndrome Predicts Burden of Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Type 2 Diabetes."

March
Dr. Sarabjeet Singh received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award and presented the abstract on "Outcomes of Non-emergent Coronary Angioplasty With And Without Onsite Surgical Backup: A Meta-Analysis."

Dr. Pawan D Patel received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award and presented the abstract on "Endothelial Dysfunction in healthy first degree Asian-Indian relatives with a family history of premature coronary artery disease."

Dr. Gautam R Shroff received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award and presented the abstract on "Relationship between Carotid Artery Stiffness Index, BNP and High-Sensitivity CRP."

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2008

November
Dr. Sarabjeet Singh received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award and presented the abstract on "Outcomes of Non-emergent Coronary Angioplasty With And Without Onsite Surgical Backup: A Meta-Analysis."

Dr. Pawan D Patel received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award and presented the abstract on "Endothelial Dysfunction in healthy first degree Asian-Indian relatives with a family history of premature coronary artery disease."

Dr. Gautam R Shroff received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award and presented the abstract on "Relationship between Carotid Artery Stiffness Index, BNP and High-Sensitivity CRP."

March
Dr. Vatsal Inamdar received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award and presented the abstract on "The utility of implantable loop recorders in for diagnosing unexplained syncope in 100 consecutive patients: five year, single-center experience."

Dr. Charu Gandotra received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award and presented the abstract on "Cardiovascular Lesions in African American Patients with HIV in an Inner City Teaching Hospital."

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2007

November
Dr. Mintu Turakhia received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Young Investigator’s Award and presented an abstract on "High Prevalence of Untreated Dyslipidemia and Metabolic Risk Factors among South Asian in Northern California: Identification of an Unmet Clinical Need."

Dr. Muthu Vaduganathan received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Young Investigator's Award and presented his abstract on "Platelet Reactivity and Response to Aspirin in Subjects with the Metabolic Syndrome".

March
Dr Rajat Deo received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Young Investigator’s Award and presented an abstract on the, "Kidney Dysfunction and Fatal Cardiovascular Disease - an Association Independent of Atherosclerotic Events: Results from the Health, Aging, and Body Composition (Health ABC) Study."

Dr Apurva A. Motivala received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Young Investigator's Award and presented his abstract on “Cardiovascular Risk, Obesity, and Myocardial Blood Flow in Postmenopausal Women."

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2006

March
Dr. Rajni K. Rao received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Young Investigator's Award and presented an abstract on the, "Reduced Ventricular Volumes and Improved Systolic Performance with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: A Comparison of Simultaneous Biventricular Pacing vs. Sequential Biventricular Pacing vs. Left Univentricular Pacing"

Dr. Asim N. Cheema received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Young Investigator's Award and presented his abstract on "SU11218, a PDGFR and VEGFR2 Inhibitor Blocks Adventitial Angiogenesis and Prevents Intimal Hyperplasia after Coronary Stenting in a Procine Model."

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2005

November
Dr. Sanjiv J Shah received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Young Investigator’s Award and presented an abstract on "Physiology of the Third Heart Sound: Novel Insights from Tissue Doppler Imaging and Invasive Left Ventricular Hemodynamics"

Dr. Sunil C Shroff received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Young Investigator's Award and presented his abstract on "Selective Aldosterone Blockade is More Effective than ACE-Inhibition in Suppressing Inducibility of Sustained Atrial Tachyarrhythmias in the Canine Rapid Ventricular Pacing-Induced Heart Failure Model".

March
Dr. Uday Kumar received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Young Investigator's Award and presented an abstract on the, "The Novel Use of Blood Pool Scintigraphy to Guide Coronary Sinus Lead Placement in Heart Failure Patients Requiring Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy"

Dr. Shekar P Kumar received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Young Investigator’s Award and presented his abstract on "Clinical Correlation Between Increased Lung To Heart Ratio Of Tecnetium-99m Sestamibi And Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease".

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2004

November
Dr. Sreekant Vemulapalli received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Young Investigator’s Award and presented an abstract on "Exogenously Administered Adult Stem Cells Localize Preferentially to the Bone Marrow and Aorta in Atherosclerotic Mice: In Vivo Localization and Quantification with Ultra High Resolution Pinhole Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography"

Dr. Pradeep PA Mammen received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Young Investigator’s Award and presented his abstract on "Cytoglobin: A Novel Cardioprotective Factor in the Stressed Heart".

March
Dr. Vishal Gupta received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Young Investigator’s Award and presented an abstract on "Atrial Septal Defects in a Large Popular of Ischemic Stroke Patients: Age Distribution, Gender and Race".

Dr. Dipen J Shah received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Young Investigator’s Award and presented his abstract on "Contrast MRI Predicts Reverse Remodeling and Contractile Improvement in Akinetic Thinned Myocardium".

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2003

November
Dr. Nirat Beohar received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Young Investigator’s Award and presented an abstract on "The Antirestenotic Effects of a Locally Delivered Caspase Inhibitor in a Balloon Injury Model"

Dr. Padmini Varadarajan received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Young Investigator's Award and presented his abstract on "Prognostic Importance of Hemoglobin in Congestive Heart Failure Patients with Normal Ejection Fraction: Results from a Cohort of 1079 Patients".

March
Dr. Dinesh Kalra received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Young Investigator's Award and presented an abstract on "The Antirestenotic Effects of a Locally Delivered Caspase Inhibitor in a Balloon Injury Model "The Role of cytokines in determining contractile depression and viability in hibernating myocardium in man"

Dr. Binoy K. Singh received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Young Investigator’s Award and presented his abstract on " as winner: Contractile Reserve by Echocardiography is a Better Predictor of Cardiovascular Mortality than Nuclear Viability by SPECT Perfusion Imaging"

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2002

November
Dr Gurpreet Baweja received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Young Investigator’s Award and presented an abstract on "Prevalence of stroke and associated risk factors for atherosclerosis in Asian Indians living in USA."

Dr Hitinder S. Gurm received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Young Investigator’s Award and presented his abstract on "Pre-procedural white blood cell count predicts long-term mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention: Implications of arterial inflammation."

March
Dr Sajood Ahmed received the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Young Investigator's Award and presented his abstract on " Use fulness of transesophageal three-dimensional echocardiography in the identification of individual segment/scallop prolapse of mitral valve."

Dr Kishore J. Harjai received the Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Young Investigator's Award and presented his abstract on "Clinical outcomes of diabetic and non-diabetic patients undergoing primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction: Is diabetes mellitus an independent predictor of poor outcome?"

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Ankita Aggarwal MD1 ; Anubhav Jain MD1 ; Varun Kohli MD2  1Wayne State University School of Medicine, Michigan; 2 East Tennessee State University, Tennessee selected for DR. KRISHNA RAMASWAMY AWARD Interventional/EP . Title:" Impact of Intraprocedural Stent Thrombosis on Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Meta-Analysis".

Yashwant Agrawal MD1 ; Dominika Zoltowska MD2 ; Nihar Jena MD1 ;Abdul R Halabi MD1 ;Kirit Patel MD1  1 St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital, Pontiac, Michigan, USA; 2University of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida USA selected for DR. KRISHNA RAMASWAMY AWARD Interventional/EP . Title:" Current Trends in the Utilization of Mitraclip: Analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample Database ".


Vikrant Jagadeesan M.D1 ; Austin Culver M.D 1 ; Nisha Raiker M.D 1 ; Quinn Halverson M.D 1 ;Sameer Prasada M.D1 ;Liqi Chen M.S1 ;Leah J. Welty Ph.D1 ;, Shyam Prabhakaran M.D. Ph.D2 ;,Kameswari Maganti M.D1 

 1 Department of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Section of Cardiology, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; 
2 Department of Neurology, University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL selected for DR. MADHUKAR DESHMUKH AWARDS Preventive and Imaging Cardiology . Title:" Left Atrial Dilation and Risk of One-Year Readmission after Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source ".

DR. KRISHNA RAMASWAMY AWARD

 

EP/Interventional

 

Optimal Management Strategies for Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOACs) in Cardiac Rhythm Device Surgery: A meta-analysis of Continued and Interrupted Approaches

 

Anirudh Palicherla, MD1; Akshay Machanahalli Balakrishna, MD2; Venkata Mahesh Alla, MD2.

 

1Department of Internal Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE

2Department of Cardiology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE.

 

 

 

DR. MADHUKAR DESHMUKH AWARD

 

Basic Science

 

Evaluating Cardiology Certification:  Large Language Models Vs. Physicians Using the ACCSAP Question Bank

 

Abdulla Shahid, BS1, Naman S. Shetty, MD1, Nirav Patel, MD, MSPH1, Mokshad Gaonkar, MS1, Garima Arora, MD1, Pankaj Arora, MD1,2

 

1Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

2Section of Cardiology, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA

 

 

This was awarded in November 2023 and will be presented during the April 2024 meeting.

 

Natural History of Left Ventricular Thrombus on Serial Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging

 

Parag Bawaskar, MD, DM; Abel A. Hooker Mendez, MD; Pal Satyajit Singh Athwal, MBBS; Pratik S. Velangi, MD; Yugene Guo, BS; Chetan Shenoy, MBBS, MS

 

Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

 

 

 

 

KISHORE HARJAI FAMILY AWARD

 

 

Impact of Endovascular Revascularization on Amputation Rates in Chronic Total Occlusion-Peripheral Artery Disease: Insights from a National Registry

 

Chaitanya Rojulpote1, Anand Maligireddy2, Shivaraj Patil3, William Frick1, Debapria Das1, Divya Ratan Verma1, Vikas Aggarwal4, Kishore Harjai1, Chien-Jung Lin1

 

1Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO; 2Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education, Scranton, PA; 3Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; 4Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Henry Ford Health, Ann Arbor, MI

 

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