AHA Council Early Career Investigator Awards 2006:

Cournand and Comroe Young Investigators Prize in Cardiopulmonary and Critical Care

Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Research Award for Young Investigators in Training

Laennec Society Young Clinician Award

Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Basic Science Research Prize for Young Investigators

Martha N. Hill New Investigator Award

Melvin Judkins Young Investigator Award in Cardiovascular Radiology

Melvin L. Marcus Young Investigator Award in Cardiovascular Science

NPAM New Investigator Award

Samuel A. Levine Young Clinical Investigator Award

Vivien Thomas Young Investigator Award

AHA Named and Invited Lectures 2006:

Basic Science:

Cardiac Development/Genetics/Molecular Biology:

Cardiac Hypertrophic Mechanisms

Cardiac Stem Cells and Myocardial Repair: Preclinical Studies

Cellular and Molecular Biology of Vessels

Embryonic and Adult Stem Cells

Featured Research: Cardiac Hypertrophy: Signaling and Angiogenesis

Featured Research: Genomics and Pharmacogenetics of Cardiovascular Disease

Featured Research: Human Adult Stem Cells and Cardiac Repair

Gene Expression and Molecular Biology of the Adult Myocardium

Genetically Engineered Models of Human Disease I

Genetically Engineered Models of Human Disease II

Genomics of Cardiac Conduction and Cardiomyopathy

Genomics of Cardiomyopathy in Humans and Animal Models

In Vivo Gene Transfer: Experimental I

In Vivo Gene Transfer: Experimental II

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Growth Reserve of the Diseased Heart

Molecular Biology of Cardiac Development

Molecular Mechanisms of Prenatal and Postnatal Growth

Molecular Pathways Regulating Cardiac Hypertrophy

Myocardial Adaptation

Myocardial Homeostasis: Myocyte Survival, Differentiation, and Death

Novel Transcriptional Pathways and Cardiac Morphogenesis

Pathways Regulating Cardiac Hypertrophy

Stem Cell Migration and Homing to the Injured Heart

Stem Cells and Myocardial Regeneration

Tissue-Specific Adult Stem Cells

Cardiac and Vascular Signaling:

Apoptosis I

Apoptosis II

Apoptosis III

Growth Factors, Cytokines, Signal Transduction I

Growth Factors, Cytokines, Signal Transduction II

Growth Factors, Cytokines, Signal Transduction III

Growth Factors, Cytokines, Signal Transduction IV

Growth Factors, Cytokines, Signal Transduction V

Growth Factors, Cytokines, Signal Transduction VI

Growth Factors, Cytokines, Signal Transduction VII

Growth Factors, Cytokines, Signal Transduction VIII

Growth Factors, Signaling, and Cytokines

Mechanisms of ROS-Dependent Growth and Migration

NADPH Oxidases

Oxidant Stress in the Heart and Vasculature

Oxidant and Nitric Oxide Signaling in Endothelial and Smooth Muscle Cells

Reactive Oxygen Species in Cardiovascular Disease

Receptor Pharmacology I

Receptor Pharmacology II

Electrophysiology:

Adipose Biology

Arrhythmogenic Determinants: Depolarization and Repolarization Patterns

Atrial Arrhythmias and Therapies

Atrial Cellular Electrophysiology

Autonomic Nervous System and Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias

Cardiac Conduction and Arrhythmogenic Substrates

Cardiac Excitation-Contraction Coupling I

Cardiac Excitation-Contraction Coupling II

Cellular Electrophysiology I

Cellular Electrophysiology II

Cellular Electrophysiology III

Insights Into Molecular Mechanisms of Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias

Ion Channels and Membrane Transporters

Potassium Channels

Sodium and Calcium Channels

Thomas W. Smith Memorial Lecture and New Paradigms in Atrial Fibrillation Mechanisms and Therapy

Integrative Biology:

Acute Lung Injury: Mechanisms and Novel Therapy

Autonomic, Reflex, and Neurohormonal Control of Circulation I

Autonomic, Reflex, and Neurohormonal Control of Circulation II

Autonomic, Reflex, and Neurohormonal Control of Circulation III

Cardiorenal Physiology/Pathophysiology

Cournand and Comroe Young Investigator Finalists

Dickinson W. Richards Lecture: Novel Translational Insights in Pulmonary Hypertension

Donald Seldin Lecture: Cardiorenal Physiology/Pathophysiology

Hypertension: Experimental

Hypertension: Experimental: Aldosterone/Endothelin-1

Hypertension: Experimental: Pathogenesis/Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone

Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Basic Science Research Prize for Young Investigators Finalists

Melvin L. Marcus Young Investigator Award in Cardiovascular Sciences Finalists

New Insights and Therapies for Lung Vascular Wall Remodeling

Myocardial Ischemia/Function/Metabolism:

Cardiac Dysfunction and Remodeling in Hypertrophy and Failure

Cardiac Hypertrophy and Failure

Cardiac Pathobiology

Experimental Myocardial Ischemia I

Experimental Myocardial Ischemia II

Gene Therapy to Protect the Ischemic Heart

George E. Brown Memorial Lecture: Pharmacological Therapies to Combat Myocardial Ischemia

Ischemic Protection

Mechanisms of Cardiac Hypertrophy and Failure

Mechanisms of Forward and Reverse Remodeling

Mechanisms of Myocardial Cell Death Following Ischemia

Mechanisms of Myocardial Infarction

Mechanisms of Myocardial Ischemic Injury and Protection I

Mechanisms of Myocardial Ischemic Injury and Protection II

Mitochondria and Protection of the Ischemic Myocardium

Mitochondrial Function in Diabetic and Aging Hearts

Myocardial Energy Metabolism in Health and Disease: From Signaling Mechanisms to Therapeutic Targets

Myocardial Structure and Pathology

Myocyte Stress Responses and Remodeling

Novel Mechanisms of Cardioprotection I

Novel Mechanisms of Cardioprotection II

Pathophysiology of Hypertrophy and Failure

Preconditioning and Postconditioning to Protect the Heart

Regulation of Cardiac Substrate Metabolism: Molecular Mechanisms and Functional Significance

Signaling Mechanisms in Hypertrophy and Remodeling

Signaling Pathways in Hypertrophy and Failure

Stem Cell Therapy

Stem Cell Therapy and Cardioprotection

Stem Cell Therapy for the Failing Heart

Stem Cells and Cardiac Repair

Ventricular Function/Mechanics

Ventricular Function/Mechanics: Contractility

Ventricular Function/Mechanics: Myofilaments

Vascular Biology/Atherosclerosis/Hemostasis/Lipid Metabolism:

Angiogenesis I

Angiogenesis II

Angiogenesis in Ischemia

Angiotensin and Atherosclerosis

Antithrombotic Treatment: Experimental

Arterial Responses to Injury

Atherosclerosis and Endothelium

Cellular Proliferation and Migration in Vascular Remodeling

Cellular Signaling in Vascular Remodeling

Coronary, Regional, and Micro-Circulation

Endothelial Cell Function

Endothelial Cell Regulation

Endothelial Function and NO Synthase

Endothelial Functions

Endothelial Permeability and Vascular Injury

Endothelium and Vascular Dysfunction I

Endothelium and Vascular Dysfunction II

Endothelium and Vascular Reactivity

Extracellular Matrix in Vascular Remodeling

Featured Research: Coronary, Regional, and Micro-Circulation

George L. Duff Memorial Lecture: Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism: LDL Trafficking and Lipid Transport Proteins

Human and Animal Lipoprotein Metabolism

Immune Function in Atherosclerosis

Inflammation and Adhesion Molecules I

Inflammation and Adhesion Molecules II

Inflammation and Adhesion Molecules: Imaging in Mice and Man

Inflammation and Adhesion Molecules: Stem Cell Biology

Inflammation and Adhesion Molecules: Translational Studies

Inflammatory Processes in Atherosclerosis

Innate and Acquired Immunity in Atherosclerosis

Integrative Lipoprotein Studies

Lipid Metabolism and Atherosclerosis

Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism: Basic and Cellular

Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism: Clinical I

Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism: Clinical II

Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism: Clinical III

Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism: Clinical IV

Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism: Clinical V

Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism: HDL Metabolism

Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism: Lipoproteins and Atherosclerosis

MRI and MMPs in Plaque Rupture

Mechanisms of Aneurysmal Disease

Mechanisms of Angiogenesis

Mechanisms of Atherosclerosis I

Mechanisms of Atherosclerosis II

Mechanisms of Atherosclerosis III

Metabolic Defects in Atherosclerosis

NO Synthase Activity

NO/NOS Signaling and Regulation

Pharmacological Targeting of G-Protein-Coupled Receptor in Antithrombotics

Platelets and Biology of Hemostasis

Potential Mechanisms of Aspirin Treatment Failure

Progenitor Cells in Angiogenesis

Proliferation, Remodeling, Extracellular Matrix I

Proliferation, Remodeling, Extracellular Matrix II

Proteases in Atherosclerosis

Regulation of Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis I

Regulation of Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis II

Role of Inflammation and Immune System in Plaque Rupture

Russell Ross Memorial Lectureship in Vascular Biology: Inflammation and Adhesion Molecules: In Vivo Models

Signaling in Atherogenesis

Sol Sherry Distinguished Lecture in Thrombosis: Regulation of Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis

The Role of Platelets in Vascular Injury

Translational Aspects of Angiogenesis

Vascular Cell Growth

Vascular Cell and Developmental Biology I

Vascular Cell and Developmental Biology II

Vascular Cell and Developmental Biology III

Clinical Science:

Acute Coronary Syndromes:

Antithrombin Therapy for ACS

Biomarkers Providing Diagnostic and Prognostic Information in ACS

Biomarkers and Outcome in ACS

Contemporary Issues for Antiplatelet Therapy in ACS

Coronary Anatomy, Perfusion, and Ventricular Function in ACS

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Issues in ACS

Drugs, Devices, and Novel Therapies in ACS Care

Electrocardiograms, Hemodynamics, and Risk Stratification in ACS

Featured Research: Thrombin Inhibition, Bleeding, and Outcomes in ACS

Genotype and Response to Treatment During and After ACS

Glucose and Creatinine: Simple Measures of Prognosis in ACS

Inflammation and Coagulation in ACS

Issues in ACS Invasive Management

Management of ACS - Pharmacotherapy

Novel Catheter Techniques and Treatments in ACS

Novel Tools for Risk Assessment in ACS

Pharmacotherapy in Unstable Angina, NSTEMI, and STEMI

Prediction and Prognosis in ACS

Progenitor Cell Therapy in MI: Clinical Studies

Risk and Complications in ACS Coronary Interventions

Secondary Prevention After ACS: Risk Stratification and Therapy

Special Topics in Acute MI

Timing Issues in Cath Lab-Based ACS/AMI Management

Cardiopulmonary and Critical Care:

Clinical Resuscitation Studies

Mechanical and Other CPR Innovations

Population and Preclinical Resuscitation Studies

Preclinical and Basic Resuscitation Science

VF/Defibrillation and Basic Science of Resuscitation

Cardiovascular Nursing:

Achieving and Measuring Adherence (Cosponsored by the European Society of Cardiology Nursing Working Group)

Clinical Issues in Advanced Heart Failure

Controversies in Heart Failure Management

Detecting and Preventing Life-Threatening Arrhythmias and Ischemia

Enhancing Cultural Sensitivity in Your Cardiovascular Research

Enhancing Outcomes Through Self-Care

Featured Research: Depression and Heart Disease: New Insights

Issues in Clinical Care of Patients with Heart Disease

Katharine A. Lembright Award/Lecture and Martha N. Hill New Investigator Competition

Managing Sexual Dysfunction in Patients With Heart Disease

Promoting Evidence-Based Practice in Pediatric Cardiovascular Care

Recognizing Acute Coronary Syndrome

Update on Traditional Risk Factors: Smoking and Diabetes

Vascular Assessment and Intervention

Clinical Electrophysiology/Pacing:

Ablation in Clinical Ventricular Tachycardia and Animal Models

Ablation of WPW and Atrial Arrhythmias (Including AF)

Ablation of WPW and Atrial Fibrillation

Ablation: Experience With Ventricular Tachycardia and Animal Studies

Arrhythmias

Arrhythmias: Diagnosis and Electrophysiology

Atrial Fibrillation and Other Supraventricular Arrhythmias

Brugada Syndrome: ECG Testing

Cardiac Arrhythmias

ECG and Noninvasive Arrhythmia Testing I

ECG and Noninvasive Arrhythmia Testing II

Featured Research: Ablation for AF: Techniques, Results, and Risks

ICDs Clinical Problems

ICDs and Pacing: New Insights and Strategies

Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators: Patient Selection and Outcomes

Insights Into Mechanisms of Ventricular Arrhythmias

Noninvasive Predictors of Mortality

Pathophysiology of Atrial and Ventricular Arrhythmias

Pharmacological Treatment of Arrhythmias I

Pharmacological Treatment of Arrhythmias II

Techniques for Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

Treatment of Arrhythmias: ICD/Pacemaker (Excluding CRT)

Coronary Artery Disease/Valve/CV Surgery:

Advances in the Treatment of Heart Failure

Aortic Stenosis: Diagnosis, Therapy, and Outcome

Cardiac Surgery: Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Cardiac Surgery: Determinants of Outcome After CABG I

Cardiac Surgery: Determinants of Outcome After CABG II

Chronic CAD: Risk and Complications in Cardiac and Noncardiac Procedures

Chronic CAD: Tailoring Secondary Prevention

Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease: New Pathophysiological Targets, New Therapies

Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease: Old and New Risk Indicators

Emerging Techniques for Aortic Valve Replacement

Featured Research: Surgical Treatment of Heart Failure Transplantation

Functional Consequences of Mitral Valve Repair

Mitral Regurgitation: Therapy and Outcomes

Myocardial Protection and Perioperative Management

Myocardial Protection/Intraoperative Management

Special Groups With CAD: Women, Diabetics, Patients With Renal Dysfunction

Surgery for Aortic and Mitral Valve Disease

Surgery for Valve Disease and Its Sequelae I

Surgery for Valve Disease and Its Sequelae II

Surgical Cell- and Gene-Based Therapies

Surgical Treatment of Arrhythmias and Valvular Abnormalities

Surgical Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease I

Surgical Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease II

Surgical Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease III

Surgical Treatment of Heart Failure Transplantation

Surgical Treatment of Valve Disease

Thoracic Aortic Disease I

Thoracic Aortic Disease II

Update on Surgery for Coronary Artery Disease and Cell Therapy

Valvular Heart Disease: Diagnosis, Pathophysiology, and Medical Management

Valvular Heart Disease: Endocarditis, Anticoagulation, etc

Vivien Thomas Young Investigator Competition

William W.L. Glenn Lecture: Surgical Cell-and Gene-Based Therapies

Echocardiography:

Echocardiography in Aortic and Mitral Valve Disease

Echocardiography in Atrial Fibrillation and Other Clinical Syndromes

Echocardiography in CAD and Cardiomyopathy: Stress and Contrast

Echocardiography in CAD: Role of Stress, Contrast and Coronary Flow Reserve

Echocardiography in LV Hypertrophy and Atrial Fibrillation

Echocardiography in Mitral and Aortic Valve Disease

Echocardiography: Basic Validation of Emerging Technologies

Echocardiography: Cardiac Function in the Athlete

Echocardiography: Diastolic Function in Health and Disease

Echocardiography: Emerging Applications

Echocardiography: Emerging Technologies I

Echocardiography: Emerging Technologies II

Echocardiography: Emerging Technologies in Valvular Disease II

Echocardiography: Emerging Technologies in Vascular Disease I

Echocardiography: Evaluation of Cardiac Function

Echocardiography: Evaluation of the Right Ventricle

Echocardiography: Novel Approaches for Assessment of LV Function I

Echocardiography: Novel Approaches for Assessment of LV Function II

Echocardiography: Stress and Cardiac Function

Echocardiography: Stress, Contrast and Cardiac Function I

Echocardiography: Stress, Contrast and Cardiac Function II

Echocardiography: The Use of Emerging Technologies in Myocardial Ischemia

Featured Research: Echocardiography: Clinical Applications of Dyssynchrony Indices

General:

Laennec Young Clinician Award

Samuel A. Levine Young Clinical Investigator Award

Heart Failure/Ventricular Function:

Cardiac Transplantation

Diastolic Dysfunction

Diastolic Function: Determinants, Causes, and Consequences

Experimental and Clinical Insights into Ventricular Function

Featured Research: Biomarkers in CHF: Old and New

Featured Research: Mechanisms of Remodeling and Failure in Human Subjects

Heart Failure: Assessment and Clinical Outcomes

Heart Failure: Atrial Fibrillation, Diastolic Heart Failure, and Clinical Outcomes

Heart Failure: Benefits of Resynchronization

Heart Failure: Beta-Blockers

Heart Failure: Biomarkers, Monitoring Devices, Treatments, and Prognosis

Heart Failure: Correcting Ventricular Dyssynchrony

Heart Failure: Device Therapy, Diagnostic Tests, and Clinical Outcomes

Heart Failure: Disease Management and Quality of Care

Heart Failure: Emerging Therapies

Heart Failure: Factors Affecting Physiology and Recovery

Heart Failure: Insights from Clinical Trials

Heart Failure: NO and Oxidative Stress

Heart Failure: New Insights Into Older Pharmacological Agents

Heart Failure: Novel Therapies, Biomarkers, and Risk Factors

Heart Failure: Pathophysiology of LV Dysfunction

Heart Failure: Pathophysiology of Ventricular Dyssynchrony

Heart Failure: Resynchronization Therapy I

Heart Failure: Resynchronization Therapy II

Heart Failure: Risk Stratification and Clinical Outcomes

Heart Failure: Risk Stratification and Treatment

Heart Failure: The Beginning of the Pharmacogenomic Era?

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Therapy and Clinical Outcomes

Immune Aspects of Heart Failure

Laennec Clinician/Educator Lecture and Heart Failure: Novel Therapeutics

New Insights Into Uncommon Cardiomyopathies

Novel Aspects of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Pathophysiology of Heart Failure

Transplantation and Bridges

Ventricular Dysfunction: Diagnosis and Therapy

Ventricular Dysfunction: Prognostic Determinants

Ventricular Function/Hemodynamics and Biomarkers I

Ventricular Function/Hemodynamics and Biomarkers II

Human Genetics of Cardiovascular Disease and Therapy:

Genetics and Genomics of Acute MI and Coronary Disease

Genetics and Genomics of Cardiomyopathy

Genetics and Genomics of Vascular Disease, Diabetes, and Hypertension

Genomics of Cardiac Conduction and Cardiomyopathy

Hypertension/PAD/Stroke:

Cerebrovascular Disease/Stroke: Clinical I

Cerebrovascular Disease/Stroke: Clinical II

Cerebrovascular Disease/Stroke: Vascular Biology

Featured Research: Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease: Management

Featured Research: Novel Approaches to PVD

Hypertension: Clinical: Aldosterone/Resistant Hypertension/Masked Hypertension

Hypertension: Clinical: Clinical Trials/Epidemiology

Hypertension: Clinical: Genetics/Angiotensin/LVM/Vascular

Hypertension: Clinical: LVM/Vascular

Hypertension: Clinical: Metabolic/Renin and Aldosterone Inhibitors

Hypertension: Clinical: Resistant Hypertension/Sleep Apnea

Lewis K. Dahl Memorial Lecture: Metabolic/Endocrine/Inflammation

Prevalence and Prognosis in PVD

Stroke Council Award and Lecture: Cerebrovascular Disease/Stroke: Risk Factors and Outcomes

Vascular Medicine (Noncoronary) I

Vascular Medicine (Noncoronary) II

Imaging/Exercise (MR/CT/Nuclear/Exercise):

CT of Atherosclerotic Plaque and Calcification

Cardiac CT I

Cardiac CT II

Cardiac CT III

Cardiac CT IV

Cardiac MRI I

Cardiac MRI II

Cardiac MRI: Perfusion and Function

Cardiovascular MRI

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