American Vascular Association Awards at 2008 VAM

The following awards were presented or announced at the 2008 Vascular Annual Meeting which was held in San Diego this June:

American Vascular Association/American College of Surgeons Mentored Clinical Scientist Development (K08) Award

Heitham T. Hassoun, MD
Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

Project Title: Kidney-Lung Interactions During Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
Mentor/Sponsor: Hamid Rabb, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
Co-Mentor/Sponsor: Rubin M. Tuder, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

E.J. Wylie Traveling Fellowship

Erica L. Mitchell, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Oregon Health \& Science University and the Portland Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital, Portland, Ore.

Lifeline Resident Research Prize

Tormod S. Westvik, MD
General Surgery Resident, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

Project Title: Limb Ischemia After Iliac Ligation in Aged Mice StimulatesAngiogenesis without Arteriogenesis

Life Line Screening/American Vascular Association Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development (K23) Award

Christopher D. Owens, MD
Associate Surgeon, Brigham \& Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Project Title: Endothelial Function and Peripheral Vein Bypass Graft Remodeling
Mentor/Sponsor: Michael S. Conte, MD, Brigham \& Women's Hospital
Co-Mentor/Sponsor: Mark A. Creager, MD, Brigham \& Women's Hospital

2008 Student Research Fellowship Winners

Aaron Bond
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif.
Sponsor: Fred A. Weaver, MD
Project Title: Long Term Durability of Endovascular Thoracic Aortic Stent Graft Repair for Emergent Pathologies

Megan Carroll
Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Va.
Sponsor: Jean M. Panneton, MD
Project Title: The Use of Cryoplasty in Treating in-Stent Restenosis—Will it Be Effective?

Amy Chen
Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill.
Sponsor: Melina R. Kibbe, MD
Project Title: Plaque Digestion: A New Paradigm for Treating Atherosclerotic Lesions

Kelly Rose
Dimond University of Colorado, Aurora, Colo.
Sponsor: Mark R. Nehler, MD
Project Title: Efficiency and Safety of the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (K/DOQI) Guidelines for Vascular Access in an Academic Setting

Laurel K. Ehrichman
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Sponsor: Gilbert R. Upchurch, Jr., MD
Project Title: ERK Regulation of MMP9 in Elastase-Induced Murine Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Formation

Patricia Wood Harris
Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas
Sponsor: Alan B. Lumsden, MD
Project Title: Open, Endovascular and Hybrid Approaches to Repair of the Toracic Aorta: Is it an Open or Closed Case?

Robert Hsu
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
Sponsor: Amy B. Reed, MD
Project Title: Are Endovascular Approaches Altering Amputation Rate? A Medicare Database Review

Stephen Seedial
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, N.Y.
Sponsor: K. Craig Kent, MD
Project Title: Development of Novel Non-Viral Gene Therapy Vectors

Xiang Wang
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill.
Sponsor: William H. Pearce, MD
Project Title: Lower Extremity Bypass Surgery and Amputation Outcome in California, 1996-2004

Hyun Ah Yoon
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, N.C.
Sponsor: Randolph L. Geary, MD
Project Title: Generating Smooth Muscle Cells from Amniotic Fluid Progenitor Cells

See Vascularweb.org Awards and Scholarships page for more information on these awards.