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2025

Yeahwa Hong
Utilization of Hearts Donated After Circulatory Death Improves All-cause Survival in Candidates with Durable Left Ventricular Assist Devices

First runner up: Martin Cook
Development And Chronic Animal Implantation of The VenstraMedical Transcatheter pVAD System

Second runner up: Clauden Louis
The Aortic Pulsatility Index is associated with increased prognostic implications of survival at 24 hours post VA-ECMO decannulation and survival to discharge from hospital

2024

Krish Dewan
Outcomes After Surgical Intervention for Outflow Graft Obstruction in Magnetically-Levitated Centrifugal-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Patients

First runner up: Yeahwa Hong
Extended Duration of Impella 5.5 Support Does Not Adversely Impact Outcomes Following Heart Transplantation: A UNOS Registry Analysis

Second runner up: Vincenzo Cantaluppi
Population-Level Impact of Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion in Lung Transplantation

2023

Scott Silvestry
Florida Hospital Transplant Institute
Outcomes in Heart Transplant Recipients by Bridge-To-Transplant Strategy When Using the SherpaPak Cardiac Transport System

First runner up: Sharon Chen
Stanford University
Over 100 Fontan Patients on Ventricular Assist Device Support: An ACTION Update

Second runner up: Ben Albright
University of Arizona
Daily-ssist: A Complementary Dialysate Recycling System for Dialysate and Water Conservation

2021

Robin Osofsky
University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM
Utility Of Protocolized Whole-body Ct Imaging Following Ecmo Cannulation For Cardiac Arrest

First runner up: Laura Coyle
Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL
Outcomes In Left Ventricular Assist Device Patients With Coronavirus Disease-19

Second runner up: Venkat Keshav Chivukula
Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL
Optimizing LVAD Speed And Speed Modulation Using Computational Hemodynamics Modeling On A Large Patient Cohort