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2016 SCMR Scientific Sessions: January 27-30, 2016, Los Angeles, CA
Award
Awardee
Gold Medal Award
Joao Lima, MD, MBA, Johns Hopkins University
​Eike Nagel, MD, PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt
Early Career Award – Clinical Oral Abstract Session 5 
Anvesha Singh, MBChB, University of Leicester and the NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit

​“(O 036) Myocardial Perfusion Reserve but not fibrosis Predicts Outcomes in Initially Asymptomatic Patients with Moderate to Severe Aortic Stenosis: The Prognostic Importance of Microvascular Dysfunction in AS study- PRIMID AS” 
Early Career Award - Basic Science Oral Abstract Session 3
Adrian Lam, Georgia Institute of Technology 

“(O 020) Combining Acquisition and Image Processing Methods to Improve Evaluation of Arial Wall Scar Patterns after Pulmonary Vein Isolation” 
Early Career Award - Translational Oral Abstract Session 9
Victoria Stoll, OCMR, University of Oxford

“(O 068) The Kinetic Energies of Left Ventricular 4D Flow Components Correlate with Established Markers of Prognosis and Represent Novel Imaging Biomakers in Both Ischaemic and Dilated Cardiomyopathy”
Best Walking Poster Session 6 
Juliano Fernandes, MD, PhD, MBA, Jose Michel Kalaf Research Institute

​“Use of T2 Maps for Rapid Prediction of Stress Effectiveness Before the Injection of Contrast in Myocardial Perfusion Studies at 3.0T”
Best Technologist Abstract 
Chris Lawton, Bristol Heart Institute

​“T1 Acute Detection of VENtricular Thrombus by Technologists (ADVENTT study) and the impact of an image interpretation teaching intervention”

2015 SCMR/EuroCMR Joint Scientific Sessions: February 5-7, 2015, Nice, France
Award
Awardee
Gold Medal Award
Christopher Kramer
Robert Judd
​Raymond Kim
Early Career Award – Clinical Oral Abstract Session 5 
Amardeep Ghosh Dastidar, MBBS, MRCP, Bristol Heart Institute

"Stress CMR as a Gatekeeper to Complete Revascularisation in STEMI Patients with Moderate-Severe Bystander Disease at Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention"
Early Career Award Session 3 – Basic Science
Andrew Lewis, University of Oxford

​"Hyperpolarized 13C and 31P Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Identify Pyruvate Dehydrogenase as a Therapeutic Target in Obesity Cardiomyopathy"
Early Career Award Abstract Session 7 – Translational ​
Rachel Clough, King’s College London

"A New Method For Quantification Of Aortic Stiffness In Vivo Using Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE): A Translational Study From Sequence Design To Implementation In Patients"
Moderated Poster Session 1 
Jennifer Keegan, PhD, Royal Brompton Hospital

"Inter Breath-hold Reproducibility of Temporal Patterns of Coronary Artery Blood Flow"
Moderated Poster Session 2 
Antonio de Marvao, MB ChB, Imperial College London

"Adverse Changes in Left Ventricular Structure Begin at Normotensive Systolic Blood Pressures: A High Resolution MRI Study"
Best Technologist Abstract 
Michelle Walkden, University Hospital Southampton

"Turning Up the Adenosine Turns Off the Spleen"

2014 SCMR Scientific Sessions: January 16-19, 2014, New Orleans, LA
Award
Awardee
Gold Medal Award
Warren Manning
Early Career Award Oral Abstract Session 1 – Clinical 
Marianna Fontana, MD, The Heart Hospital - London
 
“(O 004) Native T1 Mapping in ATTR Cardiac Amyloidosis – Comparison with AL Cardiac Amyloidosis – A 200 Patient Study”

Vanessa Ferreira, MD, DPhil, University of Oxford
 
“(O 006) Native T1-Mapping Displays the Extent and Non-ischemic Patterns of Injury in Acute Myocarditis Without the Need for Contrast Agents”
Early Career Award Session 3 – Basic Science
​Li Feng, New York University, School of Medicine – New York
 
“(O 017) Compressed Sensing with Synchronized Cardio-respiratory Sparsity for Free-breathing Cine MRI: Initial Comparative Study on Patients with Arrhythmias”
​Early Career Award Abstract Session 5 – Translational 
Shams Rashid, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
 
“(O 029) Artifact Reduction with a Wideband Late Gadolinium Enhancement (LGE) MRI Technique for Patients with Implanted Cardiac Devices: A Two-Center Study”
Moderated Poster Session 1
Adelina Doltra, MD, German Heart Institute- Berlin
 
“(M 02) Long-term Follow-up of Coronary MR and CT Angiography for Prediction of Cardiac Events”
Moderated Poster Session 2
Ruud van Heeswijk, PhD, University Hospital Lausanne

​“(M 11) Free-breathing T2 Mapping at 3T for the Monitoring of Cardiac Allograft Rejection: Initial Results”  
Best Technologist Abstract
​Jonathan Mazal, NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
 
“Technologist Primer for MRI Right Heart Catheterization: the NIH and CNMC Experience“

2013 SCMR Scientific Sessions: January 30-February 3, 2013, San Francisco, CA
Award
Awardee
Gold Medal Award
​Stefan Neubauer
Early Career Award Session 1 – Basic Science
Behzad Sharif, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
                  
 “(O-3) Eliminating Dark-Rim Artifacts in First-Pass Myocardial Perfusion Imaging”      
Early Career Award Abstract Session 3 – Translational 
​James Harrison, King’s College London
 
“(O-18) Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Acute and Chronic Atrial Ablation Injury – A Histological Validation Study”
​Early Career Award Oral Abstract Session 12 – Clinical
Sairia Dass, The John Radcliffe Hospital
 
“(O-68) Interstitial Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) Have Appropriate Myocardial Oxygenation Response to Vasodilator Stress”
Moderated Poster Session 1
Kathryn Broadhouse, Imperial College
 
“(M-7) Quantification of Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity in Preterm Infants Using 4D Phase Contrast MRI”
Moderated Poster Session 2
​Daniel Kuetting, University of Bonn
 
“(M-11) Assessment of Cardiac Dyssynchrony: A Comparison of Velocity Encoded Imaging and Feature Tracking Analysis” 
Best Technologist Abstract
Celia O’Meara, University College London Hospitals
 
"(T-1) Initial Experience of Imaging Cardiac Sarcoidosis Using Hybrid PET-MR – A Technologist’s Case Study"

2012 SCMR Scientific Sessions: February 2-5, 2012, Orlando, FL
Award
Awardee
Gold Medal Award
​Dudley Pennell
Early Career Award Session 1 – Clinical
​Ankur Gulati, Royal Brompton Hospital, Londo
                  
“(O-6) Prognostic Significance of Midwall Fibrosis in Dilated Cardiomyopathy”
Early Career Award Session 2 – Basic Science 
Otavio Coelho-Filho, State University of Campinas and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
 
“(O-10) MRI Based Non-Invasive Detection of Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy And Cell-Volume Changes”
Early Career Award Session 4 – Translational
Daniel Sado, The Heart Hospital, London
 
“(O-23) Interstitial Expansion in Health and Disease – An Equilibrium Contrast Study”
Moderated Poster Session 1
Bryce Merritt, Northwestern University
 
“(M-4) Association between Leaflet Fusion Pattern and Thoracic Aorta Morphology in Patients with Bicuspid Aortic Valve”
Moderated Poster Session 2
​Matthew Goette, Washington University in St. Louis
 
“(M-8) In Vivo Quantitative Imaging of Angiogenesis-targeted PFOB Nanoparticles in a Hypercholesterol Rabbit Model Using 19F-  MRI with Ultra-Short Echo Time Balanced SSFP” 
Best Technologist Abstract
​Amy Tipton, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
 
"(T-1) Modified Short Axis Geomentry  for Left Ventricular Assessment in Patients with Hemodynamically Significant Pulmonary Regurgitation"

2011 SCMR/EuroCMR Joint Scientific Sessions: February 3-6, 2011, Nice, France
Award
Awardee
Gold Medal Award
Charley Higgins
Gerald Pohost
Early Career Award Session 1 – Clinical
Otavio Coelho-Filho, MD, Brigham andWomen’s Hospital
 
“ (O-2) Combined stress myocardial perfusion and late gadolinium enhancement imaging by cardiac magnetic resonance provides robust prognostic information to cardiac events” 
Early Career Award Session 4 – Basic Science 
Ashvin K. George, PhD, National Institutes of Health
 
“ (O25) Virtual dye angiography: flow visualization for MRI-guided interventions using endogenous contrast” 
Early Career Award Session 9 – Translational
Adrienne E. Campbell, PhD, University college London
 
“(O60) Equilibrium contrast CMR for the detection of amyloidosis in mice” 
​Moderated Poster Session 1 
Anja Zagrosek, MD, HELIOS Klinikum Berlin-Buch
 
“(M4) Acute alcohol-induced myocardial inflammation as visualized by cardiac magnetic resonance”
​Moderated Poster Session 2
​Vinayak Hegde, MD, Akron General Medical Center
 
“(M12) Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in today's economic climate; a cost effectiveness analysis”
Best Technologist Abstract​
​Stephen Darty, Duke
 
“(O38) Safety of adenosine stress perfusion cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in patients with aortic stenosis”

2010 SCMR Scientific Sessions: January 21-24, 2010, Phoenix, AZ
Award
Awardee
Moderated Poster Session 1 – Clinical
​Andreas Kumar, University of Calgary

​“(M2) Reperfusion hemorrhage is a marker for the severity of tissue injury in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction”
Moderated Poster Session 2 – Experimental
Ronald Beyers, University of Virginia
 
“(M11) Whole-heart T2-weighted (T2w) sequence for imaging post-infarct edematous area at risk (AR) in mice”
Best Technologist Abstract
Saundra B. Grant, Allegheny General Hospital

“(T10) The concordance rates between left ventricular hypertrophy and right ventricular hypertrophy in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy as diagnosed by CMR with fibrosis imaging”

2009 SCMR Scientific Sessions: January 29 - February 1, 2009, Orlando, FL
Award
Awardee
​Moderated Poster Session I – Clinical
Deborah H. Kwon, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

​“(P-143) Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients have a steep left ventricle to aortic root angle compared to normal as demonstrated on 3-D tomographic imaging: a case-control study”
Moderated Poster Session II – Experimental
Alban Redheuil, MD, Johns Hopkins University
 
“(P-150) Myocardial fat quantification using navigator 1H MRS combined with MRI: myocardial fat fraction is inversely correlated with indexed left ventricular mass in healthy subjects”
Best Technologist Abstract 
​Denise Kleindienst, RT, Franz-Volhard-Klinik
 
“(T-1 In/opposed phase imaging effectively differentiates fat from enhanced myocardium in patients with myocardial late gadolinium enhancement”

2008 SCMR Scientific Sessions: January 31 - February 3, 2008, Los Angeles, CA
Award
Awardee
​Moderated Poster Session I – Clinical
Mirja Neizel, MD, University Hospital Heidelberg
 
“(303) Strain-encoded (SENC) Imaging of Myocardial Function after Acute Myocardial Infarction”
Moderated Poster Session II – Experimental
Maythem Saeed, DVM, PhD, University of California San Francisco
 
“(308) MR-Guidance and Monitoring of Intramyocardial Delivery of VEGF Gene in Coronary Artery Occlusion in Canine Model”
Best Technologist Abstract 
​Ricardo Wage, DCR, Royal Brompton Hospital
 
“CMR Assessment of the Mitral Valve: Technical Considerations”

2007 SCMR/EuroCMR Joint Scientific Sessions: February 2-4, 2007, Rome, Italy
Moderated Poster Session I
​Federico E. Mordini, MD
 
“(305) Accuracy of Fully Quantitative CMR Myocardial Perfusion in Detection of Coronary Disease as Measured by Quantitative Coronary Angiography”
Moderated Poster Session II
Juan M. Santos, PhD
 
“(481) Delayed-Enhancement Myocardial Imaging in Three Heart Beats in a Real-Time Imaging Environment”
Best Technologist Abstract
Mercedes Pereyra, RT

2006 SCMR Scientific Sessions: January 20-22, 2006, Miami, FL
Award
Awardee
Best Technologist Abstract 
Thao Tran

“Cardiovascular MR diagnosis of primary mesonthelioma of the atrioventricular (AV) node”
Best Clinical Abstract
Adrian Cheng

“Assessment of Irreversible Myocardial Injury Using the Delayed Enhancement Technique at 1.5 and 3 Tesla”
​Best Basic Abstract 
Matthias Stuber

“Signal-Enhanced Visualization of Magnetic Nanoparticle-Labeled Stem Cells using Inversion Recovery ON-Resonant Water Suppression (IRON)”
Best Congenital Abstract 
 Juerg Schwitter

 "Evaluation of Myocardial Perfusion by Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Children with Congenital or Acquired Coronary Artery Disease"
Best Moderated Poster Competition –Friday Session
 Martin Maron

​"Evidence for Right Ventricular Involvement in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A CMR Study"
Best Moderated Poster Competition –Saturday Session
Jonathan Lyne

​"Comparison of EPI, TrueFISP and FLASH Sequences with Parallel Acquisition for Myocardial Perfusion Imaging"

2005 SCMR Scientific Sessions: January 21-23, 2005, San Francisco, CA
Award
Awardee
Best Clinical Abstract 
​Rishi Kaushal, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

“Infarct Size is an Independent Predictor of Morality in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease”
​Best Basic Abstract 
Yijen L. Wu, PhD, Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research, Carnegie Mellon University

“Non-invasive In Vivo "Histology": Visualizing Single Immune Cells in Acute Allograft Rejection after Heterotopic Heart Transplantation with Micrometer-sized Iron Oxide Containing Particles”
​Best Congenital Abstract
Isabelle F. Vonder Muhll, Royal Brompton Hospital

“Normal Aortic Compliance and Left Ventricular Mass Late After Repair of Aortic Coarctation”
​Best Moderated Poster Competition – Friday Session
Vinay M. Pai, PhD, New York University School of Medicine

“Phase Train Approach for Very High Temporal Resolution Cardiac Imaging”
​Best Moderated Poster Competition – Saturday Session
Vivek Muthurangu, MBChB, MRCPCH, Kings College London
​
“A non-invasive method of calculating Pulmonary Vascular Resistance using MR flow data”

2004 SCMR/EuroCMR Joint Scientific Sessions: February 13-15, 2004, Barcelona, Spain
Award
Awardee
Oral Abstract – First Place
​Steven G. Lloyd, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Oxidative and Non-oxidative Myocardial Energy Metabolism During Low Flow Ischemia Measured by Carbon-13 and Proton NMR Spectroscopy"
Oral Abstract – Second Place
Frank Wiesmann, University of Oxford
​
"High Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging Demonstrates Impaired Brachial Artery Reactivity as Well as Reduced Aortic and Carotid Distensibility in Young Smokers"
Oral Abstract – Third Place​
Harikrishna Tandri, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
​
"Non-invasive Detection of Myocardial Fibrosis in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia by Delayed-Enhancement Magnetic Resonance Imaging – Correlation with Histopathology"
​Poster Abstract – First Place
Rene Botnar, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
​
"In-Vivo Molecular MR Imaging of Acute Coronary Thrombosis Using a Fibrin-Targeted Contrast Agent"
​Poster Abstract – Second Place
Roger Luechinger, Institute for Biomedical Engineering
​
"In Vivo Heating of Pacemaker Leads During MRI"
​Poster Abstract –Third Place
Christian Wacker, University Wuerzburg
​
"Myocardial Perfusion Measurements by Spin-Labeling Under Different Vasodynamic States"

2003 SCMR Scientific Sessions: February 7-9, 2003, Orlando, FL
Award
Awardee
​Oral Abstract – First Place
Patrick M. Winter, Washington University
​
"Molecular Imaging of Angiogenesis Associated with Athroscleorosis In Vivo with paramagnetic Nanoparticles at 1.5T"
​Oral Abstract – Second Place
Thorsten Dill, Kerckhoff Heart Center 
​
"Assessment of Pulmonary Vein Diameters after Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation using Magnetic Resonance Imaging and X-Ray Angiography"
Oral Abstract – Third Place​​
Dara L. Kraitchman, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
​
"MR Delivery and Tracking of Magnetically-Labeled Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Myocardial Infarction"
​​Poster Abstract – First Place
Timm Dickfeld, Johns Hopkins University
​
"Characterization of Subacute Radiofrequency Ablation Lesions with Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging"
​​Poster Abstract – Second Place
Claudio Kupfahl, Robert-Bosch-Medical Center
​
"Contrast Enhanced CMR Does Not Show Subendocardial Injury in Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis"
​Poster Abstract –Third Place
Steven M. Shea, Northwestern University
​
"T2-Prepared TrueFISP Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) Imaging in an Animal Occlusion Model"

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