Penn Cardiologists Win Awards
Penn Cardiologists Win Awards of Excellence
Sixteen faculty members of the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine were named
as recipients of this year's Penn Medicine
Awards of Excellence - signifying demonstrated
excellence through highly significant contributions
in the areas of biomedical research, patient
care, mentoring, and medical education.
Two of these recipients were from Penn's
Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiothoracic Surgery
departments. In the research category, Daniel
J. Rader, MD, received the William Osler
Patient-Oriented Research Award. In the Clinical
Category, the Luigi Mastroianni Clinical Innovator
Award went to Joseph
E. Bavaria, MD, of the
Department of Surgery. A committee of senior
faculty from the School of Medicine selected
the recipients.
“I am proud to honor these faculty members
for their achievements,” said Dr. Arthur
H. Rubenstein, EVP/Dean of Penn Medicine, in
announcing the award recipients. “The contributions
of these remarkable physician-scientists represent
the outstanding quality of patient care, teaching,
mentoring, and research that is evidenced consistently
by our world-class faculty.”
Penn Cardiologist and Heart Failure Specialist
Wins Prestigious Award
Thomas
Cappola, MD, ScM, cardiologist
and heart failure specialist at the Hospital
of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) has won
the Jay N. Cohn New Investigator Award in Clinical/Integrative
Physiology. The award is given out annually -
as one of three award competitions - at the Heart
Failure Society of America (HFSA) yearly meeting.
The 2005 meeting was held in Florida
in September.
These awards recognize research excellence
in young investigators. HFSA officials explain
that a special committee of reviewers picked
the top five abstracts submitted in advance of
the meeting. Then, the finalists were invited
to present their research results in highly profiled
scientific sessions during the meeting.
Cash prizes (provided by an educational grant
from Novartis Pharmaceuticals) were awarded,
based on the abstract presentation. Assisting
in Cappola’s
presentation were Daniel
Dries, MD, MPH, and Kenneth
Margulies, MD, both cardiologists at UPHS. Cappola’s
presentation was on a novel approach to analyze
cardiac gene transcription in human subjects
with advanced heart failure. Cappola is also
an assistant professor of medicine at the University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Penn
Cardiovascular Institute.
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