ISES Peripheral Vascular Fellows’ Competition
and Endovascular Research Award

Saluting our Future Leaders

Ourania Preventza, MD - 1st Place, Clinical Research
Oscar Abilez, MD - 1st Place, Laboratory Research
 


Contestants of the 2006 Peripheral Vascular Fellows' Research Competition


Clinical Research Finalists
Joost van Herwaarden, MD
Ourania Preventza, MD
Matthew Mell, MD


Oscar Abilez, MD
1st Place, Laboratory Research


2nd and 3rd place
Laboratory Research
Michael Murphy, MD
Gregory Lam, MD


Chris Zarins, MD
Moderator

 

The 2006 Peripheral Vascular Fellows' Competition was held on Monday, February 13, with awards and prizes presented during the ISES Annual Meeting on Tuesday, February 14.  The 7th annual competition featured three finalists for the Clinical Research Award, for clinical investigation of human vascular disease -- and three finalists in the Laboratory Research Award, for laboratory based experimental study for cardiovascular disease.

Manuscripts will be published in an upcoming issue of The Journal of Endovascular Therapy.

The winners of the 2006 ISES Peripheral Vascular Fellows' Competition were: 

Clinical Research Category

First Place - Ourania Preventza, MD
$2500 (USD) Award
Endovascular Approaches for Complex Forms of Recurrent Aortic Coarctation
Program Director - Julio Rodriguez-Lopez, MD
$2500 (USD) Award to Training Program
Arizona Heart Institute and Hospital
Phoenix, Arizona

Second Place - Joost van Herwaarden, MD
$1000 (USD) Award
Effect of Endoleak and Stent-Graft Design on Aortic Properties Following EVAR: Determination Using a Novel Dynamic Cine-MRA Imaging Modality
Program Director - Frans L. Moll, MD, PhD
University Medical Center
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Third Place - Matthew Mell, MD
$500 (USD) Award
Absence of Buttock Claudication Following Stent-Graft Coverage of the Hypogastric Artery Without Coil Embolization in Endovascular Aneurysm Repair
Program Director - John Hoch, MD
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin


Laboratory Research Category

First Place - Oscar Abilez, MD
$2500 (USD) Award
P19 Progenitor Cells Progress to Organized Contracting Myocytes After Chemical and Electrical Stimulation: Implications for Vascular Tissue Engineering
Program Director - Christopher K. Zarins, MD
$2500 (USD) Award to Training Program
Stanford University
Stanford, California

Second Place - Gregory Lam, MD
$1000 (USD) Award
An Engineered VEGF-Activating Zinc Finger Transcription Factor Induces Angiogenesis and Bone Marrow Endothelial Progenitor Cell Production
Program Director - Thomas Bashore, MD
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina

Third Place - Michael Murphy, MD
$500  (USD) Award
In Vivo Attenuation of Myointimal Hyperplasia Using Transforming Growth Factor Beta 3 in an Interposition Graft Model
Program Director - Prof. M.G.Walker, MCh, FRCS
Manchester Royal Infirmary
Manchester, United Kingdom

This event has been made possible due to a generous restricted educational grant from
Boston Scientific Corporation.

For more information about the Competition, including previous years' winners, click here.