Endovascular Fellows' Research Award Competition

Clinical Research Category Finalists

Laboratory Research Category Finalists

Stephen Stanziale

Daniel Nathanson

Douglas Green

Bruce Brener on behalf of Taras Kucher

Ilkka Uurto

Mary Draney

The 2005 Endovascular Fellows' Research Award Competition was held on Monday, February 14th, with awards and prizes presented during the ISES Annual Meeting on Tuesday, February 15. The 6th 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.

All six manuscripts will be published in an upcoming issue of
The Journal of Endovascular Therapy.

The winners of the 2005 ISES Peripheral Vascular Fellows' Competition were:

Clinical Research Category

First Place - Stephen Stanziale, $2500 (USD) Award
Assessing Restenosis of Stented Carotid Arteries
by Ultrasound Criteria
Program Director - Michel Makaroun, MD
$2500 (USD) Award to Training Program
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Second Place - Daniel Nathanson, $1000 (USD) Award
Stent-Grafting for Thoracic Aortic Dissection:
Mid-term Follow-up of a Single Institution Experience
Arizona Heart Institute and Arizona Heart Hospital
Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Honorable Mention - Douglas Green, $500 (USD) Award
Acute Thromboembolic Events During Carotid
Artery Angioplasty and Stenting: Etiology and
a Technique of Neurorescue
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Laboratory Research Category

First Place - Taras Kucher, $2500 (USD) Award
Endovascular Delivery of the Vein Segments
With Valves Versus Direct Anastomosis
Program Director - Bruce Brener
$2500 (USD) Award to Training Program
Newark Beth Israel Hospital
Newark, New Jersey, USA

Second Place - Ilkka Uurto, $1000 (USD) Award
Drug-Eluting Biodegradable Poly-D/L-Lactic Acid
Vascular Stents: An Experimental Pilot Study
Satakunta Central Hospital, Tampere University Hospital, Institute of Biomaterials, University of Technology, Tampere, National Laboratory Animal Center, University of Kuopio, Finland

Honorable Mention - Mary Draney, $500 (USD) Award
Three-Dimensional Analysis of Renal Artery
Bending Motion During Respiration
Stanford University
Stanford, California, USA

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.