Each year the BWH Cardiovascular Division honors three outstanding fellowship trainees for their contributions to Cardiovascular Basic Science – Thomas Smith Award, Clinical Science – Eugene Braunwald Award, and Physiology – Richard Gorlin Award.
The 2024 Honorees for the BWH Cardiovascular Named Fellowships
Award
Intended to promote the investigative career of a physician at either the fellow or junior faculty level who desires to pursue basic or clinical investigation as it pertains to heart failure.
Shi (House) Fang, PhD
Research Fellow in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
CCM2 in Coronary Artery Disease
Mentor: Rajat Gupta, MD
1998 William Maisel, MD
1999 Frederic Resnic, MD
2001 Douglas Drachman, MD
2002 Marc Sabatine, MD
2003 Yerem Yeghiazarians, MD
2004 Akshay Desai, MD
2005 Kent Stephenson, MD
2006 Kevin Croce, MD
2008 Sahil A. Parikh, MD
2009 Reena L. Pande, MD
2010 Matthew Steinhauser, MD
2011 Kumaran Kolandaivelu, MD, PhD
2012 Neil Wimmer, MD
2013 Viviany Taqueti, MD, MPH
2014 Benjamin Galper, MD
2015 Ivana Nikolic, MD
2016 Matthew Nayor, MD
2017 Aaron Kithcart, MD, PhD
2018 Aaron Aday, MD
2019 Sanjay Divakaran, MD
2020 Nicholas Marston, MD
2021 Jenifer M. Brown, MD
2022 Zaid Almarzooq, MB
2023 Cassandra L. Clift, PhD
Award
Intended to promote the investigative career of an individual at the fellow level working in physiology, hemodynamics, or catheterization based research.
Mandy Turner, PhD
Research Fellow in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Defining the Molecular Mechanisms of Peripheral Arterial Disease Through Spatial Multi-Omics Approaches.
Mentor: Elena Aikawa, MD, PhD
Previous Award Recipients
1997 Margaret Arstall,MD
1998 Ulrike Mende, MD
1999 Junsuke Igarashi, MD, PhD
2001 Carolyn Ho, MD
2002 Mark W. Feinberg, MD
2003 Marco Lopez-Ilasaca, MD
2004 Paul Christian Schulze, MD
2005 LibinWang, MD, PhD
2006 Jae Kim, MD
2007 Sanjeev A. Francis, MD
2009 Javid Moslehi, MD
2010 Karen Joynt, MD
2011 Bradley A. Maron, MD
2012 Francis Alenghat, MD, PhD
2013 Travis Hinson, MD, PhD
2014 Rajat Gupta, MD
2015 Sunil Kapur, MD
2016 Michael G. Silverman, MD
2017 Kevin Alexander,MD
2018 Andrea Sorrentino, PhD
2019 Rishi K. Wadhera, MD, MPP, MPhil
2020 Daniel Reichart, MD
2021 Brittany Weber, MD, PhD
2022 Deepak Atri, PhD
2023 Eric Wei, MD, PhD
Award
Intended to promote the investigative career of an individual at the fellow level working in clinical investigation in the broadest sense.
Curtis Ginder, MD, MBA
Clinical Fellow in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Enhanced Risk Prediction and Phenotyping Through Longitudinal High-Frequency Hemodynamic Data in Patients Admitted to the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.
Mentor: David Morrow, MD, MPH
1998 James Delemos, MD
1999 David Morrow, MD
2001 Koichiro Harada, MD
2002 Thomas Gaziano, MD
2003 Bruce Koplan, MD
2004 Usha Tedrow, MD
2005 Anne Hamik, MD
2006 Benjamin Scirica, MD
2008 Todd S. Perlstein, MD
2009 Jeffrey Winterfield, MD
2010 Paul Cohen, MD
2011 Nathan Stitziel, MD, PhD
2012 Jacob Udell, MD, PhD
2013 Benjamin Olenchock, MD, PhD
2014 Aaron Aguirre, MD, PhD
2015 Kevin King, MD, PhD
2016 Patrick Lawler, MD
2017 Mark Benson, MD, PhD
2018 Arman Qamar, MD
2019 Christopher N. Toepfer, PhD
2020 David D. Berg, MD
2021 Jonathan W. Cunningham, MD
2022 Victor Nauffal, MD
2023 Aeron Small, MD