Awards YIA

The American Association of Cardiologists of Indian Origin (AACIO) awards the Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy and two Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Young Investigator Awards at the AACIO dinner meetings held each year during the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association annual convention in March and November. The finalists present their abstract at the meeting and receive $1000.00 award and a plaque.

Dr. Krishna Ramaswamy Award

Interventional/EP: Radiation Scatter and its Attributes in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. Shikhar Agarwal MD MPH CPH, Akhil Parashar MD, Imran Khan MD, Navkaranbir Singh Bajaj MD, Dhruv Modi MD, Matthew Bunte MD, E Murat Tuzcu MD, Samir R Kapadia MD. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Dr. Madhukar Deshmukh Award

Preventive/Imaging: Potential of Coronary CT Angiography to Optimize Medical Therapy in Patients With Acute Chest Pain: Insights from the Rule Out Myocardial Infarction Using Computer Assisted Tomography (ROMICAT) Trial. Amit K. Pursnani MD, Christopher L. Schlett MD MPH, Parmanand Singh MD, James L. Januzzi Jr. MD, Farouc A. Jaffer MD PhD, Quynh A. Truong MD MPH, and Udo Hoffmann MD MPH. Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Division of Cardiology and Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Preventive/Imaging: Saline Contrast Three-Dimensional Echocardiography Is Superior to Two-Dimensional Echocardiography for the Diagnosis of Intrapulmonary Shunt but Similar for Patent Foramen Ovale Detection. Nirmanmoh Bhatia, MD, Mohannad Y. Abushora, MD, Marcus F. Stoddard, MD. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

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