Young investigators under the age of 40 who are no more than five years from the end of their training are eligible for this annual competition supported by the National Board of Echocardiography (NBE) in honor of their first president, Arthur E. Weyman, MD, FASE. Four finalists are selected to present their research to a panel of experts during the opening plenary sessions of the Annual ASE Scientific Sessions in June. The winner is then invited to present his/her research at the upcoming European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging’s EuroEcho-Imaging meeting in December, and the Japanese Society of Echocardiography’s Annual Scientific Meeting the following spring.
2024
Robert McRae, MD, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA – “Applying Machine Learning to Fetal Echocardiograms: A Novel Method for Predicting Critical Coarctation of the Aorta”
2023
Jeremy Slivnick, MD, FASE, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL – “Deep Learning Analysis of Echocardiographic Images for Automated Classification of Regional Wall Motion”
2022
Sanghee Suh Ro, MD, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA – “Association of Prenatal Level of Care Assignments with Postnatal Clinical Outcomes in Fetuses Diagnosed with Congenital Heart Disease”
2021
Malamo Countouris, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA – “Association of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy with Coronary Microvascular Function 8-10 Years after Delivery”
2020
Ambarish Pandey, MD, MSCS, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX – “Deep Learning Models Diastolic Dysfunction: Insights from the TOPCAT Echocardiography Sub-Study”
2019
Nobuyuki Kagiyama, MD, PhD, West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute Innovation Center, Morgantown, WV – “Cardiac Ultrasonic Fingerprinting: A Radiomics Approach for High-Throughput Feature Phenotyping of Dysfunctional Myocardium”
2018
Brandon Helfield, PhD, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada – “Endothelial Cell Repair Biophysics During Ultrasound and Microbubble Sonoporation
2017
Federico Moccetti, MD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR – “Ultrasound Molecular Imaging of Endothelial Activation and Platelet Adhesion in Remote Arteries after Myocardial Infarction: Implications for Reducing Risk for Remote Recurrent Atherosclerotic Events”
2016
Adam Castano, MD, Columbia University, Division of Cardiology, New York, NY – “Echocardiographic Predictors of Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis among Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement”
2015
Sukrit Narula, BA, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY – “Automated Morphological and Functional Phenotyping of Human Heart with Feature Tracking of 2D Echocardiographic Images Using Machine Learning Algorithms”
2014
Chi Young Shim, MD, PhD, Portland Health and Science University, Portland, OR – “Platelet Attachment to Vascular Endothelium Occurs in Both Early and Late-Stage Atherosclerosis Secondary to Dysregulation of Von Willebrand Factor: Evaluation by Contrast Ultrasound Molecular Imaging”
2013
Sacha R. Bhatia, MD, MBA, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA – “An Educational Intervention Reduces the Rate of Inappropriate Transthoracic Echocardiograms in Ambulatory Care”
2012
Paul J.H. Lee, MSc, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada – “Ultrasound Mediated Anti-Apoptotic Gene Therapy for Doxorubicin Cardiomyopathy”
2011
Scott M. Chadderdon, MD, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR – “Impaired Capillary Function Contributes to the Development of Insulin Resistance in Lean but Activity-restricted Primates: A Study Using Contrast Ultrasound Perfusion Imaging”.
2010
Shelby Kutty, MD, FASE, University of Nebraska/Creighton University Joint Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Omaha, NE – “Sonothrombolysis of Intra-Catheter Aged Venous Thrombi In-Vitro Using Microbubble Enhancement and Guided Three Dimensional Ultrasound Pulses”
2009
Chad L. Carr, MS, MD, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR – “Assessment of Mechanisms of Impaired Angiogenesis in Diabetes with Contrast Ultrasound Perfusion Imaging and Molecular Imaging of the Immune Response”
2008
Helene Thibaualt, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA – “Insulin Resistance Predisposes Mice to Adverse Left Ventricular Remodeling”
2007
Beat A. Kaufmann, MD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR – “Molecular Imaging of Inflammation in Atherosclerotic Lesions: A Potential Method for Early Detection and Risk Assessment”
2006
Josef Korinek, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN – “Serial Changes in Segmental Strain Estimate Depleted Energy Reserves During Acute Ischemia”
2005
John J. Pacella, MD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA – “Myocardial Contrast Echocardiographic Assessment of Microvascular Perfusion during a New Treatment for Coronary Artery”
2004
Partho P. Sengupta, MBBS, DM, FASE, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN – “Myocardial Fiber Direction and the Transmural Sequence of Deformation Influences Genesis of Spectral Waveforms in Doppler Myocardial Imaging”
2003
Raffi H. Bekeredjian, MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX – “Time Course Evaluation of Transgene Expression after Ultrasound Targeted Microbubble Destruction”.
2002
Howard Leong-Poi, MD, FASE, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA – “The Flow-Function Relation During Acute Myocardial Ischemia is Inviolate”.
2001
Marielle Scherrer-Crosbie, PhD, MD, FASE Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA – “Nitric Oxide Synthase 3 Limits Left Ventricular Remodeling After Myocardial Infarction in Mice”
2000
Kevin Wei, MD, FASE, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA – “Reversible 99mTc-sestamibi Perfusion Defects During Pharmacologically-Induced Vasodilatation are due to Reversible Decreases in Myocardial Blood Volume and Not “Flow-mismatch”
1999
Matthew P. Coggins, BA, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA – “Mechanisms of Microbubble Adhesion to Activated Leukocytes in Vivo: Implications for Imaging and Treatment of Inflammation”
1998
Danny M. Skyba, MD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA – “Microbubble Destruction By Ultrasound Results in Capillary Rupture: Adverse Bioeffects or a Possible Mechanism for In Vivo Drug Delivery?”
1997
Jonathan R. Linder, MD, FASE, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA – “Reperfusion with Venous Blood After Cardioplegic Arrest During Bypass Surgery Results in Faster Microbubble Transit Rates Compared to Arterial Blood: Evidence for Less Endothelial Injury?”
1996
Sherif F. Nagueh, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX – “Use of Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography in the Evaluation of Hibernating Myocardium”
1994
Thomas Porter, MD, FASE, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE – “Visually Detectable Myocardial Uptake with Peripheral Intravenous Injections of Sonicated Dextrose Albumin Following Incubation and Inhalation with Sulfur Hexaflouride”
1991
Catherine M. Otto, MD, FASE, University of Washington, Seattle, WA – “Exercise Doppler Echocardiography in Valvular Aortic Stenosis Physiologic Changes”
1990
James Thomas, MD, FASE, Harvard Medical School
2024: Robert McRae, MD, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA – “Applying Machine Learning to Fetal Echocardiograms: A Novel Method for Predicting Critical Coarctation of the Aorta”