ASE Foundation Top Investigator Grant Recipients

The presentation of original research from around the world is an integral piece of ASE’s Annual Scientific Sessions. Each year, a group of early career abstract presenters are selected by the Abstract Chairs based on the scientific merit of their research projects to receive a stipend to support their attendance at the annual meeting. New in 2018, the Alan S. Pearlman Research Award was established in honor of Dr. Pearlman’s ten years of service as JASE Editor-in-Chief and recognizes the investigator with the highest scoring project.

2022 ASE Foundation Top Investigators

Matthew Muller, BA – Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, OR – Alan S. Pearlman Research Awardee
Rowa Attar, MD – Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, TX
Cheng Chen, PhD – Center for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Juan Cotella, MD – University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Alessandra Ferraro, MD – Boston Children’s Hospital, Brookline, MA
Cesar Gonzalez de Alba, MD – Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
Yi Huang, MS – Shenzhen Children’s Hospital, Shenzhen, China
Stephan Juergensen, MD – University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Uswa Khan, BS – Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, GA
Linda Lee, MD – University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Martha Moran, MD – Stollery Children Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Proscovia Mugaba, MBBCh – University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Samana Mukhtar, MD – University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Rabia Noor, MD – University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
Hena Patel, MD – University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Jean Michel Saad, MD – Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, TX
Jeremy Slivnick, MD – University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Manasi Tannu, MD – Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Eric Tran, DO – Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego, CA
Stephen Williams, MD – Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

2021 ASE Foundation Top Investigators

Bliss Uribe, BS, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA – Alan S. Pearlman Research Awardee
Kasey Chaszczewski, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Jennifer Cohen, MD, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Esther Davis, MBBS, DPhil, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Mansi Gaitonde, MD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Peter Huntjens, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Charles Jain, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Ilya Karagodin, MD, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
Billal Mohmand, MD, SUNY Upstate University Hospital, Syracuse, NY
Koya Ozawa, MD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
Hena Patel, MD, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
Trisha Patel, MD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Aly Safwat, MD, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Jenna Schauer, MD, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA
Amita Singh, MD, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
Nanda Siva, BS, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Adam Skaff, MD, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN
Dylan Sperling, MD, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Nadav Willner, MD, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada
Neal Yuan, MD, Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA

2020

Priyanka Asrani, MBBS, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA – Alan S. Pearlman Research Awardee
David Barris, MD, New York Presbyterian – Columbia University Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Samuel Bernard, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Cameron Dockerill, BS, University of Oxford, Oxford, , United Kingdom
Alessandra Ferraro, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Nir Flint, MD, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Benjamin Frank, MD, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
Danielle Harake, MD, University of Alberta, Stollery Children’s Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Danelle Hidano, MD, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Ashton Lai, MD, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Hyun-Jung Lee, MD, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
Charlotte Lee, BS, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Dai-Yin Lu, MD, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Christopher Mardy, MD, Stanford University – Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, CA
Arvind Nishtala, MD, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Andrew Peters, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Amita Singh, MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Kavisha Singh, MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Hongning Song, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Dorchester, MA
James Wilkinson, MD, Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX

2019

Tatsuya Miyoshi, MD, MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC – Alan S. Pearlman Research Awardee
Vidhu Anand, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Christie Boswell-Patterson, BScH, Cardiovascular Imaging Network at Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Soham Dasgupta, MD, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Henrique Doria de Vasconcellos, MD, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD and Federal University of Vale do Sao Francisco / School of Medicine, Recife, Brazil
Iqbal El-Assaad, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Benjamin Frank, MD, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
Anahita Ghorbani, MD, MPH, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT
Waddy Gonzalez, MD, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Cho Jung Sun, MD, PhD, Daejeon St. Mary Hospital, Dae-jeon, Republic of Korea and West Virginia University Heart & Vascular Institute, Morgantown, WV
Ilya Karagodin, MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Lily Lin, MD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Isla McClelland, MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Katie Mowers, MD, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Deliwe Ngwezi, MD, Stollery Children’s Hospital & University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Yogev Peri, MD, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Alexander Ryu, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Hongning Song, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Marija Vukicevic, PhD, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
Brent White, MD, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
Jun Yoshida, MD, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Yang Zhan, MD, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston, TX

2018

Dai-Yin Lu, MD, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan – Alan S. Pearlman Research Awardee
AbdulRahman Abutaleb, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Lindsey Aurora, MD, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
Meaghan J. Beattie, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Ajay Bhandari, MD, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Dale Burkett, MD, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
John L. Colquitt, MD, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX
Katherine DeWeert, MD, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Sarah R. Fuchs, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Mansi Gaitonde, MD, Emory University, Sibley Heart Center, Atlanta, GA
Brinder Hansra, MD, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA
Daniel R. Harland, MD, Aurora Cardiovascular Services, Aurora Sinai/Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Centers, Milwaukee, WI
Atsushi Hayashi, MD, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Kalie Kebed, MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dan L. Li, MD, Jacob Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Ellen Liu, MD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Ralph Matar, MD, Cook County Health and Hospitals System, Chicago, IL
Hari K. Narayan, MD, The University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
Jonathan D. Nyce, MD, Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY
Scott L. Purga, MD, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY
Marija Vukicevic, PhD, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
Haiyan Wang, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

2017

Shae Anderson, MD, Emory University School of Medicine, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Sibley Heart Center Cardiology, Atlanta, GA
Renzo JC Calderon-Anyosa, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Baljash Cheema, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, McGaw Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Seunghyun Choi, PhD, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea
Antonino Di Franco, MD, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
David Elison, MD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Prabhakaran Gopalakrishnan, MD, Aultman Hospital, North Canton, OH
Sassan Hashemi, MD, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Brandon Helfield, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Nobuyuki Kagiyama, MD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Amara Majeed, MD, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA
Tiffany Mao, MD, Saint Luke’s Mid-America Heart Institute, Kansas City, MO
Wadi Mawad, MD, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Diego Medvedofsky, MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Thomas Metkus, MD, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Prashant Minocha, MD, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL
Shun Nishino, MD, Miyazaki Medical Association Hospital, Miyazaki, Japan
Alaa M. Omar, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Rupesh Ranjan, MD, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Sudarat Satitthummanid, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, and Chulalongkorn University and Cardiac Center, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
Jeremy Stone, MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Marija Vukicevic, PhD, Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
Allen J. Weiss, DO, Mount Sinai St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY
Satoshi Yamaguchi, MD, Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Yirong Zhou, MD, Wright State University, Dayton, OH

2016

Chadi Ayoub, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Jorge Betancor, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Mohammed A. Chowdhury, MD, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
Merav Dvir-Orgad, MD, BC Women and Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Eleonora Avenatti, MD, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
Waddy Gonzalez, MD, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Serge C. Harb, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Lazaro E. Hernandez, MD, Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, Hollywood, FL
In-Chang Hwang, MD, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
Angela M. Kelle, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Raj Khandwalla, MD, Cedars Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Srikanth Koneru, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Soultana Kourtidou, MD, MSc, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA
Hongyun Liu, MD, Johns Hopkins HCM Center of Excellence, Baltimore, MD
Dai-Yin Lu, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Angela B. Malone, RDCS, RVT, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI
Diego Medvedofsky, MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Donna Chelle V. Morales, DO, Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
Monica Mukherjee, MD, FASE, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Bradley Peltzer, MD, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Shagun Sachdeva, MBBS, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Andreas Schuler, MD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Lindsay Urbinelli, MD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
Marija Vukicevic, PhD, Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
Guilherme S. Yared, MD, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

2015

Yohei Akazawa, MD, PhD, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
Tengku Winda Ardini, MD, University of Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia
Michelle Carlson, MD, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN
Andrew L. Cheng, MD, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Ming Chu, MD, Nanjing Medical University First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Zaher Fanari, MD, Jefferson Medical College/ Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, DE
Ricardo Fonseca, MBBS, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Prakriti Gaba, BS, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Xue Gong, MD, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Amir Hodzic, MD, University of Montreal Hospital Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Quan Huynh, MD, PhD, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Joyce Johnson, MD, MS, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Attila Kovács, MD, Semmelweis University Heart and Vascular Center, Budapest, Pest, Hungary
Alex P. Lee, MD, FRCP, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
Jesse W. Lee, MD, Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, CA
Sumeet S. Mitter, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Patsy W. Park, MD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Daniela Carmo Rassi, MS, Clinical Hospital of the Federal University of Goias, Goiania, Goias, Brazil
Zainab Samad, MD, MHS, Duke University, Durham, NC
Ericka Scheller McLaughlin, DO, Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Amita Singh, MD, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Arjun Sinha, MD, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Megan M. SooHoo, MD, Children’s Hospital Colorado Heart Institute, Aurora, CO
Masataka Suaghara, MD, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan
Minmin Sun, MD, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Yuta Torii, RCS, RVS, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima, Japan
Bethany Wisotzkey, MD, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA
Megan Yamat, RDCS, RCS, FASE, University of Chicago Hospital, Chicago, IL

2014

Dragos Alexandru, MD | CHSLI St. Francis Hospital, Cedarhurst, NY
Walter L. Beard, MD | University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
Nikunj Bhatt, MD | Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
Christopher Bugnitz, MD, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
Nitin Chanana, MD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Adam James, BA, BAO, MBBCh, MRCPI, LRCSI, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Se Yong Jang, MD, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, Republic of Korea
Sua Kim, MD, Korea University Medical Center, Seoul, Seongbuk-Gu, Republic of Korea
Diego Lara, MD, MPH, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Shuai Liang, Division of Cardiology Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane, Japan
Lindsay Mills, MD, University of Alberta – Stollery Children’s Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Roberto J. Murgas Torrazza, MD, University of Florida, Panama, Panama
Aarti A. Patel, MD, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Nishath Quader, MD, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Ravi Raj, MBBS, MD, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
Makoto Saito, MD, Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, Hobert, Australia
Irsa Shoiab, BS, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center/University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Omaha, NE
Juefei Wu, MD, PhD, FASE, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Li-Tan Yang, MD, National Cheng Kung University Hospital Dou-Liou Branch, Douliu City, Yunlin County, Taiwan, Republic of China
Jeffrey Yourshaw, MD, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA

2013

Sujata Balulad, MD, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Nirmanmoh Bhatia, MD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Ekaterina Borskaya, MD, Federal State Clinical Hospital #86, Moscow, Russian Federation
Rachel-Maria Brown, MD, Northwestern University Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
Alejandra Bueno, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Barbara Cifra, MD, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Kristyan Guppy-Coles, BAppSC, Bsc (Hons), Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Yuchi Han, MD, MMSc, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Natalie Jayaram, MD, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, MO
Suying Lam, MD, Jackson Memorial Hospital.University of Miami, Miami, FL
Christina Luong, MD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Meena Narayanan, MD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,CA
Nandini Yadav, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Megan Yamat, RDCS, RCS, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL

2012

Karima Addetia, MD, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Bhawna Arya, MD, Columbia University, New York, NY
Shahryar M. Chowdhury, MD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Patrick H. Collier, MD, PhD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Kevin Dougherty, MD, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA
Viviane T. Hotta, MD, PhD, The Heart Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
Oleg Kerbikov, MD, City Clinical Hospital #14, Moscow, Russian Federation
Tuan V. Mai, MD, Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego, CA
Joseph T. Poterucha, DO, Creighton University, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Andrew Tang, BSc, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

2011

Fred Cobey, MD, MPH, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC
Paul Gribben, BS, University of Nebraska Medical Center and Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Hao H. Hsu, MD, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
Kazuaki Negishi, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Hidekazu Tanaka, MD, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

2010

Wilfried Dinh, MD, Univeristy Witten Herdecke, Witten Herdecke, Germany
Chad M. House, BS, RDCS, Regions Hospital, St. Paul, MN
Puja B. Parikh, MD, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY
Shantanu P. Sengupta, MD, Sengupta Hospital and Research Institute, Nagpur, India
Mark R.Stampehl, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

2009

Jessica Gorentz, BS, RDCS, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Rukmini Komarlu, MD, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Elena Kwon, MD, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Seong-Mi Park, MD, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Eric Yang, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

2008

Allen G. Borowski, RDCS, FASE, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Sara Deatsman, BS, Herma Heart Center, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Sun Jin Hong, MD, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Sarinya Puwanant, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Ruby Satpathy, MD, Creighton University Cardiac Center, Omaha, NE