Previous Top Investigator Travel Grant Recipients

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 Vikicevic, 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 Medvodofsky, 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 Sugahara, 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

• 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

• 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

• Jessica Gorentz, BS, RDCS, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
• Rukmini Komarfu, 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

• 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, NE2007:
• Apurva Badheka, St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY
• G. Hamilton Baker, MD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
• Moha Elnoamany, MBBCh, Menoufyia University Hospital, Shebin Elkom, Egypt
• James Perschbacher, MD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
• Bhrigu R. Parmar, BS, Medical College of Wisconsin, Wauwatosa, WI