| 2023 Jorge E. Salazar, MD Prana Thoracic “Novel Image-Guided Percutaneous Lung Tissue Excision Device with Integrated Sealing of Blood Vessels and Airways: An In Vivo Preclinical Study” Luciano Bulgarelli Maqueda, MD University of Montreal “Outside the Cage Subcostal RATS Lobectomy: Technical Aspects and Results of the First Series of a Novel Approach to Pulmonary Lobectomy” |
2022 Jakub Batko, MD Jagiellonian University Medical College "Left Atrial Appendage Morphology and Course of the Circumferential Artery: Anatomical Implications for Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Procedures" Paul Werner, MD Medical University of Vienna "Novel Automated Suturing Technology for Minimally Invasive Mitral Chord Implantation: A Pre-Clinical Evaluation Study" |
2019 Mattia Glauber Istituto Clinico Sant'Ambrogio "Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement with Sutureless Valves: Results from an International Prospective Registry" Johan van der Merwe OLV Clinic "Reasons for Conversion and Adverse Intraoperative Events in Robotically Enhanced Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Revascularization" |
2018 Kohei Abe St. Luke's International Hospital "New Flexible Internal Annular Fixation Rings for Tricuspid Aortic Valves" Aravind Krishnan Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine "Comparing Frailty Markers in Predicting Poor Outcomes after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement" |
| 2017 Husam H. Balkhy, MD University of Chicago Medicine "Robotic Beating Heart Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass in Higher-Risk Patients: Can It Be Done Safely?" Olivia Ginty Ontario, Canada "Dynamic Patient-Specific Three-Dimensional Simulation of Mitral Repair: Can We Practice Mitral Repair Preoperatively?" |
2016 Tom C. Nguyen, MD University of Texas "Traditional Sternotomy Versus Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients Stratified by Ejection Fraction" Daniel M. Bethencourt, MD MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute "Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement via Right Anterior Minithoracotomy and Central Aortic Cannulation: A 13-Year Experience" |
2015 David Stecher, MD University Medical Center Utrecht "A Laser Assisted Anastomotic Technique: Feasibility on Human Diseased Coronary Arteries" Matthew Valdis, MD University of Western Ontario "Validation of a Novel Virtual Realty Training Curriculum for Robotic Cardiac Surgery: A Randomized Trial" Cesare Quarto, FRCS, PhD Royal Brompton Hospital "Transcatheter Mitral Valve Implantation for the Treatment of Mitral Regurgitation: Thirty days Outcomes of First-in-Man Experience with an Apically Tethered Device" |
2014 J. Scott Rankin, MD Vanderbilt University "A Geometric Model of the Normal Human Aortic Root and Design of a Fully Anatomic Aortic Root Graft" Gregory D. Trachiotis, MD George Washington University "Long-term Outcomes After Off-Pump or Conventional Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Within a Veteran Population" |