CVI Travel Award Winners
March 2015
Fatima Rodriguez, MD
PI Mentor:
Paul Heidenreich, MD
Use of high potency statins for patients with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: practice impact of the new cholesterol guidelines"
The recent prevention guidelines by the ACC/AHA have shifted away from low-density lipoprotein cholesterol targets and instead recommend fixed dose high potency statin (HPS) therapy for patients with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). We sought to determine practice patterns at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Health System prior to the release of these guidelines in order to identify areas for improvement.
ACC Scientific Sessions 2015
Junaid Zaman, MD
PI Mentor:
Sanjiv Narayan, MD
Electrograms: More than the Sum of Their Parts- A New Rat Model of Atrial Arrhythmias
European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society Annual Congress 2015
Yukari Kobayashi, MD
PI Mentor:
Ingela Schnittger, MD
Impact of Myocardial Deformation Imaging on the Diagnosis of Myocardial Bridge
ACC Scientific Sessions 2015
Daniel Kaiser, MD
PI Mentor:
Mintu Turakhia, MD
Paradoxical Sex Differences in Clinical Outcomes after Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
There is limited data, mostly in Medicare beneficiaries, on sex differences in outcomes after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF).
Heart Rhythm 2015 Scientific Session
Kathia Zaleta, PhD
PI Mentor:
Euan Ashley, MD
Oligonucleotide therapeutic approaches for allele silencing of hRLC-47K and hMHC-403Q mutations in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic disease of the heart muscle and the most common cause of sudden death in young people and athletes. It is caused by heterozygotic missense mutations in genes encoding proteins of the cardiac sarcomere.
2015 CSHL Meeting on RNA and Oligonucleotide therapeutics
Vivek Nanda, PhD
Nicholas J. Leeper, MD
Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor 2B Regulates Transforming Growth Factor Beta 1 Mediated Smooth Muscle Cell Recruitment to Ischemic Blood Vessels
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a highly morbid condition affecting nearly 8.5 million Americans.
Society for Vascular Medicine 2015
Kozo Okada, MD
William F. Fearon, MD
Paradoxical Arterial Remodeling of the Proximal Segment of the Left Anterior Descending Artery Predicts Long-Term Mortality after Heart Transplantation
Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is characterized by diffuse intimal thickening with pathological coronary remodeling. This study aimed to investigate the impact of this combination on clinical prognosis after heart transplantation.
ACC Scientific Session 2015
Tejaswini Mishra, PhD
Michael Snyder, PhD
Understanding Obesity Mediated Insulin Resistance Through Integrative Personal Omics Profiling (iPOP) During Weight Gain and Loss
Obesity associated insulin resistance has long been recognized as a fundamental aspect of the etiology of type 2 diabetes. However, despite several reports showing the dysregulation of metabolic and inflammatory pathways in obesity, it is unclear if, and how these pathways and their interplay link obesity to insulin resistance.
The Biology Of Genomes, May 5-9, 2015