2016 Annual Meeting Competition Winners

19th Annual C. Walton Lillehei Resident Forum
Through a generous unrestricted educational grant from St. Jude Medical, the Forum enables eight residents to present and compete for a $5,000 award.

Rachel D. Vanderlaan /University of Toronto
“Mechanistic Insights into the Pathophysiology of Pulmonary Vein Stenosis”

Moderated Poster Competition

Adult Cardiac
Sameh M. Said/Mayo Clinic
“Long-term Outcomes of Surgery for Infective Endocarditis: A Single-center Experience of 801 Patients”

Congenital
Sachin Talwar/All India Institute of Medical Sciences
“Oral Thyroxin Supplementation in Infants Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: A Double Blind Randomized Clinical Trial”

General Thoracic
Jules Lin/University of Michigan
“Analytic Morphomics Predict Outcomes After Lung Volume Reduction Surgery”