The 2015 edition of the CT Surgery Symposium covered a wide range of topics on Saturday morning, Oct. 3 for an audience of approximately 40 attendees.

Following welcome remarks from Sibu Saha, MD, MBA, chair of the division of CT Surgery, and Jay Zwischenberger, chair of the department of Surgery, 10 presentations were scheduled to follow. Unfortunately, the presentation on “Percutaneous Approaches to Structural heart Disease” had to be postponed due to Dr. John Gurley being called away.

At the Sr. ADR’s request, and with Dean de Beer’s approval, a decision was made in summer 2015 to engage the services of an outside consultant to guide the process of establishing an enterprise-level centralized support structure within the existing Sponsored Research Administrative Services (SRAS) office for administrative, financial, and regulatory activities related to clinical research activity – industry, government, and internally sponsored.

The 18^th Annual Gill Heart Association Saha Cardiovascular Research Day was a huge success, thanks to some wonderful presentations from our trainees,
staff, and featured speakers! This year, judging posters proved to be difficult, as we had many wonderful presenters with great research. The following are our winners for this year’s Poster Presentations:

Staff

2nd Place, $250- Adrien Mann

1st Place, $500- Travis Sexton

The NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) on Obesity and Cardiovascular Diseases, in collaboration with the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) announce the availability of limited funds to support pilot projects focused on research examining obesity-associated diseases (cardiovascular, diabetes, others). These pilot grants are intended to assist investigators new to this area of research to generate sufficient data to be competitive for extramural funding.  Junior faculty members are especially encouraged to apply.

The Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, and Gill Heart Institute, saw a huge turnout for their 18th Annual, Cardiovascular Research Day. During dinner, we had the esteemed pleasure to present four Saha Awards. The awardees demonstrated creativity, dedication, and knowledge in areas of cardiovascular research, prevention, and patient-education. The 2015 recipients are as follows:

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October 12 (Monday), 2015:  NIH Closed for Federal Holiday