Abstract Submission

The Heart-Brain Summit invites you to submit abstracts of original investigation for consideration in the Poster Session. Accepted abstracts will be printed in the syllabus.

Deadline

Abstract submission must be received no later than May 1, 2008. Submitters will be notified via e-mail by May 15, 2008.

Submission Instructions

Abstracts must be submitted by e-mail to mavi@jamiebelkin.com. The one page abstract should be submitted as a Microsoft Word attachment using no smaller than an 11pt font size. There is no limit to the number of abstracts a presenter can submit.

Abstract Style Instructions

• Figures, graphs and simple tables are allowed.
• Use of standard abbreviations is desirable; place unusual abbreviations in parentheses after first use of the full term.

Poster Presentations

If your abstract is accepted, your acceptance notice will indicate your poster assignment number. Each poster board measures 4’ high (121 cm) and 6’ wide (138 cm). You must provide a copy of the abstract, typed in large type for posting on the board. Illustrations must be readable from distances of at least three feet. Use lightweight poster board only; heavy board is difficult to secure. Push pins will be available on-site.

Young Investigator Award

We are pleased to again offer the Bakken Heart-Brain Institute Young Investigator Research Award. The competition is open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, residents, fellows and junior faculty within two years of their first appointment.

Please note your eligibility on your abstract submission.  The four finalists will be invited to present their submission during a moderated session at the summit.

Heart-Brain Summit Awards

2007 Bakken Award and Lecture Recipient: Peter Shapiro, MD

Peter Shapiro, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Director of the Transplant Psychiatry programs and Associate Director of the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center. His research as focused on psychiatric outcome after transplantation and on psychological factors and psychiatric problems in heart disease.  He was a co-investigator for the REMATCH and SADHART trials. Dr. Shapiro is past president of the Society for Liaison Psychiatry and of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and president of the American Psychosomatic Society. He has authored more than 35 original peer-reviewed publications in cardiovascular disease psychiatry and psychophysiology.

2006 Bakken Award and Lecture Recipient: Carlos M. Ferrario, MD

Carlos M. Ferrario, MD, is an Argentine-born cardiologist whose research as advanced understanding and treatment of high blood pressure and vascular disease. Dr. Ferrario chaired the Department of Brain and Vascular Research of Cleveland Clinic from 1984 to 1992. Dr. Ferrario has published more than 425 papers and two books. He has maintained and sustained an uninterrupted record of funding from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH, serving as member and consultant to this organization and functioning as Program Director of the premier Program Project Grant on hypertension from 1984 to date. In 1992, Dr. Ferrario assumed the directorship of the Hypertension and Vascular Disease Center of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

Pioneer Award

The Bakken Heart-Brain Pioneer Award is given in recognition of contributions fundamental to the development of the field of heart-brain medicine. Pioneer recipients are recognized senior healthcare professionals who have had a major impact on the understanding of heart-brain pathophysiology, the consequences of heart-brain interactions for the health of humankind and the innovative treatment of heart-brain disorders.

2007 Pioneer Award Recipient: Matthew N. Levy, MD

Matthew N. Levy, MD, is the Professor Emeritus of Physiology and Biophysics and of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University; Chief, Investigative Medicine, Mt. Sinai Medical Center. His research interests include autonomic neural control of the heart, the role of neuropeptides in cardiac control, and endocrine regulation of the coronary circulation.  

2006 Pioneer Award Recipient:  Eugene Braunwald, MD

Eugene Braunwald, MD, is the Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Chairman of the TIMI Study Group at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. From 1972 to 1996, he was chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was founding trustee and chief academic officer of Partners HealthCare System. Dr. Braunwald is an editor of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, and the founding editor of Heart Disease, now in its 7th edition, one of the most influential textbooks in the field.