ISHLT Funds $100,000 USD in Travel Awards for ISHLT2026 Attendees
For the ISHLT’s 46th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions, two travel awards were offered to support the attendance of ISHLT members in Toronto, ON Canada from 22-25 April. Through a partnership with Women in Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support (WiTMCS), three WiTMCS/ISHLT Heart Failure Scholarships were awarded. With the 138 ISHLT Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions Travel Awards awarded, ISHLT totaled $100,000 USD in support.
WiTMCS/ISHLT Heart Failure Scholarship Recipients
Three members of ISHLT and WiTMCS received scholarships to travel to the Annual Meeting:

Margaret Axelrod, MD, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO USA
Karolina Szczesniak, MD, PhD
National Institute of Cardiology
Warsaw, Poland

Laura Parker, MD
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ USA
ISHLT Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions Travel Awards Recipients
Support from ISHLT and the ISHLT Foundation provided complimentary registration to ISHLT2026for 138 abstract presenters, and $92,000 USD to support the travel of 120 Type 1 Award recipients. Recipients included four abstract award finalists and eight featured poster presenters.
TYPE 1 (providing complimentary registration and travel funding)
Francesca Ileana Adamo, Italy
Austin Ayer, MD, USA
Seon Yong Bae, MD, Republic of Korea
Luca Baldetti, MD, Italy
Elizabeth Bashian, MD, USA
Georgia Beer, Switzerland
Alexander Berg, BS, USA
Justin Berger, MD, PhD, USA
Roni Bitterman, MD, Canada
Janne Brouckaert, MD, Belgium
Antoine Buschiazzo, MfD, MSc, France
Giulio Cacioli, MD, Italy
Caroline Cantilena, MD, USA
Timothy Casilli, BSc, USA
Michael Catalano, MD, USA
Chris Hoi Houng Chan, MD, USA
Fahad Chaudhry, BS, USA
Nicholas Chilvers, MB BChir, MA, MRCS, United Kingdom
Peter Cho, USA
George Dong, BS, USA
Sarah Dudley, MD, USA
Deanna Dwyer, BS, USA
Michele Edwards, MSN, ACNP-BC, USA
Sam Emmanuel, BHSc (Hons), MBBS, PhD, New Zealand
Emre Erturk, MD, United Kingdom
Gabriel Esmailian, MD, USA
Andrea Fernandez Valledor, MD, Spain
Guglielmo Gallone, MD, Italy
Elena Gavrila, MD, USA
Hema Gedela, MD, India
Rachael Gordon Hester, PharmD, MPH, USA
Hersh Gupta, MS, USA
Laura Gutiérrez Román, MD, United Kingdom
Joan Guzman Bofarull, MD, United Kingdom
Nele-Marie Hagen, Germany
Christopher He, BS, USA
William Herrik Nielsen, MD, Denmark
Jakob Homola, MSc, Austria
Zekai Huang, MB, China
Maxime Huriet, MD, France
Naoya Ishida, MD, Japan
Paul Kaddissi, BS, USA
Julia Kaniuk, BS, USA
Alexander Karius, MD, USA
Abul Kashem, MBBS PhD, USA
Whitney Kaslow, DNP, APRN, CPNP-AC, FNP, USA
Andrew Keogan, MD, USA
Pieterjan Kerckhof, Dr. Ir., Belgium
Elizabeth Khalilian, USA
Anusha Konduri, MD, USA
Vikram Krishna, MD, USA
Pranay Kumar, BMed, BSc(Med) (Hons I), Australia
Maria Lambadaris, MD, FRCPC, ABIM, Canada
Melissa Lamicq, MSc, USA
Adrianna Lesanko, BSc, Canada
Lubiao Liang, MD, China
Huiqing Lin, MD, China
Theodore Lin, MD, USA
Gabriella Longway, BS, USA
Francesca Lunardi, MD, ScD, PhD, Italy
Lucy Luo, MASc, USA
Samantha Machinski, BA, USA
Campbell MacLean, Australia
Kiana Magee, BS, USA
Varun Mandi, USA
Miguel Martinez Santos, BHSc, MSc(c), Canada
Monica Mehta, MD, USA
Sophia Melly, MS, CGC, USA
Paolo Melo, PhD, Canada
J. Sam Meyer, MSc, Israel
Alyssa Mezochow, MD, MSCE, USA
Maks Mihalj, MD, PhD, USA
Bilal Khan Mohammed, MBBS, MD, USA
Kei Morishita, MD, Japan
Connor Moynihan, BS, USA
Alexander Mullin, BMedSci, MBBS, MIPH, FRACP, Australia
Netra Nambiar Veetil, MD, Germany
Jorge Arturo Ortega-Hernandez, MD, FESC, FACC, Mexico
Nichanan Osataphan, MD, PhD, Thailand
Martin Osorio Nader, MD, USA
Dhruv Patel, USA
Krunal Patel, MD, USA
Marian Poley, MD, USA
Nicola Pradegan, MD, Italy
Samuel Priyaranjan, DTCD, DNB, India
Ricardo Rios Esparza, Mexico
Aldana Rojas, BS, USA
Lukas Ruoff, MSc, Austria
Sara Sakowitz, MD, MPH, MBA, MS, USA
Mohammad Salehizadeh, PhD, USA
Michal Schafer, MD, PhD, USA
Saurabh Singh, MD, USA
Joseph Song, BA, USA
Charounipha Soydara, NP, USA
Dylan Stephenson, MBBS, DCH, FRACP, Canada
Nathan Suek, MD, USA
Yamato Suzuki, MD, PhD, Canada
Hanna Tadros, MBBCh, USA
Alice Tao, MD, USA
Sooyun Caroline Tavolacci, MD, MSc, USA
Dong Tian, MD, PhD, China
Kohei Tonai, MD, Japan
Vien Truong, MD, USA
Zuzana Tucanova, MD, PhD, Czech Republic
Jan Van Slambrouck, MD, PhD, Belgium
Joanna van Wezenbeek, PhD, Netherlands
Cedric Vanluyten, MD, Belgium
Sven Walderich, MD, USA
Justin Wang, BS, USA
Lu Wang, MB BChir, MRCS, PhD, United Kingdom
John White, USA
Rachel Wittenberg, MD, MPH, USA
Chengliang Yang, MD, MSc, Canada
Jong-Chan Youn, MD, PhD, Republic of Korea
Jenny Yune, BSc, Canada
Marta Zapata-Ortega, MD, Belgium
Jinyu Zhang, USA
Yajin Zhao, MD, China
Diana Zhehestovska, MD, PhD, Japan
Berber Zweers, MS, Netherlands
TYPE 2 (providing complimentary registration)
Claudio Bravo, MD, MS, USA
Danielle Guazzelli, MD, Brazil
Ilgizar Hart, MD, USA
Juka Kim, MD, USA
Noa Kroon, BSc, Netherlands
Shahrzad Lari, MD, USA
Chongwu Li, MD, PhD, China
Yuxiang Luo, MD, Netherlands
Andrew Matta, USA
Nandan Mondal, MS, MPhil, PhD, USA
Krishna Pandya, MD, MSCE, USA
Ahmad Raza, MD, USA
Donald Richards, MD, USA
Jack Ruske, MD, USA
Stephanie Shabanowitz, PharmD, MPH, USA
Devi Surajbali, PharmD, USA
Sangeetha Tandalam Palanivelu, MD, USA
Laura Walti, MD, Switzerland

