THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THORACIC SURGERY RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Research Scholarship was established by the Association in 1985. Funded by the Association and individual contributions, the Research Scholarship provides opportunity for research, training and experience for North American surgeons committed to pursuing an academic career in cardiothoracic surgery. Administered by the Graham Education and Research Foundation, the program is undertaken within the first three years after completion of an approved cardiothoracic residency and is about two years in duration.

EDWARD D. CHURCHILL RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP

"Pharmacology of the Pulmonary Lymphatics"

1986-1988 Mark K. Ferguson

University of Chicago, Department of Surgery

ALFRED BLALOCK RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP

"Efficacy and Toxicity of a New Blood Substitute: Polymerized, Ultra-Pure, Stroma-Free Bovine Hemoglobin"

1988-1990 Gus J. Vlahakes

Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

JOHN H. GIBBON, JR., RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP

"Load-Independent Assessment of Cardiac Performance by Noninvasive Means"

1990-1992 Donald D. Glover

Duke University Medical Center

ALTON OCHSNER RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP

"Experimental Cardiac Graft Arteriosclerosis: Pathogenesis and Prevention of Lesion Development"

1992-1994 David H. Adams

Brigham and Women's Hospital

ROBERT E. GROSS RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP

"Role of Intra-Cellular Messenger cAMP and cGMP in Organ Preservation"

1994-1996 Melmet C. Oz, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center

"Development of a Model of Chronic Pulmonary Rejection in Miniature Swine"

1994-1996 Toralf Mauritz Sundt, III

Washington University School of Medicine

JOHN ALEXANDER RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP

"Strategies to Prevent Hyperacute Rejection of the Pig Lung by Human Blood"

1996-1998 Richard Morris Pierson, III

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

ANDREW G. MORROW RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP

"The Detection of Telomerase Activity in Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung

Cancer"

1997-1999 Stephen C. Yang

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine