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April 28-30, 2011
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The mission of tipico.casino Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation is to engage medical students and young investigators in a personalized research experience with preeminent cardiovascular scientists, and to foster the next generation of leaders in the field.

2010-11 Medical Student Research Fellowship Program
The Sarnoff Fellowship Program offers research opportunities webhosting24.ie for outstanding medical students to explore careers in cardiovascular research. Applicants must be enrolled in accredited U.S. medical schools. Sarnoff Fellows conduct intensive work in a research facility, located in the United States, for one year. Prior research experience is not a prerequisite.

What makes Sarnoff unique is our lifetime commitment to the Fellow. A member of our Scientific Committee guides the Fellow during the research year and throughout the Fellow's career. The Fellow interacts with other Fellows, Scholars and Foundation Karamba leaders at the Sarnoff Annual Scientific Meetings, Sarnoff-sponsored regional events, and at other scientific conferences.


Latest News

The following Sarnoff Alumni will begin residency programs at the noted institutions:

  • Kevin Alexander (2009-10 Fellow)
    Johns Hopkins University, Internal Medicine

  • Joanna Ayoung (2009-10 Fellow)
    Long Island Jewish Medical Center, OB-GYN

  • Suparna Chandra (2008-09 Fellow)
    Mayo Clinic, Internal Medicine

  • Amanda Elliott (2007-09 Fellow)
    Duke University, Internal Medicine

  • Jennifer Jarvie (2009-10 Fellow)
    University of Texas Southwestern, Internal Medicine

  • Victoria Parikh (2009-10 Fellow)
    University of California, San Francisco, Internal Medicine

  • Rachel Roth (2009-10 Fellow)
    University of Washington, Family Medicine

  • Jose Sanchez (2009-10 Fellow)
    University of California, San Francisco, Internal Medicine

  • Jordan Sand (2008-09 Fellow)
    Washington University at St. Louis, Otolaryngology

  • Christopher Stapleton (2009-10 Fellow)
    Massachusetts General Hospital, Neurosurgery

  • Catherine Wong (2009-10 Fellow)
    Columbia University, Internal Medicine

Joshua Balderman (2010-11 Fellow) will be presenting at the American Heart Association ATVB Scientific Sessions 2011.

Jonathon Brown, MD (1997-98 Fellow & 2007-10 Scholar) recently received a NIH K Award.

Suparna Chandra (2009-10 Fellow) recently had a paper accepted in ATVB, Disruption of the Apelin-APJ System Worsens Hypoxia-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension.

Leslie Cooper, Jr., MD (1988-89 Fellow) has taken a new position as Director of the Gonda Vascular Center at the Mayo Clinic. The center is a multidisciplinary practice with 142 employees, including vascular surgeons, radiologists, cardiologists, internists, physical medicine physicians and podiatrists.

Jennifer Jarvie (2009-10 Fellow) is a co-author on a paper to be published in the Journal of Women’s Health (anticipated February 2011) titled "Geographic Variance of Risk Factors Among Women. A National Campaign of Sister to Sister: The Women’s Heart Health Foundation." She is also co-author on a paper to be published in Current Cardiology Reports titled "Recognizing and Improving Health Care Disparities in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Women."

Patrick McConnell, MD (1996-97 Fellow) was recently appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery and Attending Surgeon, Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Heart Center of Nationwide Children’s Hospital at The Ohio State University Medical Center.

Robert Neumar, MD, PhD (1988-89 Fellow) served as Chair of the Adult Advanced Life Support (ACLS) writing group for the 2010 AHA/ECC Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiac Care that were published in October 2010.

James Pirruccello (2009-10 Fellow) published a co-first author paper in the New England Journal of Medicine titled “Exome sequencing, ANGPTL3 mutations, and familial combined hypolipidemia.”

Ron Rawlings, MD (2004-05 Fellow) is a co-author on a paper in The American Journal of Cardiology titled "Comparison of Effects of Rosuvastatin (10 mg) Versus Atorvastatin (40 mg) on Rho Kinase Activity in Caucasian Men With a Previous Atherosclerotic Event."

Leah Rosenberg, MD (2008-09 Fellow) received the 2010 David M. Levine Award for Research in Behavioral Medicine at Johns Hopkins Department of General Surgery Internal Medicine for her abstract based on research conducted during her Sarnoff Fellowship year.

David Strauss, MD, PhD (2007-09 Fellow) has recently published first-author papers in American Journal of Cardiology, Heart and Heart Rhythm (Link to papers).

David Strauss, MD, PhD (2007-09 Fellow) published a first-author paper in Heart Rhythm titled “ECG Index of Myocardial Scar Enhances Prediction of Defibrillator Shocks: An Analysis of SCD-HeFT” (PMID 208843789). He currently works at the FDA in the Division of Cardiovascular Devices and Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories.

Brian Williams, MD (2006-07 Fellow) recently won the Integra Award from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Tumor Section 2010 for his presentation on the treatment of parasellar meningiomas with radiosurgery.

Catherine Wong (2009-10 Fellow) is first author of a paper to be published in the American Journal of Medicine (anticipated February 2011) titled, “Trends in Comorbidity, Disability, and Polypharmacy in Heart Failure.”




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Aarti Asnani MD
Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital

The Sarnoff year confirmed my desire to specialize in cardiology and helped me define my career plans as a future researcher. Read more ...

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