2007
Helen H. Hobbs, MD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Going to Extremes to Find Genes for Cardiovascular Disease

2006
Michael A. Gimbrone, Jr., MD | View Biography
Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Vascular Endothelium: Nature's Container for Blood - New Insights into its Pathobiology

2005
Michael E. DeBakey, MD | View Biography | View Lecture Slides (12MB; may load slowly)
Baylor College of Medicine
The Development of Cardiovascular Surgery: An Overview
Read article about Dr. DeBakey's lecture and award presentation.

2004
Michael S. Brown, MD and Joseph L. Goldstein, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
The Metabolic Syndrome: A Vicious Cycle

Read article about Drs. Goldstein and Brown's lecture and award presentation.

2003
Roman DeSanctis, MD
Harvard Medical School
Then, Now – and Beyond: The Amazing Advancements in Cardiology Over the Last Fifty Years
Read article about Dr. DeSanctis' lecture and award presentation.

2002
Ketty Schwartz, PhD
French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and Ministry of Research and New Technologies
The Cardiac Myocyte: From Gene Defects to Cellular Therapy

2001
Aldo R. Castaneda, MD, PhD
Childrens’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School
Congenital Heart Disease: Lessons from a Historical Prespective

2000
Victor A. McKusick, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Cardiovascular Medicine in the Post Genomic Era

1999
Eugene Braunwald, MD
Partners HealthCare System, Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals
Congestive Heart Failure: 1950 – 2000

1998
Aaron Marcus, MD
New York Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Thromboregulation – A Novel Approach to Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases

1997
Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD
Duke University Medical Center
Genetic Manipulation of Myocardial Beta-adrenergic Receptors and Receptor Kinases: New Approaches to Improving Cardiac Performance

1996
Jan L. Breslow, MD
Rockefeller University

1995
Russell Ross, PhD
University of Washington School of Medicine
Cellular and Molecular Events in Atherogenesis: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications

1994
Richard Gorlin, MD
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Hydraulics as the Key to Understanding Valvular Heart Disease

1993
Judah Folkman, MD
Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School

1992
John Kirklin, MD
University of Alabama

1991
William Ganz, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA School of Medicine

1990
Anthony Damato, MD
Staten Island Public Health Service Hospital

1988
Milton Raisbeck, MD
Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals
Posthumous recipient of the first Glorney-Raisbeck Award